Re: What bike's can do for you?
Title changed to reflect the true nature of the topic, which is "Your bike can work well just like you car". Moving this to the Cafe.
Bill
Thanks Bill. I found the topic title a bit too confusing.
To deal with that issue . . . No. A bike running on pedal-power cannot work well, just like my car. Here's a few reasons why:
1) I've used my car for picking up and transporting a week's worth of groceries to my home. Can't do that with a bike.
2) My last full-time job could only be reached from my home by going on the expressway. No way am I going on an expressway on a bike. I'm not suicidal.
3) When I pick up my friends to have fun on the weekend, I need extra seats. Even if I'm only picking up one friend, I can't ask another grown man to ride on my handlebars.
4) The places I go to for fun are about 15 miles away from where I live. (That's one way.) I'd rather do more than just spend my life working and being bored to death.
5) I'm not pedaling to work in the rain. Even if it's just a short distance away.
6) During Summer, without air-conditioning, I'm not going to risk collapsing from heat-stroke and ending up with a huge hospital bill after being admitted into the ER. Or, even worse, leaving my elderly mother without someone to look after her because I dropped dead of heat-stroke. (Same situation in Winter with the issue of frost bite or freezing to death with no heat.)
7) No mature, sophisticated, woman in the world is going to date a guy who only rides a bike. No immature, teenaged, girl is going to date a guy who only rides a bike.
There you have it. Seven good reasons why gasoline is a necessary expense. You pay rent to have a place to live. You pay for food so as not to starve. And you pay for gasoline because in many parts of the world, a car has become a necessity.