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I doubt they have the hills I have to contend with. I don't want to show up to work drenched in sweat.

by buckbova 9y ago

bryanlarsen 9y ago
Aarhus has hills and a 48% bike share.
- buckbova 9y ago
  Looks like not much over a couple hundred feet and Copenhagen is flat as a pancake.
jdminhbg 9y ago
For random comparison... Copenhagen: http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Copenhagen-8017438/ http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Copenhagen-8017438/ Pittsburgh, PA: http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Pittsburgh-800970/ http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Pittsburgh-800970/ San Francisco, CA: http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/San-Francisco-92496/ http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/San-Francisco-92496/ (note that the entire scale of the Copenhagen map fits in the bottom 1/6 of the SF map)
mikro2nd 9y ago
Hmmm... I get that, but... A place I worked at provided showers, mainly at the instigation of people who biked to work. Thirty years ago.
- buckbova 9y ago
  There are showers. It's just not for me. Now I'm dragging a set of clothes/shoes, soap, towel/rag, hair brush, razor, shaving cream, etc to work? Probably should wear sandals in the shower unless I want foot fungus. Then what do I do with my wet towel and stank clothes? Stuff them in a bag where they stink worse? Hang them in my cube? Then I head home and have to put on my stank clothes and get all sweated up again. Time for another shower I guess. And that's not mentioning the time in transit, probably an hour a day round trip by bike. This is why I live close to my work. I can drive there with all the street lights and park, portal to portal in 10 minutes.
  - tjr225 9y ago
    I bike about 18-20 miles round trip every day and I spend between an hour and an hour and ten minutes on the bike (total, not one way). I bring a change of clothes, lunch, and macbook in a waterproof backpack. Shower once in the morning when I get to work. I get my exercise and my commute done at the same time and I don't have to pay for/maintain/fuel/insure a car. On the off days that I don't feel like cycling or the weather is insane my wife drops me off or I get an uber. This is my opinion and it may ruffle some feathers but if it takes you 10 minutes to go from door to door in a car and you don't have a disability, you shouldn't be driving to work. At least not every day.
cr0sh 9y ago
Or how about heat? Ok, maybe I'm biased here... /I call Phoenix, AZ home...sigh
tonyedgecombe 9y ago
An e-bike solves that problem.

I doubt they have the hills I have to contend with. I don't want to show up to work drenched in sweat.

bryanlarsen 9y ago

Aarhus has hills and a 48% bike share.

buckbova 9y ago
Looks like not much over a couple hundred feet and Copenhagen is flat as a pancake.

jdminhbg 9y ago

For random comparison... Copenhagen: http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Copenhagen-8017438/ http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Copenhagen-8017438/ Pittsburgh, PA: http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Pittsburgh-800970/ http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/Pittsburgh-800970/ San Francisco, CA: http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/San-Francisco-92496/ http://en-us.topographic-map.com/places/San-Francisco-92496/ (note that the entire scale of the Copenhagen map fits in the bottom 1/6 of the SF map)

mikro2nd 9y ago

Hmmm... I get that, but... A place I worked at provided showers, mainly at the instigation of people who biked to work. Thirty years ago.

buckbova 9y ago
There are showers. It's just not for me. Now I'm dragging a set of clothes/shoes, soap, towel/rag, hair brush, razor, shaving cream, etc to work? Probably should wear sandals in the shower unless I want foot fungus. Then what do I do with my wet towel and stank clothes? Stuff them in a bag where they stink worse? Hang them in my cube? Then I head home and have to put on my stank clothes and get all sweated up again. Time for another shower I guess. And that's not mentioning the time in transit, probably an hour a day round trip by bike. This is why I live close to my work. I can drive there with all the street lights and park, portal to portal in 10 minutes.
- tjr225 9y ago
  I bike about 18-20 miles round trip every day and I spend between an hour and an hour and ten minutes on the bike (total, not one way). I bring a change of clothes, lunch, and macbook in a waterproof backpack. Shower once in the morning when I get to work. I get my exercise and my commute done at the same time and I don't have to pay for/maintain/fuel/insure a car. On the off days that I don't feel like cycling or the weather is insane my wife drops me off or I get an uber. This is my opinion and it may ruffle some feathers but if it takes you 10 minutes to go from door to door in a car and you don't have a disability, you shouldn't be driving to work. At least not every day.

cr0sh 9y ago

Or how about heat? Ok, maybe I'm biased here... /I call Phoenix, AZ home...sigh

tonyedgecombe 9y ago

An e-bike solves that problem.