That’s what made me an ebike evangelist. Someone on hexbear once described cars as using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. Most of my car trips were a walnut. >50km, but Colorado’s topography and weather made biking so miserable that I’d drive 2km to a grocery instead of biking. Adding a motor changed everything for distances like that. No matter how windy is I have a tailwind, no matter how steep it is the landscape is flattened. I ride home after a 10 hour shift in 35C heat doing hundreds of squats and it’s refreshing. For longer distances I still need my car but trips like that are so infrequent that I could rent a better car as-needed and still save money.
I mean on average I drive anywhere from 100 to 400 mi a day for what I do for work. And then my trips that I take can average 8 to 10 hours or more. And those are done several times a month as well. I went from going absolutely nowhere because I didn’t own a car and I only relied on bus train and bike to doing about 60 to 70,000 mi a year.
That’s a really extreme outlier case similar to why I still own my car, living in the American West and wanting a road trip vehicle. Hopefully you can find a job that doesn’t keep you sedentary for that long. A 400mi drive hurts like hell.
No I could easily have a job like that, I run my own company and I have freedom to do whatever I want to now and it is so much better than when I was sitting in an office staring out a window all day long. That was a slow death. 400 mi for me is nothing it’s literally a day’s work. Hell even within the city that I live in there’s days like last Friday where I drove almost 400 miles in a single day.
That’s what made me an ebike evangelist. Someone on hexbear once described cars as using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. Most of my car trips were a walnut. >50km, but Colorado’s topography and weather made biking so miserable that I’d drive 2km to a grocery instead of biking. Adding a motor changed everything for distances like that. No matter how windy is I have a tailwind, no matter how steep it is the landscape is flattened. I ride home after a 10 hour shift in 35C heat doing hundreds of squats and it’s refreshing. For longer distances I still need my car but trips like that are so infrequent that I could rent a better car as-needed and still save money.
I mean on average I drive anywhere from 100 to 400 mi a day for what I do for work. And then my trips that I take can average 8 to 10 hours or more. And those are done several times a month as well. I went from going absolutely nowhere because I didn’t own a car and I only relied on bus train and bike to doing about 60 to 70,000 mi a year.
That’s a really extreme outlier case similar to why I still own my car, living in the American West and wanting a road trip vehicle. Hopefully you can find a job that doesn’t keep you sedentary for that long. A 400mi drive hurts like hell.
No I could easily have a job like that, I run my own company and I have freedom to do whatever I want to now and it is so much better than when I was sitting in an office staring out a window all day long. That was a slow death. 400 mi for me is nothing it’s literally a day’s work. Hell even within the city that I live in there’s days like last Friday where I drove almost 400 miles in a single day.