We should encourage people to ride bicycles... Your opinion, please?  

If there were bicycle paths I would ride a bike.
Without the path there is no way I would ride a bike.
There are far too many idiot drivers on the road.

yes as transportation is eco friendly and cost effective
low maintenance the only consuming factors is some money
for consumables like tyres and lubricents
safety as less controled speed in riding and
buy product is health and will power to achive

I live in the city, there are many people here who bike, when the season allows, and even a few die hards who do it even in the winter time. I ,myself have talked about starting to bike to work. I only live a little over a mile and it would save a bunch in gas if I did, plus help me get in better shape. Not sure if I will do it yet, but if gas keeps rising I may have to thru the summer at leaste.

No it won't...

For two reasons...

1) The high price of accommodation has pushed people in the outer suburbs... miles away from their workplace. It is common in Sydney for people to live 20 miles from their workplace.

2) People have become too fat in our affluent society to be able to ride a bicycle.

Gasoline at peak price in America... Yeah sure mate!

You should live in Australia or in France. Then you would know what peak price means.
It is $1.50 a litre in Australia
And about $3.00 a litre in France.
And the French have still not gone back to their bicycle.

Some people live too far from their jobs to ride a bike. but there is public transportation and my wife rides the bus to work each day. So she saves fuel by using public transport. I like driving myself. I do not work so I do not drive a lot. I pick my wife up from work at nights as the buses don't run when she gets off work.
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I do not own a bicycle and it hurts me to ride my daughters. We do not travel to many places other than to the store or grocery store these days. My husband works close to home and I work online. We live out in the country and the nearest stores to shop at, is 15 miles away from me, one way. I would have to ride a bike 30 miles. There is no way to haul alot of things on a bike either. I think the people who live closer to things and could use a bike, should use them to save money and help the environment too though.