looking good in spandex

[Corwin]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/liv...ef=videosearch

yep, that's me... filmed me biking in Central Park and heading home down afterwards (and at work)

Scott

[TheMM]

Originally Posted by Corwin

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/liv...ef=videosearch

yep, that's me... filmed me biking in Central Park and heading home down afterwards (and at work)

Scott

Well then Mr. Google Employee, aren't you all nice and famous now? Plus you look damn good in the tight shirt.

[abbraxis]

Congrats! You're famous now!





(P.S. How much did Google pay you to wear that? They'll advertise on ANYthing now... even people )

[CelticMuscle]

Originally Posted by Corwin

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/liv...ef=videosearch yep, that's me... filmed me biking in Central Park and heading home down afterwards (and at work) Scott

Well, well, well, so if we count that as you now being a media celebrity does this mean that we'll get people opposed to bicycle use searching this and producing the headline

Google employ gay bikers shock!

[Corwin]

Originally Posted by abbraxis

Congrats! You're famous now!





(P.S. How much did Google pay you to wear that? They'll advertise on ANYthing now... even people )

Heh... I tend to wear that bike jersey -- I have two of them. I didn't know when I went to work Wednesday that Corp Comm would be calling me and asking me to do this, so the jersey was unplanned. What you probably can't see is that the backpack is the one from the Google store (and has Google on it), and the helmet was given away a few years ago by Google during Bike to Work day and has Google stickers on it. I also have a google branded bike pump (also a bike-to-work day gift) that I carry in my camelback (non-google)

And if you only knew how many Google tshirts I have. :-)

In any case, I'm doing a metric century this weekend and will be wearing that jersey (after I wash it today). I'll probably also wear it for the other centuries I'm doing this summer. For BrakingTheCycle this september, Team Google is having custome jersey's made (we have 10 people on our team, and Team Google for AIDS Life Cycle in June has 18 people).

Google is very bike friendly. What they didn't put in that clip is that google gives $5/day to charity for every day an employee bikes/walks/rollerblades or takes public transportation to work. My donation last year was over $800 from Google because I bike to work.

Google is a very cool company to work for.

[Corwin]

Originally Posted by CelticMuscle

Well, well, well, so if we count that as you now being a media celebrity does this mean that we'll get people opposed to bicycle use searching this and producing the headline

Gayglers http://www.google.com/jobs/gayglers

[BergMuscle]

Cool! Right now you've famous for both being muscled and setting a good example.

And don't it feel great to look good in a tight shirt!

[Eager Muscle]

Dang Corwin, you do look good in spandex. You put the "ogle" in "Google."

One summer I biked to work in NYC from the West 100s to the Grand Central Station vicinity. Yes, it was a great workout but any cardio benefit was probably canceled by the car exhaust (pre-hybrid smog belching buses) coupled with innumerable near-death experiences. Plus I arrived to work sweaty, stinky and had to change into a suit, so the landfill I clogged that summer with wet wipes far outweighed any minimal environmental benefit of biking vs. the (electric) subway.

Would I bike to work today if I lived in Seattle or Palo Alto? YES. In Manhattan? You're a braver man than I.

[ARCHEON]

That was waay cool, Corwin. You stud. ;-)

[abbraxis]

Originally Posted by Corwin

Google is very bike friendly. What they didn't put in that clip is that google gives $5/day to charity for every day an employee bikes/walks/rollerblades or takes public transportation to work. My donation last year was over $800 from Google because I bike to work.

Google is a very cool company to work for.

Actually, that IS pretty cool.

And all this time I thought they were the beginnings of the Galactic Empire...

[Username3]

Isn't this an ad for a Venus Razor?

[Corwin]

Originally Posted by Eager Muscle

Dang Corwin, you do look good in spandex. You put the "ogle" in "Google."

One summer I biked to work in NYC from the West 100s to the Grand Central Station vicinity. Yes, it was a great workout but any cardio benefit was probably canceled by the car exhaust (pre-hybrid smog belching buses) coupled with innumerable near-death experiences. Plus I arrived to work sweaty, stinky and had to change into a suit, so the landfill I clogged that summer with wet wipes far outweighed any minimal environmental benefit of biking vs. the (electric) subway.

Would I bike to work today if I lived in Seattle or Palo Alto? YES. In Manhattan? You're a braver man than I.

I try to avoid midtown traffic. I live near the Henry Hudson Trial, and my normal workout is to bike up to the cloisters, then back down to work (chelsea/greenwich village area). It's really only 4 blocks in traffic.

I was up in Connecticut yesterday for the bloomin' metric -- 65 miles. that was fun.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/95880

Next weekend I'm doing a ride from Newark to Quakertown PA (and back again).

[Eager Muscle]

Looking good in spandex...but at what price?

Thought of you Corwin when I read a recent New York Magazine article on ghost bikes, which highlit the increase of urban bike deaths given increased bike ridership.

Every urban cyclist should read this link: http://www.ghostbikes.org/new-york-city

A number of the victims were "unknown," but odds are at least some were seasoned cyclists, wore helmets and observed the rules of the road. It's the crazy drivers and disengaged pedestrians you have to worry about, and for me personally it's just not worth it.

Relatedly, I've heard somewhere that as more people, especially females, trade their cars in for motorcycles given gas prices that motorcycle accidents/fatalities are up.

Anyhow, let's be careful out there.

[COLOR="Red"]
"Faces fall, but a bicep's forever."
- Eager Muscle[/COLOR]

[BBMikeNJ]

Ironically, as more and more Americans are switching to their bikes, more and more Chinese are trading theirs in for cars.

[Strmchaserboi]

Not to sound like a perv, but while I was watching that i was thinking, look at those thighs and glutes in that wonderful material. Damn ya looked good. And the biking thing is something I would consider but we hit 100 today and are going to be at 104 by sunday. So I ask, how do you stay cool and fresh? Seriously i would like to know cuase I am thinking about getting a bike again. I can't afford the gas like most others.

[Corwin]

Originally Posted by Strmchaserboi

Not to sound like a perv, but while I was watching that i was thinking, look at those thighs and glutes in that wonderful material. Damn ya looked good. And the biking thing is something I would consider but we hit 100 today and are going to be at 104 by sunday. So I ask, how do you stay cool and fresh? Seriously i would like to know cuase I am thinking about getting a bike again. I can't afford the gas like most others.

I turn into a wet rag by the time I hit work. I've been doing 20+ miles/day for the past couple weeks -- 18 or so miles in the mornings, and when I hit work, I am sweating like a pig. it's been 80-90 every morning. Thank the gods it's raining now, so it will probably cool off.

The nice thing about biking is that I've really leaned up. The pumps look really hot when I come back from the gym, and I might even have a 6 pack by the end of the summer. The bad thing is that the weight is down and I feel skinny, but I like to bike.

I've been hanging out in the bigmuscle video chatroom recently. it's been kinda an ego boost and I get to show off. Thanks for the complements about spandex, though. Biking does build rock hard thighs, just wish they were bigger -- like Tom Platz size :-)

[conoemadre]

It?s a good alternative beside polution on the cost of the gas... congrats

[mewletter]

Originally Posted by BBMikeNJ

Ironically, as more and more Americans are switching to their bikes, more and more Chinese are trading theirs in for cars.

Well, wealth has its own side effects... in a sense, its a 'boom' time in luxury business in cities there. Though the air pollution are very bad already... Blame the cultural influence of wanting to own a big, hunka air-poisoning, high-speed crazed & high-maintained vehicle!