Would you Keep Riding if???

[INTENSEe]

I was thinking about how much I love commuting by bike and how great it is to make a small difference for the earth, and how I want to ride not drive, for the rest of my life. Then I began to think what if in some distant time cars were eliminated and everything was polution free and their was an alternative transportation to cars, bikes etc.. Whould you still ride everywhere? do you ride for the earth or for quality life and health? I like to think that I would keep riding but at this point commuting by bike is a huge statement. Keep Riding

[Max]

I ride because I'm addicted to it. I can't stop. It wouldn't feel natural to ride the bus. If both of my commuters were down, I would have to call off work.

[hairygrump]

I'm an addict too. Saving the planet is a collateral benefit to me. It's all about using my own effort to get me where I need to go.

I'm in that winter-spring transition stage where all my bikes are shitty... can't afford to get them all the attention they need at the same time and don't have the know how to do it properly myself. On days when they're all too taken apart to ride, I walk. If that day falls on a rainy day, I hitch a ride for halfway.

When machines transport me short distances I feel lazy and stupid for the entire day. When I have to fight traffic, with only my cunning and 42:14 to protect me, I'm primed and ready to do some killing when I get to work.

[INTENSEe]

You guys said it all! I haven't had a bad day since I started riding everywhere, today my only worry is to decide if I should go home and take my fender off before riding to the bike shop and what route to take. I love my life.
Ride till your bike needs a rest.

[leapfrog]

i have the option now to take the bus...but i sure as hell don't. so yes, i would certainly keep riding. i'm a self-proclaimed fetishist.

[kennbenny667]

I'd probably still ride, at least 3 or more days a week.

[Mauriceman]

I'm primed and ready to do some killing when I get to work.

So what do you do for a living, Hairy? Sounds interesting.

[hairygrump]

Originally posted by Mauriceman
I'm primed and ready to do some killing when I get to work.

So what do you do for a living, Hairy? Sounds interesting.

Heh. I'm the web and tech communication wonk for student services and admissions in the college of agriculture at the University of Minnesota. That takes care of that, huh? That's sort of an idiosyncratic use of that word, I guess. I haven't actually killed any people there yet.

Kill (v. slang) 1. to be successful at.
I'm going to go out on the Ironman Bike Ride and kill it next weekend

[i8urbrain]

Because of my recent find of a strange popping noise in my wrist, and the pain and swelling going on in that area, I have stopped rubbing-one-out and I have not been on my bike for more then 3miles in a week, it is killing me. I am building a new fixie from the ground up, and the tension of not riding is causing issues. My wife went from worried about my wrist, to begging me to ride. My ride too and from work, help me, the enviroment, and my attittude is so much better. I am sitting with my bikes now wondering howm much more work I can do on them, to get them ready for my return ride.

[INTENSEe]

I'm sorry to hear about your wrist, I had the same sort of problem about 4 months ago because my Ulnar nerve got messed up from cycling. I bought some specialized bicycling gloves and they help the problem. My wrist allways has pain but I ignore it and ride. The way to solve this I think is to get your bikes gemotry fit to you and hope for the best.
Quality and life from a bike.