• Hyperreality@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      get 8 miles across town and back for their job every day how silly of us

      A half hour cycle commute really isn’t far. Almost anyone can do that, almost certainly including your grandma.

      The real problem is the lack of infrastructure.

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      11 months ago

      No current American has made that decision. It was made for us after world war II

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      11 months ago

      8 miles isn’t too far to bike! I used to ride about that to commute. When I started, it took me around 40 minutes to get there, and an hour and a half back. Slight incline one direction.

      About six months in, I was down to 20ish there, and less than 40 back.

      Winter sucked pretty bad, someone got me gore-tex mittens though. Still had my eyelashes freeze