🍹Early to RISA 🧉Anon finds a plot hole
TheTechnician27> setting has bikes and trains
> still using cars as main form of transportation
CruelDo those motors keep the rain and snow off you?
And look at all these single non-parents trying to tell everyone they should only use a bike…
Seriously. Last winter here was -25 C. Miserable for bike rides.
Thank you, Not Just Bikes, for finally giving us this video when someone pretends that winters are normally -25°C.
The Laziest Excuse for Bad Cities
MinnesotaGoddamCould you summarize I don’t have half an hour right now
- People in much more extreme climates bike at rates an order of magnitude higher than the US and Canada.
- People physiologically adapt to the climates they live in by being outdoors.
- North Americans who complain about the cold use the wind chill rather than ambient temperature when that’s not actually the temperature they’re feeling with clothes on that block the wind. They also take the coldest data points and just say “that was the whole winter”.
- Poor weather magnifies the US and Canada’s unsafe bike infrastructure. If we had safe, well-maintained bike infrastructure, it would not be nearly as much of a problem (shown by the Nordic countries biking all the time in the snowy dead of winter).
- Car infrastructure makes hot weather much worse by creating a heat island.
- In extreme weather, you can still delay your trip, take public transit, take a car, etc. Commuting via micromobility isn’t a binary yes/no thing; if you can’t on some days, then don’t.
thank you!
Don’t bike that day. Bike the other 364.
Sent to you from the Netherlands where people still cycle in hurricanes.
Here is a video about a Finnish city where plenty of people bike with -10 temps: youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU
