• Pablo M.U. :vericol:@col.social
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    5 months ago

    @thefrankring A lot of people in my city carry goods constantly on cargo bikes. A lot of people have taxi-bikes with which they carry people. Even though we have constant heavy rains.

    Not because they’re forced to, but because we have good bike infrastructure.

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      5 months ago

      I don’t think bike infrastructure to be that good where I live, and I don’t think it’s realistic.

      Mostly because biking only happens during the summer where the weather is enjoyable outside.

      Unless you purposefully use winter bikes with appropriate fat tires. It’s also very cold during the winter.

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        5 months ago

        Go talk to Norway about biking in the winter, they do it plenty with standard bikes. It’s not like once it snows roads and paths have a permanent layer of snow and ice on them, we invented this thing called a plow.

        Also like 3 minutes into biking in the cold you aren’t cold anymore.