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[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

r/libertarian became the home for r/the_donald refugees. These people do not ride bikes and are immune to logic.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Biden famously takes the train.

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

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Biden rides bikes, too - there's a video of him falling after failing to unclip.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 1 points 5 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.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Because they ban actual libertarians in that subreddit