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> OT :"Ride your bike to work week", save the planet!
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post May 15 2007, 11:24 AM
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I am planning on doing at least one round trip (14 miles each way), 2 if i can hack it after not riding all winter or spring! do your part and save the earth!

This is a good time for the lazy fat asses like me to make a commitment to better health and to a better world! the hard core guys have been on their bikes for the past 3 months already!
Who is with me!?
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post May 15 2007, 12:29 PM
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I did this all the time before I moved to PA.

But I am not sure that I could make the 90 miles a day on my bike.

It was best when I was walking to work. Living 1/5 mile from my office door rocked.

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post May 15 2007, 12:31 PM
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ditto...i rode to work in the warm months for 5 years.

Its a little tougher now being 20+ miles round trip but i'll try.
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post May 15 2007, 12:40 PM
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I bike 1 mi. to the train, 15 min train ride (BART), then 3 mi. bike to work every day (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
I'm studying the maps to do the 10 mi. trip through the East Bay urban maze in one shot on Thursday May 17 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)
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post May 15 2007, 12:41 PM
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Now if we could only get the poster child for climate change to stop buying carbon credits and actually change his life style to really be greener.

I bike when I can and the rest of the time I commute to work in my little VW golf. I hate it when I see some slob driving a hummer to work. It does make me smile though to think it is costing them something like 22 cents a mile in gas to drive the tank.
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post May 15 2007, 12:55 PM
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Ok, if I have to

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P.S. with the Bassani's it sounds better than my race car (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

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post May 15 2007, 01:08 PM
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For me it's a easy way to fit in a ride, and maximize time at home...

I ride almost every weekday, 2-4 of those days it's commuting to work. The rest is a good climb in the mountains during lunch.

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post May 15 2007, 01:25 PM
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Only about 10 of the 25 mile trip from Pleasanton to Sunnyvale is safely rideable. So the only way my bike gets to work is on the top of my car. :-(
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post May 15 2007, 01:31 PM
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I'm with Zach. Commutes from hell + bikes don't mix.

I drive a Neon to work every day, though... over 30 mpg at speed... and today I parked next to a huge Toyota SUV with West Virginia plates. I bet I used about half as much gas today as its owner did.

(WV is just as far from Greenbelt as is the Ace Mechanic Garage and Brewery.)
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post May 15 2007, 02:46 PM
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I bike to work in the summer months when it's too hot to bike in the evening.

I go out at 6:30am and do a 22-32 mile loop that leads back to my house.



I have a home office. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)




I do need to cut down on errands... I use them as an excuse to go drive. I gotta stop it.


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post May 15 2007, 05:04 PM
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I'd ride to work everyday if I could! the road I commute on...it would be a death sentence, tons of crazy drivers, it's scary enough in a car!
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post May 15 2007, 05:15 PM
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I work 4 days a week love to bike to work. But it,s 30 miles round trip , all of that on the Ohio Turnpike. At 69 i don't think I could pedel fast enought to go 65 mph. Honda civic gets 35 to 37 mpg. Dave (IMG:style_emoticons/default/slap.gif)
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post May 15 2007, 07:58 PM
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Has anyone seen my bike?


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post May 15 2007, 09:17 PM
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I ride mine almost every day its not raining.


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post May 15 2007, 09:36 PM
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QUOTE(race914 @ May 15 2007, 11:55 AM) *

Ok, if I have to

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P.S. with the Bassani's it sounds better than my race car (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Nice bike Greg! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap56.gif) Duece, right?
Been looking at bikes, including HD Electraglides, off and on for a year of more.
Working on convincing the wifey I need one really bad (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
Used to ride all the time in high school and college...

now you went and got me thinking again... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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