Mastodon, you are a influence...

[tshirtman@mas.to]

@regendans @sandorspruit @MsHearthWitch @brennen the rain can be a bit of a bother, but the real enemy is the wind. 😆

[sam@social.coop]

@MsHearthWitch oh dang, you're gonna have a blast! It's so much fun! You can always just dip your toes in too if you're worried about weather or what not; just because you get a bicycle doesn't mean you have to bike *every* place (but you may find that you want to)! Welcome, and enjoy!

We have #BikeNite every Friday at 4PM Pacific on here if you have questions or concerns or just want some friendly folks to chat with (post them with the #BikeNitePQ hash tag and they get added to the queue and @ascentale will pick them up and start the discussion on Friday)!

[the5thcolumnist@mstdn.ca]

@MsHearthWitch

beware, it starts with that and ends with "avid cyclist"

[dingodog19@sfba.social]

@MsHearthWitch @brennen you can be a Person Who Bikes Places without being a Person Who Always and Only Bikes Places!

Biking when it works for you is fun and good!

[the5thcolumnist@mstdn.ca]

@Amiek @MsHearthWitch @hermannus

I can attest to the make your own wind to cool you in the heat. The proof of that is having to stop moiving at a stop light for two minutes.

[the5thcolumnist@mstdn.ca]

@kimu @MsHearthWitch

As a Canuck when folks mentioned weather I immediately thought cold where you can add layers. Heat is a completely different matter.

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@dingodog19 @brennen Yeah, this is something I've always understood as a general concept but have been solidifying more recently.

There was a few posts going around that were like "Oh, you would be vegan but you love eggs? Be vegan+eggs" "Oh you would love to cycle everywhere but it's not convenient for work? So drive to work and cycle on the weekends"

And it's SO important to banish perfection from our practices.

[daedalouseros@hollow.raccoon.quest]

@MsHearthWitch@wandering.shop it's amazing what having a single bubble outside the Corpo-shere does to a motherfucker, honestly. Fedi has done some very similar things for me.

[pionir@masto.bike]

@MsHearthWitch

Narrator: "the answer was yes"

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@the5thColumnist @kimu Yeah cold and rain I can easily deal with. I grew up in Northern BC, "The cold doesn't bother me anyways..."

But the heat is an active danger for me (I get actual heat stroke with all the fun side effects just from doing too much inside). So all the "just dress for the weather!" folks in my mentions can get bent lmao

[mshearthwitch@wandering.shop]

@daedalouseros Yeah I mean I was definitely already on this path beforehand. Mastodon has just been a great amplifier for the things that already were important to me.

[airikr@mst-gts.airikr.me]

@MsHearthWitch @hermannus Yeah, the climate is no joke during the summer season 😕 I don't have any AC (yet) and my apartment tend to get quite hot (around 23 C, normally around 19 C). Thankfully, I have a ceiling fan 😅

[stacky@hulvr.com]

@MsHearthWitch @driusan do it! Do it! Do it! Biking places is so much fun!!

[daedalouseros@hollow.raccoon.quest]

@MsHearthWitch@wandering.shop honestly, looking at how many people still chose bsky over fedi with the most flimsy-ass excuses possible, I feel like the only people who actually make it over here are the people who are sick of the corpo-sphere.

Mind you, I'm not saying everyone who uses bsky is simply doing so with flimsy excuses, just that there's a lot of people who did.

[rbos@mastodon.novylen.net]

@MsHearthWitch
Biking is pretty great. Good luck.

[colinstu@birdbutt.com]

@MsHearthWitch I became that person too! you can do it!
(and screw the haters. I’m not exactly coordinated enough for a normal bike, so went w/trike... it's stunning to see who supports ya and who doesn’t)

[gaydeceiver@mstdn.social]

@MsHearthWitch I believe the bylaws state that it can only be a handmade recumbent bike ... but sure.

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@colinstu @MsHearthWitch We don't have the stamina to bike places, so we got an electric scooter instead. It fucking rocked. (Until we got hit by a car, anyway.) Screw the haters!

[colinstu@birdbutt.com]

@IceWolf @MsHearthWitch I didn't have the stamina either, but I built it up quickly. Electric would def be handy if it was a super regular thing for me but currently it's not. (it is for my mate now tho)

[icewolf@masto.brightfur.net]

@colinstu @MsHearthWitch Oh yeah, chronic fatigue wolves here, "just exercise" won't help heh. :3 I imagine it'd also be easier to use a regular bike if we'd had a road bike instead of the thiccest, shittiest mountain bike out there. (Okay, it could probably be worse. It's freakin' heavy though.)