Mastodon, you are a influence...

[nik@toot.teckids.org]

@MsHearthWitch Full radicalisation !

[catraxx@tech.lgbt]

@MsHearthWitch Bikes are fucking awesome and they also make a decent hobby on top of that.

[rasmus91@fosstodon.org]

@MsHearthWitch i am a person who bikes to work (ebike) and i love it, but, i do live in a country where there are good bike lanes in most places.

And i dont bike when there's layers of ice and snow everywhere (though you can get spiked wheels for it) or when there's like, a storm. (Rain etc doesn't bother me)

Would recommend. I wish more people would try it for a month and see if it doesn't take.

(And no, my workplace isn't just down the road. I go 26.5 km each way)

[rasmus91@fosstodon.org]

@MsHearthWitch also, i might add: we have a locker room at the office so i can shower before work starts

[bmjhayward@fosstodon.org]

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[brohrer@recsys.social]

@MsHearthWitch let us know when you start posting bird pics

[spinni81@mastodon.social]

@sinituulia Ok, I didn't picture a petticoat with that much ruffle. That's a challenge with any bike. I mean, when the safety bike became popular women started to wear trousers to ride them. So, you are in good company.

[raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@hermannus @MsHearthWitch @brennen In 45C weather the only clothing that would make biking not feel awful would get you very quickly arrested.

[sinituulia@eldritch.cafe]

@spinni81 I've made a couple slightly less ruffly ones, but most of the ones I own are of the less practical for biking variety. I do have trousers, but I prefer skirts!

Did you see the recent J. Draper video about early bikes and feminism? With the penny farthing?

[uxmark@mstdn.ca]

@sam @MsHearthWitch @ascentale I came here to write something like what Sam wrote! And I’ll add/emphasize that being a Person Who Bikes Places is much better than being a Cyclist ‍️️

[flyingtomoon@ohai.social]

@MsHearthWitch not sure how the temperatures usually develop where you live and if it would work with your daily schedule, but in the summer I try and do my errands by bike before 10 am, so before it gets unbearably hot. Also I do have the option to choose a different route on my way home from work that's in the forest next to a river so it's much cooler than my usual route that's shorter but fully in the sun.

[mcduncanlab@mstdn.social]

@MsHearthWitch

My e-bike changed my life. I went from occasionally biking when the stars aligned perfectly to defaulting to the bike.

Currently considering getting a trailer so I can do hardware store runs.

[seabass@social.seabass.systems]

@MsHearthWitch If you do, please make sure to send us pictures of your bike or the places you visit!

[laughingmaus@glammr.us]

@MsHearthWitch you can! You can be a person who bikes places! Cool you!!

[gabrielesvelto@mas.to]

@MsHearthWitch biking is so good, completely changes your perspective

[luciledt@phpc.social]

@MsHearthWitch read a bit of the thread and... They are hopeless

[spinni81@mastodon.social]

@sinituulia No,I haven't. I will check it out. Thanks.

[sinituulia@eldritch.cafe]

@spinni81 You'll probably be able to find it without issue, but it's this one!

Sini Tuulia (@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)

Absolutely a delight, Jay Draper telling us about early bicycling and how it made the patriarchy very very mad. Many echoes to modern day, still! Also check out the cool penny farthing and the nice clothes! Quotes: “Some people know they are disgusted by women’s cycling, and they can’t even give a decent reason as to why? So they just say: Well, it’s not natural. As if a men on bikes is natural?!” “Custom and nature revolt against your fucking syntax, Joseph!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7C9YUwPtGk #History #Victorian #Cycling

Eldritch Café (eldritch.cafe)

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@luciledt yeah...

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@brohrer rofl check out #BirdsOfTheShire I've got a full bird station set up in my yard.