When I went in the President was there to take my money and registration information.

  

Corinne was greeting, and then there was a woman who would be glad to sell you a Bike to Work Day shirt. Once you get by them there was a great buffet that an active staff was working to keep full of tasty food.

  

There was also a silent auction table where you could bid on all sorts of biking equipment, everything from new bikes to Gore Helium Vests.

  

Open Space Project played jazzy, bluesy stuff. Great background, and probably dancable except the crowd wasn't ready for that. After an hour or so of schmoozing the band took a break and Corinne started the speaker segment.

        

The first speaker was Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager, who welcomed us to San Jose and pointed out that being in a dense development mere steps away from a busy light and heavy rail station is where it's at in San Jose. He is particularly excited about this development because he worked on it before he got elected to the City Council.

The other speakers were people I'm not as familiar with.

The Bike Commuter of the year is Philipo from the Metro. He has multiple pictures in just about every issue of the newsweekly. Everybody in the south bay has probably seen many of his pictures. He commutes to all his photo shoots by bicycle, a fairly remarkable achievement especially considering all the equipment he carries.