Date: 05/11/2010

How's this for inspiration?

Please meet Louis Sandoval, 2010 Bike Commuter of the Year, profiled on the Bike to Work website.

"As a kid, he had a girlfriend in Southern California, and he rode his bicycle from San Pablo down the coast into the San Joaquin Valley via Kettleman City, down country roads until he met up with her in Southern California. He teaches mathematics to adults pursuing a GED diploma and is going back to SJSU this fall to get a degree in biomedical engineering. Louis dropped out of high school many years ago and realized in his twenties a need for education. He attended Contra Costa College and SJSU, earning an engineering degree. During his studies at SJSU, he participated in a short internship with bicycle legend Phil Wood.

"'I'm looking forward to riding to San Jose State along the Bay Trail past the Oakland Airport, across the new San Leandro Slough Bridge and down south along the Bay Trail,' Louis says. The new San Leandro Slough Bridge is scheduled to open on Bike to Work Day this year."

Read more on Sandoval.

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