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I guess you have two main tasks, and they involve preparing your "internal" (psychic, mostly) environment, and you external (domestic, mostly) environment. About internal environment: You have to convince yourself, or keep convinced, that you actually LIKE TO, WANT TO and SHOULD ride your bike; You should think AND feel AND know that riding a lot is wiser ...

While it's important to keep a positive attitude for your bike, I'd say it's equally important to keep a negative attitude for your car. I have a car and I hate it really bad. I hate it for polluting my, already fairly polluted city. Hate it for being 15x heavier than I am, so it is essentially a contraption whose main goal is to carry itself first, and then ...

Above all this is a matter of mindset and discipline. I've found myself in the same position since starting a job much further away from my home than my previous job, so I know how you feel. You've got to want to ride and get into the mindset that you have no other option but to ride to get to work. This is easier said than done and if you're like me, it's ...

Sign up for a race or century in the upcoming summer. I find having a goal or something to work for motivating. I check the weather forecasts all the time, a bike ride on a sunny (usually still cold) day in the midst of the Pacific Northwest winter are awesome rides. As others have said, I will drive with my bike to work to get in a lunch ride, or even ...

Four things: fitness, endorphins, money. Also something a bit more intangible. Keep a check on your weight. If you find it going up because you're cycling less, then there's a good reason to ride more. Who knows? Maybe weight control was the reason you got a bike in the first place? That was certainly the case for me and the knowledge that I am now slim ...