Originally Posted by
PatrickGSR94
$2.95 per commute, I assume that includes the cost of the bike? My old car uses about $3 worth of fuel for each round trip car commute to the office and back. My bikes require a few pennies per commute, I would guess, just looking at maintenance costs. And my e-bike likely takes a nickel's worth of electricity to recharge the battery, for a round trip commute. I don't figure the bike cost into my calculations because I would have built the bike anyway, whether I was commuting or not.
Good point.
That includes the bike, lights, lock, fender cycloputer, tubes, tyres, etc... that have been used. I think the total rolling cost of those items is about 440 GBP which leaves about 131 GBP for the other bits of using the bikes (tubes / tyres / new bars / tapes / etc...)
So, total usage cost would be 131 GBP / 248 commutes or 0.52 GBP / commute or 0.68 USD / commute