Past Bike-to-Work Gallery
Bike to Work Day 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
See also:
- East Bay Stories
- San Francisco Bicycle Coalition News Release: Twice as Many Bikes as Cars on Market Street
- Participation Highest Ever for Bay Area's Bike to Work Day
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MTC Planner Dresses Up for Bike to Work DayMTC bicycle planner Susan Heinrich normally goes for comfort and practicality when choosing her attire, wearing flats to the office most days. But on Bike to Work Day on May 14, 2009, she donned stylish navy-blue, mock patent-leather pumps with two-inch heels before hopping aboard her bike for the ride from her home in San Francisco’s SOMA to the Caltrain station on her way to catching the morning’s bicycle action on the Peninsula and the South Bay. We caught up with Heinrich when she arrived back at the office in Oakland midday, bicycle helmet on her head and high-heels on her feet, with the hemline of her right pant leg daintily rolled up to prevent the material from catching in the gears — all the better to reveal the glint of her pumps.
“I want to show that anyone can bike to work or for everyday errands, wearing pretty much anything,” she said. “You don’t have to wear spandex or shorts, and tennis shoes. You don’t have to allow time to change clothes, or lug along an extra outfit or pair of shoes. A woman can bike quite easily in heels or a skirt.”
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The message?
Heinrich completed her Bike-to-Work Day look with a pair of
handmade wire earrings artfully shaped into bicycles, and a matching
pin.
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