Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN links it whenever someone claims cold or snow rules out cycling, as the concise rebuttal that infrastructure and maintenance decide it.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Not Just Bikes

Topic

winter cycling infrastructure

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

10

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Weather isn't the biggest determinant of cycling usage (and that probably applies to walking too): "Why Canadians can't bike in the winter but Finnish people can" [VIDEO] The scene with the line of tiny bikes parked outside the school in the middle of winter is …

• Can't speak to e-scooters in particular, but cold weather gets cited as a problem for bikes as well, so thought I'd bring this up: for bikes at least it's as much of a question of infrastructure priorities as it is the weather itself. Plenty of …

• > I’m an avid cyclist, but here in Ottawa for half the year it’s -20C and the roads are treacherous. The Not Just Bikes channel, produced by an ex-pat Canadian, has a video asking why can't people in Canada cycle in the winter if the …