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Bicycling is surprisingly expensive once you don't want to lose weight. At 200 calories per dollar (i.e. about $10 per day for a sedentary diet) and four dollar
by plorkyeran 14y ago
Bicycling is surprisingly expensive once you don't want to lose weight. At 200 calories per dollar (i.e. about $10 per day for a sedentary diet) and four dollars per gallon of gas it comes out to the equivalent of 25 mpg. There's obviously a whole bunch of other relevant factors, but personally it hadn't even occurred to me that food would be my primary bicycle-related expense until I started riding a lot.
- jiggy2011 14y agoIt's a lot more pleasant to eat a meal than it is to pump gas into your car.
- andrewflnr 14y agoIndeed. Go ahead and get the BIG slice of chocolate cake.
- rdouble 14y agoBrown rice is about 8 cents per 200 calories.
- WildUtah 14y agoI bike 15,000+ km per annum and my premium ice cream and imported chocolate budgets alone would easily make several car payments.
- mistercow 14y ago200 Cal/$? Maybe if you are eating out a lot, or you eat a lot of cheese and meat? My food comes in closer to 500-1000 Cal/$, depending on how hard I'm trying.
- MaysonL 14y agoReasonably good Cheddar is $10/kg ~ 400kc/$, and butter ~ 1000 kc/$.