3000 kilometres on our best girl, our family vehicle and adventure partner! Seems fitting that we reached this milestone on a lovely cycling holiday on beautiful Lake Erie. Shoutout to Happy Fiets Canada for making Rocky the red HSD a part of our trip too :)
@mbonsma happy to learn about Happy Fiets! What a great name. https://www.happyfiets.ca/
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@cargot_robbie @mbonsma
Wow. Thanks for telling us about #FietsCanada.
(Did you know Edmonton has an "Omafiets Mob"?)

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@HyL @mbonsma I hadn't heard of Omafiets either, what's that??
@cargot_robbie @HyL An omafiets is Dutch slang for an upright step-through city bike, translated directly it would be "grandma bike" 😉
Yes, @cargot_robbie, @mbonsma has the correct translation. Some people call them "Dutch bikes".
A fietsster (♀️) or fietster (♂️) is someone who to uses a bike as basic transportation.
@HyL @cargot_robbie @mbonsma not quite—a ‘fietser’ (or, more rarely, the female equivalent) is someone who’s currently riding a bicycle (“for transportation” is mostly a given, since that’s almost the only reason why anyone ever rides one there, though I suppose it would also apply to, say, a couple out for a Sunday ride) at this moment. It’s not an identity, and anyone could be one at any given moment.
@HyL @cargot_robbie @mbonsma so, for example, if you gave someone a picture of a bunch of people using a road and said “describe the people in this photo”, the person might answer: “there’s one driver, three walkers and two ‘fietser’”—without knowing anything about whether those people do those actions habitually for transportation.