A beautiful morning for Bike to Work Day, and lots of goodies for the taking! Thanks to all the folks who put this event together, and to the more than 14,000 folks who registered.
Rosslyn and Freedom Plaza were packed, as always. Georgetown made a strong entry with its first official pit stop, featuring goodies from Dean & Deluca, Sprinkles, Baked and Wired, and more. It was happy riding out there, and a full set of bike racks in the office garage.
Lunchtime ride along the Reflecting Pool on Flickr.
It was difficult to come back to the office in this amazing weather.
Happy National Bike Month — get out and ride!
(Photo via League of American Bicyclists * Bike Month)
If you’re a regular DC-area bike commuter, an occasional CaBi warrior, or somebody who has an old bike in a garage, closet or porch, just asking to be ridden, here’s your chance. Be there, ride that, get the t-shirt (which will apparently be a nice blue this year).
Don’t wait, sign up for Bike to Work Day 2013, which will be held Friday, May 17!
Whenever I think I’m carrying a lot on my bike, I remember our trip to Vietnam, and it shifts my perspective.
Grains, well-packed (by jacquesofalltrades)
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You Don’t Have to Be Superhuman to Commute by Bicycle
These are people who travel many miles at a pace more like 10 miles an hour. They wear regular clothes and ride the bikes that they can afford.
But everyone who bikes in New York or any other city has certain things in common. The Type-A strivers on their carbon-fiber steeds; the skinny-jeans-wearing fixie riders; the elevator repairman in work clothes on his anonymous hybrid; the fashionable businesswoman on her folder; the 82-year-old photographer on his cruiser. All of them benefit from an increased recognition that bicycles are a legitimate way to get from one place to another, and that you don’t have to be some kind of a freak to use them.
Read more. [Image: Dmitry Gudkov]
Hurrah!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e4881609adce8dbb83b0e094bffb0ed2/tumblr_mhcoolU3XV1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
You Don’t Have to Be Superhuman to Commute by Bicycle
These are people who travel many miles at a pace more like 10 miles an hour. They wear regular clothes and ride the bikes that they can afford.
But everyone who bikes in New York or any other city has certain things in common. The Type-A strivers on their carbon-fiber steeds; the skinny-jeans-wearing fixie riders; the elevator repairman in work clothes on his anonymous hybrid; the fashionable businesswoman on her folder; the 82-year-old photographer on his cruiser. All of them benefit from an increased recognition that bicycles are a legitimate way to get from one place to another, and that you don’t have to be some kind of a freak to use them.
Read more. [Image: Dmitry Gudkov]
Hurrah!
(via bogrosemary)
You know you’re a Capital Bikeshare pusher when three or more friends send you this Slate article, just in case you hadn’t seen it!
(I had. Of course).
If you had been handed, a decade ago, a map of the U.S. and asked to predict where the novel idea of bike sharing—then limited to a few small-scale projects in a handful of European cities, might first find its firmest footing, you probably would have laid your money on a progressive hub like Portland or Seattle or the regional poles of walkable urbanism, New York or San Francisco—all of which were scoring higher, those days, in surveys like Bicycling magazine’s list of most bikeable cities. But today, the nation’s largest, most successful bike-share program—in terms of size, ridership, and financial viability—is in Washington, D.C. How did D.C. accomplish this unlikely task?
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