Our shop gave Mayor Bartlett a bike in honor of Bike to Work Week. It is an electric assist bike. You still have to pedal, but the motor makes every pedal stroke up to four times more powerful than the rider's normal stroke. It is you, only better. It is super you.
The mayor stopped by the final bike to work event of the week, the one with the free beer. His electric bike was in the back of his car. Oh my.

 Lazy Mayor

Someone asked me why they should ride their bike to work. Good question.

• If you ride your bike three hours a week, you will reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke by 50%. Heart disease kills more people than anything.
• If you bike four miles round trip each day instead of driving, you will save about 66 gallons of fuel per year. Gas prices change all the time, but that equals hundreds of dollars saved each year.
• A four mile round trip commute each day will burn 36,000 calories a year—that's over ten pounds of fat.
• Riding to work saves space. You can park fourteen bikes in the same space as one car.
• Since 40% of all trips are within two miles of the home, riding a bike should be an easy thing to do.
• The United States could save 462 million gallons of gasoline every year, by doing nothing more than increasing cycling from 1% to 1.5% of all trips.

Riding your bike can pay huge dividends, both personally and corporately. Consider becoming part of the solution. Ride your bike to work. Or to church. Or to the store. You will benefit, and so will the rest of us.