Bike to Work Day 2010

Bike to Work Day: Eat, Win Prizes, Enjoy The Ride – May 13, 2010

The Bay Area's biggest bicycling celebration, Bike to Work Day, May 13^th.

Thoreau Center encourages you to ride your bicycle.

Have fun. Win prizes.

1. Enter to win the Grand Prize : $500 Gift Certificate at Sports Basement: Lincoln & Halleck Energizer Station – Presidio Main Post – 6-10AM. Free Presidio Bike Bell for everyone who signs in.
2. Free Breakfast & Lunch : Coffee & Bagels at Lincoln & Halleck between 6:30 AM & 10 AM. – Energizer Station - Food, Drink, a Bike to Work Day canvas bag and a limited edition Presidio Bike Bell for you for riding your bike to the Presidio Energizer Station at the corner of Lincoln & Halleck. Sip fair trade Coffee & nibble bagels while your bike gets tuned for free by Sports Basement professional Mechanics and more! REMEMBER to sign in at the station to enter the raffle and to get your ticket for a FREE BBQ lunch at Thoreau Center Courtyard near Acre Café between 12 PM and 3 PM. You must come by the BBQ to win the raffle prizes. BBQ Burgers, Hot Dogs, organic salad, munchables and veggie options too. If you are riding but can’t come by the station in the morning enter the regional raffle at btwd.bayareabikes.org/register.
3. Meet Presidio AmeriCorps Volunteers: Many thanks to the AmeriCorps volunteers who will be pitching in big time this year to run the Presidio Energizer Station. Stop by the station and say hello…over snacks and coffee.
4. Nominate a Bicyclist: Nominate the cyclist you admire as Bike Commuter of the Year. Do you know a dedicated cyclist worthy of Bike Commuter of the Year? Nominate them today!
5. Take Part in the Team Bike Challenge: http://www.youcanbikethere.com/tbc compete with other Bay Area commuters to win great prizes for bike commuting in May.
6. On the Way Home: SFBC's Annual Bike Away from Work Party and Fashion Show 6-10pm, The Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St. If you rode your bike, you're invited to the SF Bicycle Coalition's fun and fabulous Bike Away from Work Party and Fashion Show! Stop by Rickshaw Stop on your commute home and unwind (FREE valet bike parking provided). Learn the city's biking secrets from fellow bicyclists and bask in the glow of a successful Bike to Work Day!
7. If You Drive: Consider Carpooling http://www.presidio.gov/tenants/transit/carpool.htm

Bike to Work Day

Forwarding some information from the Thoreau Center. And if you want some helpful advice for your urban biking, we do have a copy of Urban bikers' tricks & tips: low-tech & no-tech ways to find, ride, & keep a bicycle by Dave Glowacz.

Ways to Help with Bike to Work Day in the Presidio, May 14^th 2009

The Bay Area's biggest bicycling celebration, Bike to Work Day is tomorrow, May 14^th, and the Presidio Trust & SFBC need your help to make this day a big success!

§ Join us. Ride Your Bike To Work at The Presidio Thu. May 14^th & Win. Sports Basement & Honest Tea are giving away new bicycles this year to Presidio Bike To Work Day Participants! That’s two bikes this year. Stop by our Energizer Station at Lincoln & Halleck between 6:30AM & 9AM for free coffee & bagels and sign in for your raffle ticket. While you are at it get a quick tune up courtesy of Sports Basement mechanics. Enter to win a bike from SFBC too, visit: btwd.bayareabikes.org/register.

§ Come to the Bike To Work BBQ Thu. May 14^th 12-2 in the Courtyard at Thoreau Center (1014 Torney) to see if you won the raffle. Free lunch and prizes such as Two new bicycles, meal passes from Presidio Social Club & Asqew grill, Exploratorium passes, Bowling passes for Presidio Bowl, Free Golf Game for four people with a cart at Presidio Golf Club, Sports Basement Gift Certificates, Framed artwork from Crissy Field Center.

§ Come to the Bike Away From Work Party Thu., May. 14 | 6-10pm, The Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St. You're invited to the SF Bicycle Coalition's fun and fabulous Bike Away from Work Party! Stop by Rickshaw Stop on your commute home and unwind (FREE valet bike parking provided). Learn the city's biking secrets from fellow bicyclists and bask in the glow of a successful Bike to Work Day! Free for SFBC members, $10 for non-members or join at the door and get in free!

§ Nominate a Bicyclist you admire as Bike Commuter of the Year.

§ Take part in the Team Bike Challenge: Register your team and compete with other Bay Area commuters to win great prizes for bike commuting in May. Go to btwd.bayareabikes.org/tbc for more info.

§ SFBC Bike Movie Night Mon., May 4, 8pm The Independent, 628 Divisadero St.(at Grove)
A screening of Macaframa, a film by Colin Arlen and Colby Elrick of track bike riding on the streets of San Francisco. Free!

Bicycling Facts & Figures

§ There is great potential to increase the number of bicycle commuters in the U.S., which would help reduce the number of trips made by automobile. Forty percent of all trips in the U.S. are made within two miles of the home and 50% of the working population commutes five miles or less to work.

§ The average commuter who bikes to work for a year will save $1,825 in auto-related costs, reduce carbon emissions by 128 pounds, conserve 145 gallons of gasoline, avoid 50 hours of gridlock traffic, burn 90,000 calories, reduce their risk of heart attack and stroke by 50%, and enjoy 14% less claims on their health insurance. (Numbers based on June 2006 gas prices and a 10 mile round trip commute)

Every trip converted to bicycle brings us closer to our ultimate goals of air quality enhancement, congestion reduction, better health and slowing global warming.

Bruce DeMartini

Program Manager, Tides

Tides Shared Spaces

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