[RBW] Carless? How many miles per day do you ride?
I live in the SF Bay Area and I've been carless since moving here 8 years ago. Most of my commute mileage is covered by the BART (subway), and I only have to ride to and from BART stations. I'd guess that I end up riding 10-20 miles a week. Being carless is great. Low maintenance costs, no parking or traffic tickets, no gas costs (unless you count the price of a burrito here and there). I have a Zipcar account for times when I absolutely need a car but that's only a few times a year. Of course if I had kids or a job that required more travel, it'd be a lot harder, but if you can find a way to make it work, I highly recommend it. Happy riding. Andre -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Carless? How many miles per day do you ride?
Tough to say. I'm urban. Been carless for 14 years. I do recreational road rides or camping rides most weekends, but my commute is only 3 miles each way. Probably averages out to 15-20 miles a day since I ride a lot on the weekends. I've thought about getting a car in the past year or so, mostly because my city is getting more and more crowded, and I'd like to start maybe driving out of town to start my road rides to avoid some of the stress of getting out of the urban center. By yeah, I currently own 3 working bikes. A Sam for commuting and camping and doing whatever. An old specialized expedition if I want to go multi-day or the Sam is out of commission. And an older Merckx road bike for going fast on the weekends. Currently looking for a hard tail mountain bike (dreaming of a hunq) since I just moved really close to an excellent trail system. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Carless? How many miles per day do you ride?
Overall daily average for 7 day riding week is probably only 8-10 -- about 3K/year. But 4/5 of my riding is turning errands into longer rides; as yesterday, I rode to Rio Rancho via a dirt detour (first half of the ride) to pick up a jersey I'd left with a tailor for repair, the segwayed to Sprouts for some groceries, the home including 2.5 more miles of dirt. (The clamp-to-the-seatpost rack that constitutes my only pannier carrier until I get my '03 back, modified with struts to keep the Ortlieb Sports Packer Pluses out of the spokes, gamely carried 22 lb home over pavement and dirt without problem -- a 10% spec overload.) Total 21 1/2. Today's ride will be a gofast do-nothing ride, since I just spent almost 3 unpleasant hours shopping by car in parkinglothell -- Target, Costco, PetSmart, Staples; tho' my daughter's company made it tolerable. (But I *ain't* gonna drive to another store to find the kind of planner that looks prettier than those available at Target and Staples!!!). Suburban with some urban and (Fargo) quite of bit of what you could qualify as intra-city rural dirt. (Good news! Chauncey texted today to say that the powder coater will do my Rivendell tomorrow!) On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Lungimsam john11.2...@gmail.com wrote: On average would you say? Urban, suburban, or rural? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* Carthusian motto -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Carless? How many miles per day do you ride?
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