Get a Free Bike...

...if you are a college freshman and don't bring your car to school. How cool is that? Great article in the New York Times about many colleges that are getting creative with students to eliminate over flowing student parking as well as making campus more green. Some are even giving free bikes.

Hat tip to Holly at our parent company's offices in North Carolina. She's heading up an alternative transportation day this week at their facility, too. Helping out? Our friends at Cool Breeze Cyclery.

I hear there is a prize for the most creative alternative transportation method. Last week someone told me he/she may row over....that would be different, eh?

The Great Bike Roll Out

Once you love cycling and are in the industry it never leaves you. How do I know? A couple of weeks ago our founder, Michael Zane, donated 96 bicycles to his college, Franklin & Marshall. The donation was part of Sustainability Week and encourages more students to go out and experience their campus and surroundings on the bicycle.

Each of the bikes has Franklin & Marshall painted on it and, I'll bet if you look closely you'll see a lock on the bikes....don't know what kind Michael would have chosen....do you?

Congrats, Michael - that's being a true partner alumnus while helping the environment!

Hello Emerson College!

Emerson College buildings in the middle of Boston (photo from Emerson website)

I haven't checked our stats in awhile, but was looking through them yesterday and noticed that someone from Emerson College had been buzzing around the site. Wooo-hooo!

Ok, so a lot of people at colleges and universities from all over the world come here and visit - University of Alberta, San Diego State, University of California (many locations), University of Colorado, University of Delaware, University of Southern Florida, Emery, University of Illinois, Perdue, Ball State, Georgetown, Northeastern University, Harvard, Michigan State, University of Nebraska, Rider, Cornell, Syracuse, NYU, Ohio State, Temple, Texas A&M, Brigham Young, George Mason, University of South Wales, McGill University, University of Toronto, University of Zagreb (Croatia), The Jerusalem College of Engineering,University of Kent and University College of London.

And that's just the short list....really....it's quite impressive. Welcome one and all!

So, why so excited about Emerson College that is probably smaller than most, if not all, of the schools listed above? Because I'm an alumi! And darn proud of it. I'm not as famous as some of the other alums (Henry Winkler, Denis Leary), but I'm happy to have spent 4 years of my life living in Boston going to Emerson. It seems like a million years ago, but I remember it all with fondness. Seeing Emerson in our stats was fun for me. Come back often!