Comments on: Riding to Work and Riding to More Work https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/05/riding-to-work-and-riding-to-more-work/ Exploring life on a Vespa, Royal Enfield Himalayan, Honda Trail 125, and a Kawasaki W650 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:53:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Joe Berenguer https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/05/riding-to-work-and-riding-to-more-work/#comment-207 Sat, 20 May 2006 21:43:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=720#comment-207 I just came across your blog and wanted to
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]]> By: irondad https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/05/riding-to-work-and-riding-to-more-work/#comment-192 Tue, 09 May 2006 16:49:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=720#comment-192 The Hi-Viz is mostly yellow. There is a slight “glow” to it. The folks who make it say that it’s a color not normally found in nature. Interesting!

Dan

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/05/riding-to-work-and-riding-to-more-work/#comment-190 Sun, 07 May 2006 02:20:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=720#comment-190 Wow, lots of new people commenting!

kitkatknit: sounds like you have already convinced yourself to ride to the next town. Seems like a good ride. Never too late for that MFA! I waited a long time…

kirsten: looks like you and others have found this blog somehow and seeing the author riding around. You should go to Kissel’s and check out a scooter!

Rick: Your kids would love to have a scooter in the family!

Gary: Do enough riding for work and you will be able to buy another bike. I really feel lucky that I can ride everyday. I keep thinking the novelty will wear off but so far I’m still a kid on Christmas morning!

irondad:

I’ve been looking at the Hi-Viz. Is it yellow or something more “electric”? I love yellow jackets… 784 miles is pretty hefty from my point of view. A guy I work with just did the IronButt thing. I sat for a bit thinking aobut how I could do it on the Vespa. 50 MPH for 20 straight hours would do it…. right. If I was out west on flat roads maybe there would be a chance. Right now three hours on the scooter has my butt cramping up!

]]> By: irondad https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/05/riding-to-work-and-riding-to-more-work/#comment-189 Sat, 06 May 2006 18:43:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=720#comment-189 Speaking of riding to work and firefighters, the comments remind me of 4 summers ago. There were some raging wildfires in Central Oregon. Smoke was visible for a long ways. I was scheduled to go over and teach a class. Katie and I left a few days early on the bike to make it kind of a working vacation.

We’re running around Bend on the bike and wearing our Aerostich Hi-Viz Roadcrafter jackets. As we’d go into places with our helmets and jackets people would ask us if we were over fighting the fires. I guess our jackets did kind of look like a fireman’s turn-out jacket.

I felt weird after a while like I was impersonating a firefighter. I’d have to tell folks that, no, nothing so noble. We were just over to teach a motorcycle safety class. Never saw so many disappointed looks before.

It was the classic thing from law enforcement days. Everybody loves the firefighters!

Gary,
784 miles? And you’re going to do this over how many days? Just a friendly jab from a long distance rider! 🙂

]]> By: Gary https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/05/riding-to-work-and-riding-to-more-work/#comment-188 Sat, 06 May 2006 00:37:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=720#comment-188 Hey Steve,

I have to agree…

Riding FOR work is even better than riding TO work. I have a multi-plant audit trip planned for two weeks from now, and I will be riding my trusty Frogwing through Northern Minnesota, North, and South Dakota.

Last time I did this trip, we racked up 784 miles. Frogwing averages 50 mpg, and mileage allowance for using your personal vehicle is up to about 49 cents per mile. When you do the math, it sounds like a pretty good deal all around, no?

Motorbikes are so cool.

Ride well,
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]]> By: Anonymous https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/05/riding-to-work-and-riding-to-more-work/#comment-187 Fri, 05 May 2006 21:45:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=720#comment-187 Steve: The kids pointed you out the other day on Atherton Street. We’ve been looking at scooters and found your blog. That yellow jacket really stands out!

Rick

]]> By: Anonymous https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/05/riding-to-work-and-riding-to-more-work/#comment-186 Fri, 05 May 2006 20:56:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=720#comment-186 My wife and I both want to get scooters but haven’t made the leap for safety reasons. Your blog is helping steer us towards the showroom!

thanks!!!

]]> By: Kirsten https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/05/riding-to-work-and-riding-to-more-work/#comment-185 Fri, 05 May 2006 14:07:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=720#comment-185 hey steve i saw you heading west on whitehall this morning :). not towards work! i’m a big scooter fan for many years but still don’t own one.

]]> By: Anonymous https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/05/riding-to-work-and-riding-to-more-work/#comment-184 Fri, 05 May 2006 03:27:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=720#comment-184 The fire on the mountain made me sad. 🙁 I took a picture of it too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hrw115/139395302/

]]> By: kitkatknit https://scooterinthesticks.com/2006/05/riding-to-work-and-riding-to-more-work/#comment-183 Thu, 04 May 2006 22:24:00 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=720#comment-183 I’ve been able to do at least 4 out of every 5 work commutes on my Yamaha Vino 125 every week. 6 miles each way but I drive a safer (hopefully) 7 miler instead. The only days I don’t ride is if it rains, the winds blow over 25 mph, or I need to be in the next town over right after work and need to take the freeway. I could actually do it, by going 6 miles west, 4 miles south, and 4 miles east to skip the freeway portion of the trip. Hey, that doesn’t sound all bad does it!

And I think it is soooooo wonderful that you are going to get your MFA. I wish I had stuck it out 30 years ago and got mine then (crap has it been that long ago all ready??)

Susan
BFA – Studio and Graphic Arts
University of Colorado Boulder

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