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You Only Need a £50 Bike (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
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[–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

My commute is 6 kilometres uphill practically all the way. It's not an insanely steep gradient on average, 62 metres of total elevation gain according to Google Maps, but let me tell you not being able to coast for basically any of it sucks so bad. Normally when you go up a hill you at least get to coast down on the other side, but here the hill is about 2.2 kilometres long and I only get to coast down on the way back.

So I got an ebike and it cost a lot more than £50.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That reminds me of my college bike commute. My house at the time was on top of the valley. And my college was on the top of the valley on the other side. 13km one way. I'd be sweating bullets when I'd get to class and sweating bullets when I got home, lol. Though I miss those days, it was a lot of fun. Still have the bike. A 2008 giant stp with 1x7 set up.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    So that's how the mythical "up hill both ways in the snow" works, live at the top of a hill, school is at the top of a hill on the other side of a valley, yes there is downhill but there is up hill in both directions

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