General Cycling Discussion - What is your cycling to driving mileage ratio?

Express your weekly cycling mileage as compared to your weekly driving mileage.

At first, I thought the graph was interesting, until I looked at the raw numbers.

I average about 50-60 miles cycling per week, and around 100 driving. If I bought a BOB trailer for my gear and instruments, I could show up sweaty to my Wednesday and Thursday night performances. It's 5.8 very hilly miles, to play from 9PM to midnight. That would even the numbers to roughly 75 and 75 miles.

Jonathan

I drive about 175 miles/week (down from 200) and cycle about 20. What can I say? I'm still getting back my cycling legs.

Kevin S.

The results, as you may have noticed, are not easily compared on this graph. If you drive only 20 miles per week, but cycle 60, you would say you cycled three times as much as you drove. If you happen to live a long way from work, or drive as part of your job,
you could cycle 100 miles per week and still drive at least twice as far.

This is just a hair-brained scheme of mine that has no real significance as far as measuring your commitment to cycling. I just thought it was interesting that I had reached the point of cycling twice as far as I drove, and that I still cycle further every week than my wife drives to her full-time job. (That's because she works a few miles closer to home than I do.)

Don't think it matters if you still drive much further than you cycle.
It just seemed to me to be thought provoking.

Maybe it's really a dud. ;)

Just in case you're wondering, I cycle 300km+ per week and don't drive at all.

Chris

I'm currently averaging 49 cycled miles (78.4 km) per week and don't drive at all. I could probably cycle a lot more if I didn't spend so much time on Bike Forums. And if the heat would let up. And if I wasn't so lazy.

I don't think the poll/graph is a dud, Pete. All statistics are interesting, whether they turn out to mean much or not... :D And it kept me off my bike a few minutes longer! :dance:

Seriously (oh-oh :eek: ) -- I wanted to get to cycling at least twenty miles a day, when I resumed cycling in April. I haven't nearly achieved that goal, though there's nothing unreasonable about it, even in the city. I blame nothing and nobody but myself and bad habits. :mad: :crash:

Originally posted by Chris L
Just in case you're wondering, I cycle 300km+ per week and don't drive at all.

Chris

Splendid, ChrisL!! The earth thanks you and the rest of us admire you as well as thank you.

Is there a name for a graph that looks like this, peaking on the edges and almost symmetrical?

Fascinating...

Well, I normally cycle about 100 miles a week, though I did just over 500 miles during the month of July. In the same month I think I was in the car about four times. One trip to Trader Joe's and various errands, about 30 miles. One trip to Indiana, 130 miles rt. One trip to Milwaukee, call it 160 miles rt. And one trip to a baby shower, maybe 3.5 miles rt, but I was carrying a cheesecake, two kinds of sauces for said cheesecake, a bunch of presents and my knitting bag. No way to fit that cheesecake in my bike baskets. (I need a trailer for sure).

But this wasn't a typical driving month for us. We don't normally go to Milwaukee and I don't normally have to bring dessert to baby showers. I definitely cycled more than I was in the car, even with two substantial road trips, but it still seems like a lot of car usage to me. I don't think I've actually driven the car but the one time this month. The other three trips I was just a passenger. I hate driving. It's a horrible responsibility, knowing that if I don't handle a powerful behemoth correctly, I might very well take some innocent person's life.

pete--


originally posted by Pete Clark:
Is there a name for a graph that looks like this, peaking on the edges and almost symmetrical?

inverted bell curve??? maybe???

I cycle about 100 miles per week. No driving. THe pool is biased, there should be an option "Not applicable: I only cycle"

P.B.,

Then we would have to be "fair" and add, "I only drive and never cycle." ;)

Just kidding! Well, I guess you have a point. The questionnaire assumes everyone drives!

Oops! :D

Originally posted by PapeteeBooh
I cycle about 100 miles per week. No driving. THe pool is biased, there should be an option "Not applicable: I only cycle"

You could word it I cycle infinitely more than I drive.

:)

Jonathan

Next poll ought to be "What is your Bike Forums browsing to physical exertion ratio?"

Don't get started on that one, Jon! I'm already chewing away at 24 hour days by acting as if they are 27 hours long. :cry:

"Bad! Bad, BikeForums addict!"

(who, me?) :eek:

I would say I drive more than I would like, mainly because my girlfriend is always wanting us to go somewhere in her car...and believe me, I would much rather do the driving. Other than that, I bike everywhere I need to go...grocery store, laundry mat, work, etc.

Biking...50-75 miles a week
Driving...10-20 miles a week