Not every bike needs to be for transport. Also, I’ve brought my carbon bike in my office at more than one job. My commute was already 1 hour each way with a nice road bike. My hybrid might be nice for running errands, but there’s no way I’d have made the trip to work with that. Now I have an ebike that makes it even easier to do the trip to work (doesn’t save much time except when there’s a headwind, but I don’t get as sweaty). But if I didn’t live on the ground floor, there’s no way I’d be able to deal with getting that up and down stairs every day.
Not every bike needs to be for transport. Also, I’ve brought my carbon bike in my office at more than one job. My commute was already 1 hour each way with a nice road bike. My hybrid might be nice for running errands, but there’s no way I’d have made the trip to work with that. Now I have an ebike that makes it even easier to do the trip to work (doesn’t save much time except when there’s a headwind, but I don’t get as sweaty). But if I didn’t live on the ground floor, there’s no way I’d be able to deal with getting that up and down stairs every day.