You just know that this was posted by an USAmerican because thats just how i get to work when it snows in Germany.
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A picture of a guy on a bicycle taken from a window. The roads are covered in snow and the weather looks cold and miserable. Caption reads “This dude has to be either going to get weed or pussy.”
Yeah, this isn't that abnormal in Canada either lol. I guess the one thing is that normally winter bikers have fat tires
I still use fairly thin ones, but they are very spiky.
I saw a guy cross country skiing downtown (Toronto) after a huge snow and thought that was pretty funny
I was gonna say this would be an ideal commute for about 1/3 of the year
I bemoan that the bus bike racks we use in Toronto aren't wide enough for fat tire bikes, so I have to use a regular-tire bike
If this how the outside of my window looked in the middle east, a national emergency has probably been declared with hundreds dead or lost and the military dispatched to the streets.
Probably someone who lives in the southern US, where it rarely snows. This wouldn't be unusual for someone living in many northern states, especially those around the great lakes. But to a southerner, this might as well be a different planet. They will close schools and businesses even for relatively light snow in the South. It frightens and bewilders them.
We rarely get snow in Texas; we get a solid sheet of ice that covers everything. The city also doesn't plow, and nobody has snow tires because it's only going to be a day or two.
Yeah, southern drivers don't know how to drive (in or out of snow, really), but places like Denver and Dallas have such different experiences that it's not really fair to compare them. It'd be like mocking Alaskins because they're miserable in 90°F; they don't have the AC to handle what is incredibly mild weather to me.
Not saying you're mocking or disrespectful, I'm just on my soapbox.
Yeah, my exs brother was from New England and went to school in the south. One year there was a snowstorm that closed everything there for a couple of days. He made a bunch of money doing package store runs for his dorm because he knew how to drive in the snow, but he said it was still much worse driving conditions than at home because the town didn’t have any snowplows and had to scrounge to get enough sand for the main roads
Stuff doesn't shut down because the South is afraid of snow; it's because they don't have the infrastructure to deal with ice on the roads.
It's cheaper to close stuff for a day than buying and maintaining a fleet of salt trucks and plows that'll be used like 2 days a year.
The issue with "snow" in the south isn't the snow part. It's the ice. Southern snows usually happen when it's warm enough to melt the first bit of snow then it drops to freezing temps and the roads turn to sheets of ice. That and the majority in the south don't have winter tires, they run all seasons because when it does snow, it lasts just a few days at most. Why risk lives when it's just a few days.
Or it just stays in the conditions where it's more likely to sleet, which builds up and freezes into a sheet. Doesn't matter what tires you have, what 4-wheel drive, where you're from, or how much experience you have driving in snow... if there's a lot of ice on the road, you will hit some slick spots, and how sure of your being immune to physics will demonstrate itself.
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They have no ice combat infrastructure they can deploy. There was a storm about ten years ago and the roads froze the night before in an area with great winter prep. I slid home barely on a straight road 2 miles took 45 min, in an area where they can handle that. In the south they've got no chance.
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I am also from Germany and could have posted this. I have never seen anyone ride his bicycle under these conditions here
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Unfortunately this is me this winter. I have an ebike but no car, and my commute is 1h 15m every morning and evening in Minneapolis. I'm scraping by but the money for a car hasn't come together so I'm trying to get warm gear together. It sucks.
Get this person some weed and/or pussy they need it
I actually do get a lot of both tbf
Then share dammit!
That seat tho! Never seen anything like it, is it comfortable? Almost looks like a custom mold of a butt haha
EXTREMELY comfortable. Idk it was at Walmart. Just replaced the stock seat with it.
HEY GUYS, CHRIS^tina^ FIX HERE, and today I'm gonna show you how to bundle for winter cycling!
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Pretty common in Montréal...
Pussy and weed?
My cool Canadian girlfriend.
Say less, everything I hear what makes me want to move there more and more. Say how do they feel about Newfoundlanders who speak French at a third grade level over there
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Weed? Not likely. This is more like "im sweating and shitting and need at least a bump."
-Former opiate addict that has literally rode a bike in a blizzard to score. Like pictured.
Counterpoint: This could very well be a picture of me from any snowstorm in Calgary when I was a teenager who'd do anything for weed. But there would be 3-4 times as much snow.
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I have been that dude. For both things! Both utterly fucking stupid at the time. But one of them was damn worth the trouble!
Also, cigarette runs when I smoked. Thankfully I quit smoking years ago.
Weed or pussy? Well now I feel like a chump for doing that shit for school or work
Maybe his weed-dealer boss is forcing him back into the office but he knows his thicc goth coworker will be right in that cubicle with him
To be fair, it's probably safer to bike in the snow than to drive. If you get stuck, you can just pick it up and if you hit something you aren't that heavy.
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The place where I live still had snow 10 years ago. :(
We still get some for a couple of days per year. Which is enough, really.
On his way home from a second or third job at food service that refused to close despite the storm and had no customers.
That's just how I get to/from work lol
Shrooms outside is amazing....
No lights on their bike as far as I can see. 50/50 odds they die.
I really don't get it, even the shittiest $2 lights make a huge difference. I've seriously considered buying a bunch to keep in my bag and just hand them out.
And the worst are electric scooters that have bright, built-in lights and people still don't turn them on.
There was a year or so where the lights of electric bikes was both very, very bright and pointed at people's faces. That was not helpful, safety-wise.
I still see (and am blinded by) bikes with maladjusted headlights, electric or not. Some people just don't realize that the road in front of them should be illuminated, not the apartments on the third floor.
Or snacks
Or its Luigi on his way to a healthcare CEO
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