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/
HAPPY FIETS

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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.

@IPEdmonton @cargot_robbie @mbonsma fietster/sster is becoming a term used by English-speaking riders knowledgable about Dutch cycling culture & urbanism, to refer to the normal person who uses a bike as basic transportation - as opposed to the 'avid cyclist's or 'road warrior' or 'trail rider' or 'mountian biker'.

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@IPEdmonton @cargot_robbie @mbonsma For example, look at this Bluesky profile name:
@HyL I guess the reason why that usage irks me a bit is that it's the opposite of the meaning of the same word in Dutch. In Dutch, the term is very clearly NEVER an identity, because EVERYONE is a 'fietser' sometimes. You'd never, ever use it as a part of your name or in your profile, and if you called yourself that in a conversation, people would look at you sideways. And I've frankly always LIKED that about the term--it's something so everyday and ordinary that making it an identity is odd.

@IPEdmonton in one word:
Culture

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