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Those of you who switched from driving to exclusively cycling: how much have you saved in gas, insurance and repairs? (lemmy.world)

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I'm slowly but surely transitioning from driving to cycling to the point I'm going to have to change jobs to stop driving all together. While this surely has many health and environmental benefits, I was wondering about the financial benefits. Those of you who have already made the transition, how much have you save by not driving?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That sound awful to go through, I'm sorry you experienced that. I feel like I wouldn't be able to get back on a bike after having major incident like that. Kudos to you for getting back into it. I live in a bike phobic city where people will openly harass you throwing stuff at you like drinks and shout at you if you are riding a bike in the designated bike lane. And there's been I think 3 - 5 deaths in the last month alone here since it's too expensive to own a car so there's more cyclists now. North America needs to work on its car centric problem

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I was in race shape when I got hurt, and I'm in a very weird condition where I am very close to being healthy but it is just out of reach. A MIPS helmet could have had a substantial bearing on the crash that almost killed me. I highly recommend doing whatever it takes to get one. The tech came out in Q3 of 2013 and I almost started riding one, but didn't want to spend my own money on one when I would likely be given a demo unit with my job as a Buyer for a chain of bike shops. They aren't super expensive now like they were then. Making sure the helmet fits you well too. My face was shredded by glass too. If it wasn't for my sunglasses taking most of the glass around my eyes I probably would have lost an eye, like I have nerve damage in my chin and a chipped tooth among other issues.

I didn't remember any of it or for 3 hours after. My last memory was a beautiful morning, riding to work then the darkest blackest nothing and waking up in the hospital clueless about how I got there. Not a bad way to go really. Massive head injuries are like that, but I was traveling 30 MPH at impact after braking with GPS showing exactly how fast I was going.