Bike To Work Day

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Richard Masoner.

Thursday, May 12 2011 is Bike To Work Day in the San Francisco Bay Area and many other California cities.

Bike To Work Day is always “26 Mile Tour of Silicon Valley Energizer Stations Day” for me as my colleague Dan and I meet up in San Jose and bike up from the South Bay while sampling the breakfast stations in San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Menlo Park. These Energizer Stations provide food, drink and schwag to everybody passing through. You can even get quick bike tuneups at the larger stations such as the REI sponsored location at Mountain View Caltrain.

This year I need to stay close to home for a school activity, so I think I’ll sample Santa Cruz County offerings, which means I’ll miss out on my annual BTWD musette bag collection. I’ll take photos along favored Santa Cruz cycling routes so watch for me with my camera. I’ll also hand out Zero Per Gallon stickers.

Bike To Work: Wilkie Way

More information:

SF Bay Area BTWD information, including Energizer Station locations, Team Challenge, maps, tips, photos and video for the nine county San Francisco Bay Area.
Monterey Bay Area Bike To Work info for Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties. Monterey Bay Area organizers also call this day Bike To School Day.

For most of the rest of the United States, Bike To Work Day falls on Thursday or Friday next week. In Colorado, Bike To Work Day falls on Wednesday, June 11, 2011.

What are your Bike To Work plans?

See also:

http://twitter.com/wirehead wirehead

One of my coworkers and I were discussing Bike To Work Day. Since we’re both hardcore all-weather cyclists, the idea was floated, to mix things up, for us to charter a stretched hummer limo to pick me up from Sunnyvale, then pick her up from the Presidio, then drop both of us off at the office in the Mission. Therefore not only taking a tacky inefficient way to get to work, but also wastefully depriving ourselves of the environmental benefits of carpooling.
http://continentalgatorskin.com Dan

Right on Rich. I’ll be biking in to work tomorrow.
http://www.cyclelicio.us/ Cyclelicious

Dan, How far do you have to go?
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A coupled of my bike to work friends make a point if driving on BTWD.
Stuart

Am I the only one who looked for a BurmaShave logo at the end of the sign trail?
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Nope, you’re not
http://twitter.com/Wuss912 Wuss912

wan’t me to grab a bag or two for you?
http://saj.thecommune.net/ stuart

I was thinking of taking a helicopter. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Infomart+Heliport,+Dallas,+TX&aq=4&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.641855,72.509766&ie=UTF8&hq=Infomart+Heliport,+Dallas,+TX&hnear=Infomart+Heliport,+Dallas,+Texas+75207&ll=32.803328,-96.821094&spn=0.024493,0.035405&z=15&iwloc=A
http://saj.thecommune.net/ stuart

I was thinking of taking a helicopter. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Infomart+Heliport,+Dallas,+TX&aq=4&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.641855,72.509766&ie=UTF8&hq=Infomart+Heliport,+Dallas,+TX&hnear=Infomart+Heliport,+Dallas,+Texas+75207&ll=32.803328,-96.821094&spn=0.024493,0.035405&z=15&iwloc=A
http://www.thegardenpest.com/2011/05/12/bike-to-work-week/ Bike To Work Week | The Garden Pest

[...] Bike-to-Work Week is being promoted by the League of American Cyclists, a coalition of folks who make biking to work–and all over–part of their lifestyle. For more info on Bike-to-Work week events in your area, check out LAB’s website or check out the Cyclelicious article. [...]

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