Biking: Always extremely healthy.

Biking: Always extremely healthy.

  • Biking: Always extremely healthy.

Incredibly tasty place Tilt (3449 N Anchor) is giving away delicious, unhealthy sandwiches (pictured above) and coffee to bike commuters tomorrow morning. The hard part isn’t going to be down to their Swan Island location between 7-9am, it’s going to be hoofing it back up the hill to North Interstate again.

I think of Swan Island as being the place for giant trucks, but actually 20 percent of workers on the island get to their job by biking, transit, or carpooling. We interviewed a couple of surprisingly bikey boilermakers on the island back in 2010.

Sarah Shay Mirk reported on transportation, sex and gender issues, and politics at the Mercury from 2008-2013. They have gone on to make many things, including countless comics and several books.