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In article <36442@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, fuzzface@cats.ucsc.edu (Aaron Priven) writes:
|> 
|> In article <1992Jun3.215223.20957@adobe.com> jciccare@adobe.com (John Ciccarelli) writes:
|> >the US trade deficit will be better for it.
|> 
|> Really?  I don't know much (if anything) about bicycle manufacturers,
|> but somehow I got the impression they were foreign-made like most
|> computer goods.  They have names like "Schwinn" and "Huffy," but that
|> doesn't mean much nowadays when (to use a car example, sorry) Hondas
|> are certified as American-made and some Fords are made in Japan and
|> Korea (I think).
|> 
|> I am totally off-base here and I would appreciate being set straight.
|> :) :) :)

Okay, since you asked... :-)  

The average cost of a new car is what, about $10000?  Average use probably
runs about 100000 miles or so over 10 years.  (Including second+ owners.)
That's about $1000/year in purchase cost.

The average cost of a new bike which would be serviceable for the 
hypothetical 6-mile commute with which this discussion began is somewhere 
in the vicinity of $500-$600 dollars.  The lifetime of that bike is 
certain to be over 25000 miles unless it gets crashed severely, which
means 3-5+ years, even with heavy use.  Worst case (including lots of
recreational riding) that bike will still work out to less than $200/year
in purchase cost.

Any other trade deficit questions? :-)

Carl

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Carl Gooch                       |        Why am I inside at a keyboard when 
gooch@leland.stanford.edu        |        I could be outside riding bike?
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