This is why we need good public transit on top of good biking infrastructure. The two working together let's you get anywhere a car can go while not taking a lot longer.
It would take me 3 hours to get to work on a bike, and 3 hours home. I’d love to be able to do it, but Vancouver is expensive and I don’t want to waste my free time biking in 30° weather
Given that's a greentext, legitimately expected anon to somehow get injured or killed by some not paying attention driver on unsafe road or something. Glad he didn't.
Gross metabolic efficiency is gonna be around ~25% so you're best off measuring kilojoules of work as an approximation of calorie burn, and then compare that to how many gallons of gas would be consumed when in a car, but you'd still probably wanna drink the gas
But that's because that fuel is used to do much, much more work. if you scale down the unit to, say, a scooter (50cc) it will last much longer. Most scoots have 1gal tanks and they can get over 100mi per tank.
That being said everyone will think you lost your license due to drunk driving so to prevent this you should replace alcohol in your life and simply drink gas.
Real ones will switch to drinking biofuels because they're better for the environment.
Ethanol is a good option.
Pro-tip: make sure it's not denatured and is purified—it's less dangerous for consumption that way.
If you bike regularly, you actually don't spend more calories. You only see calorie burn uptick when first taking on new exercise, which falls off over time back to your usual normal calorie cost. Because of this, that calorie cost for a biker is calorie intake they'd already consume even if they didn't bike. It's essentially free, in contrast to the gas of the car which is always a cost.
I do think it's funny that America has the worst traffic in the western world, yet in Europe we can get by just fine with roads built by people that even the Romans considered to be ancient.
That's because Europeans invest in all forms of transport, so you don't get people who can't fathom the concept of taking any trip from point A to B in anything other than a car.
Edit: not sure why I'm getting downvoted. I think Europe does it way better if that wasn't obvious
Would be great if Europe actually invested in all forms of transport. Where I live, the rail system is run into the ground instead of getting maintenance and expansion.
"But they're so expensive, I'm not paying that much for a bike! I'd rather pay 10 times as much for cheap car that'll sell all my text messages to data scraping companies."
And park directly in the immediate front of the building I'm visiting. No circling around and around a without finding a space to park my overly expensive rust box. Just arrive, lock the bike to a post and be there.
Totally different experience in that aspect alone.
I can't bicycle anywhere. Well, at least my commute would be certain death, There is a nice bike trail a few miles away but I'd have buy a bike and a rack for my car to haul it over there. Can barely afford the car.
Depending on your personal circumstances you might not need a rack. I always just take the front wheel off (quick release) and shove my bike in the back seat
Idk, I used to cycle to work a lot before changing jobs, and I've got to tell you, the fumes I felt in my throat were more noticeable than anything I've ever experienced in my car. Plus when exercising you simply breathe more.