Just don't get your teeth knocked out in the crash

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.

Live fat, die young

Damn, I miss their compilations

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.

Well he certainly wasn't majoring in wilful ignorance so that probably works in his favour.

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

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

Even the higher-price mid-range bikes are way cheaper than the cheapest cars, and there's a lot on the bike that you can just do yourself instead of relying on a mechanic, most parts are cheaper as well, lots of bikes allow more personalization...

Bikes are the paragon of freedom Anericans think cars are.

Time is money tho

It's rare to replace a car with a bike though. You replace journeys instead, so end up with a lot of the fixed(ish) costs anyway.

Saves me loads on my commute though.