Where bikes are fast

5.18.2006
President of Fuji Bikes Races Car and Train to Work
By: Ryan LaBar

As you may know this week is "Bike-to-Work Week" and Friday is "Bike-to-Work Day". So you may be wondering what the time difference between biking, driving or taking the train would be?

On Monday the president of Fuji Bicycles, Patrick Cunnane, "raced" a car and a train to work for Philadelphia's Bike to Work Challenge, which is organized by the Greater Philadelphia Bicycle Coalition. Dressed in a tie, a collared shirt, and khakis (plus a safety yellow vest), he raced from the corner of 15th Street and JFK Blvd. to the corner of 46th Street and Chestnut during rush hour. Cunnane won the Challenge, edging out the train by two and a half minutes and the car by over twelve. The only thing he didn't beat to work was the weather, which ended up catching him at the finish in the form of rain.