lordofthemark
03-05-2013, 05:10 PM
I've never ridden my bike to work.
I have made it my goal to do so on BTWD.
Living in Annandale, working at the Navy Yard, and being a slow rider (I do not ride regularly and am not yet particularly fit, I ride an old MTB with knobby tires, etc) I am ruling out riding the entire way.
Usually I commute by express bus to the Pentagon, then Yellow to L'Enfant, then Green line.
I COULD ride the streets of Annandale to get to a location where more express bus routes come together.
Or I could take the express bus to Pentagon, and then bike in - using the bike to avoid the whole Yellow - Green line annoyance. Thats actually what I would prefer doing, and I have test ridden that route (on a Sunday, using the local bus).
my understanding is that the only pit stop along my route would be the one at Canal Park, for which I should register. There do not seem to be any convoys planned for any part of this route - but my impression is that there are often lots of people biking across the 14th street bridge, and the there are lots of people who bike through SW DC to the Navy Yard area. I would hope to encounter a bunch of cyclists on BTWD, maybe even some going relatively slowly.
I note that its a Friday. If I didn't reverse that course home, but say went (via bike or metro/bike intermodal combo) to say Old Town to meet my wife for dinner, or to our synagogue (located off a sharrows in Alexandria) for services would that still be in the spirit of BTWD? Even if I left the bike there over friday night, say?
I have made it my goal to do so on BTWD.
Living in Annandale, working at the Navy Yard, and being a slow rider (I do not ride regularly and am not yet particularly fit, I ride an old MTB with knobby tires, etc) I am ruling out riding the entire way.
Usually I commute by express bus to the Pentagon, then Yellow to L'Enfant, then Green line.
I COULD ride the streets of Annandale to get to a location where more express bus routes come together.
Or I could take the express bus to Pentagon, and then bike in - using the bike to avoid the whole Yellow - Green line annoyance. Thats actually what I would prefer doing, and I have test ridden that route (on a Sunday, using the local bus).
my understanding is that the only pit stop along my route would be the one at Canal Park, for which I should register. There do not seem to be any convoys planned for any part of this route - but my impression is that there are often lots of people biking across the 14th street bridge, and the there are lots of people who bike through SW DC to the Navy Yard area. I would hope to encounter a bunch of cyclists on BTWD, maybe even some going relatively slowly.
I note that its a Friday. If I didn't reverse that course home, but say went (via bike or metro/bike intermodal combo) to say Old Town to meet my wife for dinner, or to our synagogue (located off a sharrows in Alexandria) for services would that still be in the spirit of BTWD? Even if I left the bike there over friday night, say?