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.
Happy National Bike Month — get out and ride!
(Photo via League of American Bicyclists * Bike Month)
Homeward bound on Flickr.
I rode behind this guy for about a mile on yesterday’s commute home. He was definitely rocking a style — sort of a “yachtsman on two wheels” thing, with his styled but flowing hair, his Oxford shirt untucked, just like so, and his shorts and brown knee socks combination.
It wouldn’t be my favorite look for bike commuting, but he certainly owned it.
Sometimes after a long winter, I forget that there’s a downside to riding home before sunset.
A beautiful downside, but a downside nonetheless.
Yesterday’s PM bike commute featured heavy seas—and no reflections—in the Reflecting Pool. Yikes!
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!
#bikedc traffic report: heavy congestion on 15th Street NW. Allot 3 extra seconds for your commute time.
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)
Sounds like some more people should start biking to work. 2-1/2 years in, probably 5,000 miles traveled, and I haven’t been stuck in a traffic jam yet.
When it comes to traffic congestion around Washington, even the good news is bad, and it goes downhill from there.
The city that so hungers to be No. 1 at something — usually on a gridiron or diamond-shaped field — has again risen to the top as the most congested metropolitan area in the United States, a place where the average driver burns 67 hours and 32 gallons of gas each year sitting in traffic.
The No. 1 ranking is the good news. The bad news is that it’s going to get worse.
This morning’s #bikedc commute: muggy, low 60s, with a nice breeze.
I’ll take it! But Janu-what-month-is-it-again?
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theatlantic:
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)
That was a cold bike ride into the office this morning. Apparently the wind chill was around 9.
Time for some new gloves.
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