Twenty-three thousand commuters chose their bicycles on Friday in the Puget Sound region, making this the most popular Bike to Work Day ever.
Discontent with higher gasoline prices and happiness over the nice weather are credited with the 20-plus percent increase in participation this year. Maybe some of them will keep riding throughout the summer.
Ms. Biking Bis headed down to the Seattle City Hall where scores of cyclists met up Friday morning for a spirited Bike to Work Day Rally. She took these pictures of commuters with bike shorts under their skirts, above left, and others dressed for success.
The Cascade Bicycle Club, which helped organize this year's event, reported that 19,000 people participated in 2007, 17,500 in 2006 and about 12,500 in 2005. And every year the Bike to Work Day, Week and Month events, along with the commute challenges, helps to get more and more folks out of their cars.
The cyclists who showed up at the City Hall plaza on Friday morning heard Cascade Bicycle's advocacy director David Hiller and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels talk about the virtues of cycling.
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