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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The rural parts of Canada would like to have a word. A bike ain't gonna cut it unless your young and single and living in a city.

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I had a bike living in the rural parts of Canada, and used it to get everywhere within the 50-100 kms I needed to go.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

did not know that was possible

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly a massive game changer if one uses a bike for transportation.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

i go every where on a kick scooter now (electric)... I'm now looking into an electric bike as I had assumed they did not work well in winter

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago

And even then a lot of cities aren't set up to make bike travel easy.

Years ago, in the before times, the office I worked at was within biking distance of my house and I routinely biked there. It was nice. Then they moved the office downtown and it was either a half-hour commute by car, an hour long commute by bus, and I-don't-know-how-long-by-bike-because-fuck-that-epic-journey commute by bike. I bussed a lot, but that meant I was wasting an hour of my time each day. I wasn't fond of that. I hadn't entirely settled on which approach was better overall before Covid hit and I never went back to that office again by either route.

There happens to be a grocery store within biking distance of my house. I drive a car there anyway, because even living solo I still like to get several weeks worth of groceries when I go shopping. No way am I hauling cargo like that on a bike even if I had a trailer for it.