Comments on: Bike to Work Week 2007 http://www.rideboldly.org/2007/03/02/bike-to-work-week/ Bikes, bicycling, and road safety. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:15:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: James http://www.rideboldly.org/2007/03/02/bike-to-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-99 James Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:37:00 +0000 http://www.rideboldly.org/2007/03/02/bike-to-work-week/#comment-99 If you'll be doing a bike to work event this year, please stop by http://biketoworkweek.org and have your event (or blog) added to the map. If you’ll be doing a bike to work event this year, please stop by http://biketoworkweek.org and have your event (or blog) added to the map.

]]> By: Julie http://www.rideboldly.org/2007/03/02/bike-to-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Julie Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:33:31 +0000 http://www.rideboldly.org/2007/03/02/bike-to-work-week/#comment-6 Wait, found one source: http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm "Twenty-four percent of bicyclists killed in 2003 had a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) at or above 0.08 percent." It's from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, so take that with a grain of something, but 24% would be a pretty decent percentage of fatality stats. Wait, found one source:

http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm

“Twenty-four percent of bicyclists killed in 2003 had a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) at or above 0.08 percent.”

It’s from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, so take that with a grain of something, but 24% would be a pretty decent percentage of fatality stats.

]]> By: Julie http://www.rideboldly.org/2007/03/02/bike-to-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Julie Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:15:06 +0000 http://www.rideboldly.org/2007/03/02/bike-to-work-week/#comment-5 I did not mean in any way to suggest that only those with... ahem, issues... cycle-commute. I know many people who do for the pure joy of it, or for political/social reasons (belief). Many of these people are spandex-clad, although I wouldn't say all are, or that it's a need. I would count the guy with the tire-chains into the well-equipped category, although I can't speak for his passion for it. The guy on the rusty 10-speed, though, on that given day? He may have any number of reasons for <i>needing</i> to cycle-commute. He certainly wasn't equipped for it on a day that threw down a foot of snow. I don't remember where I saw the stat that a major cause of bicycle accidents is DUI-on-bike, or the stat on how many people take to a bicycle after losing a license. That's where the concept of DUI came in, though. It's not a universal thing. I did not mean in any way to suggest that only those with… ahem, issues… cycle-commute. I know many people who do for the pure joy of it, or for political/social reasons (belief). Many of these people are spandex-clad, although I wouldn’t say all are, or that it’s a need.

I would count the guy with the tire-chains into the well-equipped category, although I can’t speak for his passion for it.

The guy on the rusty 10-speed, though, on that given day? He may have any number of reasons for needing to cycle-commute. He certainly wasn’t equipped for it on a day that threw down a foot of snow.

I don’t remember where I saw the stat that a major cause of bicycle accidents is DUI-on-bike, or the stat on how many people take to a bicycle after losing a license. That’s where the concept of DUI came in, though. It’s not a universal thing.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.rideboldly.org/2007/03/02/bike-to-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Sarah Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:21:45 +0000 http://www.rideboldly.org/2007/03/02/bike-to-work-week/#comment-2 While I applaud any and all bike advocates, I cringed at your notion that people who bike in the winter only do so because they are unable to drive. DUIs?!?! Is that a joke? There are people out there who feel passionately about biking because of political and environmental issues as well. I may add that I have a driver's license, car, and the money to drive. I just choose not to. I hope your attitude is not unanimous within your "spandex clad" cult. You see it as a hobby while many in the Twin Cities see it as a bigger piece of a much needed cultural revolution. While I applaud any and all bike advocates, I cringed at your notion that people who bike in the winter only do so because they are unable to drive. DUIs?!?! Is that a joke? There are people out there who feel passionately about biking because of political and environmental issues as well. I may add that I have a driver’s license, car, and the money to drive. I just choose not to. I hope your attitude is not unanimous within your “spandex clad” cult. You see it as a hobby while many in the Twin Cities see it as a bigger piece of a much needed cultural revolution.

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