I ride mostly for transportation and occasionally for recreation. I do admit that having a 31 mile round trip commute does make me less likely to want to do a recreational weekend ride. But sometimes I do it anyway, and usually try to work in some destination as a part of it. I rarely ride just to ride, I want to ride to actually get somewhere, especially if I needed to go there anyway and can replace the car trip at the same time.

I've cut my car's fuel costs by $700 per year!