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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Ride your motorcycle, make a difference…

Author: site admin
Category: Motorcycles

Ride to Work poster

Tomorrow, Wednesday July 20th, is the 14th annual Ride To Work Day when motorcyclists are encouraged to ride their motorcycles to work. The reasoning is that a mass turnout of motorcycles on Ride To Work Day will help show the size of the riding community and that will help underscore all the reasons why riding motorcycles are a good thing: Better gas mileage than most cars, taking up less space than cars, easing parking problems, etc, etc. If lots of people are riding then a bigger bite is being taken out of all those issues. But really…do riders really need encouragement to ride their motorcycles? Come on, get on that bike and ride! I’m a pinko-commie long hair and I’m all for the positive environmental impact that motorcycles represent but I’m ultimately in it for the fun. Not only do I have a barrel full of giggles every time I get on my GS, I also arrive at work relatively stress free and manage to get most of the day’s crap out of my head somewhere on the curvy road between work and home. Now *that* is a positive side affect to riding motorcycles!

In an amazing show of support, my co-worker Jeff actually managed to get The Man to fork out some corporate green to buy us riders breakfast tomorrow. I hope many other companies are doing the same…then again, if you require a breakfast burrito before agreeing to ride your motorcycle shame on you!

[image from the Ride To Work web site.]