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[–] 79 points 11 months ago (19 children)

If you bike to work, you feed two birds with one scone.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (16 children)

    It snowed 10 inches here today. Not really an option everywhere

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Gotta put those snow tires on.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    lol have you tried biking in half a foot of snow, even with a fat bike? that shit is hard as hell and slow as fuck

    I bike in the winter to get groceries and stuff, but it's on mostly plowed surfaces

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    I'm planning on doing some winter cycling today since the plows are catching up now!

    But I get it, winter cycling requires more gear and more pre-planning that winter driving, you need to invest in better gear that isn't just whatever hat and gloves are the cheapest at the store, and it makes paved roads more like biking on gravel/sand so you have to put more work in, plus you show up at your destination just as sweaty as summer biking except now you have a bunch of snow gear to wash because it's all sweaty and gross too and is that melted snow or sweat or snot from my runny nose that I feel on this wet scarf I just covered my face in?!

    Edit to add: OH AND THE WIND! Those fall/winter winds are hell on accoustic bicycles. I've needed to pedal down a steep hill with a trailer filled with 100lbs of kids and kids school stuff behind me because the wind was so strong that gravity alone wouldn't propel me down the hill!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    if you're in a city, then it's still possible, your local government just says 'fuck you' to non-drivers

    but yeah not much you can do if you're rural in that situation

    of course, half of drivers can't drive in more than 2 in of snow anyways

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    angry sentiment. the people having nothing better to do than shouting "biking! is the best thing in the world. everybody should do it" for one misses that not everybody wants to do it (and being pressured to do sth causes an understandable and hefty backlash) and that more important, it's ableist because it assumes everybody is physically healthy enough to even bike in any weather.

    for example, my throat reliably hurts every time i bike in temperatures of below 5°C. that's not because i'm really disabled, but because cold, icy wind + sensitive throat = sore throat. that sucks.

    and that's besides the point that my coworkers wouldn't really appreciate to smell my sweat for 6 hours (we have no shower in office). and i also don't want to be in sweat-sticky clothes all day long.

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