Bike Commuter Super Transformer Bag of Stuff

[Bilsko]

This post just showed up on one of my favorite blogs:
http://boingboing.net/2014/06/27/bike-commuter-super-transforme.html
Check out all the stuff that Long Now Foundation Director of Operations Laura Welcher brings with her on her daily bike commute in the San Francisco Bay Area. There’s an awful lot in her bag, but it makes sense!

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[Steve]

Just an added point, keeping lots of stuff at work only works if you shower/change at the office. I know when I worked at the Navy Yard, the gym/showers and my building were not close enough for it to make much sense to park the bike, go to the office, get my stuff, go to the gym, and back. Rather, I just carried a lot more stuff with me, went straight to the gym, and then to work.

Now I have a shower on my floor. It makes things so much easier, and is a big part of the reason that I ride basically daily now, instead of weekly.

[consularrider]

@Steve 89713 wrote:

Just an added point, keeping lots of stuff at work only works if you shower/change at the office. I know when I worked at the Navy Yard, the gym/showers and my building were not close enough for it to make much sense to park the bike, go to the office, get my stuff, go to the gym, and back. Rather, I just carried a lot more stuff with me, went straight to the gym, and then to work.

Now I have a shower on my floor. It makes things so much easier, and is a big part of the reason that I ride basically daily now, instead of weekly.

In seven years of commuting in the DC area, I have never used the shower in my building. That’s why they [eventually] gave me the big cubicle.

[dasgeh]

@Steve 89713 wrote:

Now I have a shower on my floor. It makes things so much easier, and is a big part of the reason that I ride basically daily now, instead of weekly.

When I first read this, I read “shower” instead of “ride” (bolded) above.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@dasgeh 89718 wrote:

When I first read this, I read “shower” instead of “ride” (bolded) above.

Whether he needs it or not.

[dkel]

@consularrider 89714 wrote:

In seven years of commuting in the DC area, I have never used the shower in my building. That’s why they [eventually] gave me the big cubicle.

I’m still in my very first summer as a bike commuter, and I have yet to shower at work (though there’s a shower available in the building next door to mine). I must not sweat much, because a towel and occasional baby wipe seems to work fine, at least in current weather. I do need ten or fifteen minutes to cool off before I change, though. In any case, my coworkers have promised to tell me if I stink up the place.

(No, all you smart alecks, an “occasional baby wipe” doesn’t mean that I occasionally wipe myself with a baby…though that sounds pretty awesome…babies are soft…)

[vern]

@dkel 89730 wrote:

I’m still in my very first summer as a bike commuter, and I have yet to shower at work (though there’s a shower available in the building next door to mine). I must not sweat much, because a towel and occasional baby wipe seems to work fine, at least in current weather. I do need ten or fifteen minutes to cool off before I change, though. In any case, my coworkers have promised to tell me if I stink up the place.

(No, all you smart alecks, an “occasional baby wipe” doesn’t mean that I occasionally wipe myself with a baby…though that sounds pretty awesome…babies are soft…)

I’m totally soaked when I get to work, and sweat even in the winter time (and no, not over-dressed…I’m just a heat engine). I wouldn’t be able to commute if I didn’t have access to a shower.

[Sarah Dots]

How long was eventually? We don’t have showers in my building, either. Maybe if I stopped wearing deodorant, it’d speed my transfer to the big cubicle. I wouldn’t mind having a little elbow room and peace and quiet.
@consularrider 89714 wrote:

In seven years of commuting in the DC area, I have never used the shower in my building. That’s why they [eventually] gave me the big cubicle.

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