I'm a runner at heart...but I LOVE my bike more and more every day...

Biking is not too for lazy people! It's for people who are in a hurry.

You don't have to strap the saddle onto the bike, because it's already on there!

I'm very lazy to drive my car and die of an obesity-related disease... so instead I ride my bike everywhere

Switch to a fixed gear if you find you are getting too lazy, that will solve that pesky coasting problem

Steve

In the past, I would say that I did it because I was lazy. Life is so much simpler on a bike. No freeways. No licensing. No emissions tests. No parking hassles. No walking a bazillion miles from your car to your ultimate destination. No stops for several miles (when I had good access to a good trail).

Since I moved and the commute is much longer, I am having to put a little more thought and work into the situation. But it's a labor of love at this point.

I did not get these legs from driving everywhere in a car and having my ass tied to a desk all day.



I have a lot of trouble walking any distance due to sciatica but can ride all day with very few issues as long as I am riding on the right saddle.

Same. I ride 2 blocks to pick up a cheeseburger for lunch occasionally.

And of course, grocery shopping with a bike is much easier than when walking. Try carrying 50 pounds of groceries a mile on foot. Not possible. On my bike, it's trivial... and it only takes 5 minutes.

Too lazy to walk from a parking spot to the door. Want to park at the door. (Realized this when I went shopping with someone in a car and there was all this annoying cross-parking lot walking to be done, much more work than biking)

Too lazy to work more to pay for a car.

Too lazy to get up earlier to get to work since bike is the fastest way.

Pedal, pedal, coast
Lazybikerchick

+1 Driving a car is far more painless than riding a bike.

Hahahaha. So funny. I recall a week where I hadn't walked more than a block straight. I got on my bike got off at work. Brought lunch so ate inside. Got back on bike and road home. Didn't leave the house until the morning and that is when I went to work. It was like this monday thru thursday. Than Friday I wanted to go out for lunch and it was soooo WEIRD WALKING.

It took so much work. I wish I could/would ridden my bike to the lunch location. But, I was going w/ co-workers so that wouldn't have been cool.

I really did have to get use to walking a distance because I hadn't done it all week

I walk at work, but that is different.

That's hilarious! The thought of a bicyclist having to re-learn how to walk!

Some friends of mine who are well aware of just how lazy I am refused to believe that I was actually biking to work, or riding my bike at all really, until I explained to them that they needed to stop thinking of riding a bike like driving a car but harder, and start thinking of it like walking, but way easier.

The only other sports-type activity I engage in is sailing, which is kinda like if you were to hop on your bike at the top of a hill and just coast down it all the way, the goal is to trick nature into doing your work for you.

I bike to work so that I won't have to suffer through yet another loathesome ride to work on the Green Line.

Hassle and effort to ride/lock a bike for a mile trip? Whz dat? As pointed out, the saddle is already on it; just get on it and ride. I don't know about you, but locking/unlocking my bike takes less than 15 seconds.

my commute is faster than driving when you factor in walking from the carpark to the campus. When instead i could park my bike right next to the building of my next lecture and walk straight in. But yeh, i rarely use my bike to go around campus because im simply too lazy to lock and unlock my bike, so yes i ride because im lazy, but im soo lazy that i cbf unlocking my bike so i walk instead.

Locking my bike up takes sooo much time. Seriously. It's a Trek 7.3 and I have kryptonite w/ the orange bar. I mean it's at least 3 to 4 minutes trying to fit the thing through the tire and frame..not to mention to whatever I am locking it to.

And yesterday my bike fell while unlocking it. I had to sit down and just calm down. I hate when my bike falls...I get sooo angry. I honestly need to go and invest in a really cool kickstand.

Yeah, I know watcha mean. Life is sooo full of technical complications. Thatz why when I go walking I put on loafers, way tooo much bother and time wasted tying shoelaces on my expensive shoes. Barefoot is even better for walking distances of less than a mile.

Exercise? Workout? Save money? Save the environment? What is this nonsense? You mean there are other reasons for riding than simply for the pleasure of wearing cycling shorts?

When I had sciatica I couldn't drive or ride at all; maybe because I was mostly using the left saddle, and the sciatic nerve passes down that left side.

<---- Too lazy to get a license.

Lazy, nah. That doesn't resonate with my commuting experience. To me, it's something equally eccentric sounding; it's hedonistic. Getting to work with a hard endorphin buzz going is the BOMB!!!

I personally find riding to take more effort than walking. Maybe if you lived somewhere flat, with lower temperates and low humidity, but here in Iowa we have hills to climb, and the heat and humidity to deal with.

When I walk to work, I have a bead of sweat on my forehead/brow from the sun beating on me. When I ride to work, I have a nice ring of sweat worked up around my neck, under arms, etc. And it's only a 2.5 mile ride!

I suppose my weight also factors in to it a bit.

However, I have come to some of the same observations - but a different conclusion. Biking vs driving is basically a wash due to all the stop signs, traffic, etc on my route, and the difference in having to go out to my car, start it up, park in the back of the (full) parking lot at work, walk into the building, etc vs having the bike rack right next to the door and being out of the parking lot long before anybody else has even gotten in their cars.

For me, it's not lazy - it's practical. I would imagine it would be a no-brainier in more metro areas with heavier traffic.

Too lazy to search for a parking spot in front of the hardware store, too lazy to search for a parking spot by the ____ museum, too lazy to walk to the other side of town on the 4th of July, etc.

I seriously don't remember the last time I walked a block. It's bike or drive for me.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/lock-strategy.html

Also, find somewhere where you can lean the entire bike against what you're locking it to.

At my last job the bike rack was further than the parking spot I would use when driving. I complained to a co-worker about it one day while we were talking about commuting and they were like "but dude, you rode you're bike and you're complaining about having to walk from a few hundred feet away!?".

YES! Yes I am.