You can drink and cycle
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Bikes are also powered by your manly body. In a truck, some woman or gay can push the gas pedal as well as you, but on a bike, your power proves your worth.
You can also fix a bike, even if you're a manlet with minimal tools. These days, fixing a truck requires buying some kind of diagnostic kit, probably made in china.
Iran or some other far away place you couldn't find on a map can mess with the oil supply and make it too expensive for your truck. Bikes are powered by food, and a real man has a garden and grows his own food as well as delicious spices.
Biking privilege cannot be revoked.... Yet
Anarchists:
Also anarchists:
Speaking to my heart here.
The stuff that’s getting me pissed is the add ons after you bought the car. Like Apple play apparently won’t work in GM’s after 2028 and you’ll have to pay for GM’s ui. Don’t know how that legal once you bought something one way, they can’t change unless it will only be for new cars. If that’s the case I won’t be buying new cars
Now how do we keep them from outlawing ebikes?
The silicon valley ebikes are not cool, I think they are all wired, and spying on us for income as much as actual fees to use them. Everyone, throw your ebikes in the nearest body of water.
We are set to own nothing, if we don't fight back. I own a bike, I don't fucking rent it.
Hmm. My e-bike is an electric motor slapped on a slightly-beefier-than-normal frame. The only electronics besides the motor is a simpler than dirt lcd-screen interface with spedometer, odometer, and buttons for controlling the mode and speed. The device doesn't connect to anything besides the motor, and that's by design.
I have on occasion used bikeshare-style e-bikes when visiting certain cities. Those are certainly tracked. But I feel like the "conventional" e-bikes like the one I described above surely outnumber the bikeshares by several factors.
Bikeshares HAVE to be tracked otherwise people are gonna steal them
Yeah that's what it's for if you're being charitable
I am sorry, the city I am in sometimes 98% are city bike company or whatever they are called, (shittee-bike.)
Self owned ownes are the ideal. Fucking yes.
while biking doesnt need fuel subsidies, paved roads are quite nice.
I don't know about anywhere else, but in the UK, most roads are paid for from general taxation.
Which is a subsidy.
It's also why we say that cars are heavily subsidized: road maintenance, parking spaces, large bridges... all costs that would be significantly down if urban areas were organized around public transit and active transit.
Car infrastructure is a cost paid by all for the benefit of only a part of society.
Road Taxes aren't sufficient to offset most maintance?
There may be exceptions, but for almost everywhere: no.
They're awful for the environment and are facilitated by our car-centric society.
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Requires loan from big bank
For real though, get your auto loans through credit unions. Checking and savings there too. And mortgages. Actually, just don't use big banks.
I've never bought a car with a loan. That's optional.
Need to pay mechanic to fix vs fix yourself in living room
You never get stuck in traffic on a bike.
? Happens all the time for me, what am I doing wrong?
Geez! How bad is the traffic around there? I've always been able to find a gap.
Well I could try running down the child/dog/walker....
Yeah, don't do that. :) I was more referring to car traffic. I generally ride on the road, although my current commute is about 2/3 bike path with a separate path for pedestrians and is nice and wide with loveley views over the river. I feel pretty blessed.
Shared paths are a nightmare at the best of times.
Where I bike, even when there's a separate path for pedestrians, they often just step out into the bike lane to walk around other people, often without looking.
I actually mostly prefer shared paths because an area with shared paths generally means traffic is a lot lighter, so it's easier to just go around a pedestrian, rather than deal with groups of pedestrians who may at any moment walk out in front of you.
they often just step out into the bike lane to walk around other people, often without looking.
That's where a good, loud horn does come in useful. :)
The bike paths near me get really busy, I sometimes get stuck behind a slow poke.
Sounds like they're probably not wide enough, which is pretty typical of a lot of the half-arsed ways many cities implement them. My city has much improved over the last 20 years. We have a pretty effective advocacy group that actually has the ear of council.
No, they're a pretty good size I'm just in a heavy cycling neighbourhood. We often outnumber the cars.
Even the "jams" aren't jams, they're just me going slower than I'd like.
Honestly, that sounds like an awesome problem to have. The paths on my commute are pretty popular as well, and everyone looks like they're having a good time. It's a stark contrast to when I drive to work, where there's tailgaters and queue-jumpers and other generally aggressive dickheads.
I biked in winter just fine. There are winter tires for bicycles too, and it’s usually fine unless streets turned into glacier, but cars aren’t much better in that situation too.
are there any studdded bike tires (I would love them for my ebike)?
There definitely are, they make them in a variety of sizes, so they should fit your bike fine.
But, be aware, it's different when using them. If you have a mountain-bike style tire, snow might be ok, but ice is dangerous. It's basically the opposite with a studded tire. If the snow is thick enough that you ride on top of it, you won't have much traction. You want the studs to bite into the ice instead.
looks like Schwalbe makes some MTB ones. not sure what size you're looking for.
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I agree, yet some municipalities do demand registration, and enforce it when they want to get you on something but have nothing.
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