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  • Living in a large European city and being a bike rider I can only recommend a lot of training if you are switching. You’d be in one of the two main risk groups.

    As others said, play it safe. Riding in winter might not be possible although I did that a few years with a touring suit.

    In general I love the ease of getting around and just parking anywhere (reasonably of course). Even though we have public transport it is unreliable, expensive and slow.

    Just be sure you’re in condition to ride. Many people drive cars in conditions they shouldn’t and everyone pays for that but on two wheels you’ll likely pay the most.

    By the way heated handles are the best thing you can do against the cold but although it works there can be other issues, it can feel as if you’re holding on to glowing steel or if the hands are in limbo between feeling and not it can get very painful.

    The touring suit alone was 1500 euros used 10 years back or so.







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    OK, thanks.

    So I guess the situation is this: it depends. For example our cats do kill a bird a year maybe (species that are around in large numbers) but they mostly hunt mice which are abundant in most places and it’s actually a benefit to cull their numbers.

    While we also had one cat get poisoned by assholes we don’t have any issues with cats getting run over ever and that’s in a (EU) city.



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    Right? But they can do that absolutely flawless and surprisingly well! Though most don’t do it.

    One of ours loved lying in my daughters bed when she had one with a ladder leading to it and it was amazing how he went up. Sadly I never got to take a photo or video of him doing it.