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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Biking works well for people who don't have to pick up and drop off kids, don't have to carry a lot of stuff, can roll into work looking like they just biked there and have that be professionally acceptable, live relatively close to work, don't have to do grocery shopping for a family after work, have place to safely store their bike at home and at work,  have a safe route to work (bike lanes alone don't do it, unless they go door to door), and who know how to ride and bike and feel comfortable and are physically able to do so.

Biking doesn't work for me for the vast majority of these reasons. But I will admit; I am physically fit and could ride a bike, especially if I practiced, but it seems hella dangerous and sweaty and unpleasant to me. I'd rather live a mile from work and walk, which I'd do happily when it's over 30 and under 85 degrees. [/quote]

There are people who do pickup/dropoff, carry stuff on a bike, look professionally acceptable, and grocery shop on a bike. So it's definitely possible to do all of those things on a bike. Especially on an e-bike! I think the most important things are a safe route and secure bike storage.[/quote]

NP and all of the people I know who drop their kids off at school via bike work from home.  They do not look professionally acceptable afterwards unless my job is particularly strict on wearing clothes without holes and not being sweaty and having messy hair.[/quote]

I don't understand the point about clothes without holes. It's completely possible to bike in clothes without holes, and biking shouldn't ordinarily create holes in your clothes.

For sweaty - yes, when it's hot, you will get sweaty on trips that aren't short trips, but an e-bike can help a lot with that.

For messy hair - it depends on your hairstyle and on your hair. If you have to look like you just had a blow-out, it probably wouldn't work. I don't know how many professional jobs require women to look like they just had a blow-out.[/quote]

Okay I will modify my response- I am not going to wear my professional clothes on a bike. So regardless of holes I would need to have enough time to bike to work, change clothes at work, fix my hair, if I am sweaty then try to make myself presentable, then change back to my clothes to bike to pick up my kid.  So double my commute each way and leave time to clean up at work?  I don’t want to leave my house at 645 in the morning to do all of this when I can leave at 730 to drive.[/quote]

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