Today’s Times Union newspaper contains a great article about Bike To Work day that features not one, but two members of Team RocBike — Ethan Georgi and Bob Anderson. Congrats, guys, and thanks for making riding your bike to work look like a perfectly normal thing to do. Way to go!
Photo of Ethan Georgi by Skip Dickstein / Times Union
Cyclists save by pedaling to work
Wheeling commuters combine savings with health benefits
By TIM O’BRIEN, Staff writer
First published in print: Saturday, May 22, 2010
For Ethan Georgi, every day is Ride Your Bike to Work day.
The Web developer for Zone 5, an Albany public relations firm, rides his bicycle a little over three miles to his job.
“It’s fun to ride a bike instead of sitting in traffic,” he said. “I don’t care about gas prices. I like exploring the city.”
Friday was National Ride Your Bike to Work day, an effort to try to get people to cut down on gas-guzzling cars and take a more leisurely way to get to work. To support the effort, CDTA offered free rides to bicyclists who put their bikes on racks on the buses.
Georgi said he originally began riding to his office two years ago. He used to come home to get out his bike for a ride after work. One day it dawned on him he could combine his commute and his daily exercise.
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