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  • letsgo@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    A bicycle gives you freedom of lightweight activities within a few miles of your home. You want to play baritone sax in the band 25 miles away? It’s not happening with a bike.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I’ve got a cargo e-bike that could handle a 50-mile round trip with a baritone sax just fine.

    • Hoimo@ani.social
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      1 month ago

      The 25 miles is a bit much, but if your instrument/sporting gear can fit in a bag, you can carry it on a bike. There’s backpacks for guitars, cellos and tubas and I regularly see kids cycling to their lessons with those. This is a fairly dense town though, so 5km max (20 minutes at child-speeds). Kids also can’t drive cars, so if it’s not happening by bike, it’s not happening at all.

    • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net
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      1 month ago

      For me? Yeah 25 miles is a bit much depending on how regular that commute is. Once a week, maybe. Once a day, like a job? 5 miles tops is my limit. But I’ve heard of people doing 20-25 mile work commutes before.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      40 km is more “take public transit” range than going on a bike.

      Similarly, if you had to go 300 km for a meeting, you wouldn’t want to have to drive it, you’d want to take a TGV, Shinkansen or other high-speed train.