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Air conditioning.
Air conditioning is why the car is so popular.
Nah, I wanna ride a bike and get to work good and sweaty. It instills fear in my enemies
There have been hot days where friends met me at a bar and asked me ”Weren’t you hot on a bike?” It was only then I realized the day was considered hot, because I had wind cooling, and they had a metal greenhouse with solar gain.
That only works if by "hot" days you mean "comfortably warm". For actually hot weather, it's gonna have to be evaporative cooling (sweat) and even then it gets pretty uncomfortable unless you're going at a leisurely pace IMO.
It's all kinds of comfort. Comfort to only walk a little when you arrive. Comfort of being "safe" while others are endangered (by you). Comfort of only pushing a pedal with minimal force, instead of propelling yourself. Comfort of having all your shit with you, like a miniture house/oversized backpack. Comfort of keeping a distance to others, being able to hide all you flaws with your carry-on personal space while othering everybody else. Comfort of being sheltered from environment while driving (+ AC), actively worsening the environment.
I can wake up in Utah in the morning, and be at the beach in California in the afternoon. I think that's freedom. Google says that same trip on a bike is 3 days. Through Vegas and the Mojave desert. If you don't die.
Used to be able to do the same on a train, tripping on laudanum the whole way.
With HSR you could do it and be back before lunch, tripping on lsd the whole way.
I confused Utah with Ohio and was very confused.