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Driving
I've been afforded the luxury of the option to drive to work at my leisure.
Today, I drove all the way downtown and parked in a $3.50 spot.
As I was getting ready for bed tonight, I thought, "Let's see...I have clean clothes for work, the time is such-and-such o'clock, and if I drive tomorrow, I'll only need "X" number of hours/minutes sleep...
...No figuring if my bike is ready, biking gear clean to wear, batteries charged, weather report digested. After all, I wasn't going to ride in the rain tomorrow, anyway, so...
And if I take the bus/train, I have to leave even earlier than I do on my bike.
Sheesh! Is this the lazy life all drivers live with everyday?
(What about the calories? Where will they all go???!!! :confused: )
Today, I drove all the way downtown and parked in a $3.50 spot.
As I was getting ready for bed tonight, I thought, "Let's see...I have clean clothes for work, the time is such-and-such o'clock, and if I drive tomorrow, I'll only need "X" number of hours/minutes sleep...
...No figuring if my bike is ready, biking gear clean to wear, batteries charged, weather report digested. After all, I wasn't going to ride in the rain tomorrow, anyway, so...
And if I take the bus/train, I have to leave even earlier than I do on my bike.
Sheesh! Is this the lazy life all drivers live with everyday?
(What about the calories? Where will they all go???!!! :confused: )
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You just wait until you have a bad day and have no stress release on the way home. That's when you'll really miss the bike.
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or till the car starts playing up in traffic or making expensive noises!
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1985 Sandy Gilchrist-Colin Laing built 531c Audax/fast tourer.
1964 Flying Scot Continental (531)
1995 Cinelli Supercorsa (Columbus SLX)
1980s Holdsworth Mistral fixed (531)
2005 Dahon Speed 6 (folder)
(YES I LIKE STEEL)
2008 Viking Saratoga tandem
2008 Micmo Sirocco Hybrid (aluminium!)
2012 BTwin Rockrider 8.1
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Originally posted by chewa
or till the car starts ... making expensive noises!
or till the car starts ... making expensive noises!
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Originally posted by Pete Clark
(What about the calories? Where will they all go???!!! :confused: )
(What about the calories? Where will they all go???!!! :confused: )
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Originally posted by Pete Clark
...No figuring if my bike is ready, biking gear clean to wear, batteries charged, weather report digested. After all, I wasn't going to ride in the rain tomorrow, anyway, so...
...No figuring if my bike is ready, biking gear clean to wear, batteries charged, weather report digested. After all, I wasn't going to ride in the rain tomorrow, anyway, so...
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Originally posted by Pete Clark
I've been afforded the luxury of the option to drive to work at my leisure.
I've been afforded the luxury of the option to drive to work at my leisure.
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I don't have a choice Pete. My car sits in my driveway with a flat tire and a dead battery from the lack of use. Besides I cancelled my insurance last year. Luckily I live so close to work. If I had to walk to work, I could get there in 24 minutes.
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Originally posted by Chris L
You just wait until you have a bad day and have no stress release on the way home. That's when you'll really miss the bike.
You just wait until you have a bad day and have no stress release on the way home. That's when you'll really miss the bike.
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Originally posted by chewa
or till the car starts playing up in traffic or making expensive noises!
or till the car starts playing up in traffic or making expensive noises!
fluid on my foot!
That's a slipping danger when walking, no?
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Originally posted by Allister
They don't go anywhere. They're stored up for later.
They don't go anywhere. They're stored up for later.
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Originally posted by Ellie
This is clearly some plan to stop you making them all feel bad about themselves for not cycling. Don't fall for it! It's a slippery slope...
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This is clearly some plan to stop you making them all feel bad about themselves for not cycling. Don't fall for it! It's a slippery slope...
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Originally posted by A F Baker
I don't have a choice Pete. My car sits in my driveway with a flat tire and a dead battery from the lack of use.
I don't have a choice Pete. My car sits in my driveway with a flat tire and a dead battery from the lack of use.
Besides I cancelled my insurance last year. Luckily I live so close to work. If I had to walk to work, I could get there in 24 minutes.
Man, I would walk sometimes...
(24 minutes is almost perfect for walkin'.)
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Mine doesn't make expensive noises, just a "drip, drip" of tranny
fluid on my foot!
fluid on my foot!
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You know, if you start motoring regularly, one of these days you're going to LOOK THE WRONG WAY at one of these BIKE FORUMS types, and then's when you will regret the day you ever put your foot on a gas pedal!
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Even if I walk at a fast rate to work I barely break a sweat. Sometimes I'll be sweating when I arrive at work if while cycling I've raced an 18-wheeler from the stop light down the hill to the entrance of my office building; if I take it easy getting to work I have nothing to worry about.
I think I'd be discouraged sometimes if I lived 14 miles from work.
I think I'd be discouraged sometimes if I lived 14 miles from work.
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Well, now my older car ("mine," according to wife) resembles an alley cat more and more. Driver side window frozen shut, passenger door opens from outside only (useful for giving hitchhikers a scare ,) lovely fuel aroma and "drip, drip, drip."
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