http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Reduce CO2: cycle more" en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:34:59 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50084 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:28:32 +0000 Uberuce 50084@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If Google Earth is to believed, I do 9.6 miles a day Mon-Fri purely commuting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50081 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:33:23 +0000 Instography 50081@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I only started in August but if I can fit in a wee 19 mile run between 23 and 27 December I'll have managed to clock up 1,000 miles so if I call that 2,000 miles for a full year equivalent that would make me about 40 people.</p> <p>Wingpig's point is a very good one - cycling saves a fortune (unless you're the type of person &lt;cough&gt; who just sees it as another excuse to buy trinkets and toys). My travel costs have gone from £150 a month on buses and trains to £40 a month driving to the airport and cycling. Over a grand a year. Why that's enough for a new bike! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50073 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:20:27 +0000 amir 50073@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I know have 0.57 people to carry to reach my target for the year. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50061 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:12:22 +0000 kaputnik 50061@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Computer 1 has 8,170 miles on it. I think c. 75% of those are 2011 miles, so let's say 6,100 miles. Computer 2 has c. 870 miles on it (from memory, I was checking last week and haven't unsed that bike since). So let's say 7,000 miles for the year. (It will be more as the singlspeed has no computer and I occasionally forget to put it on if I take it off when I leave bike locked up)</p> <p>So that's 153 times the UK average. Based on their carbon calculations, also 1/12th of what I would have consumed in a car (that I cannot believe, that seems to my mind to grossly overestimate the "consumption" for the bike).</p> <p>If I just went to/from work by most direct route, it would be c. 2,600 miles a year - or 56 UK citizens. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50055 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:55:15 +0000 Smudge 50055@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Approc 2,300 miles this year so far, but I can knock off about 900miles of that for my two "big" multi day trips, so 1,400 divided by 46, 30 cyclists are missing out on riding because of me. Obviously I am not as greedy as the posters before me ;-p</p> <p>Although actually I'm feeling like a bit of a mileage weakling in such company :-( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50054 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:47:34 +0000 steveo 50054@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My total this year has dropped of a cliff to only around 2k miles. Didn't seem to have time to do many longer runs and even my commute usually ended up coming straight home. Last year I did a longer return most days and my outward was much longer till we moved office. </p> <p>So only carrying about 45 non cyclists.</p> <p>/must try harder </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50053 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:45:59 +0000 wingpig 50053@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My bare minimum recorded weekly total (shortest route to and from each day and with only one extra to-and-from shirt-dropping-off voyage) would exceed the stated UK annual mean. I'll keep by one week each for the boy and wife but that covers at least fifty others. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50052 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:44:40 +0000 Roibeard 50052@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Actually, even my kids manage at least 7 non-cyclists each (minimum 300 miles per year), and that's low as the school is only half a mile from home...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50051 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:44:37 +0000 amir 50051@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Most of my cycling mileage is for fun!. The commuting part (direct journey only) is in the order of 40 but in total it would be about 130. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50050 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:33:10 +0000 Roibeard 50050@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"while in the UK it [mileage per person per year] is a mere 46 miles".</em></p> <p>Oh goody - I'm not much of a commuter, but I count for at least 30 non-cyclists (minimum 1,260 miles per year).</p> <p>How many non-cyclists do you "carry"?</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50024 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:51:48 +0000 wingpig 50024@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I like the wee fuel pictograms.<br /> It'd be interesting to see the mean-miles-cycled-per-population subdivided into 'applied' miles (for primarily utilitarian tasks such as shopping and commuting) as well the the 'pure' for-the-sake-of-it leisure/fitness pootling. More of this sort of stuff which edges towards the 'it SAVES PRECIOUS LOVELY SHINY MONEY as well as just the planet', also mentioning the it-can-make-you-<a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4700">happy</a> thing, to try and find something which sticks and isn't forgotten the next time someone gets into their warm car on a cold day. Perhaps some collated stats converting miles-not-driven-per-week to monthly or annual cumulative savings (even whilst, for the sake of the 'but I need the car for longer journeys/visiting granny/shopping in the rain/carrying bagsful of christmas garbage back from the out-of-town shopping centre, retaining the car (but just using it less for shortish journeys)), even when combined with the extra cost of cycling-food-fuel, also mentioning the potential for body lard reduction despite the increased food intake, even accounting for the need to buy smaller but more flattering clothes after awhile. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50022 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:24:42 +0000 chdot 50022@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Cycle like the Danes to cut carbon emissions, says study"</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/12/cycle-like-danes-cut-emissions" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/12/cycle-like-danes-cut-emissions</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4698#post-50012 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:00:06 +0000 chdot 50012@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"New study reveals untapped potential of cycling as a means to cut transport's greenhouse gas emissions."</p> <p><a href="http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/reduce-co2-cycle-more/012332" rel="nofollow">http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/reduce-co2-cycle-more/012332</a> </p>