Originally Posted by
CoogansBluff
Anybody have more miles on their bike than car last year? I'm sure it's not unusual, but curious to see how common. Just discovered that I did. I feel grateful that I work from home, which limits my time in the car and provides me more time for biking.
Speaking literally, 0 is not greater than 0.
Speaking meaningfully, yes, I pedaled more! Even when counting riding in other people's cars. Around a thousand under my own power, probably just over half of that in the cars of family and friends.
Only by counting trains and planes would miles conveyed exceed miles pedaled.
In terms of overall impact though, I probably
caused more road vehicle miles than I rode, especially if counting not only individually specific trips where people met me, but a fair share of support infrastructure - trucking food to the supermarket and packages of lycra or parts to my building, etc. Nor can I claim that ridden miles displaced any vehicle miles.
I occasionally think about getting into the mindset where occasionally renting a car would be an option - pretty much exclusively as a way to get to rides that I can't get to by rail.