I’ve recently been thinking a lot about cycling to work from the employer’s point of view. Are there gains or losses to revenue to be had by employers adopting a particular policy on cycling to work? Are companies actively encouraging employees to cycle to work? Are they doing this through awareness campaigns, or by providing facilities like showers and bike lockers. Perhaps they are actively encouraging employees – sponsoring bike to work days or other such programs.
Look out fellow lycrarians™. The Cycle Chic crowd has a manifesto – so you know they’re up to something.
First they start toddling around town on vintage bicycles.
Then they bring back leather handle bar wrappings – for shame!
But a manifesto! Nothing says “crazy radical agenda” like a manifesto.
Yet another great ride with the Cycle Folsom Peloton group today. 80 miles didn’t discourage me, but cleaning the bike from all the damned road grime and debris is discouraging. Nothing like getting home, still cold and wet, only to look at your frame and know you need to turn on the hose. By the end of the ride what I thought was a well-oiled chain sounded more like a cheese grater on a chalkboard. Still, I never walk away from a Peloton ride with anything but positive thoughts.
You can read the full details of the ride at the Cycle Folsom Ride Leaders blog.
Bicycles are a very convenient form of transportation. This can be especially true if you are a young male in a juvenile detention center out with a group to take a cycling proficiency test. That is precisely the advantage two teenagers took in Eccles, UK – escaping a detention on a pair of mountain bikes. It is suspected that the boys – aged 13 and 14 – rode the 7 miles to a local train station. Neither the boys nor the bikes have been reported recovered.