Everyday is Bike to Work Day?

[jhonnyjames]

Not every day for me, but I try to ride whenever I get the chance. Cycling always feels more refreshing than driving, especially in the morning or evening. Even a few rides a week makes a big difference in energy and mood. It’s definitely a habit I enjoy building whenever possible.

 

[PedalUma]

Not every day for me, but I try to ride whenever I get the chance. Cycling always feels more refreshing than driving, especially in the morning or evening. Even a few rides a week makes a big difference in energy and mood. It’s definitely a habit I enjoy building whenever possible.

@jhonnyjames,
Welcome! I have it bad. My tolerance level has been raised. I need to ride longer each day and more frequently to achieve the same high. I also ride regular analog bikes.

 

[mclewis1]

I wonder when we as a society in general will get the message that bike riding (along with walking, etc.) is actually helping our collective health and therefore warrants being promoted for everyone including those who can't easily participate. Similar to the "nature" prescriptions that Canada and a few others have already in place - for example https://www.parkprescriptions.ca/

A healthier society benefits us all.

 

[fooferdoggie]

even day is bike day.

 

[Jim1348]

I wonder when we as a society in general will get the message that bike riding (along with walking, etc.) is actually helping our collective health and therefore warrants being promoted for everyone including those who can't easily participate. Similar to the "nature" prescriptions that Canada and a few others have already in place - for example https://www.parkprescriptions.ca/

A healthier society benefits us all.

One of the things that baffles me is how many people use tobacco. I asked Google: "If everybody in the world stopped tobacco use how many lives could be saved?" That number is astounding. I live in Minnesota in the United States. Our total population is under 6 million. So, more people could be saved in one year if people simply stopped using tobacco!

If everyone in the world stopped using tobacco today, it would save an estimated 8 million lives each year. Because tobacco-related diseases (like cancer, heart attacks, and respiratory conditions) are the leading cause of preventable death globally, stopping its use entirely would also prevent hundreds of millions of premature deaths this century.
Quitting tobacco yields both immediate and long-term health benefits, regardless of your age:

• Within 3 years: Quitting averts about 5 years of life lost from continued smoking.
• Quitting before age 40: Regains up to a decade of life, achieving a survival rate comparable to people who never smoked.
• Quitting earlier: Halts almost 100% of the extra risk of dying from smoking-related cancers. [1, 2]

 

[McApple]

I've been retired for almost 20 years. In my later working life, I tried to ride my analog-bike to work at least 3 times per week, a distance of 12 miles each way. When we moved to our cabin-in-the-woods back in 2007, I pretty much stopped cycling, but started again in 2013.

Our cabin is located in a fairly hilly area, and pumping my new analog up 8%-12% grades quickly took the joy out of cycling for me. In 2015 we purchased an ebike for my DW, and I followed shortly thereafter so that I could keep up with her.

I now ride from April to October, and weather permitting, try to get out at least 3 times per week. I ride back-roads and rail-trails; one of my favorite rides is a 50km route through numerous hills with a total 2,500'+ in elevation.

 

[LandoftheGiants]

One of the things that baffles me is how many people use tobacco.

I asked an ardent anti-smoker at a roadside cafe once what she would choose, if she had to. A day in a small room with 20 chain smokers or a day in a room with car, idling away. She instinctively chose the car, which told me she knew absolutely nothing about the dangers of exhaust emissions. And there she was, sipping coffee as hundreds and hundreds of cars slowly cruised past bathing her in a toxic smog.

Are any deaths attributable to exhaust emissions? Well aside from the hundreds each year who gas themselves in carports, Obviously not, since there has never to my knowledge been a case brought to court nor a doctor that has signed off on it. Why run a car in a garage with a hose in the window from the exhaust pipe? Just wind up the windows, light 20 cigarettes, and lay back and wait to die. I have no time for fake medical propaganda. The medical industry makes 20 times the profit of tobacco companies in the West now with all their 'quit smoking' products. All free of excise tax obviously and all sold at very high prices.

 

[Chargeride]

Statistically smoking is 100X more dangerous than breathing asbestos.

 

[Chazmo]

People love to do stupid things to themselves. Fine with me. Just don’t do it in any way that makes me a passive participant.

Personally, I dislike the smell of cigarettes but enjoy pipe smoke (tobacco, that is). There’s very little pipe smoking going on these days,

I also like to smoke a cigar once in a (very great) while. I do not inhale. (really. not a joke).

 

[PedalUma]

Remember ashtrays in elevators?

 

[Chazmo]

Remember ashtrays in elevators?

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They really were everywhere.

 

[PedalUma]

They really were everywhere.

You would go to a hotel and there would be three ashtrays each with two books of matches.

A mom brought in an eight-year-old's bike because it had no brakes. I did the brake job today with new pads and cables. And just now took it for a test ride to bed the brakes. I had it up to 40 mph. The chain is off the ring and around the BB. So, the kid is not even pedaling. Crashing at 40 is like falling form a five-story building, or 53.5 feet or 16.3 meters.