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One reason I build fairings for upright bikes more than recumbants is that the buses and trains here can accomodate the upright bikes more readily. A local bus may have an external bike rack and the double level trains we rode looked like you could put a bike in lower level storage easily. The other big reason is that I can't get a long wheelbase machine down my cellar stairs to my work shop.
Even a bus getting 10 mpg with 15 passengers would get 150 pmpg and a family of 6 in the Dodge minivan getting 22 mpg yields 132 pmpg. Four people in my '95 Geo Prizm getting 33 mpg would be 132 pmpg. We take this into consideration when choosing which means of transportation to use based on cost per mile.
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