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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

"Just leave it anywhere there is a secure structure" - Yes, I see this regularly when I have to maneuver around bikes carelessly "parked" in the middle of the pedestrian walkway...

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[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 6 points 15 hours ago

I live in rural Norway up in the mountain side. We have wind, snow, ice and rain like hell, and I have ~150 elevation to get to the main road to get anywhere.

... I'm still considering getting a bike for all the mentioned benefits.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 14 hours ago

Because there's no Microcenter in my city.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 19 hours ago (46 children)

I dare you to travel on your own bicycle in the depths of winter across the USA in the same timeframe as a car.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 18 points 19 hours ago (10 children)

Eh, I did that for a couple years in Utah and it was largely fine. When the snow got nasty, I took the bus.

That was back when my commute was 10 miles (16km) with a segregated bike path the whole way. My new commute is more than double that, so I drive. But if we weren't so car centric, things would be more compact and I wouldn't have this nasty commute.

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[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (6 children)

But demonstrate the incontrovertible need for a car during one's regular commute through an average modern city. And I'm even offering the main exception - busses and taxis/ride sharing/whatever the current nomenclature, as I consider public transportation to be its own independent thing, unrelated to Cars.

I think the people who would enjoy such a venture via bike have or are already doing it, the rest of us would just like to be able to ride the bike through the city without having to play Frogger with three lanes filled with enraged lumps of cortisol *wrapped in two tons of steel and various other such substances.

Edit: added * to further drive home the viscerality of my desire.

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[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 13 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

The reason you can't is much more about infrastructure than weather, especially within cities

Source: I live in Scandinavia and everyone bikes even when it's cold

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[–] MichaelScotch@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

That’s impossible and no one is implying that bikes should replace other modes of transport for interstate travel. However, I bike commute in winter in Wisconsin and it takes less time than riding the bus. Driving a car is faster than my bike commute, but only marginally so.

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