Feel the bikegeist

Front page lead story in the Seattle P-I today was all about Bike to Work Month ("Seattlites put their soles to the pedals: In May, the streets are for biking"). The gas prices and the nice weather are conspiring to make bicycling to work the preferred alternative. I'm really impressed that there are over 5000 official participants who collectively have saved 14,000 gallons of gas and burned 9.9 million calories in just two weeks! What's more, a quarter of them are brand new converts. With the support of coworkers and local bike groups (and validation from the P-I), more people are trying bicycling. With the Seattle Bicycle Master Plan rushing down the pike (kicking off within weeks, completing this calendar year), you can really feel the bicycle zeitgeist -- or shall we say "bikegeist"?