Monday, June 18, 2012

Ride to Work Day

I was reminded that today is 21st International Ride to Work Day. I didn't notice too many additional bikes on the road today on my way in but I did take the scenic route this morning.


There were only seven bikes in the motorcycle parking area next to my building.

Yesterday evening, there was a "meeting" of the local Airhead chapter at the local micro-brewery and about a dozen riders from Anchorage stopped by to visit. They just finished riding the Denali Highway and getting ready to head to Dawson City, Yukon Territory, for the annual Dust2Dawson non-rally. I was originally thinking of going but with my long trip coming up in only two weeks, I figure I'll wait until next year.

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  1. Richard:

    I think all of your routes are Scenic routes, I mean, you are in Alaska, eh !

    bob
    Riding the Wet Coast
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    1. The "scenic route" is anything that has less traffic and no signal lights!

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  2. 7 bikes sounds like a good turn out. I haven't seen one today unless you count hubby heading to work.

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    1. There has been as many as a dozen in those three spaces plus a couple more scattered throughout the parking lot. But there were some layoffs and retirements a few years back and many of them rode....

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  3. Cool. Great turn out. I only saw one bike on my way to work this morning. Of course...I didn't ride. Still not 100% from this stupid cold.

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    1. A decent turn out but could be better. In the past, someone in the building actually promoted the day with signs on the doors. This year, I had forgotten about it until I saw Trobairitz's post.

      Hope you start to feel better soon...

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  4. No other bikes in our parking lot today, however I counted five pick-up trucks. I guess fuel is still not expensive enough...

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    1. I've been curious on what it would take for that to change. If you compare gas cost to something like minimum wage, it is now over double what it was 30 years ago. We also have a lot of trucks and SUVs in our parking lot. I don't see how they can afford to drive them. I'm thinking $10 per gallon....

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