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Divorce Your Car --and get into a relationship with a Bike!
dgk wrote: On 17 Jul 2006 10:29:03 -0700, "John S." wrote: An interesting but very incomplete analysis of the true costs of commuting by bike. Take the average commuter that lives 20 miles from work. To make an 8-4 work schedule that commuter will have to get up at 4:00 to begin riding at 5:00 to arrive at work by 8:00. The commuter then does the same in reverse and arrives home at 7:00 The times assume he is able to find a lot of flat and downhill both ways with few traffic and stoplights. Incremental cost: New bike every year plus repairs $2,000; Medical expenses from road injuries $2,000 My $300 Trek 7100 is going on its fourth year, around 14,000 miles. I've paid about $300 over the years on various tuneups but flats and chains I handle myself. Not medical expenses. On days when weather is just too awful to commute by bike, I take a bus and train. My commute is 15 miles each way. It takes me, and I'm slow, 80 minutes each way. I do not, at the conclusion of my ride home, need to go to the gym. In fact, my cholesterol and ldl, which used to be very bad, are now excellent. The good HDL, previously low, is now excellent. My doctor freaked on my first exam after starting biking. Cost of heart attack, well, I'll hopefully never know. Yeah, I bet you'll feel strange when, year from now, you are laying in the hospital dying from nothing. :-) I don't need to make presentations at clients, but if I do, my company will arrange transportation. |
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Divorce Your Car --and get into a relationship with a Bike!
Bill Sornson wrote: george conklin wrote: "donquijote1954" wrote in message oups.com... "Too bad our economy rolls on four wheels. Many of us are enslaved to our automobiles. Many of us are enslaved to our wives too, but that does not mean we want a divorce. Both are necessary for a normal life. Wow. So much wrong in so few words. Brava! Well, at least he doesn't accept the leash! |
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When there's a will, there's a bicycle
Pat wrote: Glad to see a post in this group. It's been dead lately. But please don't try to impose your view on others and tell us what we need when you have no idea. You and I live in a different world. I see. Why don't YOU come up with a bicycle store? One last example for you to think about. What if you went hunting and got a deer. How would you bring it back to your house on a bike? 10 miles on dirt roads pulling a deer on your recumbant? It's be fun to see. How about asking the indians around how they managed in the good-ol'-fashoned way? It would be fun too. Oh, did I mention snow storms. I can't imaging a bike on 6" of unplowed snow on a packed snow base when it's -20F and windy. Those car heaters sure come in handy then. OK, just use it in the mild seasons. When there's a will, there's a bicycle, you know. |
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Divorce Your Car --and get into a relationship with a Bike!
In article .com, Pat wrote:
But does traffic actually move faster than a bicycle? In chicago it doesn't when 6 inches is on the ground. I colleage from Westchester was in Syracuse and dreaded leaving an office at 5:00 to head towards home. He didn't want to sit in traffic. I told him not to worry about Syracuse's Rush Quarter-Hour. Seldom to these places have traffic tie-up that would have a bike going faster than a car. A big part of that is because "no one" lives in those cities anymore. Everyone uses the expressway and commutes. So the only tie up is on the way to the on-ramp. Am rutinely in traffic that is slower than I ride, driving or bicycling. This morning a traffic light defaulted to a stop sign. Huge backup as drivers don't know wtf to do... I could have biked to work faster using the back roads with nothing but stop signs. Trouble was I was I was past the point of no return before I saw the backup thanks to the way the roads are designed. |
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Divorce Your Car --and get into a relationship with a Bike!
John S. wrote: Before the commuter has a chance to shorten his ride, his wife sues for divorce because he is gone so long from home that she became lonely and had an affair with the cable tv repairman. Isn't that what you wanted? Then you are free to go out with that sexy lady you met in the bicycle. And she will save you from a couch potato life in which you were bound to have a heart attack in 3 years. As for the alimony, whatever you saved in insurance, you know, consider it a loss. |
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Divorce Your Car --and get into a relationship with a Bike!
george conklin wrote: "Pat" wrote in message oups.com... One last example for you to think about. What if you went hunting and got a deer. How would you bring it back to your house on a bike? He would cut it up into 132 pieces, eat 10, and bring the rest home 3 at a time. Either that or simply don't kill the deer. Just set up a trap and then have him walk with you properly attached with a rope to the back of your bicycle. |
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Divorce Your Car --and get into a relationship with a Bike!
george conklin wrote: Incremental cost: Alimony and child support for the next 20 years. Nah, just make your wife ride with you for her health!!!! OK, that's good --if he doesn't want to get rid of her! |
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Divorce Your Car --and get into a relationship with a Bike!
greggery peccary wrote:
And they'll give you a nice attention-getter physique really? where's mine! ive been riding many years and im still as ugly as ever! Don't blame the bike, blame genetics! But think how much worse it would be if it weren't for the bike. |
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Divorce Your Car --and get into a relationship with a Bike!
Jack May wrote: "Pat" wrote in message ups.com... And interesting and incomplete analysis. You forgot something. How do you (or your teenager) make out on the back seat of a bike. That is evolution in action. Weeding out the failures in society like donquijote1954 Don't say that. Just call me the "Black Sheep." You know why they were expelled??? HOW THE BLACK SHEEP WERE EXPELLED One day the Lion, who had been thinking how to best eat the sheep, decided to dress as one of them... This way the common sheep trusted the new sheep more and more every day, some confessing to him, others voting for him, and most allowing to be fleeced by him... Meanwhile, the Black Sheep--who was able to see through camouflage--thought this way: "If he got big paws and teeth, and takes the lion's share, lion he is..." And that's the reason why from then on the Black Sheep weren't allowed to mingle anymore with the simple and common sheep... |
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