Daily Commute

I started a discussion on a local bike forum;

I know that there's already a commute discussion but nothing about the distance, route, bike you ride, how many days a week you ride to work, etc. Long story short lets see who commutes the most in a week, month, year and how much you save in gas.

I ride to work on my 06 KHS Flite 100 to 32st and the 10, some of you know who I work for from that comment, and I live at Scottsdale and Curry. That comes to 6.7 miles each way, but I usually get about 6.9 on my bike computer. Which can mean 1 of 2 things, I swerve a lot, or my computer is inaccurate, but most likely both. So according to Google, which will be known as fact in the near future, I ride 13.4mi a day. I wish I rode M-F, so realistically 4 days comes to 53.6 miles a week, 214.4 mi a month. Now for the year I'm going to only use 48 weeks of work, to keep it real = 2572.8 miles a year.

Using the Fuel Cost Calculator at $2.75/gallon (subject to change) I came out to $2.67 round trip x 4 a week = $10.68 a week, $42.72 a month, and I can save $512.64 a year riding to work 192 days.

Sorry for the story format but I just wanted everyone to use the same calculations.

We all know that most of you ride a shit load more than 53mi a week, but lets talk absolutely necessary trips, preferably to work and school. No errands, riding to parties, weekly rides, etc are to be included in gas savings. So if you are unemployed and not in school, that means all trips made by you are unnecessary, unless you're volunteering with the NAACP.

Google map your route with exact addresses for street cred.

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