Yes. And you're never annoying. Your questions help me anticipate questions my students might have that I might not think to discuss.

The way you've hyphenated or not hyphenated "car-, bicycle-," etc. is still how you'd see it in academic writing that follows the University of Chicago Manual of Style. But you're less likely to see it in the thousands of pubs worldwide that follow Associated Press style, where the broad trend is away from hyphens that aren't needed for clarity: e.g., AP doesn't hyphenate "human resources department."

What's tricky is that whether something is needed for clarity can be a judgment call by an editor. Let's say you wrote "beer-and-pizza party." An editor at a pub that follows the CMoS would leave the hyphens. An editor at an AP pub might remove them on the grounds that what you mean is clear without them.