Biking DURING work
 

Its so great to have a job where I can bike during work. The college that I work at has bikes and I get to go around campus on bike.
Its great to get paid to bike!

Anyone else out there get to bike at work?

I've been keeping a bike at my office in case I want to ride at lunch time. I haven't used it yet, but I hope to.

There are a few coworkers who sometimes go for a ride on lunch when it's nice out... so they won't be back for 2 or 3 months.

We have a large site and there used to be bikes, but they were deemed unsafe so we drive trucks and fourwheelers now.

I commute on a bicycle to work and ride it during lunch break to get to places to eat.

We have a few different facilities around the STL area. We have available on-site "Zagster" bikes, which is a bike-share program that you can use by signing up for a free app. You then unlock a bike with your phone, and take it for use however you want to use it. You can't take it home, though. People use it to go between sites, or to go around the neighborhood for lunch. I won't say it gets used a LOT, yet, but it does get used.

I'm currently off the bike recovering from surgery, but when I was riding in to work I'd go for a lunch time bike ride almost every day. I'll return to that practice once I get back to riding.

During the summer, my job involves setting up outdoor concerts on very large fields. To get around quicker (and to lessen my resentment of not being able to take as many recreational rides as I'd like to during these months) I have rigged up a folding bike with baskets and panniers to carry wires, tools, and other supplies. I also use the bike to go out for my lunch break while everyone else is waiting for one of the vans to pick them up.

Edit: Also, my friends at Worksman Cycles make all sorts of bikes for use in warehouses. Makes me wish I had a warehouse job.

When the kids where young, my wife had a paper route. She would pick up the papers and deliver 20 of them from her van. Then she would give me the other 80 that I would deliver from my bike. I had two milk crates fastened together so I could quickly attach them to a rear rack. Sundays were rough. I would have two full crates and two full bags. During the week I would do that every morning before going to my real job. For me the bike made the task very enjoyable.

If you mean riding as part of the job, then no. But I will often do interval workouts during my lunch time. Lots of folks run or use the gym at lunch, so it's not that unusual in that respect.

Sure, that makes a lot of sense. :lol:

Same, sometimes...

We have a big plant. I'll ride my bike to meetings within a mile or two. If I know I'll have a meeting farther than that, I probably won't ride that day. It takes too long for conscience's sake. But if someone calls a meeting far away today and I've got no other vehicle to borrow, I'll do it.

I used to work at a split site workplace and my office and workshop were on different sites, 1 mile apart. Instead of waiting for the bus, I would just ride.

You mean like this?

http://www.brucew.com/images/rides/2...arade-0960.jpg

In the three seasons, two librarians and I rotate duties doing outreach with the Books by Bike trailer. All the gory details about the trailer are here. And yes, it's on City time, so I get paid.

It went over so well in our inaugural year last year, that two more are currently under construction for other branches. One of them is paid for by a grant from my club.

This photo of yrs trly cycling past our library was used as the header photo on the library's Facebook page through most of the season last year.

http://www.brucew.com/images/rides/2...-fair-0800.jpg

Back in the 70s, I worked at the retail counter at an auto parts warehouse. We had a fleet of BMX bikes with milk crates on the front we used in the warehouse to pull parts and get back to the counter before the customers could fall asleep waiting.

You look happy, [MENTION=55787]tsl[/MENTION].

A while ago I had a job where there were two building locations about 12 mi apart. I often had to divide my workday between both locations, so in a sense, I got paid to ride while changing locations. The ride only took about 15 min more than driving, so no big impact on my productivity, which was never questioned, anyhow. The time changing into and out of riding gear was pretty much a wash with walking to and from the parking lot, since the bike racks were situated quite close to the building entrances. Quite a bike-friendly company and region, actually.

How could I miss, Tom? I love my job, I love cycling. Put the two together and I'm amazed I don't explode into a million yellow smiley faces.

When I was in school in Portland, I would sometimes have classes at the main campus in the morning, then have to head across town to satellite locations in the afternoon. I could usually just barely make it on time by bike.

In St. Louis, I'd frequently ride from the main jobsite to satellite jobsites that were 1-2 miles away. Any further, and I'd try to plan ahead and drive.

One of my jobs is absolutely terrible for biking. I mean, I get up, shower, throw my stuff on, and ride to work. When I get there, I punch in, and then grab some bags of sandwiches and put them in my bag. Then I get on my bike. Then I ride it around a nice little city and a really beautiful college campus. I get paid to do this. I get paid to ride my bike and deliver sandwiches. For lunch, for a few hours, on my bike. Seriously? People are giving me cash tips to do something that I love. Hell yes!

http://i.imgur.com/g2xXS3Z.jpg

Pardon the headless selfie. Coworker and myself (I am on the left)

In San Francisco, cyclists on the Mosquito Abatement team ride bikes from storm drain to storm drain around town, guarding against West Nile virus. Once a month, every strong drain in the city gets treated. home - SF MAC Team

I use to be a FOH engineer. I'd often carry an old bike with me on tours to make getting around various cities easier. Some of the drivers did too so sometimes there'd be a half dozen of us terrorizing some town. This was in the seventies and eighties when many cities had nobody riding bikes.

If I were a younger lad or college student, I would totally dig being a Jimmy Johns delivery guy. I rode my bike for transportation throughout my college days but there weren't any jobs like that available then. Maybe I should take that up as a part-time job after I retire. The local JJs in our downtown has a whole fleet of delivery guys on bicycles.

I sometimes ride my bike during the workday to dentist appointments or to lunch. Most of the time I bring my lunch or go eat at places within walking distance, but having my bike handy makes it possible to eat lunch at restaurants too far to walk to.

I used to work for a company that had a large corporate campus with several buildings 1/8 - 1/4 mile apart. They had racks with bikes you could use to travel between the buildings. The bikes all had baskets on the front to carry your supplies. No check-out system or anything fancy; if there was a bike sitting there you could ride it to another building. Sometimes you'd come out and there was no bike available, so you'd have to walk. That rarely happened though, as most people just walked anyway.

On my current job I'll occasionally have to meet at different client offices and/or travel to our main company office. I usually ride my bike to these appointments rather than drive, so I guess my answer would be, "yes."

I am 43. Definitely the oldest person working at the store, possibly all of them in the area. Older than all of the managers including the area manager. I do it purely for fun, extra money, and the saddle time. The job is a blast.

I also have a "work bike" - even if I commuted in by bike I will grab that to go do errands or just to get out because it doesn't have any bags or stuff to steal on it, it's upright and has in IGH. It's at home right now...I rebuilt the headset the other night and haven't brought it back in (when I do, I'll probably ride the 12 miles and hitch a ride home with the better half)

Early in my career I did. I was a Utility Worker B at Hughes Aircraft. My job was to move boxes and parts from point A to point B by whatever means necessary. Sometimes, point B was at the location on the far side of Los Angeles International Airport. It was a 20 minute ride. But due to Hughes Aircraft's enormous parking lots, it was a 40 minute drive. So my bike was seen as super speedy.

The best part was that the company also had truck drivers who would take a day to get a part over to the other site. They hated me. I made them look bad. They called the union stewards on me so often for working out of my job, that I had to carry a copy of my job description with me when I rode, to prove to the steward that I was just doing my job.

Ironically, if they wanted to bust me for working out of my job, all they had to do was come to my desk and see that I also maintained a large parts bank and disassembled Telescopic Sight Units.

Finally, they got me one day. I had just gotten promoted to being a full technician. They were delivering a huge stone test bench and asked me to come over and help them. We got the test bench mounted in its frame. Then they saw me walk back over to my test bench and resume work. That set them off. They called the union steward. He found that I had been promoted, and as such wasn't working out of my job, but that I had been when I went over to help the truck drivers. Busted!, However, since they had asked me to help, no infraction had been comitted.

Yes and yes. At present I work in a bike shop where part of my job is to test ride bikes to verify that repairs have been properly completed, or that newly built bikes are ready for the sales floor. My previous work didn't involve bikes but a few times I did get paid for my time (and mileage!) when I rode to other stores for meetings as part of the workday.

In one of my more recent jobs, on of my tasks was to make sure that the ads on the Jumbotron at the local sports arena played during the Arkansas Twister's games. I got to ride from our company to the sports area. I parked my bike on the guard rail next to the team buses. Then I rode home after the game.

At that job I also kept a spare bike. It was a Giant Stiletto chopper, shown below. I rode it around inside and in the parking lot to blow off steam. We kept it parked where customers could see it because they would want to ride it, and we let them.

http://www.pointhappy.com/gcf/GordonOnStiletto.jpg

I did that for a while, while I was recuperating from an achilles strain. I had a lunchtime walking routine which turned into running but then had to use a bike, cuz running was outand I read biking was a great compliment/therapy for that type of sports injury. eventually, that turned into bike commuting. anyway it was really fun to extend my range by using a bike. of course once I started bike commuting I only walked at lunch cuz I was getting my fill of biking (in & out)