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I've been biking to work all spring and summer. The only reason I stopped was because I bought a motorcycle so I've been taking that instead. I just love being on 2 wheels

I'm scared of dying on South African roads. Still like riding bicycles for fun, but I can't imagine commuting to work on one where I live.

I live in a village, if I wanted to go somewhere in the village I'd walk there, if I wanted to go to the nearest city I'd use the bus.

i like bikes but have nowhere safe to store a couple in my small ass apartment and my area isn't exactly bikeable

The drivers have only gotten worse since the days in which I'd bike 2-4 hours a week for work/school. Seeing people pass in the bike lane while blowing through red lights and even worse behavior like that has got me wary. That said, once the construction at my job is finished, I'll start biking there again. It's close enough to walk with enough time carved out, but I currently need to use my car to transport supplies between locations.

I wonder why user 7bicycles is asking a question about bikes.

I have a bike but it's kinda been allowed to sit outside in the elements and I'm a bit unsure of what to do regarding fixing it back up. The roads around here aren't really bike friendly and its just safer to walk or drive and I like walking! I miss living in a place that was more bike friendly.

I live at the top of a hill. I ain't biking up no hill. I am about to move to flat land closer to my job, and I do plan to bike then.

It rains 80% of the year where I live and it’s pretty remote

I grew up 10km from the nearest store. And that was a gas station.

Idk how to ride one lmao

The issue has always been that you can only cycle on the roads here, and that leads to you getting smushed (most of 'em are 60mph+ to top it off). If we had at least a vaguely complete cycle network, or at least walk paths I could cycle on, I'd be all over it.

The only place I can bike around town is my small suburb. There is literally no way to get onto a sidewalk without driving a car. At that point, I may as well just drive to my destination directly.

no place to use it and im tired

I don't have the time or energy and it only takes a few kwh to drive around.

No safe paths to ride one by my place and hilly terrain. I like mountain biking though

I like biking, but it's illegal to bike on sidewalks anf my work is too far away to bike to anyway. So i usually just walk when i wanna go outside.

I can't balance myself on a bike...

When I lived in Copenhagen, I biked every day, but really only to the metro station. The great bike infrastructure was coupled with great walking infrastructure, so there were very few times I actually needed a bike. Also seemingly paradoxically, better biking infrastructure also meant greater risk of crashing, simply because of the volume of riders. Rush hours are a real sight, seeing hundreds of people move in a single blob down the street. There’s as many rules of the road as we have for cars, and I’m honestly surprised they don’t require licenses. I had only been there for a couple months when I got in my first accident. Neither of us were hurt, but we fell in the road in front of an oncoming bus lol. I feel bad for the guy, my beater of a bike’s spokes got stuck in his super fancy brake and it snapped off. I’ll still take that crash over anything I’d experience in the US though. The real danger is the people on mopeds who use the bike paths. I saw it a lot with food delivery drivers unfortunately.

Little fun Danish bicycle tidbit: pretty much everyone calls it cycling there. Biking is only for motorcycles, and “bikers” and “rockers” are what the media still calls gang members. Allegedly this is because of the Hell’s Angels and other biker gangs, who have been in Scandinavia for decades and still run a lot of the drug trade.

I'm Black and I don't want to make it easy for one of the local chuds in a pickup.

I work 45 minutes from my apartment. Anywhere I care to visit, besides a couple good restaurants and a convenience store in walking distance, is at least 15 minutes away. I would happily live in a walkable micro-community with a grocery store, barber, gym, park etc. all in a couple block radius though.

I never learned how to ride a bike. I was always afraid.

im a lazy scaredy cat. now the weathers good i probably could be biking places but the way people drive here and the lack of infrastructure is terrifying.

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i miss my bike. i was wrecked in a storm and i left it's husk when i moved out of the city

i miss only using to my car to go work (which was way out in the suburbs, also i used it for work)

but i live in a very rural area, drive 35 minutes to work but still want an ebike just waiting to get enough $ together to get one for my partner and I

I used to bike with my kid to her kindergarten, but unfortunately someone thought my just-restored-after-winter-bike looked too good and napped it while I was sleeping. When I got my insurance pay out, I decided that I couldn't really spend the money on another bike, as my 2nd kid is just about to reach the age where I have to take him to kindergarten as well, which means I would have needed a new bike anyway. Currently debating whether I need to spend the extra money i'm about to receive on a new bike or just use it to further pay down my car-loan.