17th Annual Ride To Work Day, July 16th 2008

[FJRBluesman]

17th Annual Ride To Work Day, July 16th 2008 :yahoo:

Ride To Work website.

OK kids. I know many of you ride to work every day as I do. There are those that don't ride every day for a variety of reasons. This is you chance to ride for at least this day, or organize a lunch for the riders at work just to get out.
At work I organized a lunch and ten riders responded (out of about 25 riders) they'll show up, most are not daily riders. A nice excuse for us to get out and have a nice ride and lunch in Seal Beach.

Like Nike says, Just DO IT!

I don't think many of you will have issue with this, so participate in the 17th Annual Ride To Work Day. Go to the site, get artwork, post it, etc, get the word out. Word!

I usually organize a lunch ride for the people at work that ride. We have a nice ride to a restaurant at the beach, and enjoy a meal with fellow riders. :yahoo:

 

[TriggerT]

YUP, I plan on posting a few flyer's at work, but not until after the first of July. Otherwise people will forget.

 

[madmike2]

I thought EVERY DAY was "ride to work" day!?!?!? :dribble:

 

[Scab]

I thought EVERY DAY was "ride to work" day!?!?!? :dribble:

WTF, Mikey? Did you ride on the wrong 364 days?

 

[madmike2]

I thought EVERY DAY was "ride to work" day!?!?!? :dribble:

WTF, Mikey? Did you ride on the wrong 364 days?

To tell the truth....I don't ride in the very cold or very wet weather. Something about commuting home in bumper to bumper traffic during a deluge isn't very appealing to me. And even with the hand guards and Gerbing gloves, sub 35-40 degree days usually have me resorting to a closed vehicle with a heater and defroster.

It's not that I'm a wussie...it just that...well....yes, I am, too a wussie!

I'm guessing that 365 days minus weekends and holidays, and minus vacation days= est. 225 work days. IIRC, the bikes sit unused a few days each Winter week, so we're realistically looking at 180+ workdays a year. Plus weekend rides and CA get-togethers and my vacation ride that somehow ends up being 1500-3500 miles.

I guess I do alright for an "old guy". I'm certainly no Walt Fulton III or Fred Rau, and I don't "do" Iron Butt events, but I hold my own.

 

[dcarver]

Then again, for folks like me who ride DAILY yet have ignored this 'special' day, this post was helpful and informative; a kindly reminder.

 

[Toecutter]

But what if I'm not working that day?

 

[Neil San Diego]

But what if I'm not working that day?

Read again. It says ride TO work. Never said anything about working, or even going in...

Might have to wait quite a while for the ride-home-from-work day though...

 

[Wild72]

I ride to work whenever possible as 40+mpg on the Feej is much better than the gas guzzling 13mpg van.

Many clients are surprissed to see me turning up for a service call on the bike. Now if I could only fit spools of wire and A/V equipment on the bike, I would use it every day...

Nice reminder.

 

[jmdaniel]

I work at home, and the wife won't let me run the Feejer down the hall.... :angry2:

 

[Silver Penguin]

How ironic is this? July 16th is probably the least likely day that I will ride to work. Gas prices, traffic and the desire to enjoy rather than tolerate the commute mean that I ride to work pretty much every day.

July 16th is the day that the world as we know it, is scheduled to end, at Long Beach Memorial Hospital. The 20yr old DOS based computer program is being phased out at 1am. It will go into read-only mode at the same time that the new program comes alive. There will be mass panic. I expect to be working somewhere in the region of 24hrs that day, because I'm one of the crew that is teaching the new program. After a shift like that, there is no way that I could safely ride a bike home.

In the meantime, a team of 40 of us are trying to educate over 7000 people how to use the program. It seems that anyone under 30 just 'gets' it, with ease. There's a gray area in between and then the over 50's as a whole, don't get it. Don't want to get it. Think it's stupid.

Jill

 

[FJRBluesman]

OK kids. I know many of you ride to work every day as I do. There are those that don't ride every day for a variety of reasons. This is you chance to ride for at least this day, or organize a lunch for the riders at work just to get out.

At work I organized a lunch and ten riders responded (out of about 25 riders) they'll show up, most are not daily riders. A nice excuse for us to get out and have a nice ride and lunch in Seal Beach.

Like Nike says, Just DO IT!

 

[Roadrider]

I rode to work today and I'll ride to work tomorrow too. It won't be on the Feejer tho, replacing the front wheel bearings and I doubt I'll be finished.

Don't forget, ride early and ride often. That applies to motorcycles too BTW.

 

[vectervp1]

Awe man... this means the already tight covered M/C parking is going to be jam packed. Looks like I'll have to park out in the regular lot tomorrow.

 

[big ears]

How ironic is this? July 16th is probably the least likely day that I will ride to work. Gas prices, traffic and the desire to enjoy rather than tolerate the commute mean that I ride to work pretty much every day.
July 16th is the day that the world as we know it, is scheduled to end, at Long Beach Memorial Hospital. The 20yr old DOS based computer program is being phased out at 1am. It will go into read-only mode at the same time that the new program comes alive. There will be mass panic. I expect to be working somewhere in the region of 24hrs that day, because I'm one of the crew that is teaching the new program. After a shift like that, there is no way that I could safely ride a bike home.

In the meantime, a team of 40 of us are trying to educate over 7000 people how to use the program. It seems that anyone under 30 just 'gets' it, with ease. There's a gray area in between and then the over 50's as a whole, don't get it. Don't want to get it. Think it's stupid.

Jill

It probably is stupid. Yes, I'm over fifty. Aren't all fjr riders? I ride to work almost every day. Seventy mile round trip.

 

[FJR_pig]

Unfortunately, I need to my work car tomorrow, BUT last Friday, I didn't, so I rode to work that day instead!

 

[ctfjr]

I thought EVERY DAY was "ride to work" day!?!?!? :dribble:

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[Silver Penguin]

Yes, I'm over fifty. Aren't all fjr riders? I ride to work almost every day. Seventy mile round trip.

Not all FJR riders are over 50. I'm not (yet). But I'm driving my Z3 instead of riding today. Got home from work at midnight last night, leaving to go back at 6am and will be home again at midnight or so. Not cool on a bike.

But I'll get lots of miles in next week, on the Long Way Around to Golden.

Jill

 

[mattster31]

I thought EVERY DAY was "ride to work" day!?!?!? :dribble:

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