Thanks, but, my bike is my car. If I were to take a 'break' from bike commuting, well I wouldn't last too much longer on my job and... so, no thank you. You go ahead though and sit it out until you think its safe to get out there again. Maybe next summer? In the meantime, every time you get in the car and fire up 100hp to go 8.5 miles to the office, think about what that means for the future that your grandchildren will have to live in. I'm serious. Every time you light the fuse, I want you to think about the insanity of using 4,000lbs. of steel, aluminimum, plastic and whatnot, to carry your 195lb. carcass to work, shopping, whatever... think about the waste of that. I've been bike commuting for decades and I never thought to get off the road every September because new drivers are on the road... ... what a load of entitlement... about the only thing you didn't do wrong in that o.p. was use 'break' incorrectly. Thank you for that. As for the rest of it... you just didn't think it through. I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at a world that created a you. It's not sustainable kids. We won't be out of the woods until we worship bicycles and kiss every cyclist we see full on the lips, in unrestrained gratitude for the service they are doing for the planet and humanity's future.

H