I know it's footage from a Ford commercial, but it's still so 80s it reminds me of this old Bob Seger song that was in all of Chevy's 80s and 90s commercials.
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You think that song triggers PTSD flashbacks for them, complete with thousand-mile-stare, as Bob Seger's voice and images of trucks pulling other trucks over mountains play over and over again in their heads? NGL, that'd be kinda funny.
Been away from the site for a hot minute. Glad to see these tards haven't changed. He gets winded actually riding a bike that isn't a glorified motorized scooter. So much for the bicycle being the superior method of travel for these redditors.
In the before times, when someone would post to an online discussion complaining that riding a bike made them winded, and asked what parts they should upgrade on the bike so they don't get winded anymore, they would be told to, "upgrade the motor." Most kiwis here should hopefully recognize that as the subtle insult it is, but for you retards in the back, the winded cyclist in this scenario is being compared to Fatrick.
Sadly, with as cheap and readily available as electric bikes, conversion kits, and DIY parts are now, a fatass receiving the suggestion to "upgrade the motor" would just as likely respond by asking which electrical conversion kit he should buy.
I can see this faggot never leaves his bugpod. If he ever actually did, he'd know that sometimes other humans on the road/walk/path/trail/etc do something phenomenally stupid that creates a dangerous situation, and the safest thing to do for all involved is for you to GTFO. Being able to suddenly accelerate, and accelerate hard, can be critical to life and safety.
THEY'VE FOUND THE THREAD!!!!
Hello, r/fuckcars! You are all retarded faggots, and I am embarrassed to have ever benefited from public transit because of you. In fact, it is a wonder I was was ever able to benefit from public transit at all, with transit "advocates" like you in the word. I will still use my feet, my bicycle, the bus, and the trains to get around my city instead of my car,
when those other modes of travel are appropriate for my goals and the current travel conditions. But faggots like you, who only ever whine about how evil cars are, instead of doing anything to improve other modes for other people, or worse, work against something which improves a non-car mode because it doesn't make things worse for cars --
you are a major contributor to why public transit tends to suck in the areas where it even makes sense to try at all. You are your own worst enemies, and enemies of anyone who would like not-car modes to suck less.
Earth Liberation Front (ELF) arson attack on housing in Washington state.
Okay, if I wasn't MATI before, I'm definitely MATI now. If anyone perished as a consequence of that fire, may their vengeful shades haunt every r/fuckcars poster who endorsed it.
See, this is a perfect example of why the r/fuckcars faggots are useless. So we have a problem: roads getting clogged up by parents idling in their cars as they wait to drop off their kids at school. I've had to deal with that before, and he's right, it sucks. But what is his solution? Something like advocating for bicycle ridership? Something that would get the kids a bit of exercise and spare the parents the time and gas spent waiting in an idling car? Something that might give kids some experience with not-car modes of travel being useful? No, don't be silly. The solution is to ban private schools, because everyone knows that only private schools have the line-of-cars problem, and lack the one true solution: a bus program.
Hey retard, public schools have the line-of-cars problem too, because not everyone in a district is eligible for bus service. And many private schools also have their own bus programs for the same reason public schools do: Not every student who attends lives one block over.
Anyone who has ever grown produce would understand the challenges in keeping something as a tomato plant alive. Now imagine how farmers struggle growing fields of food to feed the populace at large. If urban farming was more efficient than the flat country you'd have countries like China doing it in such a massive scale. However, you don't see that. In North Korea, a country dominated by mountainous terrains, has made farming difficult and contributed to the ongoing famine there.
It's a recurring stupidity in the r/fuckcars crowd. You can tell they've never tried to grow so so much as a potted tomato plant on an apartment balcony. Or if they had success with that, that they're assuming that their success wil scale to all crops, in all climates and seasons. In all fairness, efficient, high-intensity LED lighting has made it more feasible to grow some food crops indoors. But it really only works well for the more expensive vegetables like tomatoes and peppers that you can sell for more than what you spent running those LED grow lamps. Staple crops that need to stay cheap if you want to avoid famine, crops like wheat, maize, barley, beans, and rice, take up far too much space to attempt to grow in a vertical greenhouse with the sunlight supplemented by LEDs.
/n/ is also a good place to find rampant stupidity. I feel like I don't need to explain why this is dumb (
thread /
archive) but I can already hear
@WelperHelper99's blood start to boil.
It was posted on /r/fuckcars a few days ago:
This retardation again? What's funny about this one, is you can tell that the OP isn't shitposting, he really thinks both really do have equivalent capacity. What's even funnier is that he's too retarded for even r/fuckcars, and they're calling him out on his stupidity.
A "bike" can carry 500 kg (1102 lbs, or half a ton):
You know what? I'm in a autistic mood. I'm gonna look closer at this and sperg about why it is retarded.
The "bike" in question is a Nanuk Megaliner from
CargoCycle. Empty weight of 250kg , max payload of 500kg, top speed of 25km/h, or 550 lbs, 1100 lbs, and 15mph in Freedom Units. Fully loaded that's 750kg or about 1650 lbs the rider has to move in addition to his own weight. Beyond that, there's not much in the way of specs listed on the website that I can find, but they do have some pictures one can analyze. Links, along with local and remote archives are in the spoiler.
First, lets start with the things about this "bike" that aren't completely retarded. The frame is clearly ruggedly built to actually carry 500kg without taking damage. The wheels are on the wider end of the typical range for bicycles, allowing them to handle heavier loads without getting constant pinch flats. It is a two-part, articulated vehicle, with the pivot above the rear axle of the front part. The rear section is slung low to the ground. If this reminds you of goose-neck and fifth-wheel trailers, or OTR trucks, you are correct. This design is used in goose-necks and OTR trucks because it is a very stable way of handling large loads relative to the weight of the tow vehicle. Make note of that fact, we're going to come back to it.
The brakes, I'm less enthusiastic about. They
are disc brakes instead of rim calipers, thank fucking god, and they're again on the larger end of the range you'll see for bike wheels. The calipers had better be hydraulicly actuated and not cable-actuated, or this build will be even more retarded than I think it is. There is, however, one glaring error: the lack of any brakes on the front wheel. In any braking situation, momentum tries to keep the vehicle moving, and the frontmost axle takes a major part of the braking load. In fairness, when you have a trailer that's heavy relative to the tow vehicle, you
want siginficant braking on the rear axles of both the trailer and the tow vehicle to reduce the braking load at the frontmost axle. Even then, every car and truck on the road has its most powerful brakes on the frontmost axle for a reason. This design is giving up braking ability by not even having a dinky little rim caliper on that front wheel.
Moving onto the drivetrain. They call this a "bike", but take a close look at the pictures, at the bottom of the frame, directly below the seat, where the pedal chain seems to end at something. That's an electric assist motor. This is a common setup you'll see on the "pedicabs" you might see in your own city's downtown bar district on a Friday or Saturday night. This explains why this thing supposedly can get up to 15mph. A regualr human can put out 100-150W of continuous pedal power over the course of an hour, with that droping down to 70-75W over the longer term of an 8 hour work day. Even elite Tour de France riders are only going to be able to do a continuous 250-350W over longer periods. That might get you up to 15 mph on a regular bicycle. That isn't going to get you up to 15mph in this heavy beast without electric assist, and you sure as shit aren't going that fast with a full 500kg load. If they wanted to make this thing more useful, they'd up the electric power and gearing to make it capable of something like 25mph or 40kph (or any speed at all up a grade). But if they did that, for fuck sakes, upgrade the damn brakes.
I said we'd come back to the truck-like construction of this. This is very truck-like for a so-called bicycle. In fact, its not even really a bicycle at all, but more of a pedal-assisted electric microtruck. In their zeal to make a bike that can do what a truck does, the've gone and reinvented a truck. I suppose this is a trans-bicycle, of sorts? If we wanted to be progressive and understanding, we'd respect its pronouns, pretend this little truck is a true and honest bicycle, and affirm how stunning and brave it is to carry cargo that carbrains think an F-350 is needed for. But this is the Kiwifarms, where we point and laugh at the absurd. If the Kiwi Farms were a bike forum, this thing would be getting mocked in that forum's equivalent of The Stinkditch.
Honestly, this is very, very funny to me. I'm not even mad; with some changes to the power assist and brakes, I think this could be useful in some situations. But consider what's happened here. r/fuckcars claims you can move cargo with a bike. A reasonable person points out that a bike is limited in how much it can safely carry, maybe 100lbs with judicious use of a backpack and panniers. r/fuckcars goes 'Nuh uh!", and moves the goalposts to claim that the this little electric microtruck can do what a pickup truck can. They totally fail to understand that it is useful as a truck because it fucking
is a truck, and not much of a bicycle anymore.
Moving the goalposts that far and that fast required a much more powerful truck than this thing. I suspect they
stole borrowed
@WelperHelper99's F-150 under the cover of night to do so.
