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First attempt at a time-lapse video using the funky GoPro Hero on the handlebars of my commuting bike. Music is 'Bulletproof' by La Roux.
My old KHS mountain bike, commuting bike, converted to a single speed. I kept the front sprockets because it is a cheep set up that can't be separated.
Mary G. on her Long Haul Trucker at the White House Plaza: more at The Daily Randonneur: thedailyrandonneur.wordpress.com/
Detail of my commuting from the very first day I moved to DC and began commuting to Greenbelt. This shows transit in cooler colors and car travel in warmer colors.
I tried transit, but the early onset of the 2010 winter put an end to that...
- Marching for 10 minutes across a stretch of gusty parking lot just wasn't my idea of fun. Not to mention I still had an additional 10 minutes beyond that on each end (10 min on the home side; a total of 20 min on the office side). All-in-all I quite enjoyed that latter 10 minutes; it was the 10 minutes through a parking lot that felt like forever.
- It happened to coincide with the start of bridge work on New York Ave which improved traffic flow despite there being a work zone.
- That was right about the time when the work environment had changed at that office, causing me to prefer just getting home as soon as possible.
- Walking across Cherry Hill Road in Greenbelt as well as Rhode Island Avenue in DC (especially the latter at night) weren't a very good definition of safety, neither in the sense of traffic safety nor from a crime standpoint... though I wasn't particularly concerned of the latter.
So ultimately: I could cut my commute in half and remain warm if I just drove, despite my love of transit.
Here's my chart for my subsequent office location in Merrifield, VA, tracking from the first day at that office until my last day there: www.flickr.com/photos/thisisbossi/7086352643/
Dual award winner Monica Patti of Boeing Employees Credit Union, with the Commute Smart Employer Champion award and the Diamond Ring for Outstanding Leadership award.
Early morning commuting to work.
The Sam Brown Hi-Viz belt is an underrated piece of safety equipment - they are reflective, very distinctive from afar & can be worn over any piece of clothing. Once removed it can be stored in a small space, and 'hey presto' you turn back to a pedestrian, or whatever you want to be. Obviously I'm wearing a red sports jacket in this photo which is a bad example, but I'm sure you know what I mean.
Here is some history of the Sam Brown belt: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Browne_belt
Woke up to a vigorous snowfall. (This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Please provide attribution and a link back to this web page in a manner that associates the image with the image credit.)
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This KHS road bike was my commuting bike for the past year, but I traded it in for a KHS Urban Xtreme bike. It is a lot like a mountain bike, but has road gears as well as more clearance for bigger tires.
Winter bicycle commuting gloves. They started off as ordinary blaze-orange hunting gloves, Thinsulate insulated and water resistant though not entirely waterproof. On the left glove I've added "Lightweights Power Reflectors" -- iron-on reflective trim, die-cut in small ovals and circles. I routinely add wide reflective tape to cycling gear, but it can be hard to cleanly cut and apply small amounts of that. These pre-cut pieces are a lot more convenient, and appear to be a good grade of material. Seen here after several trips through the washing machine this fall, still nice and bright.