Category: btwd

South Bay: Bike ride with VTA’s new General Manager

Update May 2 – Note the change in start time! Meet at 7 AM, depart 7:20 AM. Official VTA information here. View the route map here.

Happy Bike Month. There’s a lot going on but I want to get word about this event: a Bike to Work Day ride with the new General Manager for the Valley Transportation Authority, Nuria Fernandez. Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager (pictured below), VTA transportation planners, BPAC members, and other VTA staff will also participate in this morning ride from downtown San Jose to the VTA offices on North First Street.


Ken Yeager

(more…)

The best free bike to work day breakfast?

For those of you who live, bike or work in Santa Cruz County, Happy Autumn Bike to Work Day. I watched this group of Easton / Bell Sports / Giro employees biking up to their office in Scotts Valley from Santa Cruz this morning. They’re following me to the most awesome breakfast station in the county.


Giro employees bike to work in Scotts Valley, California

Those who participate in Bike to Work Day know that you’ll find a pastry or maybe sliced fruit along with a slug of cheap coffee at the typical Bike to Work Day breakfast station.

(more…)

San Diego Bike to Work Day this Friday

Brian K created this video to promote Bike To Work Day this coming Friday, May 17 in San Diego, California.



More info about San Diego BTWD at I Commute San Diego. Visit the website to register for prizes, enroll in a corporate challenge, and find the location of dozens of “pit stops” with free food and schwag at dozens of locations throughout San Diego County.