<p>Are bicycles necessary for transportation for first years at Dartmouth or at least makes life easier in general?</p>
<p>Bikes are certainly far from necessary. You can walk across the entire campus in around 15-20 minutes and will often have a much shorter walk to everything (unless you unfortunately end up in the river). However, bikes can be convenient if you have one.</p>
<p>-Spunaugle</p>
<p>S never rode a bike much growing up but bought a schwin at Wal-mart at the beginning of fall term and is making up for lost time. He stored it a few days ago and says he really misses it. During the year, he rode all over campus, town, and quite a bit on trails outside of town. Proved to be good transportation and exercise.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice spunaugle and getalifemom(That’s a cool name!)!</p>
<p>Looks like I wouldn’t need to have a bike to the school.</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll get to see you at Dartmouth spunaugle? lol. :P</p>