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Danish citizens cycle in rain with no issue.
Of course the workplaces accomodate for that.
You just need the whole society to revolve around bike transport, and it will become normal to ride in the rain.
I'm Finnish and ride in the freezing rain (literally).
But I can see the advantage in not having to dress up in 8 layers and driving goggles to go sweat to a supermarket for some snack you're hankering.
Also, bigger stuff require a cart and yeah sure you have them on bikes.
But I've been biking for everything for years, used to have a car and I just miss the convenience. Cheapest pure electric cars are getting to be around 5k here so I'm gonna get one of those at some point. I'd love if it would also fit my bike though. It's a 26" but foldable but it's not exactly small folded and with my extensions to the headset.
It's not even "revolve around bike transport", it's just "include bike transport as a serious and viable option".
I imagine that in Denmark people with disabilities have some disadvantages, but I doubt that daily life is virtually impossible because they're unable to bike.
However, in most of the US and Canada, if you don't have a car, your life is extremely difficult. The cities truly do revolve around cars.
Yeah… pretty sure Denmark doesn’t get regular thunderstorms or hail storms.
Why are you "pretty sure" about that? Did you give it any thought?
https://www.essl.org/cms/category/news/
6 July: A supercell produced a swath of very large hail across Denmark. Hail had very eccentric shapes with pronounced lobes, leading to very large dimensions across the longest axis, up to an estimate of 10.5 cm
I never said they don’t get hail, I said they don’t get regular hail. In general, hail is uncommon in Denmark, and large hail is even more rare.
Well ofc that depends on how regularly you mean, but it's definitely multiple times annually.
But yes, those are record ones.
I was speaking anecdotally, but it’s good to back that up with some data.
https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2023/egusphere-2023-176/egusphere-2023-176.pdf
Page 15, Table 1 shows a clean table, with Denmark in the bottom 10 for large hail size in European countries; relative to places like Germany, large hail (the kinds you’d really want to avoid while on a bike) in Denmark is considerably more rare. That study only has two citations, though, so not the greatest source.
This survey is much better cited and comments on hail throughout Europe and in Denmark, but I can’t access the PDF at the moment: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169809516300291
I understand.
My point point is the definition of regular.
regular
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h Similar: methodical systematic
Like in Finland, Denmark has a hail season. It's not that prominent compared to other places, but it is there and it is regular.