Originally Posted by
B. Carfree
It has always been a source of shame to me that so many of my fellow cyclists drive their cars to go for a bike ride. I am simply amazed at all the bikes that do most of their miles as passengers.
I bike commute every day, and do lots and lots of local loops from my house. But riding out of Antioch is a pain that includes a brief stretch on the freeway., so when I do Diablo or such I drive. I feel guilty about it, but at least I carpool with my wife and we try to get other things done so it's not a single purpose trip.
We did drive to Montana this summer for a bike tour. Public Transportation just doesn't work when you have as much crap as we do.
But what sucks is that I was constantly aware that I was driving more on that trip than I do all year.
But our bikes have a lot more road miles than passenger miles. I think between MyLilPony and myself we had over 15,000 bicycle miles (fun, touring, utility, and commuting)