I ride by scooter still in the winter to work and I survive. Key to doing it is to get thermal insulation layers with a windproof component, and under that throw some resistive heated liners. Mine hook up to the electrical system of the bike, but they sell battery operated ones too you could maybe use on a bicycle. Also run some oxford heated handgrips and some cheap snowmobile handlebar muffs to keep the wind off my hands. That will do me until it hits -5C, and at that point you really need to start worrying about ice (the natural enemy of single-track transportation). Also run a Alpinestars face mask under my full face helmet. Keeps the neck and face warm enough.
Urbanists do not realize that America is a vast country with many different climates. They most likely never left the city or are WEF stooges. They do not stop with banning ICE cars, they want them all banned.
So your winter strategy is only feasible until mid-autumn. Right.
The response from Joe_Jeep is so robotic it feels like AI. They bring up "European colonization", "rising wet bulb temperatures", city planning, and wind turbine reuse. There's just too many very specific buzzwords rather than vague terms like climate change.
Agree. Having a car says to a woman " hey, this guy has his shit together. I'm not taking my future wife to the hospital on a bike or bus. That's fucking dangerous.
That's the funny part, they complain about low sperm count when they've gotten the snip, meaning they don't care about kids, it's just a talking point
I'll say this much living in Utah: you can ride a bike in the snow. You're not going anywhere fast, and once sun falls, you're asking for trouble. Cold is a killer. It's why we here don't have much of a homeless population. Having a car with a heater is a godsend.
Based on Finnish transportation statistics before COVID, I'm inclined to believe that the frequently shared videos of winter cycling in the small Finnish city of Oulu is mostly the same small bunch of advocates (and forcing their kids) cycling back and forth to fake the appearance of high cycling usage for the camera.
Without PL too much problem with motorcycle firefighters is:
At best they would have limited utility and at worst, none at all. A firefighter motorcycle could probably carry a fire extinguisher and a axe if you go by what police motorcycles carry. Not much they could do for anything but the smallest of fires
The idea that no one who drives uses an umbrella really shows how detached they are from reality. I keep an umbrella in my car, because I have to walk between the parking lot and where I'm trying to go. On a bicycle you cannot carry an umbrella. I'm sure they'd justify that by "I can bike with one hand!" or "Check out my bicycle that I rigged an umbrella up to" but cycling is simply not up to rain. Plus, when it rains, the brakes on a bicycle don't work as well.
Lmao is there anything he and other urbanists haven't cherry picked? I'd love to see him cope about how he's totally not cherry picking Finnish cycling.
Pretty much a lot of urbanism has to be cherry picked in order for it to work. Otherwise it would fall apart as soon as you think about it for more than a few minutes (for example with the redditor explaining he needs a car to carry around his instrument).
I hope this gets posted to /r/fuckcars. I can't imagine the seethe they'd have reading that comment.
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Whenever you point out ridership numbers are low, urbanists will always blame them on bus stops being positioned far from destinations, or single-family zoning making it take far too long to walk to the stop, or infrequent schedules, or lack of bus lanes, or something other than the fact that transit just simply takes longer because you have to wait for your ride.
What part of the post is "advocating for violence" against pedestrians for using the crosswalk button (and conveniently leaving out the part where you use the button unnecessarily)?
Unfathomably economicly based. Thank you Iowa for continuing to be based and fiscaly minded to those around you
I'll admit, having lived in Illinois and hense having crossed over to Iowa a few times, it's a lot of farms. If anything that's why the bus plan failed, even in the city, people already have cars. They made a solution for a non problem
