• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    56 months 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.

    • @grue
      link
      English
      26 months ago

      Biden famously takes the train.

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

        • @grue
          link
          English
          36 months ago

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

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            16 months 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.)

            • @grue
              link
              English
              16 months 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.

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                16 months ago

                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.