{"id":9792,"date":"2020-06-08T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T17:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2020-06-07T14:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T20:56:30","slug":"ride-to-work-day-is-monday-june-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/ride-to-work-day-is-monday-june-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride To Work Day Is Monday, June 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9794\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RtWDay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9794\" src=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RtWDay.jpg\" vspace=\"10\" alt=\"Ride to Work Day logo.\" width=\"497\" height=\"313\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9794\" srcset=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RtWDay.jpg 497w, http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/RtWDay-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>This year&#8217;s Ride to Work Day logo.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>I feel like I beat the same dead horse almost every year when I do this post promoting Ride to Work Day. Nobody cares. And yet, I have always thought it was a great idea.<\/p>\n<p>You know, why not, once a year, have a day when everyone who rides motorcycles rides to work or wherever, just to show our numbers to the rest of the world? This year that day is Monday, June 15. A week from now.<\/p>\n<p>For one, think of the shock to the non-riding public to see just how many bikes and riders there are. And if that strikes them then it is at least possible that they will think to themselves, &#8220;gosh, there are lots of motorcycles out there, maybe I ought to pay a little more attention when I change lanes to be sure there isn&#8217;t one in my blind spot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or, as the official ride to work people say on <a href=\"http:\/\/ridetowork.org\/current-events\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their site<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ride your motorcycle or scooter on this day to demonstrate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of motorcyclists to the general public and to politicians.<\/li>\n<li>That motorcyclists are from all occupations and all walks of life.<\/li>\n<li> That motorcyclists can reduce traffic and parking congestion in large cities.<\/li>\n<li>That motorcycles are for transportation as well as recreation.<\/li>\n<li> That motorcycling is a social good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Come on&#8211;do it this year. I&#8217;ll be out riding somewhere. Join me.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and a quick, unrelated aside: did you experience that extreme weather that swept through on Saturday? I was at home and I looked at the sky and decided I should cover the bedding plants we had just bought and barely 30 seconds after I did the sky opened up with winds that the weather service said exceeded 80 mph and hail came pounding down. Then it blew right on past in about three minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine if you had been on your bike when that hit? If you didn&#8217;t get blown over the whole thing would have gone past before you even found a sheltered place to pull over. It was crazy.<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>You know you&#8217;re a biker when you know what a grasshopper feels like at 100 miles per hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I beat the same dead horse almost every year when I do this post promoting Ride to Work Day. Nobody cares. And yet, I have always thought it was a great idea. You know, why not, once a year, have a day when everyone who rides motorcycles rides to work or wherever, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-9792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-events","tag-ride-to-work-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9795,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions\/9795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}