Increased bike usage means more bike maintenance. In our area where it is dusty and dry that means regular chain cleaning and oiling. This is a small hassle compared to the benefits of riding. |
Did you catch the NPR story on the increase in numbers of people who bike to work in the US?
I'm not sure if I bike to work. It might be more that I work off my bike. Some people work out of their cars but I work off my bike a good deal of the time -- meeting people on the street, thinking and praying while I ride... Apart from a few years it's been that way since I was a kid. But it is more so now.
"We see that biking [to work] has actually increased over the last decade by about 60 percent," McKenzie says. "Just over three-quarters of a million people bike to work..."
The Census also found that workers with the highest rates of bicycle commuting have incomes of less than $10,000 per year or hold graduate or professional degrees. And when it comes to gender, men are nearly three times more likely than women to use a bicycle to get back and forth to work.
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