Ride to work day report
05-18-16 | 09:12 AM
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Billd76
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From: South west Florida
Bikes: 07 Trek 1000 and 014 Giant Escape
Ride to work day report
Great turn out today.. Rode in with a group from Churchville Maryland, Great route!! 20 - 30 riders. About 14.6 mile ride in followed by a 12 ride on post with all the Groups, I'm guessing 60 riders. Riding on post was escorted by our Commanding General and the Aberdeen Proving Ground Police. Lots of bagels, bananas, water, kale chips, Breakfast bars, coffee, etc... Also Harford county Government gave is all a t-shirt, tire repair kit including three tires spoons. Local bike shops gave away some great door prizes, one of which was a Garmin bike computer. I really wanted to win that, but didn't. I did win a 20.00 gift certificate. It was a great ride and we all just had a blast, By the time I rode to my office I clocked a little over 30 miles. I'm thinking it will be about an 18 mile ride back to the car this evening. Great way to start the day!!!!!
05-19-16 | 07:22 AM
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From: Northeastern MA, USA
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Well done. As much as I'd like to ride to work, it simply isn't feasible. 26 miles, a heavy computer backpack, and some truly dangerous roads area all standing in the way.
05-19-16 | 09:19 AM
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From: SoCal
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I bike to work almost every day. But it seems like every year, there is a reason I can't on "bike to work day" itself.
Not this year. Yea, baby.
Not this year. Yea, baby.
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05-19-16 | 10:19 AM
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From: Raleigh, NC
Bikes: Waterford RST-22, Bob Jackson World Tour, Ritchey Breakaway Cross, Soma Saga, De Bernardi SL, Specialized Sequoia
I ride to work most of the time, weather permitting. That's the big if, and we seem to get lousy weather every Bike to Work Day. This is Bike to Work Week in my area, and it has rained every day this week except Monday, with more expected every day through the weekend. However, I have committed to help out at the Bike to Work Day event on Friday, so I plan to ride whether it's raining or not. Hopefully I'll have better luck than the rest of the week. Yesterday, it started raining hard right when I was getting ready to ride to work, so I drove. Same thing happened this morning.
05-19-16 | 11:30 AM
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Bikes: 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo; 1960 Capo Sieger (2); 1962 Carlton Franco Suisse; 1970 Peugeot UO-8; 1982 Bianchi Campione d'Italia; 1988 Schwinn Project KOM-10;
Although I live in weather wimp San Diego County, we have actually had to postpone two recent Bike-to-Work days, one because of smoke from fire, the other because of rain. (James Taylor would probably have something to say about this. 
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
05-23-16 | 05:37 AM
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Billd76
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From: South west Florida
Bikes: 07 Trek 1000 and 014 Giant Escape
couple more pics
Ended up with a tad over 50 miles for the day. Great day!! The one pic I'm wearing the blue jacket with a guy to the right of me with an Army shirt on. He the Commanding General here. MG Karbler. I am the guy with the Marine Corps shirt on in the 3rd pic
