Originally Posted by
contango
If your commute is only a mile it hardly seems worth getting a bike out. By the time you've fussed with a quick check of the bike at one end and locked it up at the other end the chances are you could have walked most if not all of the mile.
I roll the thing out of the garage and go. At the other end, locking is a minute. It takes 20 minutes to trudge a mile. Riding is quicker and easier than walking. What am I missing? I'd say a mile is well within the optimal cycling distance because it will almost always be faster than driving.
Paul