I got a granola bar, a Gatorade, and a hug from Mayor Betsy.

I did the Manhattan Bridge and all I got was an apple. There really wasn't all that much, but I wasn't expecting much either. Free F/R lights if you sign up with Transporatation Alternatives though. The funny thing is I decked out my commuter with stuff I picked up 2 years ago in Seattle for BtW day when I took a biking vacation there. I have a dinky bell, a bottle, leg straps, some reflector strips and a bungie cord. There were consumables also, but those are gone and a t-shirt that never fit.

Some of my bike commuting coworkers and I biked the 4 miles over to the Bacon On the Bike Path event in downtown Madison, WI yesterday.

I was so inspired I brought in Bacon and Eggs we had a Bike to Work Day Breakfast Potluck in our break room this morning. Other's brought OJ, Bread, Bagels, and Kringle. The aroma of bacon cooking in the break room really got some attention. It's gonna become an annual tradition.

I got two snappy ankle straps, for my kids (they are rigid, and when you whack a wrist or ankle with them they snap around). And 2 cups of coffee. I could have really convoluted my route and hit 3 stops instead of 2 but I was already convoluting my route to avoid construction and the minor shift to hit the 2nd coffee stop was already as much extra extra diversion as I needed.

Good work! No schwag in Santa Cruz either, but amazing food and discounts all week (last week). My commute is only around 5-6 miles but I still manage to hit 4 or 5 "eat to work day" stops. Odwalla Bars and Shelly's Biscotti are the wrapped takeaways I try to stock up on. Fresh organic strawberries, Jamba Juice, and amazing pastries make up the rest of it along the way. Good thing I have a 800' climb to get to work, that keeps me from eating too much before the top of the hill (where, conveniently, the last breakfast stop is). My wife and I rode to a couple of the stops on our tandem last Thursday and had a great time. The we rode our separate ways to work on our singles.

My only schwag was my paycheck today. Happy, but sad.

In celebration I opened up a new bag of Huggies wipes. They must have changed the formula for this year because it's snuggly soft!

Free jersey, bottle, tshirt, banana, and an assortment of bars in DC. Score.

Jeez, I didn't ride to work today so I could go to the big REI sale that started today. REI blew us off for the bike helmet giveaway tomorrow too, they'd sent a pair of techs and swag to the event the last 4 years too. It's good to see somebody got something out of them.

No swag here :-(. But I didn't have to deal with all the college kids moving out of the dorms in the parking lot, so that is a bonus!

No Bike to Work parties here...One of the two LBS' was giving away free Purist bottles, but you had to go to the shop to get one. That's it.

Thank you. It was pretty nice indeed. Did 78 miles out in countryside: farms, fields, cows, horses, all that stuff, minimal to non-existent traffic, gorgeous weather, beautiful sights. What a way to celebrate Bike To Work Day!!! Close to a perfect day off. Beats fighting traffic in midtown Manhattan for sure.

Long Island is lame. Never liked it.

>>>Long Island is lame. Never liked it.<<<<<

Easy, dude. I've lived here all my life and, having traveled extensively all over North America, still find it to be one of my favorite places -- except for a lot of the people, and the way drivers condescend to cyclists, and the fact that all those miles of pristine coastline are off limits to us riff raff.

Anyway, the wife and I are coming to Queens tomorrow for an easy-does-it ride. I'll look for your "Long Islanders Suck" t-shirt.

Yeah, it's the people, not LI itself, you said it A lot of people in LI are condescending to everyone. But there are a few places I sometimes go to.

I volunteered at one of the pit stops in Los Angeles two years ago giving out some good stuff. So good that I loaded up and really hooked up some of the cyclists who were just wandering in the streets. I found it sad that for as much as the city pushed bike to work week, we had a very low turn out and most were repeats. It would ideal if the city had two or three bike to work weeks annually so that fewer people would be afraid to ride in the streets and drivers more aware of the roads.

Food, tshirt (I would have to say this year was the best color out of the last 3), and a blue rear blinky??? There was some chamois butt'r but I don't do that kind of gear so I left it.

My first Bike to Work event!

whaat, they were giving free shwag in LA? Why didnt anyone tell me

It wasn't bike to work swag, but we gave away 100 kids bike helmets at an event on Saturday. It took about an hour and a half to do that too.

My loots were the 60 strawberry-poppyseed cupcakes I made for the county school bus shop where I work, with orange juice, and chocolate milk. The orange juice was for the morning, and the chocolate milk that afternoon. I forgot the frosting to add to the cupcakes for afternoon snacking, but it didn't seem to matter. All but 8 were eaten.

My efforts managed to get 5 new people to bike to work over the course of a week. We have 3 regularish commuters counting me, then we had an older male driver bike in for both am and pm routes on Monday, a female driver with a heart condition rode in Monday afternoon and I rode home with her, and we had another male driver ride in Monday afternoon. I ended up getting driven from my coworker's house to mine because my bike went flat in her driveway while I admired her backyard birds, and my "roadside" patch job failed.
Tuesday morning we had a driver who serviced my same elementary school ride in, when originally he had claimed that he would not ride at all.
The younger guy driver from Monday returned Wednesday afternoon as well.
Thursday I rode home with our other female commuter. Almost home, she went to a nearby yard sale actually, where we went our separate ways.
And finally Friday afternoon an old woman driver managed to pedal to work.

I took the leftover cupcakes and beverages to the train car along the bike path where I see a group of people meet regularly for breakfast. The person I was supposed to give them to wasn't there, but a cyclist on his way home from work had a cupcake and thanked me.

I was really surprised that I could carry all that stuff to work- it fit perfectly. The cupcake trays were all in my rack-mounted plastic crate, and the jugs of drink were in plastic bags tied up through the bottom of the crate hanging on both sides- the rack and fender stays kept them off the rear spokes. Just lowering the weight that little bit- from in the crate to under it- made my bike handle SO much better that I think my next sewing project after this million-pocket jacket for my husband will be a set of panniers for my Zoomie.

Anyway, happy bike-to-work-day!

They should call it "bike to work at 9am day". For the rest of us who have to be at work at the working man's hour, those stations aren't even set up yet. Meh.

LOL, seriously. Though I am a lady-type person and I go to work at 2030.