My Bike To Work Week – 2011
Well, it’s the League of American Bicyclists‘ National Bike To Work Week, and I tried to participate as much as I could.
Of course, my initial goal was to ride every day this week. Because of my crazy schedule at work, it got trimmed down to Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Now, because of other commitments, I won’t be able to bike commute to work on Friday (National Bike To Work Day – the day I really wanted to do this).
Still, I got a couple of days in this week, and I use this event to kick off my season of bike to work commuting. It won’t be every day, but when my work load allows a normal day and the weather is nice, I’ll be commuting by bike.
Check out some pics from my rides:
As a side note, of the three cities that I ride through to get to work (Richardson, Dallas and Plano), west Plano is the worst. The traffic in west Plano is not bike friendly. The neighborhoods (at least the ones on my route) are not interconnected – so a quiet, back street route is out of the question.
Basically, the biggest deterrent for my commute is having to ride through that part of town.
When the petroculture collapses, West Plano will be one of the first to go.
Bob
May 19, 2011 at 8:42 am
Based on the forecast, you may be glad you didn’t ride on Friday…
Steve A
May 19, 2011 at 6:03 pm
I sure am. I hope you didn’t get caught in any of that.
dickdavid
May 23, 2011 at 10:43 am
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