Biked to work

[dmaze]

Finally got around to biking to work today. On the one hand, it seems like there should be a good way to do it that doesn't involve McGrath Highway; on the other, that really does feel optimal to minimize the cumulative change in height. I wonder how I get home. And if I'm being too paranoid about bike parking; I took off the front light and brought my helmet inside, since that seemed to be what everyone else was doing. "If I do this a lot, it'll be good for me."

Comments

[76trombones.livejournal.com]

Can you get to Washington St somehow? *thinks* Enh, even if you can, it still is going to involve a big scary intersection, even if not Union Square proper. Hm.

If you don't have a bike map, you can borrow mine sometime. If I see you Saturday, you can borrow it then. (It has those little useful elevation-indicating lines whose names I can't remember at the moment.)

[jadia.livejournal.com]

I usually lock my helmet to the bike, because my helmet has these air gaps or whatever at the top that I can just slide my lock through. Dunno about front lights. Yay, 20 minutes!

Incidentally, my biker friend (who once biked cross country) tells me that biking in all weather isn't so bad when you prepare for it adequately and just do it.

[frolain.livejournal.com]

Looking at mapquest and keeping in mind that on my scooter I'm slightly more shy of bigger roads like McGrath here's the route I'd probably consider.

shore dr -> mystic -> butler -> temple -> marshall -> pearl -> medford. staying on the ground level of medford all the way to lambert st and then take fulkerson to binney.

If I were more used to the part of McGrath before the overpass I might take it to medford instead of winding through those back roads, but I think the overpass would feel too much like a real highway unless I had company.