This is very true in areas where it tends to be cold. But there are parts of the world that have easily hit the orange and red areas of the human heat tolerance chart:

Basically, as humidity goes up, humans lose the ability to cool off via sweating. This is especially true when shade isn’t an option, and when physically exerting yourself, (like when riding a bike in the middle of the street). In the more extreme cases (like in the red), it becomes dangerous to be outside at all. In these areas, air conditioning is usually required by law, and public services will begin opening cooling shelters inside of public buildings for those without AC (like the homeless).

Then that -35°C hits and all that goes out the window.

I grew up there and damn it was cold sometimes.

Now where I live, the coldest weeks are like -4/-8°C tops, with a little bit of icy rain. So easy to dress for 😋. Summer goes all the way up to 40°C though, that's harder to accommodate for.

Cheers.

Did you watch the video?

The point is that the infrastructure is a WAY more important factor than weather, but weather is cited as a major factor for sticking with car infrastructure.

It's not just about cycling or walking. In an ideal city, you can just walk to a tram, metro or bus and then enjoy a air conditioned journey. The point of the video is to highlight how the common excuses of "the weather" or "city too big" are not valid reasons to just keep building roads and dismiss public transport, walkable spaces or cycling paths. Any city will benefit from good people-first design, regardless if it's cold or hot, dry or wet, big or small.

The issue is kinda with people thinking they will always gonna be riding in the middle of the day but in reality their commute mostly happened in 8am and then back home at 5:30pm something, which kinda defeat the excuse of "it's hot".

Yes, it's hot between 11am to 4pm, but i think currently people just couldn't take anything that isn't a 26°c and below office or home or mall or car environment, which kinda makes outside even hotter because of all the AC and car. It's really a vicious cycle.

i mean you can just wipe yourself down with a wet towel or some wet wipes, yeah it's not supremely convenient but it really shouldn't be any sort of a dealbreaker.

Here in Phoenix/the Valley very few people would bike when it's 110°+ in the summer. But it doesn't matter because we have snowbirds and there's less traffic in the summer so it's okay to take a lane away from cars on every road for bike infrastructure.

Funny thing is, with more people using bikes and public transport, there would be less cars to slow down traffic and more free parking spots in general.

Is cycling the right solution for everybody? No. Neither is the car, but here we are.

Public transit and more affordable housing where people work is the actual solution.

... Therefore making bikes an excellent consequential solution to commuting. No one with a lick of sense is recommending that the only change required is that people switch to biking instead of driving.