Get another car for the station run or get 10 taxis a week ?

no_more_cards_for_me

With such a short journey there is little sense investing in another car to travel. This is short easy bike ride and as EdgEy said unless your disabled or overweight you shouldn't be sweaty after such a short distance.

Where is the logic in buying a car for such a journey, the costs such as fuel, parking, VED, insurance make this very expensive for little benefit.

Some days a bike won't work with commitments or weather and taxis present an alternative.

I started the 11 miles to work last year, spare clothes at the office and baby wipes make the commute a pleasure and now I would rather take the bike. The fact it saves me £27 per week is an added benefit.

thelawnet

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Are you people for real talking about cycling or walking ? Just what sort of whiff do you give off after a sweaty bike ride before settling down for your commute and a 12 hour day ? Can you imagine what that would do to your clothes ? You'd be the laughing stock and quickly sent to Coventry. This is the real world, not the Good Life.

In the real world cycling is good for you and will firstly increase your fitness and energy levels, and in the long term it will (substantially) increase your life expectancy.

If you're as unfit as it appears from your posts, I don't see how you can afford *not* to cycle - driving everywhere is a good route to dying prematurely.

I cycle pretty hard, but for 2 miles I wouldn't even break sweat.

Then you have winter. You know, the other 9 months of the year in England. Rain, fog, snow etc. Great biking up country roads on a damn pedalo in that weather, if you actually survived.

Surprisingly enough fog does not impede bicycles, it's not like cycling through golden syrup or something.

I cycle every day and rain is actually much rarer than you think (you can get a taxi if you think you will melt in the rain), you can carry waterproofs as well. As for snow, £50 will buy you a pair of studded tyres that will give much better grip than the idiots in their 4x4s.

No, it is a car or a taxi, stepping from the shower to the vehicle and arriving smelling sweet for the day ahead, not as if I've wrestled a pig before breakfast. On the tube in summer you can smell all those cyclists and walkers and it is overpowering and disgusting. How on earth they can work in that stench is beyond me and their attitude to others who have to breath in their toxic fumes is deplorable.

? Walkers? Aren't they found out in the countryside somewhere? Why would they be on the London Underground? Are they lost?

As for cyclists I wouldn't expect to see them on the tube - bicycles are banned and in any case it's much quicker to cycle than to get on the tube, what you are smelling is smelly unfit people sweating due to the heat and lack of ventilation (I went cycling yesterday, 27 degress in the shade, 34 in the sun, but much more comfortable than sitting on a sweaty tube - I'm zipping along at 20mph earning a nice cooling breeze).

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I used to walk 2 miles to work each day and back again in all weathers. Never did any harm.

thelawnet

http://www.bikeradar.com/fitness/article/five-reasons-to-cycle-to-work-29878

benjus

Is there a gym near your office? If you cycled to the station and only used the gym for its showering facilities you'd I'm sure it would work out cheaper than 10 taxis a week or running a second car.

Personally I'd rather get a bit sweaty cycling to work and then shower in the office and get to my desk fresh as a daisy, but then not everyone is lucky enough to work somewhere where showers are provided. However, joining a gym might be a workable alternative.