Five good reasons to drive to work

1: Heated seats
On the six days a year when the temperature drops below 0º, this luxury gives you a peerless peeing-in-your-wetsuit pleasure.

2: Terry Wogan
The diminutive Irish raconteur is essential early- morning radio listening (especially if you like nodding off at the wheel or arriving at work unable to distinguish wake from sleep).

3: Obesity
Exercise schmexercise. Sit back, buckle up and drive your waistline to ever-wider extremes in order to enjoy greater buoyancy, larger tattoo fields, discount shopping at High & Mighty and free entrance into
sumo competitions.

4: Climate change
The jury’s still out on this one (at least, it is if you’re a member of the right-wing press rather than something ending in ‘ologist’), but why worry about climate change when you’ve got climate control? If a heatwave or big freeze strikes, just twiddle the relevant knob.

5: Camaraderie
Despite the fact that you can’t really talk to other drivers (aside from the odd hand-gesture oriented display of road rage) there’s the community spirit borne of being part of a mass movement of people crawling in the same direction. And you all recognise a common two-wheeled enemy.

How lovely.

Of course, while we were just about able to come up with five good reasons to drive to work, there are about 1,500 good reasons to cycle to work:

It's better for your health, your wealth, your happiness, your children, your community and your future – not to mention being pretty good news for the planet and for hedgehogs.

It also allows you to enjoy the beauty of Gore-Tex, the seasons, speed, a nicely toned arse, fresh air, arriving home early and, well, we could go on but you get the idea.

You get on your bike; we’ll get off our soapbox!