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More Twin Cities families using ‘cargo bikes’ to haul groceries and children
(www.twincities.com)
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Until October. Then comes the snow.
Obligatory NotJustBikes
Never been to twin cities but I'll do groceries via bike in winter. Its a snow bike though.
Don't you have a coat?
Fins and Swedes bike, you're just cowards. The Dutch bike all year. Freezing rain in the face sucks, but it's better than literally destroying my children's future.
Edit: I live in the Netherlands and bike year round because we do not own a car (family of 4, for the record). Wear a fucking jacket. You're not made of sugar.
I remember Dutch cycling under the rain, talking with the phone in one hand, umbrella in the other and wearing heels.
They are crazy, in the right way. I miss how bike centric Groningen was when I moved out.
have you seen the standard american diet, they kind of are
Swedes bike in the winter, but only out of spite. Our governments aren't tremendously great at keeping bike paths clear in the winter...
If the conditions are okay for a car to drive, any decently prepared cyclists won't have a problem.
Eh, usually the snow doesn't stick until late November. We'll get some freakish pop-up storms but it will generally melt away until around Thanksgiving.
And even in the winter, we have very good road crews to keep conditions pretty navigable all told.