Comments on: Scenes from a Bike Commute

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:47:57 +0000

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Right now people in the industrialized world are facing two very grave problems: obesity and a growing scarcity of oil. Compounding this problem is the new food shortage brought about, in part, by the conversion of food cropland to bio-fuel crop production. Most people feel powerless to help, but there is one thing that we can do. Ride our bicycles to work.

If everyone would agree to ride their bikes to work one day per week we could cut oil consumption by as much as 10-15%. No one would argue that riding a bike burns more calories than driving the car. Although popular politically right now, most bio-fuels consume more energy than they produce. We would be much better to eat those bio-crops then use our own energy to transport us around.

So spread the word. Make it a movement! Bicycle to work one day a week and do your part to cut back obesity and the overuse of oil and precious cropland.

Just go to my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreylstevenson and you can click on the group to be included. While you are there, don’t forget to ask to link to my network of more than 9,000,000 like-minded professionals. I accept all invitations and look forward to meeting you.

Jeff

By: Carlton Reid

Carlton Reid — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:48:14 +0000

Fantastic, thanks, Rich!

I love seeing where people work, kinda home-ifies emails, blog posts and the like.

Good to see a wide spread of (many) bikes, too. 9/40 is way bigger than usual, I guess.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:39:16 +0000

Yep, Chuck’s great. I worked there from about 87? to 93 and he was a big inspiration for my opening my own “old-school independant” bike shop last year.

Howdy to Chip – Been a while since I seen him last.

By: Maura Lansford

Maura Lansford — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:33:21 +0000

Great post Rich. I need to get Chip to do one about his commute. He has been riding to work off and on for the last few weeks.

By: Rich Kelly

Rich Kelly — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:29:25 +0000

Just took a couple of office photos to see where the bike (and I) live between commutes. I’ll add to the end of this post in a bit.
The train is a double-decker and upstairs fills first (for the better view). I stay downstairs near the bike, of course. I also get on at the first stop on the way north toward L.A. It will get much more crowded after my stop. Way home is always crowded and bike racks usually full.
As for riders at the office, I’d say we’ve got about 9 bikers (not all commuters, yet) out of 40-45 people.

By: Carlton Reid

Carlton Reid — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:04:50 +0000

Great description! I now feel like I know your ride. Nice empty train, in the pic anyway. Where do you stash your bike? Somewhere corporate and fancy? And who else cycles, % of company?

My commute is from bedroom to home office. I could unicycle it in about three revolutions.