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Uhmm, what is with the tags? Flanders Street Bridge? Mountain Biking? Last year’s cyclecross? Front Page AND Page Two?
matthew,
the latest version of wordpress is doing some weird, buggy things with categories. not sure why it happens some times. i’ve fixed it.
Wow… Ricky Martin is a badass. I mean Rick. Way to go, everybody.
Nice work everyone. I rode every day last month. I don’t think I would have done it without the challenge. Now it is October and am really missing the awesome weather we had in September.
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I love commuting in the winter. All you need is a good jacket and gloves.
total commute miles breaking a MILLION? That is sweet. It’s a good stat to use early and often.
And I totally missed the fact that that is a picture of me until someone pointed it out… Sigh.
I think the commute rate numbers may be overstated. I believe this is the first year that participants could note which days they were not working, whereas in the past it was just assumed that paticiapnts worked every regular work day in September. The problem is, it is still assumed that all other (non-bike riding) workers at a given company are working (and commuting)every regular work day – so the numbers are going to be skewed upward, refecting a higher percentage of total bike commutes than actually occured. I doubt this will stop the BTA or PDOT from boasting about the big increases – they are on record claiming that 6 percent of Portland commutes (year round – based on a survey by the Portlaqnd city auditor)are by bike – which is patently absurd.
Kurt, I’ve seen you comment on the 6% figure over and over again on blog comments. Why the obsession?