Bicycling to work!
Bicycling to work. I am starting each day by riding my bicycle 15 miles into work, spending some time in the sauna, cooling down in the shower, putting on a freshly laundered shirt (from Bella’s twice weekly in building pickup service) and ultimately starting the days work at my computer. I am feeling much better both physically and mentally and now seem to eliminate the things that before stressed me out (either through completion or simply shrugging off without a second thought). This all started a few months ago when frustrated with rising price of gas, I began riding my bicycle two miles to a bus stop to take a bus into work. I stopped driving my car and canceled the insurance – saving even more than just the price of gas. Knowing that others were cycling all the way into work, gave me the courage to try it myself - over weight, out of shape, 57 years old and fearful of riding through “bad” neighborhoods in the city of Detroit. I have now been cycling 30 miles a day and the locals I pass by in “bad” neighborhoods are far friendlier nodding their heads or saying good morning than stressed out enraged car drivers. So far I have lost 35 pounds; not by dieting or mind numbing exercise routines but by pollutelessly pedaling my bicycle to work.

I have 15 miles each way too. I have been thinking about pedal power and if I could do it long term... But I have been riding my motorcycle all year for the last several years, rain, snow, or ice. I had a cheap 150cc Chinese scooter that averaged 82mpg, but that thing fell apart in every way. We have a little Zip 500 electric scooter that is supposed to have that range, but can easily be boosted with the help of another cheap battery. Always trying cheaper ways to get my paycheck!

Good for you! My current commute is 23 miles one way - too far for me to attempt with a bike... Current efforts to sell our townhouse and move closer to work aren't working - nobody's buying here. :?

I walk to work at BasisTech in Cambridge, MA its around two miles if I walk on the Belmont/Cambridge bike path. As for losing weight, for me that would just be unhealthy (I tip the scales at a massive 125 lbs :oops: )

I've got to venture 35 miles in to another state....couldn't bike if I wanted.

Congrats, Brite-eye! I'd love to bike to work, but my wife can't drive (can't, not won't). at least we car-pool. If/when I retire bikeability* will be one of my criteria for my part-time job AND my volunteer service. Of course if things really go gunny-sack in our economy, I'll probably keep working and hope my current job doesn't kill me. But my evening/weekend biking (44 to 75 mi./wk) keeps me at least nominally sane. I've gotten a number of my college pals (and we're only about 3 years younger than you, b-e) back biking. I started biking again back in '80 when financial setbacks forced me to take my car off the road for a year. Don't forget your brain-buckets, folks! * Like many Lewis Carroll characters, we make up our own words...

I am developing a device for getting endless free energy for my car (that gets 15 mpg). While parked at one of the endless traffic lights in town, it will snake a hose into a nearby car (either through the gas cap or by puncturing the tank) and then pump my tank full. And all the granola eatin' green goobers who are afraid of a little CO2, soggy glaciers, and warm winter nights can suck my smog :twisted:

I wrote a childhood friend/neighbor asking if he thought my creation of the phrase "pollutelessly pedaling to work" would catch the masses and become common usage? Having seen me with bird shit on my head twice in the past (once after he shot at a Blue Jay's nest near the Rouge river with a bb gun and again in Florida on a College spring break trip when he was throwing stones trying to knock a coconut out of a tree), Lee replied - Only if you add, "With bird shit on my shoulder!" I hope not to get dropped on again as a result of Lee, but his idea may bring more viewers to this posting. So to honor the thought of "pollutelessly pedaling to work with bird shit on my shoulder" - a Disney song that still rings strong in my mind: Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay, My, oh, my, what a wonderful day. Plenty of sunshine headin' my way, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay! Mister Bluebird's on my shoulder, It's the truth, it's "actch'll" Everything is "satisfactch'll." Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay, Wonderful feeling, wonderful day!

brite, its back, anything to do with you bumping this post?