Many thanks for your message, jefmcg. Yours is an admirable job of stepping in for snafu. In my book, you're Joey Bishop to her Johnny Carson.

I wouldn't take a bike to the office just for a half-mile journey. That would be silly for the reasons you identify. It's a journey I make on foot currently (barring a blizzard). However, mine isn't a typical nine-to-five, chained-to-a-desk job where the workplace is the outer limit of a (work) day's activities. The only times I have to be at school are for the classes I teach (usually 3, 6 or 9 hours a week), office hours for students (about 4 hours a week), and the occasional faculty or committee meeting. So, I can imagine riding to school, stashing my bike in my office (rather than the theft-o-rama bicycle racks my university maintains) while I teach/hold office hours/committify, and then go riding happily on to destinations I'd otherwise use mass transit for. (That's one reason why I'm interested in the breakdownability of the Moulton.)