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RidingMatthew 01-05-13 08:52 AM

A1penguin that is pretty cool about the money to donate to your favorite charity... is that a work sponsored thing? My place of employment does not even allow us to use money pretax for bike related commuting needs when you can do it for parking your car.

AlmostTrick 01-05-13 11:21 AM

Well, since the 2012 commuter mileage thread was closed before my procrastinating butt got around to posting an end of year final, I guess I’ll post here.

118 round trip work commutes, for 2834 miles. A new yearly record for me. Add in another approximate 4-500 untracked miles for errands and recreational rides for well over 3000 miles last year. Pedal On, boys and girls!

a1penguin 01-05-13 02:24 PM


Originally Posted by RidingMatthew (Post 15122053)
A1penguin that is pretty cool about the money to donate to your favorite charity... is that a work sponsored thing? My place of employment does not even allow us to use money pretax for bike related commuting needs when you can do it for parking your car.

Yes, it is work sponsored and LOTS of people bike to work. The only stats I could find is that over 2200 employees (the program is only available in US and Canada) had stamps in 2011. No idea how much $ was donated. There are people who bike every day, literally. There is a gym on campus and each building has a bathroom with a shower so it's easy to be clean at work. They also set aside some fraction of available lockers to regular commuters. Social responsibility is important.

The annual BTWD is crazy; they give out schwag and have a big food area outside. They also asked which city you biked from and keep a tally. They allow bikes to be parked indoors and there were so many bikes they put bike racks and mounted http://www.cycloc.com/ in hallways. I attribute part of this to the California culture and the rest to working at a cool company.

swwhite 01-05-13 08:10 PM

Days worked: 206
Days driving to work in a car by myself: 13
Days biking: 185
Days carpooling with spouse or (once or twice) taking the bus: 28

Solis91 01-07-13 04:48 AM

How are you guys keeping track of all your stats? Bought a comp book and wrote down daily? I admire you all!!

acidfast7 01-07-13 05:11 AM


Originally Posted by Solis91 (Post 15128541)
How are you guys keeping track of all your stats? Bought a comp book and wrote down daily? I admire you all!!

I now keep track in the commuting mileage thread.

for me [# days bike, # days public transport, # days car, # total days]

for 2013 so far [5b, 0.5c, 5.5t]

this seems like the easiest way to do it :D

phillybill 01-07-13 12:41 PM

multimodal commuting.... train/subway and folding bike 87, miles about 1500 for all type of commuting

arsprod 01-07-13 07:08 PM


Originally Posted by Solis91 (Post 15128541)
How are you guys keeping track of all your stats? Bought a comp book and wrote down daily? I admire you all!!

I use endomondo, can set whether it's commuting or other kinds of riding.

I started back to commuting in mid July, so July - December, 55 days, 1045 miles

Medic Zero 01-14-13 05:45 AM


Originally Posted by Solis91 (Post 15128541)
How are you guys keeping track of all your stats? Bought a comp book and wrote down daily? I admire you all!!

I don't want to stare at my (slow) MPH, or mount yet another accessory to my bike (much less one I have to worry about being stolen) so no computer for me. I just use Google maps to trace my routes, it calculates the mileage. I have an e-mail I send to myself and add to with my trips on it, and post to the mileage thread when I have time to update it.


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