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I’m all for biking if that’s your thing, but I’d rather take a subway, than to arrive at work all winded and sweaty, smelling like a locker room. Or, completely soaked because it was raining that day.
Subway is 100% fine, also needed for accessibility for people who can't drive a bicycle. It's the cars which suck.
Biking to work doesn't make sense in every scenario, nor does it have to.
I guess it's worth mentioning that the winded and sweaty-thing is really an infrastructural problem - if your workplace offers showers, you can alleviate this problem. I used to do that back when I lived 14 km from work.
I bike almost every day to work these days living around 5 km from work, but back when I lived 14 km from work I would stop biking to work during winter as the ride was a bit too painful and risky during that time, and I opted for bus+metro instead back then.
Currently I will sometimes choose another mode of transport (mostly train) or work from home if it's raining very heavily or I'm planning to be drinking a not-insignificant amount of alcohol (rare these days).
If you arrive at work winded and sweaty from riding a bike, it means that your fitness level is low, and that you need to get in shape.
I doubt there's any level of fitness that will keep you from being sweaty at 108°F with 80% humidity.
Global warming is worse than I knew now that that's average daily conditions in most cities with a subway.
Who said anything about average?
Hey are you that guy in the middle of those bell curve memes?
Or, y'know, it's hot outside.
Super anecdotally, I've been biking to work through the desert for years. 100F and up. You eventually get used to it. Bring a shit ton of water.
OK, yes drink lots of water, but... that does nothing for not wanting to arrive at work (or anywhere else) sweaty.
Even that decreases; I don't break a sweat anymore. But it helps that I have work shirts and can bike slow.
"Decreases" is not good enough for any job where you have to be around and interact with other people (e.g. retail, food service, healthcare, education, any kind of office work, etc...).
It's good enough if it decreases to the point where you no longer break a sweat!
I sweat extremely easy and a lot. I just today completed an Olympic length triathlon, so I'd say I'm in shape. It could be cool spring day outside, and I will sweat through a shirt if I were to ride for 20 min even at a leisurely pace on flat ground. Throw some hills in there and the shirt will be mostly wet with sweat.
Yeah, criticizing and judging me is not a great way to get me on your side.
And I’d also like to know, at what fitness level, a person can bike 7 miles to work in 105° weather with 80% humidity without getting sweaty and winded.
I have a life to live, which does not include spending huge massive time at a gym meeting your standards.
Hopefully this weather is not a year-long affair for you, because that sounds painful to live through. Dare I even say that humans were not meant to live in such a climate year-round
Mine, I guess? Winded after only 7 miles is pretty bad.