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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (6 children)

You had me till the BuY AnOthER OnE, Pay me imaginary strawman. I do love bikes though, so do the fuckers that keep taking mine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You have enough money for a pair of bolt cutters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah Yeah I do have some of those, where you parked again you say?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're big enough, you just need money for a balaclava.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Hmmmm baklavas

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think the point was to contrast this with cars. Having your car stolen is 10x worse than having your bike stolen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

10x? What car can be so cheap?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Ironically, a stole one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's true although it sucks. You could have several bikes stolen a year and it's still cheaper than a car.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Think of it that way - whoever stole your bike was probably more happy to get it than you are sad to lose it. The total happiness in the world increased. So, whatever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There it is.

The stupidest thing I'll read all day.

And the sun's not even up yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I never know if the artist is serious or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thank you; I had no idea.

I take it that the idea is that it's supposed to be stupid?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
  • kryptonite U-lock.
  • locking skewers for the tires, gears, seat and handle bars.
  • an ugly color

At this point, they'll need an angle grinder to get anything valuable off the bike. It's more expensive but so long its not the standard of ever biker, bike thieves'll target easier bikes to steal off.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (6 children)

With trains, you don’t arrive sweaty, you can’t get run down by cars, and someone else parks it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I ride a bike to work every day. I'm never sweaty. The infrastructure to cycle exists so I won't get run over by cars.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Where I live I wouldn't want to bike. Too many freaking hills

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Where I live (Oklahoma City), I wouldn't want to bike for at least 5 months of the year. Between mid April and late October, we are stupid hot and humid. We had lots of days this past summer that either got uncomfortably close to or passed 40°C. Dew points in the mid 20s all summer long. You'll break a sweat just standing outside for more than about a minute or two.

Can't imagine what it's like for those sorry saps in Houston or Florida.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The comfortable temp for biking is significantly higher than it is for walking, especially with the right gear. 40°C is definitely beyond reasonable tho. Planting trees and decreasing the amount of asphalt would go a long way to make it a better proposition more of the year. A societal expectation that you don't go or do anything when weather gets that hot could bridge the difference. Unfortunately that kind of philosophy is antithetical to capitalism's demands for productivity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I live in a somewhat hilly city. That is why I have an electric bike. I'm never sweaty when I arrive at work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even if the city is flat as fuck you'll still arrive sweaty if the climate is hot. Take Phoenix for example, you will sweat even if you are in the shade and doing no physical exercise because it's commonly 46 degrees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Phoenix is not a great example of how we should design cities. Putting a city in a desert is a bad idea from the outset.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The desert is the only reason it is habitable, if it were less arid the humidity would make it even worse. The largest desert on earth is Antarctica, deserts don't have to be hot, just low precipitation.

But what deserts do very well is solar potential due to lack of cloud cover and I don't know why we can't use solar to power electric rail for public transportation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have an electric bike for the hills.

Where I used to work it was downhill all the way there and uphill all the way back stupid way round of having it don't want to get to work early.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Screw that. I love paying for car insurance, gas, oil change, tires, and random bolts maintenance. There is also the thrill of driving in traffic, and dealing with road rage. There is plenty that makes the car the ideal transportation mode loved by the masses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

My personal favorite is how if someone bumps you and you get the smallest scratch or dent on your door, you now have to be late for whatever you were doing, pull over (impacting other traffic) exchange insurance info deal with possible hostility for that and ultimately have a crappy day because of it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Scooter, pic unrelated

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Japanese used bikes to defeat the British in Singapore. The Vietnamese used bikes to defeat the Americans in Vietnam. The Chinese used bikes to destroy manufacturing in the west.

I'll be in the cold cold ground before I use some stupid commie machine powered by rice.

All other arguments for not using a bike are stupid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Can't tell if satire

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Every time I see this kind of post I just wish they would try to go to work in a +40 degree Celsius environment.

It must be nice to work in a place that won't mind if you arrive drenched in sweat.

Edit: I love the hive mind

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Cause you can't actually GO anywhere on a bike. If you want to go somewhere 200 miles away for a week, it'd take a day and a half each way, minimum, and you can't bring anything with you bigger than a backpack. It's also physically strenuous to go literally anywhere, even the places you are allowed to go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Also, bad weather is a major pain in the ass on a bicycle, but only a minor inconvenience in a car

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