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All I need now is the knowledge, sense of balance, and confidence to ride a bicycle
The more you ride, the better you get. Try include cycling into your exercise, and within a year you should be better with it.
If you're in need of some inspiration; Tom Scott on YouTube made a video of himself learning how to ride a bike. Seeing someone else learn something can be useful, and there's a lot of little things in the video one can pick up on to avoid common mistakes.
Even if you need/prefer an ebike you get about 85 ebike batteries out of one Nissan leaf not even a powerful e-car the most pedestrian one.
If sending 800 emails is the equivalent carbon released as biking instead of driving for a day then watching a 4k movie must be equivalent to burning down 10 acres in the Amazon. 🙄
I can’t see this taking off in my city. It’s tropical here and during the colder months it’s in the 80s.
People are not going to cycle to work because they will be drenched in sweat by the time they arrive.
That's why you need it in combination with public transit. Even if it's 90-100 degrees I can go for a bike ride for at least 10 minutes as long as I can keep moving and keep the air blowing on me. And I'm not even really in good shape. So as long as you can bike to a bus or train stop in a fairly short time, then hop on that where there's air conditioning, then ride for a while, and eventually take another short bike ride to your work, then it should be fine. Of course during heat waves having a car as back up is definitely good or just to use during the hotter months also works and would go a long way to reducing green house gas emissions from either driving an ICE car or from the energy you use for your electric car.
It's the same everywhere though, and people who commute to work tend to have facility in their office(if they work there) to help with that. Else i heard some people wipe it down with baby wipe. If they work blue collar like me then what's to worry?
Also ebike(class 1) help tremendously and also help keep you healthy.
when you cycle regularly, a commute doesn't make you sweat.
This is not true in my experience cycling in 32°c to 34°c and 75% to 90% humidity environment. 😅 I used to commute daily to school at early dawn and i drench in sweat everyday.
But there's way to avoid that and people tend to commute to work in the morning and evening, where it isn't as hot as noon.