While Commuting and Car-Free have their common points, there's enough differences to merit having the two separate forums. I'm a commuter, and I live quite a bit of my life car-free. I can get my groceries, dry-cleaning, movies, etc. all on my bike. I need a car to get to the places I go hiking and mountaineering, though. Some of the peaks I climb are over 100 miles away from where I live. It's not like I can ride a century with 80 pounds of mountaineering gear, climb 7,000 feet and come back down to ride another century back home.