• BilboBargains@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    r/libertarian became the home for r/the_donald refugees. These people do not ride bikes and are immune to logic.

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      24 days ago

      Isn’t there some PM or something somewhere that famously rides a bike everywhere in a car-centric country?

      The idea of Trump riding around on a bicycle amuses me. Like a circus bear.

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        24 days ago

        Biden famously takes the train.

        Dubya likes mountain-biking (but that’s recreation, not transportation, and thus doesn’t count).

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            24 days ago

            Hmm… being clipped in implies recreational/sport cycling rather than utility cycling, though.

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              24 days ago

              Yeah, just wanted to clarify.

              Though I have commuted on my recreational/sport cycling bicycle, with clips. (My wife and I work at the same place, and she would play softball some afternoons - so I’d often pack the bike in the car, drive in together, then I’d ride home while she went to softball.)

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                24 days ago

                Yeah, I’ve got some Crank Bros pedals on my utility bike that are flat on one side and clip-in on the other, and have clipped in while commuting. I’m well aware of how weird I am, though.

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                  Ah I put that style on my mountain bike and my gravel bike - the mountain bike (which was used) came first and just had steel pedals, so I wanted something clipless, and that seemed like a good compromise for potentially using it to roam the neighborhood looking for our dog when he runs off.

                  The gravel bike I just built over the winter, and its main purpose is for touring, but I figured I might use it as transportation at certain events we sometimes go to, which are often held on large fairgrounds that require a lot of walking to get from one end to the other.