Does Bike Commuting HALVE early death? That’s what a peer reviewed scientific study recently found, but today we dig deeper. What if you have an easy commute? What about the dangers bringing down the average? What about ebikes?
What is the direction of causality here? Being physically able to bike to work inherently filters out a lot of at-risk groups. It’d be good to actually be able to read the study in order to check the methodology, and whether they compensate for these sorts of things.
Unfortunately, the uploader does not reference the source, which makes it difficult to check, and I’m not going to watch an entire video essay to try and find a reference in there (if it even exists).
Due to exercise or due to the way other drivers behave in traffic? :p
Does it take into account the number of exhaust fumes bikers may breathe in? Because my bike commute is 30% near a slow moving high traffic street. So plenty of time to breathe in some lovely exhaust fumes.
Bad news, the people driving cars in that traffic are breathing in the exact same fumes. The cabin air doesn’t magically get rid of pollutants because it went through a paper filter meant to keep out large particulates. The asthma/cancer causing pollutants go through just fine.
In fact in slow moving traffic where two wheelers are allowed to filter, I’d expect they are getting exposed to fewer pollutants because they are spending less time in traffic. Plus cyclists get improved cardio which helps negate breathing problems.
Anecdotally the physical health difference between no exercising and mildly exercising while commuting is mind-blowing. And the fact that so many able-bodied office workers couldn’t run a mile uninterrupted due to a car-dependent lifestyle should be terrifying.
Can confirm.
When I commuted by bus without doing any activity outside of walking and then needed to sprint (+ fully packed backpack) to get the bus, I’d be floored once reached.
Nowadays by riding bike to work, I get my regular workout and improve my fitness (for the frail future of my senior body)
Unless you’re biking on main roads during rush hour. Sidewalks for me!
I really like berm peak, but he’s been comparing professional high end tools to AliExpress stuff only to crap on the AliExpress ones and promote park tool or whatever. Kinda feels disingenuous.
I live a good 40 minute drive to work; there is no way I could possibly bike to work. If I lived in Europe where everyone’s cramped like a can of sardines, sure. But things are just too far apart here.
That sucks. I’d hate to waste so much time and energy commuting every day.
I used to commute that much. It sucked, but I listened to a lot of audio books and podcasts.
Crammed like sardines? Or living in sanely zoned communities free of urban sprawl and endless suburbs?
Yes.
If I biked to work, I’d be forced to ride on the shoulder of two busy highways and a round trip would be like 3 hours of hard peddling on a bike
If exhaustion from 15 hours a week on a bike didn’t kill me, traffic definitely would
Totally not for everyone, and really location dependent. This video mostly speak to people who’s within 10km commute one way, and can snake around street to avoid main road/highway most of the commute. It does sounds specific, but across the world, there’s tons of people who’ve matched the requirement yet still drive to work and think cycling is impossible.
Still, if there’s only one road between you and your workplace, and without bike path or at least road shoulder wide enough, then yeah don’t do it.
Personally, i live on a hill and drive 22km one way to work and spend 35min to 50min one way, an hour on a bad day. Recently have to take my bike to work because my car broke down and it took me around 1 hour one way consistently, while my ebike does majority of the pedaling for me. I’m lucky i able to avoid road most of the time and use residential street and back road, and even then the driver here know how to act around two wheeler, as long as i ride in a predictable way.
Ok?
You can easily bike to work. Just move or find work closer to home.
Yeah, I probably should look at quitting and starting the business under my own LLC and running it local to me. I repair 3D printers for a living, and there’s only like 5 places in the US that do so. So finding work closer to home isn’t an option, but moving the work closer to home could suffice. I’ve certainly been mulling it over.
But I also love driving, so there’s that too :D
