Yeah, I still have that option. It's just that we have extremely limited room, and a need to be able to load the bikes on public transit. We live in an efficiency apartment, with no special parking and no bike rack, so if I park a bike outside, it's going in a small number of odd places in a small courtyard. If I have multiple bikes, I start eating up all the potential bike parking for the entire building.
I've tried the 'trip planning' thing, and it seems like any sort of minor emergency results in switching a trip from a biking only trip into a transit-using trip, and then I have grief about 'But I don't want to go on the bus alone while you're riding!!'
I evaluated the situation, and realized that until I have my assistantships and aid and such flowing, N must be no greater than 1, and that N must fit on a bus.