Originally Posted by acorn54
well
i work about 3 miles from my house and only use my car for t he travel to work and back and i only put about $20 (10 gallons) of gas in my car. if my car gets 20mpg and i drive only 180 m iles a month you can see why i only use $240 year in gas. yes my insurance is 600 year since i dont have collision and my car is a 1988 cutlass cierra. so that is $840/yr. my maintenance and repair and inspection costs were $600 for the past year so that's a total of $1440 in cost for my car. a bus every day 7 days a week costs me $1500 for the year if i used it to get to work and to do errands.
acorn
However bear in mind you incur those costs EVERY year.
With a bicycle you have one major cost at purchase and minimal upkeep costs... In fact, I am doing a major overhaul on a bike I have ridden over 20 years and that overhaul, including tools is about $300. I bought the bike in the '80s for about $1200; add in tires and tubes at perhaps $60 a year and my bike costs total about $2700 for 20 years, or $135 a year... that is less than the cost of your annual gas bill... and gas is going up every day.
Seems like simple math to me.