They're always looking for a soundbite, but the follow-through is always lacking. The urbanist crowd is the same way - plenty of noise about walkable and carless (not even the more reasonable less-car) transport, very little talking about the density requirements of transit and the difficulties of right-of-way and large-scale construction.
Old, correct quote: "Politics is the art of the possible."
the cannibalism purity spiral of all leftist movements. sad, many such cases.
Their obsession with trying to prove the viability of the cargo bike never fails to astound me. It's impossible for them to just admit that this isn't the most effective way to do this. Shifting the center of gravity off of the front wheel, what could possibly go wrong?
Flowers are delicate and anything sold commercially has been pampered and carefully treated to make sure it looks nice when it goes to the supermarket floral department or gets delivered to your wife/mother/girlfriend/etc.
This has about the same energy as the guy with a driving down the interstate with a queen-sized mattress strapped to the top of his Honda Civic with bungee cords. Oh sure, it's secure right now, but the margin of safety is so razor-narrow that just one minor error could result in a total loss of control.
That's quite a low number, especially given that 1hp = 0.75kW (working from memory here), and a middling 50cc bike (the other type, lol) puts out about 5hp. Looks a bit like classic UK catch-all legislation.
That would be because Mr. Fuckcars is stuck behind the wheel of the motor vehicle he drives (strictly for medical reasons, I assure you - he's so fat any bicycle he mounts will crumple into uselessness), and is seething with jealousy.
I would imagine loadshedding also puts a hamper on ebikes in SA.
He’s going 21 mph in the picture. So much for not using a phone while operating a vehicle.
He probably could afford and store more stuff at home, but he strikes me as the type who'd explicitly and deliberately try to own less and rent more because he's just that much of a euphoric bugman. He owns nothing, and he IS happy.
Oh sure, there's a definite rent vs own calculus (I usually say rent it the first TWO times, if you're thinking about a third, buy it - depends on the item and cost, of course - always rent a plane or boat).
I don't think it's even an explicit calculus for him. He sees car owners actually owning things. He wants to be countercultural and decided to not own such things because others do own things.
Lefties and guns have a few flavors. You have the no gunz crowd, the fudds who grew up with gun that have the got mine mindset and think you should only have a bolt action and a 10 shot pistol, and the communsts, which want guns for the revolution.
The EV push is such a grift. Even the laws that mandate them always get pushed back timeline wise, because it is a utopian ideal that can never be met when it smashes back into reality.
That and the handling characteristics of the bike change drastically when the weight and inertia are changed because the bike itself is so light. As an experiment try walking around with a steel tube jutting out in front of you. Notice how much more resistant your body is to making turns. Same principle applies to a bike.
It'd be hilarious if they got rid of that "car centric infrastructure" and forced the cyclists to ford the river.
Just wait till he injuries someone when the ladder stabs someone he doesn’t see because it’s blocking his view
