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The identification of bikes with "exercise", as a separate thing from daily transport, a kind of mobile gym, seems specifically American. Most other places this
by tuatoru 3y ago
The identification of bikes with "exercise", as a separate thing from daily transport, a kind of mobile gym, seems specifically American. Most other places this is a subset of uses, and only bike nuts do that. Everyone else just uses bikes to get around.
And it's been reported that e-bikes with pedals help elders get more exercise, going to the grocery store or visiting their friends, than is the norm in older age groups.
So by all means, keep your mobile gymnasium bike. But consider gettng an e-bike, maybe with a carrier, basket, and saddle-bags, as well.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoIt’s not specifically American at all. Such a phenomenon can be found anywhere with a car culture. If you see someone cycling in the Arabian Peninsula for example, they are usually the lycra set. Ditto for white people in most of South Africa.
- Detrytus 3y agoI refuse to use bike as daily transportation on the grounds that I'm neither a kid, who's too young to get a drivers license, nor an Asian immigrant working as Uber Eats delivery guy. Riding a bike, other than recreationally, is beneath my dignity.
- pxeger1 3y agoI’m not sure if you’re being serious but if so this is the exact kind of social mind virus that needs eliminating for car-dependency to end
- Spivak 3y agoYou at least gotta admire the candidness to say the quiet part out loud. What I think is really funny about this take is it's the ultra rich CEO's that are taking their bikes to work. The hallmark of being actually rich is not having to worry about appearances any more. As far as social signaling goes cars occupy a space where you have more money than a college kid but not actually wealthy.