He's got the right idea.
The 13th annual Bike To Work Day will be observed on May Friday May, 21st. The event, sponsored by the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, is national but has 13 stations in the Baltimore area.
Participants who pre-register will recieve a shirt, snack pack, and the chance to enter rallies at the sites. Of course you can still participate without registering, but swag is always a nice incentive.
The goal of the event is raising awareness for all the benefits of biking, both health and environmental, particularly the way car exhaust sullies the air quality in the warmer months.
Unfortunately biking isn’t always an option for a lot of people, especially in work clothes, but wouldn’t the world be great if we did?
I rode a bike to the grocery store the other day and it was so great. I put my my food in a back pack and everything, it was awesome. I think sometimes grown people forget that biking and walking are options sometimes.
I hadn’t heard of this event before, but I’m really excited about it. My job is no where near biking distance to my house, so I obviously won’t be participating, but I hope that everyone who can does. Come on, you can get a free shirt out of it. Click here for all the info. Here is another cool site about bike commuting also.
Do you guys ever ride bikes? Do you do it for fun, exercise, or practicality?
YAY! Commuter bikers rule! I bike for fun a lot, and it is by far my favorite form of exercise.