I started bike commuting just over 1 year ago for a reason that most would consider quite odd, I love my car too much to drive it to and from work every day! Let me explain, my dad was always a "car guy" and he passed on the bug to me. All of my youth I dreamed of cars, when I had a few bucks I got my first fun car, a 1987 Toyota Corolla GT-S. I loved that car, but it wasn't my dream car. So I was going to university, living at home and working a great paying IT job in the summer and part time during school. I managed to save up a bunch of money and bought my dream car, a 1993 Toyota MR2 Turbo. It was (is ) totally mint, got it with less than 30k km's on it and hardly a scratch. It's got a few more kms on it now (58, all highway, car is used mostly for trips) but still looks almost as good as the day it was made.

So anyways back to the bike commuting. My current workplace is about 5kms from home and has crappy surface lot parking, which is frequently by high school idiots at lunch. I worried too much about driving and parking my car here, so I dusted off the beater mtn bike, bought a cheapo helmet and started riding to work.

Over 1 year later I've only missed a handful of days (I wimped out on a few -30C mornings although now I have no problem with those!) and am totally adicted to biking. The commuting on the beater has lead to XC racing and trail riding on my new mtn bike, who knows where it will go from there!

BTW, it makes me feel good to not be reliant on my car for transportation, save the world and all that... plus it keeps my baby looking like new!