It’s very easy to come up with excuses to justify why you could never possibly ride to work. However, for almost every excuse, there’s at least one resolution.

“I don’t have a good bike.”

A “good bike” is really quite subjective. A co-worker of mine started commuting on an old steel frame bike with barely functioning brakes (we fixed those) and only a couple of working gears. If the bike moves, is comfortable and safe, it should do the job. If you then find you’re bitten by the commuting bug, you’ve got a great excuse to upgrade or get a second bike. (And then a third, a fourth….
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