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Because showing up to a client meeting dripping in sweat on a 103 degree day is considered to be poor form. Because I got a new job and don’t have an extra two hours in my day to ride a bike back and forth, and moving isn’t in the cards. Because I have to carry a couple kids and all the crap the goes along with them.
because the US sucks ass and the entire world just does what the US does is also sucking of the ass.
It's not that I disagree with you, it's that we can do better and we're not.
because conservatives are fat
FWIW as an avid cyclist I've been yelled at numerous times by car drivers, and it's always skinny middle-aged dudes smoking cigarettes and driving well-dented vehicles. I've always wanted to be yelled at by a fat person so I can shout "enjoy your third heart attack" at them but it's never happened.
Bikes are awesome. I would love to experience the joy of waking up in the morning and riding a bike to work. No traffic, healthy and all that good shit. I live, however, 40min away from my work by car and 3 hours by bike, one way. I dont see this changing in the foreseeable future so my idea of freedom has to be something different.
You can do what I do and enjoy biking around town/your neighborhood as a leisure activity. Bike to whatever stores or appointments make sense. Biking to a hair cut for example is nice because the wind as you bike helps shake the bits of escaped hair out of your clothing!
Current I super commute while I get the money scraped together to move, and even then my job requires me to drive a personal vehicle to customer sites as needed so biking/public transit likely won't be an option until I land a better role with a company that isn't as cheap as this one
In Europe this would likely be 30 mins commute on a train if you work in any sizable city. And you can take your bike on the train and finish the rest of the commute on the bike.
I did this but rented a bike in the city to drive to my work. The bike was only €15/month and paid by my employer.