The Challenges and Solutions of Utilitarian Cycling
So, you want to start biking as a primary form of transportation, but are nervous about the challenges you will encounter? Never fear, Melody Hoffmann and Ian R Buck are here with the solutions they have found over many years of utilitarian cycling.
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Hosts: Ian R Buck
Guests: Melody Hoffmann
Fringe episode: tf556
Episode summary
- 00:00:00 | Intro
- 00:01:19 | Thoughts from the Community
- 00:06:30 | Introducing Melody
- 00:09:23 | "I don't feel safe riding"
- 00:23:09 | "Bikes are expensive"
- 00:32:23 | "What if my bike breaks while I'm riding?"
- 00:38:17 | "Bikes are easy to steal"
- 00:41:11 | "I can't carry much stuff with my bike"
- 00:48:35 | "I don't want to be sweaty and gross when I arrive somewhere"
- 00:56:52 | The Weather
- 00:57:37 | "It's too hot and humid to bike"
- 00:59:15 | "It's too cold to bike"
- 01:02:28 | "It's too snowy and icy to bike"
- 01:03:52 | "It's too rainy to bike"
- 01:07:48 | "My destination is too far to bike"
- 01:13:06 | Bike touring
- 01:28:11 | Unsolved challenges
- 01:33:55 | Outro