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[–] 92 points 6 months ago (33 children)

I think food to pedal the bike cost money.

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  • [–] 63 points 6 months ago (15 children)

    And don’t even get me started on all the healthcare the meat bag driving it needs.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Edmonton is in Canada, so that is covered 👍

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Probably less than non-cyclists due to better health, so a net negative cost.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Studies have actually been done on this.

    Cyclists do have higher risk of injury from traffic, but the health benefits from the exercise they get more than makes up for it. Cyclists have significantly lower all-around mortality and injury/sickness rates than car drivers.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Fuck them knees tho. Even on good bike, commuting daily overwhelmes them for me :(

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    This might mean that your bike is the wrong size for you, or you have the seat adjusted too high or too low. Or even that your crank arms are too short or too long for you. You should definitely play around with changing the geometry of your bike and/or try bikes with different geometry. You might find that knee pain goes away once you dial it in correctly.

    Then again, maybe not. Well, if all else fails, you could always get an ebike instead; that should help with knee issues if nothing else does. Though they're becoming illegal/legally problematic in some jurisdictions now.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm passively considering the e-bike option but need to actually look it up, if it's affordable, thanks.

    I added vertical handle bars and some height to my seat so it's alright on a plane road, yep. My problems comes from a very rough terrain with hills, sand pockets, no pavement etc I'm forced to use since public roads are tight and have barriers, no curb. 45mx2 per day, 5 days a week was rough, and I was probably pushing myself too hard trying to get in a timeframe comparable to a public transport.

    I wonder if popular ebikes may come in a fitting, rugged variant, that can survive being offroad like MTBs.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago*

    Dual suspension e-bikes are kinda pricey, but fat tire ones will handle most of what you mentioned. Those ones unfortunately tend to be more like electric mopeds or dirt bikes though, and are giving e-bikes a bad rep in some circles.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I wonder if popular ebikes may come in a fitting, rugged variant, that can survive being offroad like MTBs.

    There are actual electric MTBs out there if you look for them, though the real MTB ones tend to be quite pricey.

    Thankfully, it doesn't really sound like you need a fully legit MTB. Plenty of ebikes out there on Amazon or whatever that have fat tires and suspension and should be able to handle some light off-road riding.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Also the extra exercise will prolong your life and you'll have to pay even more.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    The amount of calories you burn every day doesn't change much, even if you exercise. Unless you're doing some serious hardcore training or exposing yourself to extreme cold, it won't make much difference to your calorie usage (your body just reallocates it from something else to exercise). Most of your movement calorie-burn is just from everyday movement.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe try not living 50km away from the university you need to attend almost every day?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Round trip, so it was 25km. Sadly Peth Australia has one of the largest urban sprawls on the planet so 25km isn't an unreasonable commute here and when you are a young uni student sometimes it's more cost effective overall to live with your parents. This isn't a post in support of cars, it's more saying that fuel for bicycles is most certainly not free and to suggest it is is disingenuous. Arguably there may have been other things my friend could have done to reduce his food bill, but he was already pretty thrifty in general.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    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.

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