I have a bicycle!

[Charli!]

I've joined a 'cycle to work' scheme, which has enabled me to get a greatly discounted (and very snazzy) bicycle. Its got decent brakes, and front suspension, and really huge wheels! And I've got a purple helmet! And whilst I won't be cycling to work quite yet (15 miles each way is a bit much at the moment), it has already saved 18 miles of car hourneys (though to be fair I probably wouldn't have done all those journeys if i had been driving- I'm very conscious of gas usage!).

But yay, bicycle! I hope to use it to pick up boyfriend from work and go between our respective homes (which are only 2 miles apart but I don't always have time to walk), go to Spanish lessons (again only about 2 miles but i don't have time to get home from work and walk there), and if I ever get t move house I will indeed cycle to work (about 3 miles).

Amusingly at the cycle shop the salesman spent AGES trying to sell me a bike-maintenance program (for only £29.99 a year!), despite my 'I can probably fix it myself, thanks', until I got annoyed, 'I can remove the head from a peogout engine in 6 minutes and change my own car head gasket, I don't think I'll have a problem with a damn bicycle'. Salesmen are funny.

[DWH]

Yay bicycle! I really need to get one of those for myself...

[Sonic#]

Yay bike! It sounds like, even if you aren't using it to go to work, you're getting a lot of good use out of it locally.

I want a bike. I don't live in an area entirely conducive to it, but I would probably go to interesting nearby places more often if I had an option between walking (which takes time) and driving (which burns gas).

[cwbyrvr]

Grats! Bikes are great, at least when motorists aren't assholes to you simply for being a cyclist.

I need to get a new bike when I can. Mine was stolen a few months ago. And now I live in a more bike friendly city!