Full Length 2011 Commercial

Welcome Mayor Huether

Sioux Falls Bike To Work Day will be pleased to welcome the new Mayor Mike Huether to the Museum of Visual Materials for a free pancake breakfast. Thank you for joining us on the road Mayor!

Press release.

Join The Challenge

Without These Folks...

...it couldn't be.

Downtown Display Window

The Downtown Sioux Falls, Inc. display window has been decorated for Bike To Work Day. Check it out!

Bike To Work 2010

Bike To Work Day 2010 is again the 3rd Friday of May. That's the 21st this year.

The event itself will remain quite similar to recent years, pancakes, bike shops and rides, Museums of Visual Materials.

See the Bike To Work Day advertisement in the Downtown Sioux Falls Spring 2010 issue of Exactly Magazine.

Snakebite's Bike To Work Challenge will be ready to go. He'll be there to sign you up for another year of biking to work for rewards. The rules will be tweaked a bit to keep things interesting.

We're finalizing details and will redo the graphics and 2009's on this site soon.

Thanks!

Bike path is slowly drying up...I said slowly

There is water under the bridge at the Fall Park Area. It is dry enough to walk on the dirt down to the bike path at the area of the Farmer's Market. The rest of ride up North was dry. Getting off on the Lawn at Russell is the best bet until it dries up.

This morning Sioux Falls smelled like ham again.

Watch out for a lot of pot holes on 4th Avenue.

Hope your daily bicycle commute is as enjoyable as mine.

Last Day Of School!

A common critisism of our bike to work day is it's coincidence with the last day of school. We've always held our event to coincide with the national day.

I happily noticed the school district has kindly selected a day other than the third Friday of May to be the final day this year.

Excellent.

The pancakes

Pancakes are long gone but do not forget to bike to work and post any comments or questions. There are many people commuting to work year around that can help answers your questions.

The Poster

To download the PDF click here.

A Public Service Announcement

Bike To Work 2009 - Meeting #1

The bike to work committee met today for the first planning meeting for 2009. We made the following decisions.

To have a bike to work day May 15.
To have it at the Museum of Visual Materials.
To have pancakes again.

If you'd like to place a banner on your site here's one 400 pixels wide:



More to come...

Bicycle Commuting 101

How not to get hit by cars.


Ride Safe.

That's A Wrap

Did you ride your bike to work on May 16? Did you come down for free pancakes? Did you enjoy them?

200 of you did - and that's a record for attendance - although in years past we've had no real good way to count people. But now we do...because we made friends with the Museum of Visual Materials. What a great venue for Bike To Work Day!

Thanks to these bike shops for making Sioux Falls Bike To Work Day a great success:Harlan's Bike & Tour
Praire Cycles
Spoke-n-Sport
Two Wheel Dealer
Thanks also to the individuals who show up to meetings, drink the coffee, and make the event happen.

The local daily covered the event. Here's the article.

Happy Bike To Work Day!

Get up and bike yourself to work. If you can, come downtown and enjoy some pancakes on your way.

CityLink: Channel 16: Around Downtown

The City produced a bit of a story about Bike To Work Day and Downtown Sioux Falls. The "Around Downtown" program is airing three times a day on City Link Channel 16.

Or check it out here.

Bike Bus

What is a “bike bus?” A bike bus is a group of people who bike to work in a group. “Bus” because there is a set route and timetable. “Bike” because all the “passengers” are on bikes!”

As one lady put it, in the following video, “It’s just a lovely way to start m’ day.” Enjoy!



Bike Bus. Call your friends and neighbors. Try it!

The Three C's

Breakfast. The most important meal of the day. Pancakes. One very nice food to consume as part of a bike ride.

Need a bunch of pancakes? Need a bunch of pancakes for a bunch of bike riders?

Chris Cakes will cater your breakfast if you bike to work on May 16.

Find them at the Museum of Visual Materials, 5th & Main, downtown Sioux Falls.

Pancakes, beverages, breakfast meats.

10 Reasons to Commute to Work

Reason #10....... Fresh air and quiet time before the day starts
Reason #9..........No crowds on the bike trail early in the morning
Reason #8..........Money saved on gas leaves more for yard and garden projects
Reason #7..........Endorphins make difficult co-workers easier to get along with
Reason #6..........Great light and photo ops!!!
Reason #5..........Waking up to a bike ride every day
Reason #4..........Built in daily training rides and seat time
Reason #3..........Stress busting benefit of hopping on your bike after work.
Reason #2..........Better parking than even the CEO
And best Reason??
Reason #1..........No guilt for buying more bike stuff!!

...Or Poster #2

It Could Be Behind Poster #1

The Bike To Work 2008 poster is done.