• Tujio@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Basically comes down to the fact that I don’t enjoy it. Every time I’m on a bike I just think “I could be in a car. I could be sitting in a comfy seat listening to music, going way faster than this, using zero effort.” I like diving, I don’t like biking.

    Plus, the last thing I want to do after a 12-hour shift at a physical job is to bike several miles uphill to get home.

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      7 months ago

      Plus, the last thing I want to do after a 12-hour shift at a physical job is to bike several miles uphill to get home.

      That’s a fair point. My job is sedentary and cycling is my primary form of exercise. (That said, I do have an ebike so the workout is not mandatory. Don’t tell my dietician that…)

      I guess what got me into the cycling option was having a good hard look at the map. I work in an industrial park with a railway running next to it, but that railway was decommissioned years ago, and it turns out that it had been converted into a public trail. Much of the time I was driving to work, I was not even aware of this. But I tried out the trail. Not only does it knock about a mile off the street route, but it replaces slow-rolling trucks with tree tunnels and, because it had been a railway, the grades are gentle and bike-friendly.

      I no doubt lucked out there but what I’m trying to say is it’s worth checking where bikes can go and cars cannot, as it can be a better experience to take those routes if they exist?