10 mo. ago • 98%

Anon likes bikes

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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.

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- I think the point was to contrast this with cars. Having your car stolen is 10x worse than having your bike stolen
  
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  10x? What car can be so cheap?
  
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- You have enough money for a pair of bolt cutters.
  
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  If you're big enough, you just need money for a balaclava.
  
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- 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.
  
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  There it is.
  
  The stupidest thing I'll read all day.
  
  And the sun's not even up yet.
  
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With trains, you don’t arrive sweaty, you can’t get run down by cars, and someone else parks it

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- 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.
  
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  Where I live I wouldn't want to bike. Too many freaking hills
  
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  Teach me the non-sweaty ways. I love my bike, but theres no way I can arrive not sweaty. Before you say go slow, I’m not letting no bus take my god-damn glory.
  
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- Only if you live at one train station and work at another.
  
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  You can also do this thing called walking. Although I am aware that in the United States that is considered suspicious behavior.
  
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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.

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- 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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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.

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- Can't tell if satire
  
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"Cars are freedom! *

Except for the monthly finance payment, the legal obligation to insurance companies, the dependance on oil companies, etc"

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ITT: Carbrains

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- As soon as bicycles are mentioned, everyone suddenly has to transport their washing machine 200 miles in sub zero temperatures.
  
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I never learned how to ride a bicycle, I should really get to it someday. I just walk everywhere I need to go, or use carpooling/bus/subway..

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Bruh I live 26 miles from where I work by car, and 21 miles by biking per Google Maps. And most of it is highway travel. It would make my commute over 1.5 hrs.

It is the dream if/when we can move closer though.

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- if entire cities were designed around these the way they are with cars, everyone would be fine with it and you would live less than 6 miles from where you work.
  
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Distance. An hour commute or a 20 minute trip to the grocery store. We killed walkable neighborhoods so now here we are. Trapped.

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- But we can't have 15 minute cities because...that's tyranny somehow?
  
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- Open your own grocery store. Or allow others to do so.
  
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  I would if I could. But I can't beat Walmart prices an hour away on Transit.
  
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The fact is goes as far as as fast as you can isn't really a good thing. Also collisions are more likely to kill you.

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- ...aaand we're back to adjusting our speed to suit the circumstances.
  
  Cities are inhospitable, but mostly because they're built around 1 tonne death traps as opposed to other means of transport
  
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  You won't be able to adjust it very high. And what is a better solution than 1 ton death traps? Is it trains? No. That would require rebuilding every city in America to be like 4 buildings and nothing else and the places where it would work already have it like new York. Is it buses? No. They are already in place and nobody uses them. So tell me, what is the actual solution besides cars?
  
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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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- Honestly, no matter the mode of transportation, I'd arrive drenched in sweat in a 40° environment.
  
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Will be yours for an average of 1.2 days in a major city before it gets stolen
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All I’m saying is nobody ever got a great ass because they drove a car a lot.

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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.

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- cities should look like this: bicycle/walking paths, trains, trams and buses. and a tiny road for the rare occasion you actually NEED a car. boom, problems solved. also mixed use zoning, rezone every city so it's more compatible with a non car centric lifestyle
  
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Can't sleep in it. Gotta haul your groceries. Won't get you to the next state and back.

Y'all are deluded.

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