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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

With the average commute to work in the US being 16 mi one way, The average speed of riding a bicycle in the city being 15 mph, that makes the average commute to work just over an hour long (over 2x the 27 minutes it takes in a car). If you work in a job that requires you to be presentable, then you need to add another 15 minutes to take a quick shower and change (if your workplace even has such facilities).

Obviously, this changes with e-bikes, but there's not really a practical difference between most modern e-bikes and an electric moped.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago (7 children)

car go further faster, and car more useful when not in big city.

[–] Karjalan 6 points 9 hours ago

Yes, but have you considered this extremely selective list of positive features for bikes?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

For this, bike friendly cities have good public transport (bus/tram/metro) and bike shares

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

Most cities aren't big enough to be bike friendly or have public transport at all, let alone good public transport (as an issue of not enough taxes to do it bc small and not enough demand for private section either).

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[–] RememberTheApollo_ 14 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Anyone who has ridden in rain and adverse weather would know one reason cars are more popular.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Danish citizens cycle in rain with no issue.

Of course the workplaces accomodate for that.

You just need the whole society to revolve around bike transport, and it will become normal to ride in the rain.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Picking up a week's worth of shopping for a family, whilst taking your baby with you, in the pouring rain, and you live up a steep hill, and you have joint pain, and a sudden work meeting across the other side of town in an hour...

I'd love a city designed round bicycles (Cambridge, UK is quite good like that in the centre) but man, despite the downsides cars are amazing things.

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[–] yogaxpto 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Not probably, a human riding a bicycle is the most efficient way to convert energy into movement. No other vehicle or animal can be as efficient.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

Thats why I have a bike-sled team to pull my horribly inefficient sled across the asphalt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

My city has extreme height changes on almost every road -- you'd have to be a seriously beefy rider to commute with a bike

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ebike?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

At that point why not just buy an EV

Considering how you have a cabin around you so it's a lot harder to turn into a meat crayon

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[–] Benaaasaaas 3 points 8 hours ago

Pedal assist bikes exist, source am heavy ass bike commuter that has to go uphill to work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Lol same. You can't jog in my neighborhood, well some can. Even walking around is quite difficult going up some streets.

[–] LordCrom 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Make no problem with bikes in Florida, when you arrive you are so drenched in sweat you are no longer presentable and stink to high heaven.

Biking to work if you have an office job is out of the question.

Biking to my gym or KungFu school.... Perfect.

Just need the right tool for the right job.

[–] Benaaasaaas 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

In europe most modern offices have showers is this just not a thing around you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

offices in cities frequently do. maybe larger complexes in suburbs do, but yeah, it's not universal, and it can frequently be tied in with fees associated with a fitness center, etc.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

I'm disabled in a way that means I can't use one, but can use a car, which kinda sucks.

Fortunately bike infrastructure usually helps me in my chair, so I'm all in favor of wider bike adoption.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Welcome to the Netherlands. If there's anything that fills me with pride it's our cycling culture. Most people have a car too, but I don't, and I do everything by bike and public transport.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I cycled from Bruges to Amsterdam this summer and honestly it was an amazing holiday. Few days with headwind made us wish we had eBikes but the infrastructure was amazing. We basically could cycle on bike roads for 90%+ of the distance and felt very safe doing so. We loved especially Zealand landscape, food and small roads passing through the fields.

I think few countries would have made the holiday so pleasuring and chill, and obviously we encountered just so many people going on with their daily life even between cities with their bikes (I am assuming 20+ km rides). I have noticed that with ebikes also elder people had complete freedom to use bikes as they wished.

I really hope the dutch model is followed by more cities or countries.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Princess peach? or are you meaning companion as "friend" rather than "paramour"?

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