Roody

At least we have something to be smug about.

zen-girl

The picture of a genius!!! I love it!!


Fiona
Zen-girl
I hope to achieve total zen someday..I think I will be on a bike at the time too

endless

most costco's offer a delivery service (i work there)

this is just awesome!!:

Roody

Case closed!

!!Comatoa$ted

I guess when you have a car it is the easy way to do things. They cost so much that if you were not to use it, it would be a waste.

Apperently owning a car is like a government. When there is a problem you just throw more money at it and hope things get better.

DogBoy

Sorry if this is off topic, but are you concerned at all about wheel strength with that wheelset? I'd be afraid that the weight of me + $$$$load of stuff from Costco would stress the wheels beyond their tolerance.

Artkansas 

There isn't a single Costco in the entire state. So I guess it's not a problem.

charles vail

I really admire you folks that can live car free. You must all live in the city or at least near a small town or area where you can do your shopping using your bicycle or walking. I live a solid ten miles from any store and there are too many hills for me to traverse with a loaded bike unless I want to walk. When I lived in the city I rarely used my car and my wife and I walked everywhere or biked, plus we had a small garden in the back yard. After moving back to the country, where houses are less expensive, we have to use a automobile just to get to work on time. We aren't in our twenties anymore and commuting 56 miles a day five days a week would not work well, not to mention there are no buses for ten miles. I try to use my bike for anything within a ten mile radius. Church, paying the electric bill, visiting friends etc. but work demands that I be fresh and rested. I do plan to commute two days a week at one of my job locations but that is only a 36 mile round trip and will be done in the spring and summer only. Weather and darkness keep me from doing it year round. We try to limit our use of our cars and try to purchase our stuff after work and make our trips to town as productive as possible. I feel sorry for anyone that wants to ride but can't due to their profession or their need for a work truck with big heavy tools. Its a nice idea but a bit of a utopian one.

cooker

It's about choices. You picked your location for its house prices but you're paying extra in time, car costs, lost health benefits perhaps isolation, and so on. But that's fine, we all have to balance our various needs and commitments. You're mitigating your car commuting to a degree by using your bike for local transport, and perhaps at a later stage of life you'll move back into town or find work closer to home, or make some other arrangement. Personally I don't know how fresh and rested I'd feel after 28 miles of car commuting.
PS we own a car, so I'm not totally car free, but I paid a lot to live 5 miles from work to avoid driving.

wahoonc

Charles,
As cooker pointed out...we all make our choices. I used to live in a decent cycling city, made some choices that took away my ability to cycle commute. In many ways I regret those choices but life moves on. For the past 9 years I have not had a job that I could cycle commute to due to financial obligations (alimony, child support, college costs, etc) We are in the process of working our way back to the point I was at 15 years ago. In another 2-3 years we should be there. We will probably never be completely car free, but it will be a small car and get driven very infrequently. We currently live in what used to be a rural area, it is fast becoming suburban in fact 8,000 new homes are being built with in 2 miles of our 40 acres. It is looking like in a couple more years we will sell this place and move back into a small town where we have a retail shop. Or we may choose a different path and move somewhere totally different. IMHO too many people allow "stuff" (material things to get in the way of their lives) I know I did.

Aaron

charles vail

Yea.....the choice to live in the country wasn't difficult and I did manage to work from home for about 15 years or so. Only in the last few years I have had to commute to other locations for work but thats only part time with the other days of the week spent working from home. Still, I have a long route to make my rounds, although I plan to cycle this once a week, in fair weather, along with a bus ride. I was considering a Bike Friday to make the trips more convenient but havn't settled on that yet. Overall, I have managed to avoid the high cost of owning new cars and I have been able to write off my mileage with the Tax boys nearly paying me to drive my 1981 Izuzu. We've made choices that have been unconventional to most people, living cheap and avoiding too many material luxuries....except for cool bikes. Actually those are mostly 1970-1980's refurbs. I do have a newer recumbent and plan on a Long Haul Trucker for something that will hold up to alot of miles. I figure I can get maybe 15 years of riding it with the normal maintainance. My average mileage is only 2500-3000 per year but I plan to up that this next year. If I could do without a car I would for sure but not at this point in life. As I get closer to 60 or 65 things may change although this may not be for the better since health issues can change everything.

wheel

Sounds like he works for the BUSH admin. Well everything supports solid reasoning behind it only one problem.
It won't make money for the economy; therefore WE don't support that.

Brian Sorrell

The Costco reason is pretty ridiculous. I have a couple of other issues, such as hauling raw materials to build with when I build things, and going out to shows, museums, etc. It's not possible to get to an LA museum (60 miles away) or show at night because there simply is no public transportation. The trains don't run late enough to be able to do a lot of the things that we want to do -- like support the local arts and such. It's pathetic, really. This huge metropolis and no way in or out on the weekends. Nor is there public transportation that runs to friends and family within 100 miles.

Even more pathetic is that there used to be an electric car line that ran from my city to LA in 60 minutes -- called the Red Line. It got lost in the conversion to automobiles and highways -- yes, this line ran in the early 20th C. and we have yet to recapture its efficiency.

Anyway that's what the wife and I use cars for mostly. For my part, I'll be biking a whole lot more for a while --

I sold my car today