Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Sure you can consider whatever you want to be a cost, whether it makes sense or not.
Enjoying food does not require an individual to be an epicurean or a connoisseur of fine food. If a bicyclist enjoys Pizza Hut offerings, Big Macs and Whoppers, sufficient bicycle commuting effort can allow him to super size and/or down their meals with an extra beer or two, without concern about the waist line.
Note: Food snobs/food nannys can take their clichéd bleating to another thread.
Well, something that costs more would be logical to consider ... a cost. I don't see where you're going with this.
I wouldn't have had a bagel this morning without the commute. I'll typically have a bag of chips, trail mix, banana, fries at lunch, for no other reason than the calories. Whether you enjoy it or not it's an additional cost and there are good reasons to want to know this information. Individually, and possibly useful in macroeconomic policy.
I don't ride to save money, so you're preaching to the choir in a sense. But that doesn't mean I don't want to know.