Ride to Work Day 2010
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Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby gtw » Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:18 am
Finally joined up rather than just reading to ask how many of you are participating in National Ride to Work Day?
I have organised it for my workplace (which is really no harder than a company wide email and putting up some posters) but I am finding that 1 in 2 will participate, but not actually register on the website. This seems to mirror other places as I know that Newcastle had only 50 people registered last year, but we had 12 in our company alone, and a mate had 10 in his and there was definitely more than 30 unknowns I saw on my route alone. The University had quite a lot Im lead to believe too.
It seems to me that Ride to Work Day offers the change to show our respective Councils just how many people are capable of commuting on any given day and I wonder therefore, why there doesn't seem to be more people getting involved, and more the point registering?
This year in Newcastle its possible we will have a free community breakfast somewhere in the CBD. If anyone is from Newcastle and interested, drop me a line. Look forward to hearing from others that are acting as workplace coordinators (sounds fancy for a task that requires virtually no coordination!) too. What are you doing in your workplace to generate interest?
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Max » Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:16 am
I think one of the reasons you see more participants than entrants is that registering for RTW day is not an absolute requirement/prerequisite for actually participating. I can ride to work every day without signing up for it! I didn't sign up for it last year because there was no incentive for me to do so (aside from the stats-gathering mentioned above). There's still no incentive for me, but I reckon the stats-gathering will, over time, help councils etc improve cycling conditions for us.
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Aushiker » Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:08 pm
I signed up but then I commute to work anyway, well normally Funny thing is I think I have to drive on the "day".
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby rolandp » Sat Aug 28, 2010 2:53 pm
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby rhancock » Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:37 pm
Seriously though, I've ridden to work for decades, and this will be the first time I've actually been in work on Ride to Work day, so this year I'll be turning up to claim my free breakfast.
I usually register though.
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Jen » Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:53 pm
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Mulger bill » Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:00 pm
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Boognoss » Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:12 pm
Free council brekky is held within 1km of my office so I'll get some free food that morning .
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Comedian » Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:26 pm
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Max » Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:25 am
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Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Comedian » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:32 am
I usually leave home between 6:30 and 7:00. Sometimes a little earlier or later but generally within those times. That puts me in the cbd between 7 and about 7:45 ish. I imagine these times will might drift a little earlier as it warms up and gets light earlier.Max wrote:Comedian, what time of day do you usually ride to work?
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby hannos » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:30 am
Aushiker wrote:Hi
I signed up but then I commute to work anyway, well normally Funny thing is I think I have to drive on the "day".
Andrew
Same, I signed up but it's on a day I drive to work. Oh well.
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Max » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:19 pm
Bugger. I was going to suggest we ride in together (since I have a feeling we live not far from each other - I'm in Mitchelton). But I have to be out the door by 0500 to make it to work on time.Comedian wrote:I usually leave home between 6:30 and 7:00. Sometimes a little earlier or later but generally within those times. That puts me in the cbd between 7 and about 7:45 ish. I imagine these times will might drift a little earlier as it warms up and gets light earlier.
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby martinjs » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:02 pm
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Comedian » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:11 pm
WOW that's early. Let's see what happens closer to the time as I could be persuaded. According to the trusty iphone at that time dawn is 4:50 which means the kids will have woken me up by then anyway.Max wrote:Bugger. I was going to suggest we ride in together (since I have a feeling we live not far from each other - I'm in Mitchelton). But I have to be out the door by 0500 to make it to work on time.Comedian wrote:I usually leave home between 6:30 and 7:00. Sometimes a little earlier or later but generally within those times. That puts me in the cbd between 7 and about 7:45 ish. I imagine these times will might drift a little earlier as it warms up and gets light earlier.
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Cinder » Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:24 pm
Would have been riding that day anyway...
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby gtw » Sat Sep 11, 2010 8:43 am
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Comedian » Sat Sep 11, 2010 11:09 am
Good on you!Warnesy wrote:I've actually got it targeted as my first ever commute into work. Hopefully the first of many.
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Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Max » Sat Sep 11, 2010 2:30 pm
That's the way! You won't regret itWarnesy wrote:I've actually got it targeted as my first ever commute into work. Hopefully the first of many.
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Boognoss » Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:52 pm
Good on you as others have said, but why wait until Ride to Work day?Warnesy wrote:I've actually got it targeted as my first ever commute into work. Hopefully the first of many.
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Warnesy » Sat Sep 11, 2010 4:15 pm
Good question. I've decided to give myself a few weeks to do some weekend rides, build a bit of conditioning, get used to the bike and suss out the route a few times, before I start playing with the traffic on the ride in.Boognoss wrote:Good on you as others have said, but why wait until Ride to Work day?Warnesy wrote:I've actually got it targeted as my first ever commute into work. Hopefully the first of many.
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Re: Ride to Work Day 2010
Postby Boognoss » Sat Sep 11, 2010 5:09 pm
Fair enough. Definitely do a recon mission (or two, or three) on weekends beforehand if you're not sure of the best route. Then really you have to give peak hour a go to see if the "good" route is OK with traffic.Warnesy wrote:Good question. I've decided to give myself a few weeks to do some weekend rides, build a bit of conditioning, get used to the bike and suss out the route a few times, before I start playing with the traffic on the ride in.Boognoss wrote:Good on you as others have said, but why wait until Ride to Work day?Warnesy wrote:I've actually got it targeted as my first ever commute into work. Hopefully the first of many.
Personally I find that the morning commute is great and the afternoon after an 8-9hr work day is more of a struggle (and for me mostly uphill).
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