Originally Posted by
ragboy
Aren't Bike to Work Week events created for actual commuters or commuters to be? If most of these people are just grabbing the schwag then return to their cars the next day, what's the point?
It's as much about awareness as anything else, getting people to realize "Hey it's not that hard." There was probably a 50/50 split between obvious cyclists with lycra and road bikes and newer-looking people with hybrids/mtbs and t-shirts.
Seems to me like even if you just ride to work occasionally you're still an "actual" commuter. Not everyone has circumstances that allow them to ride every day, and I don't waste my time trying to classify people.