Non cyclists need recalibrating

[mustang1]

20 minutes walk to local shop, then another 20 minutes back. If I didn't have a bike, I too would take the car. My travel time would be 10 minutes including parking time and I'd have an extra half hour to watch TV or play PS4. Or to get to work.

More people would take the bike if they had an e-bike, but they're about a grand at least and if they already have a car, then why not use that?

So in conclusion, while I and many others here would take the bike, I fully get why the majority out there would not.

 

[Drago]

What wrong with a 20 minute walk to the shop? That's a mile. Are people that lazy that a mile and back is too much?

Don't answer that - we know it is.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

What wrong with a 20 minute walk to the shop? That's a mile. Are people that lazy that a mile and back is too much?.

It's not just the walking, it's also not wanting to carry the shopping back afterwards! "what you seriously expect me to walk a whole mile there, AND walk a whole mile back with two bags of shopping?
The majority of people these days are extremely lazy. They won't walk to the shops if they can avoid it. They definitely won't walk back with shopping - at Iceland they leave it in their trolley and get it delivered later!

 

[screenman]

What wrong with a 20 minute walk to the shop? That's a mile. Are people that lazy that a mile and back is too much?

Don't answer that - we know it is.

Time restraints, maybe. Now you know I am with you on this but I fully understand not all people have as much spare time available.

 

[Drago]

Time restraints my arriss. There's always time to waste on twitbook or watching tv....or taking the car to be service, repaired etc.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

It's not really much quicker taking the car to the supermarket by the time I've driven there and found a parking space. The only advantage is being able to carry heavy or bulky objects. I only drive if I'm getting a large heavy amount of shopping. Most times I just hoof it, sometimes I'll take a hack bike with a greengrocer plastic crate strapped to the rear rack to stick the shopping in.

 

[screenman]

Time restraints my arriss. There's always time to waste on twitbook or watching tv....or taking the car to be service, repaired etc.

But not as much time as you have, take my eldest, leaves home at 6.45am and returns at 7pm, not much time to walk the 3 miles to the nearest shop.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

But not as much time as you have, take my eldest, leaves home at 6.45am and returns at 7pm, not much time to walk the 3 miles to the nearest shop.

Perfect distance to ensure they get their daily exercise requirement in.

 

[screenman]

Perfect distance to ensure they get their daily exercise requirement in.[/QUOTE

My point is we have to view this from other people's lives, not just our own.

 

[Drago]

View it from their lazy lives? There s no dressing it up, no point beating about the bush - in most cases people a simply too bone idle lazy to not drive. Period.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Exactly the minimum exercise a day is recommended at 1 hour of moderate. A 3 mile walk would help meet that minimum.

 

[mjr]

Time restraints my arriss. There's always time to waste on twitbook or watching tv....or taking the car to be service, repaired etc.

Or time to sit in the gym!

 

[classic33]

Perfect distance to ensure they get their daily exercise requirement in.

There's the three mile walk back.

Naismiths Rule gives a distance of three miles in one hour, plus 15 minutes for every 500 feet of climbing and ignore the descents(time wise) unless very steep.

 

[Drago]

Or time to sit in the gym!

And don't get me started about driving to the gym!!!

 

[screenman]

View it from their lazy lives? There s no dressing it up, no point beating about the bush - in most cases people a simply too bone idle lazy to not drive. Period.

The people I am talking about are not lazy, just time short as the one example I have listed is busy sorting other people's kids problems out, he is also extremely fit.