cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16133154
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16133154
Link to original Tweet: https://x.com/DavidZipper/status/1795048724021862898
I don’t want the first thing I do at the office be a shower.
E-bikes let me control the amount of sweat, while still giving me a cardio workout.
if you got fitter you wouldn’t sweat.
i bike 5 miles to work, year round, freezing winter and hot summer. i never sweat unless it’s like 90 and high humidity. that’s a handful of days per year.
I’ve competed at a country level in martial arts. I’m not unfit.
It’s a genetic thing, I sweat like crazy and it takes a long time for me to cool down after I get a good sweat going. Even if I shower, I still keep sweating for a good 30 minutes.
It’s really not a big deal. You just shower before you leave, and have clean clothes in your bag.
Seriously. Hundreds of thousands of people do this every day.
Shower before I leave where? I arrive at the office covered in sweat. My clothes completely soaked.
Then I need to shower, change and still haven’t clocked in.
Shower before you leave home, duh. And then change into the clean work clothes in your bag–the one I said you should carry–once you get to work.
Since this is apparently difficult, I’ll break it down.
Wake up, get coffee. Maybe breakfast if you eat in the morning.
Pack your work clothes in a messenger bag (I used a Chrome Kremlin for a decade, but ended up switching to a Trash Bag). Pack lunch if you want to; make sure lunch is in a leak-proof container.
Shower. Change into cycling clothes appropriate for the weather.
Carry your bike down three flights of stairs to the street.
Ride to work.
Lock bike to a heavy, immobile, hard to destroy object (I was partial to light poles when there wasn’t a city rack available; I used a Kryptonite Evolution chain and lock for about a decade with zero bike thefts.)
Change into work clothes and shoes. Comb hair again to minimize helmet hair.
Stow backpack under desk, get to work.
you are trying to reason with someone who is operating on the belief that cycling to work a few miles will make them sweat 5L or something.
give up.