I'm a fairly recent convert to "full mustachian" (biking). Only 4-5 months into the bike life but I can already tell its a full blown addiction. So happy my wife is becoming addicted too although she's a little scared of the roads (cant blame her, its FLORIDA!). I'm warming up to it and was just starting to bike to work 3 times a week until the virus put us all working at home... Now I MISS my commute. Now I hardly ever touch the car as most anything we would want to go to (restaurant, grocery store, drug store, half our doctors) are in biking distance. Even biked to go vote!
Its going to get to a point where we drive 4000-5000 miles a year combined, maybe (I hope).
I didn't touch a bike from age ~10 to 34. I can't believe I didn't bike around college I friggin struggled to keep a crappy car going and paying insanely high parking fees. How the hell this did not occur to me!
There is something so addicting about it that's hard to put into words. Getting somewhere using just your legs and the freedom to hop traffic jams and not get stuck at double red lights or huge school drop-off lines, and front row parking because its pretty rare for the bike rack to be more than half full. At first I couldn't believe we spent (total) $2000 so far on bikes and bike trailers, stand, tools, lights, helmets, but you know what... that's a pretty crappy used car.
The bike doesn't need insurance, registration, tolls. I also HATED working on cars, I don't know why I just dread the idea of ever getting underneath one. But working on a bike... I'm learning, hey I can adjust a derailleur and remove wheels!