[HN Gopher] The Making of Lesotho's Robust Cycling Culture (2021)
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       The Making of Lesotho's Robust Cycling Culture (2021)
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2022-07-24 08:15 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | contingencies wrote:
       | Interesting. Another great mountainous area with less visibility
       | in cycling than it deserves is Yunnan.
        
       | AlbertCory wrote:
       | I had an officemate who had a trivia question that no one could
       | answer:
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       | Q: What country has the highest lowest point?
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       | Naturally, you'd think Nepal or Tibet, but it's Lesotho.
        
       | InitialLastName wrote:
       | > Three decades ago, Lesotho's cycling culture was non-existent.
       | Bicycles were just used as a means of transport or for
       | recreational purposes
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       | It's funny, I'd be more likely to argue that those means (if
       | pervasive) are the hallmark of a cycling culture relative to the
       | "Bicycling as an upper-middle-class-hobby- _cum_ -sports-scene"
       | culture the article is talking about.
        
         | NegativeLatency wrote:
         | Yeah I'd totally agree with that, IMO the hallmark of true
         | "cycling culture" is people using it to get stuff done, vs it
         | being a sport or recreational activity.
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         | The Dutch actually have two different words for people who ride
         | bikes, one being for transportation and the other being a
         | sport/competition/touring one: https://www.wordhippo.com/what-
         | is/the/dutch-word-for-5515a2c...
        
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