16 July is Ride to Work Day

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  1. nozzle

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    I missed it last year due to no one posting *before* I left for work. :duh:

    Plan on riding to work Weds, 16 July. It might help one cager realize there are some sane riders (or not :vtr2:) and ..

    you'll get to exercise that left hand/arm as you wave to more folks than usual. :wave:
    Even the Harley guys might wave to you. :flip:

    Link -> Ride To Work website

    Hope to see you out there. You might even get your bike blessed :pope2:

    :sportbikesmile:
     


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    I ride to work everyday, so YES, I will be riding to work!
     


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    Ride to work

    Same here Nozzle:smile::smile::ncb::ncb:
    In Ca We ride to work every day (Going GREEN) So do tomorrow and the day after:ncb::ncb::ncb:
     


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    thanks for passing it on. I'll send an email to all my ridding co-workers.
     


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    Thanks for the info! I've gotten a few odd looks walking into work in my riding gear but hey I"m not the only rider who works there. [​IMG]
     


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    I'm all over it. I hope it doesn't rain because I really don't have user friendly rain attire at this time.
     


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    I don't work that day, I assume riding just for the fun of it will count though rght?
     


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    Andy Goldfine of Aerostitch started the Ride to work day. Very cool.

    For me up I-75 in very heavy construction is a pass. Heavy trucks, gravel and dust. Not much fun and fricken risky. Riding to work for me is a pass. Need the cage for battle.

    MD
     


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    what he said.
     


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    I'm in Texas so I won't be able to ride that day.
    I can't believe how much squid is out here.
    I'm yet to see one dude wearing a helmet.
     


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    Sooooooooooooooo.....

    who rode their bike to work today???


    Me! :wave:
     


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    Woohoo, I rode in today too. [​IMG] I actually only saw one other rider on my way in this morning, looked like a v-rod.
     


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    I rode in today. I just got it back from the painters on Friday and have missed ridding.
     


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    I rode.....do pretty much every day it doesn't rain.
     


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    Every day..........Rain or Shine
     


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    Same here.

    My commute is only 15 minutes though so I usually go out at lunch for 45 minutes and hit a couple of curves in the area. It's 90 today so with my helmet, jacket, and gloves I'm now a little sweatier than I was before lunch....
     


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    Got my VFR sitting in the parking lot at work right now, next to my coworker's Harley (I know, he rides a Harley, but he's still a good guy).

    Usually ride to work if it isn't raining.
     


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    I ride to work every chance I get. I do not work today, but will ride tomorrow unless it snows tonight.:smow:
     


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    yodasmile I didnt knew that today was Ride to work day. So that would be a big NO. The weather looked kind of crazy today. I ride tomorrow, got some errands to do, and the bike will be perfect for that.
     


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    I got up for a nice walk this morning - smoke on the water calm.

    Rode to breakfast with a buddy in Deale and passed by many bikes I had not seen before. Took time for twisties. Passed betweens corn fields and meadows with the morning sun-rays burning through the stalks with the bright green/dark green and yellow rays poking through the rising mist and lighting the dark/light sections of road that signalled where the morning dew had not yet left. Slowed to a crawl passing over a short bridge that crossed the mouth of a large tidal inlet on the west and the chesapeake bay stretching to the east with the bright red sun peeking over the eastern Delmarva pennisula.

    It is a good day to be alive and a good day to ride -to work, or to see a friend, or to burn irreplacable fossil fuels with a v-4 exhaust note to the glory of man's dominion over earth.

    I grinned most of the 70 miles this morning...and will hum Super Tramp in my helmet on a different long way home tonight. my daughter got her braces off and momma is cooking silver queen corn on the cob in celebration. :smile: God is good.
     


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