Originally Posted by
squirtdad
Great thoughts.....I concur..... my feel is that we should do more "just riding". Not just 'commute" to and from work...but "I have to pick up a prescription, it's nice out and the drugstore is a mile away" kind of rides.... Hopping in the car is such a habit...and a hard one to break
Ride what you have if your are only going a couple of miles it doesn't make much difference.....I built up an 'utiliyt/commuter" that I can just throw my leg over and go....and it gives me options. I put on the lycra and bike shirt for longer rides. I ride my wife's cruiser (with my 10 year old kidding me for riding a girls bike) if have a flat or am in the middle of repair/upgrade. I avoid my son's BMX because it is too hard on my knees though
I'm lucky....within a 5 mile circle is my work, my son's school, the grocery store and and drug store we use, A hardware store, a farmers market, a small downtown area with coffee, ice cream...etc. I know not everbody is this lucky in terms of location
I don't always bike when I can....but I am working on it I am really happy when I realilze at the end of a weekend, that I had a great weekend and didn't use the car for any local trips
You CAN do that, and you should, but then you run into the issue of where and how to park the bike, and the even more basic issue of how to deal with the auto centric road that doesn't have suitable width for sharing... and a 50MPH speed limit. Those are the little things that make cycling work in places like Copenhagen.