Published: July, 2007
Top Placing Teams by County
Webcor Builders Green Light – Alameda, We Can Do It! – Contra Costa, Redwood Retreads – Napa, Bakers Bike Deux – San Francisco, The Rolling Digmers – San Mateo, Solano Cycle Slugs – Solano, Wheels of Fortune –Sonoma.
Bike Commuters of the Year
Alameda – Lisa Lestishock: Lestishock averages 30 miles a day during her bike commute.
Contra Costa – Robert Haas: A regular bike commuter for 19 years. Five days a week, he pedals to and from BART on both ends of his commute from Moraga to El Cerrito.
Marin – Kerri Kazala: Kazala pedals over 60 miles from her home in Mill Valley to her job in Daly City.
Napa – Joel King: King pedals every day to his job at the county of Napa.
San Francisco – Marvin Johnson: Rain or shine, Marvin rides to work and back from his Glen Park neighborhood to his job in San Francisco.
San Mateo – Craig Horak: Horak is an avid bike commuter who pedals 50 miles a day, round-trip, from Burlingame to his job in Emeryville.
Santa Clara – Jack Miller: Miller can be found pedaling from Mountain View to his job in San Jose and back in all kinds of weather.
Solano – Scott Morrison: Morrison began bike-commuting a few days a week last year, but he has made it a habit and has logged over 2,500 commute miles, losing 80 pounds over the last year.
Sonoma – Christine Byrne: Byrne pedals to high school, her job, her friends’ houses and for errands. She has started a program at her high school called eCO2mmute Month to encourage her cohorts to choose alternative means of getting to school other than by car.
Source: Metropolitan Transportation Commission
