Comments on: Bike MPG??? http://www.commutebybike.com/2006/04/21/bike-mpg/ Tips, Hints, Reviews and Safety for Bike Commuters Thu, 23 May 2013 22:19:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Nick http://www.commutebybike.com/2006/04/21/bike-mpg/comment-page-1/#comment-942 Nick Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:53:42 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/?p=660#comment-942 You know, I've heard this logic before, but I think it's flat-out wrong. I mean, I see the math with the calories burned and the daily intake and whatnot, and maybe this is different for other people, but my food intake doesn't increase because I bike to work; what increases is the amount of that food-energy that is burned off rather than stored as fat on my body. I still eat three meals a day. The argument would only make sense if people who drove cars didn't eat. I accept that gasoline is burned so that I may be fed, but that has little to do with my bike, that has to do with my MPG. My bike's MPG is infinite, or at least a mere function of my own MPG, in which case, it has no MPG of its own. That is, unless drivers stop eating. You know, I’ve heard this logic before, but I think it’s flat-out wrong. I mean, I see the math with the calories burned and the daily intake and whatnot, and maybe this is different for other people, but my food intake doesn’t increase because I bike to work; what increases is the amount of that food-energy that is burned off rather than stored as fat on my body. I still eat three meals a day.

The argument would only make sense if people who drove cars didn’t eat. I accept that gasoline is burned so that I may be fed, but that has little to do with my bike, that has to do with my MPG. My bike’s MPG is infinite, or at least a mere function of my own MPG, in which case, it has no MPG of its own.

That is, unless drivers stop eating.

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