View Poll Results: Why do you commute by bike?
Cycling helps me reduce commuting costs (economic)
7
5.88%
Cycling is better for the environment (environmental)
7
5.88%
Cycling provides me with needed exercise (fitness & weight control)
46
38.66%
Cycling helps enjoy the outdoors (quality of life)
11
9.24%
Cycling is a relaxing & enjoyable way to start & finish my workday (stress management)
36
30.25%
I am not able to use a car and cycling is the best alternative (circumstances)
12
10.08%
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Why do you commute by bike?
05-21-09, 11:13 AM
#1
Have bike, will travel
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Why do you commute by bike?
Why do you commute by bike?
Cycling helps me reduce commuting costs (economic)
Cycling is better for the environment (environmental)
Cycling provides me with needed exercise (fitness & weight control)
Cycling helps enjoy the outdoors (quality of life)
Cycling is a relaxing & enjoyable way to start & finish my workday (stress management)
I am not able to use a car and cycling is the best alternative (circumstances)
Cycling helps me reduce commuting costs (economic)
Cycling is better for the environment (environmental)
Cycling provides me with needed exercise (fitness & weight control)
Cycling helps enjoy the outdoors (quality of life)
Cycling is a relaxing & enjoyable way to start & finish my workday (stress management)
I am not able to use a car and cycling is the best alternative (circumstances)
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When I ride my bike I feel free and happy and strong. I'm liberated from the usual nonsense of day to day life. Solid, dependable, silent, my bike is my horse, my fighter jet, my island, my friend. Together we will conquer that hill and thereafter the world.
When I ride my bike I feel free and happy and strong. I'm liberated from the usual nonsense of day to day life. Solid, dependable, silent, my bike is my horse, my fighter jet, my island, my friend. Together we will conquer that hill and thereafter the world.
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05-21-09, 11:16 AM
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I'm tubby...
05-21-09, 11:18 AM
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Because I like to bike.
05-21-09, 11:18 AM
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Why do you commute by bike?...
Cycling helps me reduce cycling costs (economic)
Cycling is better for the environment (environmental)
Cycling provides me with needed exercise (fitness & weight control)
Cycling helps enjoy the outdoors (quality of life)
Cycling is a relaxing & enjoyable way to start & finish my workday (stress management)
Cycling helps me reduce cycling costs (economic)
Cycling is better for the environment (environmental)
Cycling provides me with needed exercise (fitness & weight control)
Cycling helps enjoy the outdoors (quality of life)
Cycling is a relaxing & enjoyable way to start & finish my workday (stress management)
05-21-09, 11:18 AM
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Have bike, will travel
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When I ride my bike I feel free and happy and strong. I'm liberated from the usual nonsense of day to day life. Solid, dependable, silent, my bike is my horse, my fighter jet, my island, my friend. Together we will conquer that hill and thereafter the world.
When I ride my bike I feel free and happy and strong. I'm liberated from the usual nonsense of day to day life. Solid, dependable, silent, my bike is my horse, my fighter jet, my island, my friend. Together we will conquer that hill and thereafter the world.
05-21-09, 11:24 AM
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This is not a very good poll.
My answer is all of the above (except one), and more, and "I like to bike" and "I enjoy the outdoors" are not equivocal statements.
In addition to all of the sound, logical reasons for bicycling, there are other reasons beyond reach of simple explanation or understanding, even by bicyclists.
My answer is all of the above (except one), and more, and "I like to bike" and "I enjoy the outdoors" are not equivocal statements.
In addition to all of the sound, logical reasons for bicycling, there are other reasons beyond reach of simple explanation or understanding, even by bicyclists.
05-21-09, 11:25 AM
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all of the above for me as well.
05-21-09, 11:26 AM
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how about all of the above and easy parking.
Parking sucks on campus
Parking sucks on campus
05-21-09, 11:27 AM
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it's easy if you let it.
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It's hard to pick just one. I like using the bikes because I don't burn gas when I do, but the money for the bikes could have bought hundreds of gallons of gas. I do enjoy being outdoors with it, and it's a much more fun way to get to class than driving is. Parking is also a simple affair when riding. Overall, if safety and practicality were less of a concern, I'd ride more often. It just comes down to enjoying using a bicycle as a legitimate transport device.
05-21-09, 11:44 AM
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5 Cycling helps me reduce commuting costs (economic)
3 Cycling is better for the environment (environmental)
1 Cycling provides me with needed exercise (fitness & weight control)
2 Cycling helps enjoy the outdoors (quality of life)
4 Cycling is a relaxing & enjoyable way to start & finish my workday (stress management)
I park in my office instead of miles accross the parking lot.
I am not able to use a car and cycling is the best alternative (circumstances)
3 Cycling is better for the environment (environmental)
1 Cycling provides me with needed exercise (fitness & weight control)
2 Cycling helps enjoy the outdoors (quality of life)
4 Cycling is a relaxing & enjoyable way to start & finish my workday (stress management)
I park in my office instead of miles accross the parking lot.
I am not able to use a car and cycling is the best alternative (circumstances)
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05-21-09, 11:56 AM
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Mark me down for all of the above. While I could theoretically drive my car to work, cycle commuting is more of an alternative to taking metro than an alternative to driving for me. Note that bike commute is actually a faster way to cover the seven miles between home and office than the train (30-40 min. vs. 1 hour by the time you throw in walking to and from metro stations). So, in addition to all of the above, mark me down (perhaps oddly and unexpectedly enough) for time savings!!! :-)
05-21-09, 12:05 PM
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If everyone voted for all of the above, we would not have any interesting information 
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When I ride my bike I feel free and happy and strong. I'm liberated from the usual nonsense of day to day life. Solid, dependable, silent, my bike is my horse, my fighter jet, my island, my friend. Together we will conquer that hill and thereafter the world.
When I ride my bike I feel free and happy and strong. I'm liberated from the usual nonsense of day to day life. Solid, dependable, silent, my bike is my horse, my fighter jet, my island, my friend. Together we will conquer that hill and thereafter the world.
05-21-09, 12:06 PM
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Kind of a combo of it being enjoyable and exercise.
05-21-09, 12:14 PM
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Definitely a and c but also d and e and why not b while we're at it.
05-21-09, 12:24 PM
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Yeah tough to pick a single one. For me the "relaxing/stress management", "enjoy the outdoors", and "excercise/fitness" options are all up at the top.
05-21-09, 12:26 PM
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05-21-09, 12:28 PM
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In truth it is all of the above for me except the enviroment. While it may be true that my cyclocommuting helps the environment and that sounds nice to me it played no part in my decision to do it nor to continue doing it.
05-21-09, 12:28 PM
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1. Cycling is a relaxing & enjoyable way to start & finish my workday (stress management)
2. Cycling helps enjoy the outdoors (quality of life)
3. Cycling provides me with needed exercise (fitness & weight control)
The economics and environmental advantages are great, but I wouldn't say they motivate me to get on my bike on a miserable day in January. On days like that, it's definately #2 that gets me out there, because I feel like I'm living in, and enjoying my environment, rather than avoiding it.
2. Cycling helps enjoy the outdoors (quality of life)
3. Cycling provides me with needed exercise (fitness & weight control)
The economics and environmental advantages are great, but I wouldn't say they motivate me to get on my bike on a miserable day in January. On days like that, it's definately #2 that gets me out there, because I feel like I'm living in, and enjoying my environment, rather than avoiding it.
05-21-09, 12:31 PM
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I am too cheap to pay for parking, too anti-social to take public transport, and too impatient to drive.
05-21-09, 12:31 PM
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-Cycling is better for the environment (environmental)
-Cycling provides me with needed exercise (fitness & weight control)
-Cycling helps enjoy the outdoors (quality of life)
-Cycling is a relaxing & enjoyable way to start & finish my workday (stress management)
Although I'm not even close to being overweight, biking helps me stay fit.
-Cycling provides me with needed exercise (fitness & weight control)
-Cycling helps enjoy the outdoors (quality of life)
-Cycling is a relaxing & enjoyable way to start & finish my workday (stress management)
Although I'm not even close to being overweight, biking helps me stay fit.
05-21-09, 01:20 PM
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2. Cycling helps me reduce commuting costs (economic)
3. Cycling is better for the environment (environmental)
1. Cycling provides me with needed exercise (fitness & weight control)
4. Cycling helps enjoy the outdoors (quality of life)
5. Cycling is a relaxing & enjoyable way to start & finish my workday (stress management)
6. I am not able to use a car and cycling is the best alternative (circumstances)
05-21-09, 01:28 PM
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Because if I ride my bike to work, I get to move bike schwag from the 'hobby' column to 'transportation' at budget time.
05-21-09, 01:33 PM
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Because if I didn't, I wouldn't know what to do with myself at 6 in the morning.
Because if I didn't, being wet and naked at work would just be weird.
Because if I didn't, having 5 bikes in my garage would make even less sense.
Because if I didn't, I couldn't lord it over the faux environmental, Prius "picture in the company newsletter but never a mention of bicycle commuting" driving, hypocritical granola eaters at a major national laboratory working on solving the nation's energy issues...while driving their cars to work every damned day, except on Bike-to-Work day. And, even when they do ride on Bike-to-Work day, they leave early because 'they rode their bikes to work'
Because if I didn't, being wet and naked at work would just be weird.
Because if I didn't, having 5 bikes in my garage would make even less sense.
Because if I didn't, I couldn't lord it over the faux environmental, Prius "picture in the company newsletter but never a mention of bicycle commuting" driving, hypocritical granola eaters at a major national laboratory working on solving the nation's energy issues...while driving their cars to work every damned day, except on Bike-to-Work day. And, even when they do ride on Bike-to-Work day, they leave early because 'they rode their bikes to work'
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05-21-09, 01:39 PM
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Because if I didn't, I couldn't lord it over the faux environmental, Prius "picture in the company newsletter but never a mention of bicycle commuting" driving, hypocritical granola eaters at a major national laboratory working on solving the nation's energy issues...while driving their cars to work every damned day, except on Bike-to-Work day. And, even when they do ride on Bike-to-Work day, they leave early because 'they rode their bikes to work'
Go ahead and let it all out.
