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Only on flat smooth surfaces which are a relatively recent invention. Take them on any natural environment and it falls very quickly below walking.
by alt227 4y ago
Only on flat smooth surfaces which are a relatively recent invention.
Take them on any natural environment and it falls very quickly below walking.
- csours 4y agoThe difference between riding on grass and riding on a dirt trail is VAST - grass is like 3x worse; but when that dirt trail turns into a mud trail, the grass is better.
- bluishgreen 4y agoHumans made trails by walking for eons before roads were envisioned. Maybe for a chariot you need a proper road, but a human made trail is just fine for a bicycle.
- sharkweek 4y agoNot only just fine but often times way more fun! I rode my mountain bike A TON as a kid, gave it up for the more "prestigious" road cycling as an adult, but maybe 2 years ago bought a mountain bike to ride with my kids. My goodness it took about five minutes on a local trail to feel like that same little kid I was back in the day, the feeling of speed, focus, and flow. There's nothing really like it for me, as it puts me square in the moment.
- sebazzz 4y agoI hope you're not implying that people in countries with hills don't use a bicycle because that's not true ;-) Check Denmark and Sweden for instance.
- paganel 4y agoDenmark doesn't have hills. It might have "hills", but not real ones. The same goes for the inhabited parts of Sweden. Colombia could have been a better example, they have real mountains and people over there do use bicycles to do their thing. Granted, not a great percentage of the population does it because you do need to be really fit in order to handle 10% slopes, but of those that do you might get future Tour de France winners.
- wiredfool 4y agoThe record for the Tour Divide is about 13 days for 2700 miles from Canada to Mexico down the Continental Divide.