It suddenly feels like everyone is talking about cycling to work.
First GOOD magazine’s transparency issue declared Portland, the home of AboutUs HQ, to be the number one city in America for riding your bike to work. Check out their shiny infographic to see exactly how Stumptown stacks up against other U.S. cities. Then The New York Times jumped on the bandwagon (or is it the bike?) with a piece about business cycling.
AboutUs has always been a business built by cyclists. Many of our employees get to the office on two wheels, and you can usually see their bicycles parked in our entryway.
Still, having a mere 3.9% of the city’s population bike to work isn’t the pinnacle of achievement. The Netherlands, where more than 25% of all trips are made by bike, is pretty much the king of urban cycling. There’s definitely things we could learn about transitioning to a bike-oriented lifestyle.
Who better to talk about the transition than someone who recently did it for themselves? That’s right, our own Ward Cunningham will be at the upcoming Ignite Portland to speak about becoming bike oriented.
As he says in his proposal, Ward’s car was stolen back in January, and he chose to try and become more bike-oriented then and there. Since that time Ward not only started commuting to the office by bike, but he’s led many AboutUs-ers on office bike excursions.
Ignite is an event where presenters are given five minutes and 20 auto-advanced slides to tell their story. Those of you not in Portland will be able to watch the livestream or recorded talks for Ignite. For AboutUs, we’ll be proud to see our CTO speaking up for cycling.
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