Bike To Work Festivities?

[jessmarimba]

After a bit of very specific googling, I determined that Colorado's bike to work day is June 22 (June is officially bike month in CO? Apparently? News to me!).

And the sun is out right now but I woke up too late based on the weather forecast so I have to drive today anyway.

On the flip side, there's so much snow in the mountains that Aspen is re-opening the slopes for Memorial Day weekend.

[sfa]

This is the first Bike to Work Day that I've missed in several years (well, I'm not missing work--just the biking part). DH took a job with bad hours and a bad commute, so my day now revolves around transporting my son: going in to work late so I can get him on hs bus in the morning, picking him up in the afternoon to get him to his afterschool program, then rushing home to get there before he gets home from that program. So cycling to work is no longer possible. I'm looking forward to the summer when my sister will be our babysitter and I can go back to commuting by bike again, at least once in a while.

I missed the usual festivities at the mall near work today--good food, lots of freebies, and the chance to check out other people's commuter bikes. Sigh. Maybe next year.

We've been getting a lot of rain this week, but this morning would have been good for commuting--overcast and neither hot nor cold, and so far the rain is holding off. Not sure that'll be the case at the end of the day--I've left work every day this week in a heavy downpour.

[Melalvai]

We did our Bike to Work day in April. I've been encouraging people to bike to work today also! I biked to work today, of course.

I LIKE the nice spring weather, after the frost advisory immediately followed by a heat advisory earlier this month. Yes, it's supposed to rain for the next few days, but it won't be cold. I can handle that!

[Possegal]

I biked to work today for the first time. I've biked to my office before, but never on a work day. I met up at a pit stop with 5 other people from my center and we biked to the office together. We got a nice tshirt and water bottle, but more imporantly, I BIKED TO WORK. I'd love to try and do this every Tuesday and Friday. I have to keep thinking how much better shape I will be in if I do that. It was about 12.8 miles today, but that was with the pit stop. Without that, it is about 10+ miles home to work.

My bike is sitting in my office with me and it makes me smile. I'm getting teased for not leaving it on the bike rack outside but I tell people that I would miss it if it was outside.

[tangentgirl]

LA's was yesterday. My office had 7 people ride, which out of 40 or so people, isn't half bad. We had a raffle with a timbuk2 bag filled with goodies like a water bottle, cliff bars and a $25 gift certificate to the LBS. I'm proud to say I organized this.

Editing because...

The ride was great! We had rain and strong winds earlier in the week, but yesterday was beautiful!

[indigoiis]

Ours is today. They had a big to-do in the park with coffee and bagels, SWAG, Mayor spoke, etc. It's wet and nasty here, and I got pretty cruddy coming in!

[TsPoet]

This is the first year that I've heard nothing about bike to work day at the company for which I work. In the past there has been ice cream and juice on the lawn all morning if you ride up on a bike. This year- absolutely nothing.
Nothing in the city, either.
I did ride in, a little rainy and a slight tail wind. Hopefully both the wind and the rain will decrease before my ride home.

Correction - an email just got sent out:
"National Bike to Work Month
The PNNL Bike to Work Day will be held May 26. Staff riding their bicycle to work that day may stop by the LSB Picnic Grounds, 7-8:30 a.m., for a light snack. "

I'm rather relieved to see this!

[VeganBikeChick]

Here are some photos from today's Bike to Work Day:





Me and the bike



Free Swag!

[AppleTree]

Here are some photos from today's Bike to Work Day:





Me and the bike



Free Swag!

How fun! I'm so jealous! I rode by the McCollum Park and Ride in Everett this morning, where there was supposed to be a station only to find....no one?? Wonder what happened there? Bummer.

[alice]

Ours was last week; I was already out of school and had nowhere to bike, but my SO did bike to work. There were festivities and such downtown, but I always feel like they're poorly planned; they don't start until 7:00, and I don't understand how someone can bike to work on time if they don't leave until 7:00 (unless, I suppose, they work downtown, or work odd hours). In addition, the public transit stations downtown are closed by 7:00, so if you're going a longer distance you have to go through downtown way earlier than that. Anyway, just my two cents on planning.

We did get one of the goody-bags from someone who went and thought of us. Hooray!

[Bike Writer]

I rode in today! I have a very short commute but love it none the less. So far this month I've only missed 4 days of riding in to work, two of them it rained and two of them I had meetings outside the office too far to commute to by bike (for me anyway I should add).