Go By Winners, Week 3
We are up to 6.5 million miles and counting in the challenge with 19,900 people pledging to replace some car trips by bike! The theme of last week’s barrage of email was “where can I get a “Support Global Cooling” jersey? I’m happy to announce that the jerseys will be available later this month on this very site or at your local Trek retailer. Men’s and women’s sizes too and if I can convince the bean counters they will sell, we’ll get some kids jerseys in the line up.
Before I give the names of last week’s bike winners, I want to explain the photo above. That’s my uber pink bike and my backpack waiting for me to hop aboard for my ride to work. I got a great idea while riding to work one day: “Show and Tell your Bike Commute!” The idea is to get you all to take some photos of your ride and send them to me with some brief narration. I’ll post the best ones for all of us to enjoy and/or get inspiration from. Send your commute pics to me at info@1world2wheels.org and try to keep your photos small so my laptop doesn’t crash.
My commute to Trek is 8 miles. When I turn out of my driveway I see this scene. Buccolic, non?
Being in THE dairy state it’s quite common to see a bunch of dairy cows lazing in the grass, nibbling on flowers. Unlike California where the cows are watered by sprinklers to keep them alive in the summer, our Wisco cows are laying in knee deep grass. Real grass. I have a photo of my neighbors –the Brown Swiss variety– but I’ll have to post that tomorrow as I seem to have
left that photo off the thumb drive. Trust me, they are very nice neighbors and only smell now and then when the wind is from the east.
So after the cows I make a right turn at Hwy I, and see evidence of hay and straw making. We had perfect hay making weather last week and as the saying goes, “make hay when the sun shines.” The other part of the saying you don’t hear unless you live amongst farmers is “otherwise you get bricks.” What that means is if it rains on your hay after you cut it, it probably won’t be worth keeping. That’s a bummer if you bale hay.
Just up the road from the hay field is the town of Waterloo sign. Being a former bike racer a town sign means “sprint” but with no one to sprint against I took a photo of the sign I would have sprinted for if there was anyone around to sprint with. Someone needs to weed whack the sign.
After that it’s another 1.5 miles to Trek where we have a room to store our bikes, showers, and it’s A-OK to walk around the office with helmet head. It’s the norm, actually.
Alrighty, here are week 3 winners of the Trek 7.2 FX:
July 28: Henrik Lind
July 29: John Wright
July 30: Heather Walker
July 31st: Catrina Hare
Aug. 1: Lynn Vanderloop
Aug. 2: Jeannine Sweet
Aug. 3: Randy Phetteplace
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Lance Says:
Cool program - I’ve been gone on vacation, and am just seeing this now! I’m in!
I get out and bike to work about 3-4 times each week (just east down the road a ways - near Waukesha). I find that biking to work is a)uses less gas b)keeps me fit c)starts my day off on a very high note and d)gives me some time to really think while not bombarded with all the noise during the rest of my day.
Biking is cool!
DweezelJazz Says:
Hey, that’s a great bike ride to work! It’s a really fantastic feeling to commute to work because you get there totally energized and it makes for a good start to the day. Thanks for sharing your photos with very nice commentary. I just love my Trek bike. :)
David Wilkins Says:
Rebecca,
That looks like a sweet commute - are there any hills? The last 2 miles to my house would make a mountain goat ache. I’m sure I’d make more trips by bike to the grocery if the hills weren’t so steep.
I’ll forward some pics of my commute (not nearly as rural looking as yours).
Rebecca Says:
hi David,
Yes, there are about 7 hills on the way to work but not long and not too steep. (big ring hills). Just enough to make me break a sweat and feel like I got some exercise by the time I pull into the parking lot! Looking forward to seeing the pics of your commute-and get one of your hill!
Eliza Says:
I enjoy biking but I’m moving. Bikes are great, so are city neighborhoods!
Eliza Says:
I do enjoy biking. Later this month I’m moving which will cut my already short commute by more than 1/2 and put me on much safer roads. Thus I will be “saving” fewer vehicle miles. I wouldn’t bike to the grocery because I already walk! When I move I will replace a lot more trips to restaurants, shopping, friends by bike but they will mostly be under 1 mile so they won’t add up to a lot of miles. I think this is a great effort and I’m glad to be a part of it. Just worth noting that another great way to cool the globe and increase personal number of bike trips (if not miles) is to move closer to where you work, shop, play and worship and encouraging the local government to build places where that’s possible!
Brian, a bike commuter Says:
Becx:
You’ve inspired me to get some commuting photos. I’ll even try to shoot some video to put on You Tube, which you can embed in your blog if you want. We’ve got to get some urban commuting action in this blog.
Brian