As a young, unmarried cyclist, I commute daily by bicycle due to the fact that in my 28 years I have yet to find a good reason to own a car. My live-in GF owns a car, and that is one more than I will ever need. The only time that car gets used is when my GF goes to work (she gets off work after the buses stop running), and when we need to run across town to the X-mart (to look, I mean laugh, at the bikes). In total the car get less than 50 miles a week.

To get back to Pete's point, I believe younger people are more self-conscious of their peers, and they think they are looked down upon if they don't own a car. Personally, I was about 25 before I stopped caring what people thought of my cycling habit. Now, I wear my ankle bands and helmet as a badge of courage as I stand in line at the bank.

Old people are cool!!!