Green Options

At the beginning of this year I changed jobs, trading a 35-mile one-way commute for a 2.5-mile local ride.

Living in St. Louis, where we have four distinct seasons – pretty-damn-cold, balmy-moderate, humid-and-hot-as-hell and fall – I waited out the pretty-damn-cold months to begin my life as a bike commuter during the balmy-moderate ones.

New to the game, I’m taking things a bit slowly.

Popularity of electric bikes has taken off in countries all over the world, and are juicing enjoyment and mobility for a wide range of ages. Get the scoop at CNN.com: Electric Bikes Provide Greener Commute.

Image source: Panasonic, via www.electric-bikes.org.