>>>I think it's the bicycle-as-transportation (and building the house) that kept me in shape. I used to drive bicycle all year, on rain snow and ice. Now telecommuting doesn't help that much :).
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>>>(note to Terry: I used "drive" instead of "ride" intentionally)
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>>And this is significant how?
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>The difference is that it wasn't a ride, it was transportation. I was in the traffic, among the cars... and I specially liked it when they'd stop at the light, a dozen cars in each lane, and I'd just thread between them :).

I thought as much - you want to distinguish between leisure and work? Well they're both still "ride", even if you're going up a 1:2 graient with a cwt of rocks in your rucksack.

I suppose you ride something you sit on and drive something you sit in? OTOH, you drive a team of horses, but you're sitting "in" a carriage.