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This week is National Ride Your Bike to Work Week, with National Ride Your Bike to Work Day on Friday. Making your bicycle your mode of transportation is not only good for you, but good for your environment, and it works even better than coffee for morning energy. If you normally take your lunch to work or are using riding your bike as an incentive to take your lunch and eat healthier, this creates a bit of a problem - how do you get your lunch to your office without a lunch-colored dye job? Here are some tips on what to bring and how to get it there (and yes, a lot of this is learned from trial and error).
Other tips: Be sure to pack a patch kit, tire levers, a pump, a multi-tool, a hand towel (to freshen up if you don't have too long of a haul), deodorant and a change of clothes. If you've never ridden to work before, drive, test ride, or map out your route before you try to ride for the first time. For more information and tips, peep at houstonbikeways.org or talk to your local bike shop.
Keep the Houston Press Free... Since we started the Houston Press, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Houston, and we would like to keep it that way. Offering our readers free access to incisive coverage of local news, food and culture. Producing stories on everything from political scandals to the hottest new bands, with gutsy reporting, stylish writing, and staffers who've won everything from the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi feature-writing award to the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. But with local journalism's existence under siege and advertising revenue setbacks having a larger impact, it is important now more than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism. You can help by participating in our "I Support" membership program, allowing us to keep covering Houston with no paywalls.