Comments on: Do you bike to work? High-tech style? http://www.masshightech.com/blog/2009/08/05/do-you-bike-to-work-high-tech-style/ Aggregating business news from the world of New England technology Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:11:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bob Metcalfe http://www.masshightech.com/blog/2009/08/05/do-you-bike-to-work-high-tech-style/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Bob Metcalfe Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:01:24 +0000 http://www.masshightech.com/blog/?p=853#comment-409 Often bike to work, Back Bay Bay Colony, Waltham. It's about 15 miles each way. Favorite routes are along the Charles River and sometimes the longer ways through Lincoln, Bedford, Lexington, Arlington, and Cambridge along the Minuteman. Life is good! Actually, biking is a way of enlivening my impending obituary. I don't want to die ignominiously in a nursing home or running toward a departure gate. Biking is now the most likely way I'll die. Experience indicates I'll be taken out in a bike lane by some woman in a minivan drinking a latte while on her cellphone with her kids screaming in the back seats. That, or a pick-up truck's rear-view mirror on the back of my head. Not as good as a flaming wreck at Le Mans, but better than cancer. Bike! /Bob Metcalfe Often bike to work, Back Bay Bay Colony, Waltham. It’s about 15 miles each way. Favorite routes are along the Charles River and sometimes the longer ways through Lincoln, Bedford, Lexington, Arlington, and Cambridge along the Minuteman.

Life is good!

Actually, biking is a way of enlivening my impending obituary. I don’t want to die ignominiously in a nursing home or running toward a departure gate. Biking is now the most likely way I’ll die. Experience indicates I’ll be taken out in a bike lane by some woman in a minivan drinking a latte while on her cellphone with her kids screaming in the back seats. That, or a pick-up truck’s rear-view mirror on the back of my head. Not as good as a flaming wreck at Le Mans, but better than cancer.

Bike!

/Bob Metcalfe

]]> By: Billl Jacobson http://www.masshightech.com/blog/2009/08/05/do-you-bike-to-work-high-tech-style/comment-page-1/#comment-408 Billl Jacobson Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:56:52 +0000 http://www.masshightech.com/blog/?p=853#comment-408 I live in the North End, work with Boston start-ups and have been biking to the office and around town for over 7 years. In the last few years my biking has evolved as my life has evolved.  Now I have a child-seat on the back and first make a stop at daughters pre-school in the West End before heading over to my office at WorkBar, a community shared office space right by south station.  By car, foot or public transit daily routine is over an hour; by bike it is under a half hour.   I was at TEDxBoston last week and the most interesting talk (more than mine!) was by Ryan Chin of the MIT Media Lab titled "Smart Cities: Sustainable Urban Mobility-on-Demand" where electric bikes, scooters, and cars are getting integrated into a next-gen personal urban transit system.  Very cool stuff. I live in the North End, work with Boston start-ups and have been biking to the office and around town for over 7 years. In the last few years my biking has evolved as my life has evolved.  Now I have a child-seat on the back and first make a stop at daughters pre-school in the West End before heading over to my office at WorkBar, a community shared office space right by south station.  By car, foot or public transit daily routine is over an hour; by bike it is under a half hour.  

I was at TEDxBoston last week and the most interesting talk (more than mine!) was by Ryan Chin of the MIT Media Lab titled “Smart Cities: Sustainable Urban Mobility-on-Demand” where electric bikes, scooters, and cars are getting integrated into a next-gen personal urban transit system.  Very cool stuff.

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