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This guy's dating problems aren't from not having a car, holy shit. I can't imagine thinking it's a good idea to pay someone to impress them.
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There's a word for paying women to go on dates... and it's not "impress".
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if you go downhill, shift into high gear so it's better for going downhill. also try coasting and using the brakes to make going downhill easier. should slow you down enough for small hills you may come across in cities or something. otherwise learn from mountain bikers
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That's only around Tysons' Corner (where your picture is from) and at the airport. Most of the route is in the highway median and/or used preexisting Orange/Blue line track.
It was way over budget and behind schedule.
Check out his post history. There's a lot more milk there but I didn't want to bloat my post with his incel thoughts.
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Ya but bikes don't have engines so downshifting doesn't do anything other than increase the click click click sound from the ratcheted gear mechanism. Ebikes might have that regen feature like you see on the Chevy Bolt and basically every EV out there though.
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That Singapore article just confirms what I've been thinking all along--it's not about "cycling infrastructure" or "safety" or "muh alternatives", it's the fact that they're seething because like basketball Americans, cyclists want everything but cry foul the minute equal laws are applied to them.
Come to think of it, there are a lot of parallels:
- Tiny minority but demands that everything cater to them
- Never, ever satisfied with what you give them no matter how many sacrifices are made
- Demands all sorts of rules for others but get pissed the minute laws are applied to them
- Wants others to pay for their shit
...I'm sure there are others, but I'm tired and I want to go to bed.
Come to think of it, there are a lot of parallels:
- Tiny minority but demands that everything cater to them
- Never, ever satisfied with what you give them no matter how many sacrifices are made
- Demands all sorts of rules for others but get pissed the minute laws are applied to them
- Wants others to pay for their shit
...I'm sure there are others, but I'm tired and I want to go to bed.
MS Paint Gigachad
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What? Most gearshifts only have forward, and forward faster.
I mean, i guess you could try using brakes, but with such a load, those brakes had better be up to scratch. Even still, they'd be under a lot of wear and tear.
And this doesnt change the fact that that monstrosity is basically a (small) car, in terms of road space used and parking space used. Why not go all the way and add a fucking cab, aircon system and engine?
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You can do dual hydraulic disk brakes on a bicycle but generally that's totally unnecessary because bicycles don't take a lot to stop. The issue here isn't with brakes tho, its with the contact patch of the tyre. Bicycle tyres tend to be thin to get a smaller contact patch, which in turn lowers rolling resistance so you aren't dumping all your watts into overcoming friction. While that's an advantage for moving, it's a disadvantage for stopping. Especially with any kind of weight.
I'd care less about stopping the thing and more about the handling at any kind of speed. Get that thing loaded up with its high center of gravity and stubby tyres going at 25-30mph and the handling must be stupidly touchy and it's gonna feel like it will topple at any moment. That said I have never ridden a cargo bike with any actual cargo in it. They don't drive well without it so I can't imagine they're any more fun loaded.
If you're gonna be a danger to yourself and others by pretending your bike is a pickup truck just buy a bike trailer like most retards? Still can barely stop and will inevitably crash but at least when you don't need to carry anything you don't have to deal with a god awful bike that you hate to ride.
Also I'm kinda shocked they haven't banned these from bike lanes yet. Back when I used to bicycle commute I would absolutely be pissed off if someone took one of these to clog an entire bike lane. That said, anyone who buys one of these was never using the bike lanes they themselves championed to begin with so I guess it's no huge loss to me.
I'd care less about stopping the thing and more about the handling at any kind of speed. Get that thing loaded up with its high center of gravity and stubby tyres going at 25-30mph and the handling must be stupidly touchy and it's gonna feel like it will topple at any moment. That said I have never ridden a cargo bike with any actual cargo in it. They don't drive well without it so I can't imagine they're any more fun loaded.
If you're gonna be a danger to yourself and others by pretending your bike is a pickup truck just buy a bike trailer like most retards? Still can barely stop and will inevitably crash but at least when you don't need to carry anything you don't have to deal with a god awful bike that you hate to ride.
Also I'm kinda shocked they haven't banned these from bike lanes yet. Back when I used to bicycle commute I would absolutely be pissed off if someone took one of these to clog an entire bike lane. That said, anyone who buys one of these was never using the bike lanes they themselves championed to begin with so I guess it's no huge loss to me.
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tiny kid's bikes let you pedal backwards to try to stop, but "real bikes" just freewheel if you stop pedaling or pedal backwards.
However, some of the E-bikes might have regenetive braking that could make somewhat of a difference (but not enough depending on how fast you're going)
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Chuck McGill
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No, that dude is a retarded autistic incel who thinks that all women are prostitutes.
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this is why you get those little cart attachments for behind the bike you usually use for kids but instead you put the groceries in it so you can have more groceries overall
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When I lived somewhere I could bike and get groceries I just had a pair of panniers like this:
Mounted on the rear rack, low and didn't impact balance or steering like a handlebar basket would and way more comfortable than a backpack.
And if you're really saving money over having a car then $60 each shouldn't be a big deal.
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I had to go to Europe last month, so I decided to wander around a couple of cities of various population densities during my downtime.
A considerable amount of the paved roads had dedicated bike lanes (especially in Ireland and the UK), and the typical cyclists who chose instead to bike on the car lanes. Cycling lanes tended to be more present in larger cities. As expected, parking is expensive and a bitch to find, especially in the city centers. Roads tended to be more narrow, and highways usually were around 2-3 lanes per direction. I mainly attribute this to the small sizes of European countries in general in addition to less urban sprawl being present.
Excluding tourist buses, intracity transportation tended [more often than not] to be fairly inexpensive, clean, frequent, and prompt. Depending on what country you go to, there might be trams and rentable bikes in addition to the usual buses and trains. Ride-sharing isn't as prevalent, but taxis are fairly present. Intercity transportation mostly suffers from the same problems as in America, wherein it comes less much often and is fairly pricey. Ireland has a network that spans across the island country and covers a great deal of intercity travel, although I will note that cars are still favored in that regard. Depending on location and if your car runs on diesel or petrol, gas prices are approximately 1.6-1.9 Euro/liter, which translates to over $6 USD/gallon.
Buildings tend to be small and clustered together. There is a high emphasis on walk-ability in some cites (again, mostly in the busier cities). There are car-free roads (which your GPS will still try to steer you towards because they're wide enough for opposing car traffic), but they appear to be limited in general to marketplace streets or near the city center. While there are a lot of food shops where you can get groceries, most of them do not have shopping carts. I presume it's due to the fact that since there is less of an emphasis on car transportation, that it would mean that people would shop frequently at those stores, but pick up only a few items each time. I rarely saw people with those personal grocery carts, though.
Despite what the /r/fuckcars people think and have done, Europeans in walkable cities do not, in fact, drag large appliances on public transportation after purchase. They do not appreciate the idea of other people doing it and fucking up everyone else's commute. They behave like normal people and ask to rent a box truck to bring it home, or request the company deliver it to their house.
That being said, can walkable cities exist in the US? I'd say it depends on the city, with very small cities being more likely and easier to do. You'd have to account for the several hundred billion it would take to knock down existing buildings, relocate businesses and people, and reshape aging infrastructure for larger-scale projects. The huge price tag seems to be an idealized vision, given the amount of grift and political incompetence the US has (see: the failed California high-speed train, and NYC MTA workers giving themselves several hundred thousand $$ bonuses). Ireland's sq mileage is slightly smaller than North Carolina, with Arkansas' population (~5 million), so it's no wonder that Ireland has enough land to use for various public transport.
A considerable amount of the paved roads had dedicated bike lanes (especially in Ireland and the UK), and the typical cyclists who chose instead to bike on the car lanes. Cycling lanes tended to be more present in larger cities. As expected, parking is expensive and a bitch to find, especially in the city centers. Roads tended to be more narrow, and highways usually were around 2-3 lanes per direction. I mainly attribute this to the small sizes of European countries in general in addition to less urban sprawl being present.
Excluding tourist buses, intracity transportation tended [more often than not] to be fairly inexpensive, clean, frequent, and prompt. Depending on what country you go to, there might be trams and rentable bikes in addition to the usual buses and trains. Ride-sharing isn't as prevalent, but taxis are fairly present. Intercity transportation mostly suffers from the same problems as in America, wherein it comes less much often and is fairly pricey. Ireland has a network that spans across the island country and covers a great deal of intercity travel, although I will note that cars are still favored in that regard. Depending on location and if your car runs on diesel or petrol, gas prices are approximately 1.6-1.9 Euro/liter, which translates to over $6 USD/gallon.
Buildings tend to be small and clustered together. There is a high emphasis on walk-ability in some cites (again, mostly in the busier cities). There are car-free roads (which your GPS will still try to steer you towards because they're wide enough for opposing car traffic), but they appear to be limited in general to marketplace streets or near the city center. While there are a lot of food shops where you can get groceries, most of them do not have shopping carts. I presume it's due to the fact that since there is less of an emphasis on car transportation, that it would mean that people would shop frequently at those stores, but pick up only a few items each time. I rarely saw people with those personal grocery carts, though.
Despite what the /r/fuckcars people think and have done, Europeans in walkable cities do not, in fact, drag large appliances on public transportation after purchase. They do not appreciate the idea of other people doing it and fucking up everyone else's commute. They behave like normal people and ask to rent a box truck to bring it home, or request the company deliver it to their house.
That being said, can walkable cities exist in the US? I'd say it depends on the city, with very small cities being more likely and easier to do. You'd have to account for the several hundred billion it would take to knock down existing buildings, relocate businesses and people, and reshape aging infrastructure for larger-scale projects. The huge price tag seems to be an idealized vision, given the amount of grift and political incompetence the US has (see: the failed California high-speed train, and NYC MTA workers giving themselves several hundred thousand $$ bonuses). Ireland's sq mileage is slightly smaller than North Carolina, with Arkansas' population (~5 million), so it's no wonder that Ireland has enough land to use for various public transport.
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I honestly can't tell if they're joking or not. It's labeled "meme" but urbanists in the past have been really serious about city representation in fiction, much like woketards are really serious about race representation in fiction.
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Up next, their favorite capeshit city is super car-centric and that is bad.
Guess the next Into the Spider Verse movie needs Miles webbing up cars.