Originally Posted by bikenh

You to watch what you say in this regard. Can they only afford a bike or are they smarter than you and decide not to own a car. The secret to life is very simple...it's not how much you make that makes you rich...it's how little you spend that makes you rich. If you make $1 million dollars this year and spend $2 million, did you make anything??? If you make $10,000 this year and only spend $5,000 did you make anything? It's not about how much you make but how little you spend. I gave up driving to stop spending the money and have more free time because I don't have to work as much to support the car. Now I go on three month long bike trips that I couldn't have done while working. Not only did the job limit my time off but it in reality limited the amount of money I had. Look around you at the unnecessary things in life that you own that keep stealing the money away from you...everything electronic, and you will find what it is that is keeping from doing what you would much rather off be doing and becoming. All those electronic devices do is steal money from you and make you have to work more to support the electronic devices, car, cell phone, TV, radio, internet, etc...which man kind didn't have 100 years ago and still got along just fine without them. You've been brainwashed into believing you can't live without them when in reality you can't live a full life with them. They just keep on keeping on taking away your time to do other...better things, by making you have to work more hours at a job you could really careless about.

Just because somebody rides a bike for transportation doesn't mean they are in the lower economic class, it can mean that they are smarter than you. Money can't get you out of a tough situation...only smarts can do that.