We have vertical racks in the suite and a bike room in the basement. I can also bring a bike into my office but don't want it dripping all over everything in the winter.

In lieu of free parking, I opted to get a "GO" card instead which lets me take a metro bus or train any where at any time. I'm sure it doesn't cost them as much as the parking, but I'm not complaining and it comes in handy.

I voted very well. I work for a minicipality. There are about 20 people in our building. Only two of us commute on our bikes. We park our bikes in a covered area in the front part of the building out of the weather. No need to lock the bikes the area is secure.

We have showers and lockers. There is some incentive for alternative transportation. I have won free movie tickets three times in the last year or so. Coworkers are pretty supportive of my bicycle commuting. Most are impressed that I ride in shorts every day, and they think it is such a long commute (~20 miles rt).

Living in the desert, I get to ride on dry pavement almost everyday. Kudos to all you who brave real winter conditions. It does get a bit warm in the summer here though. ;)

Average here. Nobody cares. There's 3 gyms within a mile of work, most of us are college students. Showing up with hair wet from a post workout shower is super common, as is coming to work in workout clothes and going to the gym afterwards.

Bike rack outside. 0-4 bikes on it(besides mine) isn't unusual. A couple of managers ride a couple times a week, and keep their bikes in their office.

My personal manager has noted that my mental health and quality of work has improved since I started riding, so he's super supportive. I have some FMLA/disability exceptions going on, and riding has made me a bit lower maintenance, actually. So my boss/HR are pretty supportive, but on the whole, my employer is pretty indifferent if you're on time.


Lots of them do. Not even allowed in the parking lot! Or on-campus housing.

I think the 'not even in the parking lot' or not a single designated smoking area is a bit much, but whatever. I've quit not married to a smoker anymore, nor any smoker roommates/friends I see regularly, so no longer an issue.:rolleyes:

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I teach middle school and keep my bike behind my desk. I can change in my classroom before and after school. I commute in full kit because I like to ride hard and fast, and get very sweaty. The kids and other teachers like that I ride and always notice if I don't ride. I usually ride 185 out of 190 work days.

One problem I have with "bike perception" at work is that currently most of the bikes scattered around the dark corners of the office building are rarely if ever ridden, which gives the impression to people that the bikes are a toy consuming "company storage space" and cluttering the hallways rather than a transportation device. If these bikes were visibly in use it would be an entirely different impression.

As one of the very few people who commute by bike in Turkey my colleagues generally are very impressed and like what I am doing. Even tho there are no bike parks or racks I am allowed to put my bike in car park under the building. There is a gym and showers too. So I generally come about an hour early do my daily exercise take my shower and start a fresh day.
However this is the story of the last 3 months.
On my former work place even tho I was again allowed to put my bike in a closed room in the car park there were no showers. I had to go to work by subway to not to sweat and returned back home riding. Later on tho I got a shower built in one of the basement floors. Everyone there also admired how I commute by bike in this maybe the least bike friendly city (here see for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qizi3JYOvxs) There were people who I didn't know but who knows me as "the cyclist guy"

I work for the government. I get $20 reimbursed monthly to ALL my bike purchases. My work has a gym w/shower so I just walk in, drop my stuff off and hit the showers. My bike sits right next to me in my cube. When I started biking in, I just sat it next to me and didn't ask for permission.

I have been asked to "carry" it in..lol..ok, I can track more garbage on my shoes that my tires, but ok. I also have a beach towel on the floor that I put my bike on top of to "look nice". Also, my clothes hang/dry right on the edge of my wall on hangers :D

Co-workers mention stuff only when it dips into the 40s or 100s and still see me riding in. They think its cool.

I am a CAD draftsman and I have been lucky enough (and strange enough for other peoples taste) to be able to ride to work and shower and leave my bike near my desk. We CAD guys seem to be the keep Portland Weird type so they expect us to be different. Our Plant GM came by and told me that he could see me for a mile the other day on his commute in his car and really appreciated the lengths that I have gone to be visible on the street. I consider that a comp. Our plant hires about 300 people and of those 7 to 8 commute. 10 to 15 ride after work when the weather is nice. We are small be we have the green light.
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My experience is generally very positive. I've been riding to the same job for ten years, and put my bike in the storage room. Some people do question my judgement for riding a bike, but no one has questioned my right to put the bike in a safe place. Of course, it helps that both of my bosses and a couple of my co-workers also commute by bike. The only problem I've encountered is that we have more bikes than we have places to put them where they're both safe and out of the way, but we resolved that one. This is actually one of the reasons I've stayed here so long. Yes, I enjoy the job itself, but since my bike habit is accepted, I feel more accepted, and don't feel a strong urge to leave...

I work at a bookstore that is mostly outdoors, so there is no indoor parking for my bike (unless it's nasty weather). But my boss rides everyday (he lives on the property) so he is cool with it and my coworkers are very encouraging. I also use my utility trailer to deliver books to our satellite locations about a mile away, and my coworkers are understanding of the delay.

I used to work for a medical device manufacturer, and although I worked with a bunch of unhealthy people who teased me for my riding, they gave me a space to keep my bike in the warehouse.

I think it's a matter of looking at your company policies and doing as much as you can within those boundaries, if your work is not welcoming.

I voted well... although I feel lucky in this part of the country to choose that option. My building has covered outdoor bike parking, but I bring my bike inside and store it in my office. We also have a small exercise-room with lockers and showers, which is a nice benefit with my long-ish commute.

Living the dream, bike commuter-wise. My boss is super green, and we are all encouraged to bike/walk/public transit. We're not allowed to drive, actually! We can keep our bikes pretty much anywhere in the office, and have stocked showers with toiletries and towels and all. It's a great set up. Many others in the office ride, so it's very bike friendly.

Only "problem" is that I'm only about a 10 minute bike ride from work, which doesn't result in all the much exercise, so I switch off between riding and walking. Maybe I just need to extend my route...

i voted "very well".

i work in a small office of 7 people and we have secure indoor bike storage in the basement of our building.

out of my coworkers, i'm the only 4-season bike commuter, but 1 co-worker is a dedicated 3-season bike commuter, 3 others (including one of the bosses) are occasional warm-weather bike commuters, and the remaining 2 are dedicated cagers. nobody ever gives me any grief about bike commuting.

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I guess I will have to change my original response. I saw that my effort to bring Biking to the Masses at work has resulted in a bike locker to be installed in the primary lot.

It is one more small step forward... or should I say one more pedal stroke forward. :)

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=432411

Two updates to this thread:

First, we talked about for-profit insurance companies; however, if you want to understand some SERIOUS issues with the for-profit companies in the healthcare companies.... check this out:

(language warning, this is from HBO)

So, health insurance companies are under heavy regulations from states and federal government (ACA) limiting prices and profits - and pharma companies have no oversight on their profits. We are making a major mistake focusing all our attention insurance providers and ignoring pharma, doctors, hospitals, etc.

Second, I stated earlier than my wife's employer did not support bike-commuting; update, they have started a bike-commuting promotion for 2015. She had moved to a corp building (no longer in a leased off-campus building) and will have access to showers and locker rooms. I'm excited to help her start commuting this summer.

The insurance industry is under some sort of scrutiny to be restrict their profits, but similar rules have allowed not for profit organizations like the Red Cross and Susan G. Komen to be very profitable enterprises. You're right about there being plenty of other wrongs (both financial and otherwise) to focus on, especially when they are so interconnected like the drug and insurance companies.

Everyone knows health and peace are good things, but as long as the alternatives are so profitable we're going to be stuck with them.

No, the irony is that Machka herself frequently resurrects threads that are 10 years old or more. One purpose of a forum is to archive threads so that people can use the information at a later date. If threads are deleted, that value is gone. Also, the forum has a search function which is less useful when old threads are randomly deleted.