scottmorrison99

Who's riding to work on BTWD, and is it your first time?

How many regular bike commuters do we have here?

I'm riding, and I have been commuting by bike since 2005, rain or shine.

x136 

Oh, gee, I'll have to dust off the ol' bike!

I've bike commuted every day so far this year, and only missed two last year.

Nycycle

Never heard of it? sounds good though!

sweetnsourbkr

What's a bike?

scottmorrison99

Look between your legs....No, the big thing.

mtnwalker

There is something big there but its not a bike.

Anyways, everyday for me is bike to work day. Except the past 3 days when I had to carpool with the wife.

msincredible

I'll actually be headed into the office that day, and I don't have to meet customers, so I will be able to do my 50-mile RT.

x136 

On the unicycle, I hope. Just to be contrarian.

msincredible

I'd need Bike to Work Week for that one though!

x136 

If that's what it takes to change one mind, to inspire one child, then ask yourself: How could you not?

*waves a large US flag back and forth as bald eagles cry in the background*

scottmorrison99

No,no, on the folder.

StephenH

The last time I saw something about "Bike to Work" day, it was some Canadian city doing it, not a national thing. I might, but I'd have to start about 3:00 am, based on previous experience.

subframe

I'll be riding from SF to Cupertino, should be fun. I sort of did it last year, if you don't count the 40 miles of train-riding in between two sections of bike-riding

i'm a regular commuter, since the fall of '06. Stopped for a few months when my work started a charter bus service, but found I missed biking too much.

cccorlew

I bike commute every day by bike as does my wife. We're both promoting it at our schools. I have my graphic design students designing posters. I got the Associated Students to set up a "refueling station"
We're having a mini-event in the quad at noon.

Last years poster:

msincredible

I will probably do it on the folder.

reidconti

I bike commuted for the first time last week, going again tomorrow. So, not a regular, and with my strange 56mi r/t, I probably never will be... But I'll be doing it on BTWD and quite a few other days this year I hope..

BlastRadius

What a lot of folks do is drive to work with the bike, ride home, then ride to work, drive home, and so on. That's if your schedule can accommodate the 1.5-2hr one-way commute.

msincredible

I think reid might be able to use Caltrain as an option too?

dauphin

the other day, I drove to work and all my customers were asking, "Where's your bike?".

kster

I'll be trying it for the first time. The distance (about 22 miles each way) doesn't bother me but the traffic (from Fremont -> Sunnyvale) is a concern, especially around the highway on ramps.

chucko58

I'm a fair-weather bike commuter - not every day, but I try to go for at least 3 days/week unless it's raining or my schedule is too full to permit it. I bike for transportation all around Silicon Valley. I can't remember how many Bike To Work days I've done.

7rider

I try to bike to work as much as possible. Anything to avoid the weekday traffic on Grant Road. On the days I decide to drive, there always seems to be some delay. I really try to ride when it's raining because those are the days where the cars really clutter up Grant.

redspoke

It's so hard with needing to drop-off and pick-up two small kids 4 of the 5 days of the week. If it were just me and the Mrs. I would do it every day (40mi/rt).

I will try to do this on 5/15. It should be the easiest day of the week to do this since I do a training ride after work every Thursday anyways (wife picks up both).

I won't have to do my normal ridiculous Thursday ritual: pack my bike in my van, drive it to the vanpool van and load it (secure parking at work not at park n' ride), load it into my van upon returning, drive it to the ride spot and unload it, ride the bike 23 miles, reload it into my van, and then finally unload it into my house (phew!).

I'm in!

murphstahoe

Whenever Caltrain is really broken down I'll take BART to Fremont and to this ride (to Lawrence/101).

That is not an easy set of coordinates. I almost think the best way to do it is the Dumbarton. Once you cross thr bridge there is bike path then through EPA, then there is another bike path. Eventually you get near Baylands park and you can cross 101 on the pedestrian bridge at Fair Oaks. The Dumbarton is sort of weird but you have a huge barricade between you and the traffic. One thing - it can be very windy out there.

This is probably longer than the straightforward route - I ride Mission/Paseo Parkway/Warren/Warm Springs(becomes Milpitas)/Able/Great Mall (becomes Tasman), Tasman to wherever. I go "off roading" a bit by getting on the Levee (ridable even with a road bike - it's like a fire road) just before Fair Oaks. At the end of the levee you cross onto a small bike path into a park which leads to a pedestrian/bike overpass of 101 into a neighborhood between Lawrence/Fair Oaks.

murphstahoe

I think on the Peninsula the problem is going to be a large influx of people who normally bike/caltrain/bike who bike all the way planning to take Caltrain home, coupled with people who rarely take Caltrain doing the bike/Caltrain/Bike thing. This will work fine - until there is 2x the normal bike demand for Caltrain on the way *home*. Palo Alto could be a very difficult place to board on the way home.

For those planning on Bike/Caltrain/Bike that day, if you don't need the bike on the southern end, you may want to check your bike at Warm Planet.