tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739621531803677069.post8247607760426190719..comments2023-09-30T02:44:11.907-06:00Comments on Imagine No Cars: Thoughts on Alternative Transportation and Urban Design: Three Months of Being Carfree in MissoulaCarFree Stupidityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452960459225854564noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739621531803677069.post-43872147172913185692009-06-30T09:17:28.031-06:002009-06-30T09:17:28.031-06:00Frank -
I would second the cyclometer (trip comp...Frank - <br /><br />I would second the cyclometer (trip computer) for tracking your distance. For the project my wife and I started a year ago, I didn't track CO2 savings because we didn't approach it from an environmental standpoint, although it is important to us. <br /><br />We started it as a challenge to ourselves to see how much we could reduce our driving. For us, mileage and $$ savings were what we wanted to look at.<br /><br />Now, we're "just doing it." We don't bother tracking miles, money, or any other metric. We've condigtioned ourselves to not using the car (not having it handy helps!)<br /><br />My suggestion is to decide what you want to track and set up a spreadsheet to track it. If you need to calculate distances by foot or bus, use a mapping service (I used mapmyride.com) to get those distances. Record them daily and then generate weekly and monthly summaries. If you're making a project out it, even track the project cumulative totals.<br /><br />You can see what sort of info my wife and I tracked, as another reference, at http://gettinaroundpnw.blogspot.com. Click the Statistics category for all the stats we recorded over the three or so months we actually tracked our stats.<br /><br />MarkMark Kirschnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08643553208624565187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739621531803677069.post-7699967481898956992009-06-30T08:34:28.562-06:002009-06-30T08:34:28.562-06:00I wrote a post on this way back in february before...I wrote a post on this way back in february before I official went carfree. <br /><br />http://imaginenocars.blogspot.com/2009/02/bike-tech_22.html<br /><br />Just walk into any of the bike shops or even REI and ask one of the employees about trip computers. There are a lot different products out there that all do the same thing but they all work the same way; little magnet that you place on a spoke of your front wheel and something that you attach to the fork to read the magnets rpms and sending it to a unit that is on the handlebars that displays the data.<br /><br />There are lots of different websites that will calculate your emissions. I use:<br /><br />http://www.carbonify.com/carbon-calculator.htm<br /><br />There are others out there, and each one uses different formulas and different metrics, so its a little hard deciding which ones will give you the outputs you want. <br /><br />I use another site that is a collection of different conversion formulas to figure out tons and Ibs. I don't have a link for that right nowCarFree Stupidityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17452960459225854564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3739621531803677069.post-40775972826944827492009-06-28T09:38:12.704-06:002009-06-28T09:38:12.704-06:00I just got a bike, how do you track your mileage? ...I just got a bike, how do you track your mileage? and Co2 saved and what not? I would like to post similar stats though I wont be riding to and from work on a bike it would be interesting to have some info on what a bike impacts vs. a car. Do you have a webpage that you recommend?Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01691567168544432184noreply@blogger.com