Originally Posted by RubeRad

It prevents me from wussing out and driving on those days where I feel lazy, or don't want to get wet (not often in San Diego), and I can still pop out for mid-day errands, or pick up the kids after school if something comes up with the wife (I joke that I would use the bike, but I can't get more than two of them on there with me). Very occasionally, the wife & I need to be in very different places at the same time, in which case I drive "my" car home and leave the bike at work overnight, and we've got two cars to get things done. But otherwise, it lives in the parking deck for months at a time.