Uneasy Rhetoric

The website launching Sacramento’s Bicycle Commute Month (May) is up for registration. You can register for the month and pledge a certain number of miles you’ll ride in May (hint: they don’t have to all be commute miles). I pledged 100, if the rain ever lets up. Frankly, I hope to do a lot more, if the rain lets up, but I’m good at thinking big and acting small. Commuting every work day will just about get that.

The goal is to get people to log a million miles in May. Last year, we only made it half way and yes, I was part of the problem. I think I logged 25 or 30 miles.

One blip: if you’re employer isn’t listed, they make you register them - however you can choose the blank line under employer and you’ll be registered as “unemployed.” I’d recommend this option if your employer isn’t laid back about this sort of thing. Frankly, the website should allow people to choose either employers or an organization. I am a member of the Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates (SABA), so I listed myself under their team.

Do it. You’ll be glad you did. And the more cyclists we have on the road, the more motorists will remember to look out for them.

By the way, if you’re a cyclist or just pro-cyclist, you live in the Sacramento area, and you aren’t a member of SABA, why not? Join, and tell them I sent you.