Most bike fatalities are car related, though bike on bike deaths do exist.
I was not thinking about discomfort due to rain (wearing glasses does suck in the rain) but slippery conditions. I have taken a bad spill off my bike twice and both times were because of rain.
I guess I don’t count e-bikes as bikes. That is a bad mind set on my part.
Riding a bike in the rain sucks floppy donkey dong. Poncho or not. I’ve done both. A lot. Car any day over it.
While I get there are plenty of reasons to ride a bike and many arguments against it are overblown, pretending that a bike always has a solution or that that solution is always preferred is as bad as the inverse argument.
I’m not entirely sure that’s what you are actually suggesting(rather I think you’re just positing potential solutions), it just leans that way.
There’s weeks where rain a couple of days, but then months were there’s no rain at all. I would take my bike everytime because I prefer to use the rain clothes 4 hours of a year that spend an entire week of the year stuck in traffic.
Riding bike in the rain turned out to be one of my favorite things when I figured out how to not suck at it. Ponchos are no good. Waterproof coats and pants make all the difference.
If anything is a challenge, it’s high winds and places with harsh winters. What we really need is more economical enclosed vehicles that bridge the gap between bikes and cars.
Any waterproof thing I wore, also trapped heat underneath and I’d be so sweaty by the time I arrived anywhere that there was little point to me wearing the waterproof garment in the first place.
High winds and snow/ice are really troublesome, but I always appreciated cold (even bitter cold) weather since I’d sweat less.
Most arguments against bikes are from people who never even tried to address the issues. It’s like “I’ve seen a BMX and that’s ALL there is!”
Most bike fatalities are car related, though bike on bike deaths do exist.
I was not thinking about discomfort due to rain (wearing glasses does suck in the rain) but slippery conditions. I have taken a bad spill off my bike twice and both times were because of rain.
I guess I don’t count e-bikes as bikes. That is a bad mind set on my part.
Riding a bike in the rain sucks floppy donkey dong. Poncho or not. I’ve done both. A lot. Car any day over it.
While I get there are plenty of reasons to ride a bike and many arguments against it are overblown, pretending that a bike always has a solution or that that solution is always preferred is as bad as the inverse argument.
I’m not entirely sure that’s what you are actually suggesting(rather I think you’re just positing potential solutions), it just leans that way.
There’s weeks where rain a couple of days, but then months were there’s no rain at all. I would take my bike everytime because I prefer to use the rain clothes 4 hours of a year that spend an entire week of the year stuck in traffic.
Riding bike in the rain turned out to be one of my favorite things when I figured out how to not suck at it. Ponchos are no good. Waterproof coats and pants make all the difference.
If anything is a challenge, it’s high winds and places with harsh winters. What we really need is more economical enclosed vehicles that bridge the gap between bikes and cars.
Any waterproof thing I wore, also trapped heat underneath and I’d be so sweaty by the time I arrived anywhere that there was little point to me wearing the waterproof garment in the first place.
High winds and snow/ice are really troublesome, but I always appreciated cold (even bitter cold) weather since I’d sweat less.