A) Occupation: College Teacher

B) Commuting Distance: 25km

C) When at work I a) shower b) change clothes/clean up c) don't change clothes and hope for the best/clean up:
No showers available. I change in the handicappped washroom. In the summer I bring my work clothes with me. I use baby wipes to keep up

D) Where bike is parked:
Right out front on a post and ring. Two wheels:Two locks.

E) Number of years commuting:
8 (time flies when you're on a bike) years.

F) Year-round/part time commuter:
Year-round in Toronto Canada. That means public transit on REALLY snowy days. Best winter: 3 days lost. Worsed: This winter, 20 days on transit.

A) Occupation - programmer
B) Commuting Distance - 11 miles each way
C) When at work -change clothes, take a bird bath with unsceneted wipes
D) Where bike is parked - in loading dock area at a rack - not easily accessed by the public
E) Number of years commuting - 3
F) Year-round/part time commuter - approx 10 months

A) Occupation - Programmer (mostly database and corporate projects)

B) Commuting Distance - 20 miles give ore take 2 depending on route. (Quick and dangerous vs. slower and safe)

C) When at work - I change clothesin in a Handicapped restroom that used to be a shower
D) Where bike is parked - At a bike rack they installed where I used to lock my bike up (glad they had the same opinion of good places to lockup a bike! Very high traffic area would be hard to pull something off unnoticed)

E) Number of years commuting - Off and on for the last 15 years for a total of probably 6 or 7 solid years including the last two.

F) Year-round/part time commuter - Year round. No reason not to in Arizona (at least if you are in the desert and not the snow country, although I commuted year round in the snow when I lived in Flagstaff).

A) Occupation - Ecologist

B) Commuting Distance - 7 miles one way plus a 50 minute train ride. I live kinda far from work , but I've managed to squeeze a bike ride into my commute.

C) When at work - I change into clothes that I've brought in advance.

D) Where bike is parked - Right beside my desk.

E) Number of years commuting - 6 months

F) Year-round/part time commuter - Two-three days a week year-round. Unfortunately, I can't ride my bike to go check out the birds and bees.

A) Occupation - Veterans Employment Rep for the State of Minnesota

B) Commuting Distance - 18+ miles round trip

C) When at work I - Change clothes/freshen up

D) Where bike is parked - winter-outside bike rack spring/summer/fall-boiler room

E) Number of years commuting - it will be 23 years in June

F) I ride year-round

A) Food Server/ College Student
B) 9 miles round trip to work, a mile or so for trips around school.
C) Change Clothes/clean up
D) At work I used to park my bike outside locked to a light post. Now i have a better bike so I keep it inside the my boss's office. I only work on the weekends so he doesn't care if its there(when hes not there). The rest of the time it is either park locked up on some bike rack outside one of my classes. And then it spends the rest of the time in my room.
E) Off and on for 4 years
F) part-time commuter

Franklen:
We 4 commuters don't ride the few times it snows so there isn't any dripping snow. We don't have ash on our roads, just a brown/black road dirt that accumulates all over our bikes. When its raining, I bounce my bike to get most of the water off before I enter right into an 8 foot wide hallway where the vending machines are located. It has a tiled floor & 2 commuters park bikes here across the aisle from the vending machines. I walk on around the corner about 30 feet to my cubicle & desk. The area is carpeted (dark blue) & I haven't dirtied the carpet so far. The other fellow who parks by his cube is 2 workstations away so there are 2 bikes about 12 feet apart on the same wall. Our main concern is that we not mark up the white wall. Since I see my bike all day long, I am pretty aware of how dirty is & likely clean it more often than if it was outside out of sight. We work in a medium sized office of about 100 people, so if we all cycled there could be a dirt problem. Don

A) Cook/Chef

B) 6.5 each way

C) c) don't change clothes and hope for the best/clean up

D) Behind the restaurant. Hidden in a area where only us who work there go.

E) Really as long as I have needed to go places, at almost 26 I still have yet to get my license (although I pay over half to my wife's car).

F) Year-round baby, snow, sleet, ice, sun, rain, etc... Just like the post office.

No thread drift, this is an excellent question.

First off, the building owners and managers. They provide all those spaces to park motor vehicles, that's costing them something like $20K per space if it's in a parking garage, less but still expensive if it's surface parking; bike racks are both inexpensive and space-efficient. One car space can hold eight to ten bikes. Keep bugging them, and when they break, make sure you get an acceptable facility and not some substandard wheel-bender rack. Go for covered parking and/or lockers if possible.

Second, the local municipality. They almost certainly have building code requirements for the minimum number of motor vehicle parking spaces that need to be provided. They may or may not have similar code requirements for minimum short and long term bike parking spaces. If they don't, lobby for code changes. If they do, but your building doesn't comply, pressure the municipality to do enforcement.

Third, your employer. If they provide free or subsidized parking for those employees who drive, they should damn well reciprocate for those that don't. Especially if you work for a government organization or in a government building. They, of all employers, should know the value of One Less Car on the road, since they are responsible for building and maintaining the roads, and should be fully aware of congestion, maintenance, policing and other management issues.

Whatever the outcome, make sure the bike parking eventually provided meets some sort of standard and it's not just a crappy rack in an unsecure location that is installed as an afterthought.

If you and other commuting cyclists are reasonable in your demands for safe and secure bike parking, and you keep the pressure on, I can almost guarantee that you will eventually get what you are asking for. If the process seems too slow, don't get frustrated, keep at it. If it's really going at a snail's pace, enlist someone supportive from the local media to help you publicize the issue...

Good Luck!

Here's a good resource document for bike parking standards from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute:
https://www.vtpi.org/bikerack.pdf

a) Motorcycle mechanic
b) 9 miles one way
c) I change and clean up ,no showers
d) I park it next to my toolbox
e) 3 years
f) year round ,but I am so sickkkkkkkkkk of the rain

A) web/courseware developer

B) 15km (each way)

C) When at work I change clothes/clean up

D) basement parking, chained to a pillar

E) halfway through first year

F) well, we'll see but probably year-round

A) Software Engineer

B) 14miles roundtrip

C) Shower at work

D) Locked to a Bike Rack within a secure compound

E) Just over 5 years

F) All year round

When wet and nasty, I bring a cloth towel from the home rag bag,
then wipe it down good before I bring it inside.
Just more damn mess on a rainy day...

A) Lab Analyst/Tribology. Also, music production and live performance. In short, a serf in the Corporate Feudal State.

B) 12-15 miles

C) When at work I don't change clothes and hope for the best/clean up. The only thing better than a long-haired bike riding weirdo is a stinky one.

D) Bike stored in my office, where co-workers stare at it as if it were a musket.

E) On & off since 1996 or something.

F) Part time commuter. I get burned out usually in October or so.

A) Occupation - Police officer

B) Commuting Distance - 28 km/day, uphill both ways into the wind.

C) When at work I - Shower, change.

D) Where bike is parked - in a secure garage

E) Number of years commuting - 1 year. Rode the bike patrol in 1995 from April until October and kick myself that I took so long to get back into cycling.

F) Year-round/part time commuter - Year round (except for a nasty January)

Very interesting reading. It would be interesting to see how long it typically takes someone to get to work one-way. Perhaps there could be a B. (a) How long does it take?

My stats...

A) Occupation

Service Manager

B) Commuting Distance

3.2 miles one-way a) Takes about 13 mintues on average.



C) When at work I a) shower b) change clothes/clean up c) don't change clothes and hope for the best/clean up

C.

D) Where bike is parked

In my office or in the shop next to it.

E) Number of years commuting

.75

F) Year-round/part time commuter

I can only commute part time. I have to use my car for travel most of the time. So I can only commute on occasion. I do ride daily though if possible. (after work)

A) occupation - Hardware Design Engineer

B) distance - 5 miles one way, but I usually tack on 20 extra miles each way for training since I race

C) when at work - Shower

D) where is bike parked - Secure bike racks next to the building I work in

E) # years commuting - 8 years, off and on

F) Year-round commuter, as long as roads are free of snow and ice. I had 2 spills this past winter on icy roads..

Temperature extremes I've commuted in: Winter -5 F, Summer 108 F (Boise has variety!)

A) Occupation

Real-Time Operations Manager for Evil Energy Company


B) Commuting Distance

4.4 miles, but I make it 15 normally.


C) When at work I a) shower b) change clothes/clean up c) don't change clothes and hope for the best/clean up

A.

D) Where bike is parked

Locker/storage area.

E) Number of years commuting

2

F) Year-round/part time commuter
Year-round, but part-time.

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B) 10 miles each way, 7 of those on the glorious shore of lake michigan.

C) Used to towel down & spray my entire upper body with right guard in the handicapped restroom of office. Then I did this in the restroom of the commuter train on the way to an office in the burbs. Now I shower (and occasionally workout) at a gym 1 block from my office, then I unroll a khaki-&-polo-shirt burrito. There is a dry cleaner nearby for button-down days.

D) On a rack in front of a busy public building: lock + cable + seat cable + remove the lights + prayer.

E) 5 yrs.

F) 3 seasons, working on 4, but waking up and riding in total frozen darkness is a challenge for this lazy fat ass.

A: Pathologist assistant
B:8.5 round trip
C:I shower in the hospital morgue
D:I park my bike in the hospital morgue
E:About 2 months..although i used to commute year-round
F: Hope to commute year-round

A) Technical Support

B) 45 miles round trip

C) Shower

D) In an empty cubicle next to mine

E) 1 1/2 years

F) Year-Round / 3days per week

A. Helicopter Mechanic
B. 11 miles each way. (brake after the first 10 to catch the bus over the mountain)
C. change clothes. im only gonna get dirtier
D. in the hangar
E. 1
F. All Year long

A) Occupation - Paramedic
B) Commuting Distance - 6 miles each way
C) When at work -change clothes, take a shower and put on duty uniform
D) Where bike is parked - in the bay with the ambulances
E) Number of years commuting - 4
F) Year-round/part time commuter - Late spring when the weather breaks, summer and as much of the fall as possible. Winters get a bit too harsh for me in upstate NY

A: Airline support manager (technical publications, aircraft manufacturing)
B: 10kms/6mi one way, give or take one klick depending on the mood of the day
C: I keep my clothes on and hope to evaporate as quickly as possible
D: I Lock the bike to a rack in the parking lot under the access-controlled building.
E: Since my university days, sixteen years ago (ouch!)
F: Year-round, but I prefer winter

A) Occupation--scientist at a computer based visualization company

B) Commuting Distance--6.3mi each way

C) When at work I a) shower b) change clothes/clean up c) don't change clothes and hope for the best/clean up--change clothes

D) Where bike is parked--outside on a bike rack-c'mon its Iowa nobody steals things here!

E) Number of years commuting--2

F) Year-round/part time commuter--year round, love the studded tires in the winter