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More Twin Cities families using ‘cargo bikes’ to haul groceries and children (www.twincities.com)
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[+] -8 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Until October. Then comes the snow.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago*

    Brother, we rarely get snow in October even before climate change started really messing with things. Used to be mid-to-late November for first snow pack, now it's mid December and it's a toss up if we'll even keep the snow pack all winter now.

    Anyways, people still bike in the winter here.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Fins and Swedes bike, you're just cowards. The Dutch bike all year. Freezing rain in the face sucks, but it's better than literally destroying my children's future.

    Edit: I live in the Netherlands and bike year round because we do not own a car (family of 4, for the record). Wear a fucking jacket. You're not made of sugar.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I remember Dutch cycling under the rain, talking with the phone in one hand, umbrella in the other and wearing heels.

    They are crazy, in the right way. I miss how bike centric Groningen was when I moved out.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Eh, usually the snow doesn't stick until late November. We'll get some freakish pop-up storms but it will generally melt away until around Thanksgiving.

    And even in the winter, we have very good road crews to keep conditions pretty navigable all told.

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