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I think food to pedal the bike cost money.
And don’t even get me started on all the healthcare the meat bag driving it needs.
Edmonton is in Canada, so that is covered 👍
Just don't get your teeth knocked out in the crash
Teeth? Do you mean Luxury Bones™?
Luxury Bones Enamel Edition Pro Max
Probably less than non-cyclists due to better health, so a net negative cost.
US specific issue.
I guess when you have fancy pants, you go on adventures.
Also the extra exercise will prolong your life and you'll have to pay even more.
Longer life means you have to buy more food. That will make a hilarious ad campaign for cars - save money, live shorter
Live fat, die young
Damn, I miss their compilations
You need food regardless if you bike or drive. Maybe just a little more if you are in good trim and bike a lot. Still cheaper than gas for a car though.
Its more the cocaine needed to ride long distance that costs the money.
Yeah, ebikes are significantly more economical and ecological. The human body is very inefficient at converting calories into kinetic energy, and producing 1kcal of food has a much worse CO2 output than even burning 1kcal worth of coal. Even if you follow a vegan diet
The human body will burn calories pretty much either way, and if you let your body adjust to daily riding your resting energy use will go down. If you want to be healthy you need exercise either way. Given all that you can consider the energy required to ride a bicycle for a medium distance daily to be virtually free.
No, that's just a lie. The only way you're gonna significantly reduce your BMR from daily bike riding is if you were a fatty and lost weight due to it, but a diet would accomplish the same job. If an untrained person starts commuting daily with their bike the exact opposite will happen, they will grow more muscles in their calves and quads, which will significantly increase the amount of calories they passively burn, and that's on top of the energy you burn while riding the bicycle.
You don't need to make up bullshit to justify commuting with a bicycle, it will absolutely increase the amount of calories you will need to eat, but that's a low price to pay for the money you save not commuting with a car, let alone the health benefits
You are right, I was working with outdated info. Just last year there was a study that showed the body doesn't compensate metabolically for the exercise and the added calorie burn is not offset by conservation elsewhere. I can't find the source of my misconception, but I guess it was widespread enough that they ran a study to disprove it.
That's why I use an electric self driving bike
One of my friends did a personal study on his costs at uni and found it was more cost effective to drive his car (this was in the early 2000's) than it was to ride his bike to uni everyday than buy the food required to fuel the 50km round trip.
Hope he wasn't majoring in anything like math or biology.
Well he certainly wasn't majoring in wilful ignorance so that probably works in his favour.
So drive and starve was the conclusion? Was this Trump U?
No it was the increase in petrol cost was less when he drove than his increase in food cost when he rode, he ate fine when he drove
Wbat food did he use for that math? Because I doubt it would have hold up if he only used rice/beans/noodles/etc. To fuel his bike ride.
He tracked his food costs and fuel costs for a few months, noted when he drove and when he cycled and then correlated total costs with transportation mode. I have no idea how he was sourcing his food or what he was eating.
25km each way is, best case scenario, 1h per trip, in that case if public transport is not an option, yeah, I'd take the car
I think public transport at the time was a real screw around for him because his area was poorly serviced and the nearest train station was super dodgy
Yeah I live in a city with decent public transportation, but unfortunately my neighborhood is the one that's poorly serviced, it'd take me two hours and multiple changes to get to work, it takes me 35 minutes by car and 20 by motorbike.
Of course I take the latter as often as possible, it's just better, even on fuel consumption.
I'd like to bicycle to work like I did to my previous job, but here it's just not an option, it'd take over one hour, I'd get there drenched in sweat, and risk my life multiple times.