Not Just Bikes / r/fuckcars / Urbanists / New Urbanism / Car-Free / Anti-Car - People and grifters who hate personal transport, freedom, cars, roads, suburbs, and are obsessed with city planning and urban design

[Lovely Kin]

Seeing the absolute barefaced bullshit they came out with about what was happening in 2020, as it was happening, had the side effect of making me far more skeptical of anything they claim about the 1960s.

Even in the 1990s when they were pulling out people from their cars during riots, and beating the shit out of them during the Rodney King shitshow.

They really were the bulwark against the avalanche of negroid rage to come.

Maybe sending them to Liberia and Haiti as the original plans was really justified..

 

[BulkForceFive]

The company that makes the equipment used to make chips (ASML) is Dutch.

It’s a joke.

my autism has defeated me

Off topic-ish but funny to me at least.
My youngest loves the trash Hot Wheels Let's Race show. I just noticed the bad guy is a bike nut when I heard him say that he wanted to destroy Hot Wheels city, and I looked up to see he's wearing a bike helmet. I did a search for a photo to post here but found a year-old /fuckcars post instead:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/s/JY80WrETFe

absolute cinema
the fucking fanny pack is KILLING ME, there is no way whoever designed that character was not wholly aware of the connotations.

 

[Lady Bizness]

I assume they probably don't go into it much besides he's a kid hating old man similar to Gargamel to the Smurfs or Eggman to Sonic.

Pretty close! I think he lost a race in his past which utterly broke him as is typical of the typical cartoon villain. It also looks like he has a daughter who tries to win races and cause mayhem.

absolute cinema
the fucking fanny pack is KILLING ME, there is no way whoever designed that character was not wholly aware of the connotations.

The little fanny pack gave me a chuckle.

Anyway, my community just installed these cheapass permanent standees (I don't know what else to call them) every 5 feet between car traffic and the bike lane. I've biked that stretch and it is a little uncomfortable, but they really just need a larger bike lane that avoids trash pickup and the sewer drains - this was already accomplished with road improvements. Now these dumb fake barriers are already ugly, installed inconsistently so that they're all at different angles, and some have already been vandalized or collided with so they are damaged and dirty. I am so fucking sick of how obnoxious or ugly bike shit is.
Only benefit is that on street parking has been eliminated and while that would make me mad usually, it was being used by homeless so fuck em.

 

[quaawaa]

It's funny that these urbanist types detest the fact that cars give a semblance of isolation. They want a world where it is harder to not inadvertently bump into other people, both figuratively and literally.

Carhaters are overcivilized.

And yet, most of them spend all day isolated inside their pods posting on reddit and watching YouTube videos. Maybe they think if people are forced to interact with them they'll magically make friends?

 

[Lady Bizness]

Carhaters are overcivilized.

Leftists in general tend to be this way. I've watched tragedy of the commons destroy several well-intentioned community projects. They can never seem to get around that there are people who are assholes and that these people are either utterly feral or are completely venal. These people need enforced rules in order to participate in society or keep them out of it completely. But leftists tend to believe in tabula rasa, that experiences write who a person is, therefore if they were in a good environment they will just behave nicely. It's very naive. So they step over the homeless and crack pipes in the entryway of their bughive and tell themselves polite fictions about it.

 

[Yamamura]

absolute cinema
the fucking fanny pack is KILLING ME, there is no way whoever designed that character was not wholly aware of the connotations.

It's the little details that are great. I also like that they made him somewhat fat despite, muh "gym of life" riding a scooter everywhere.

 

[Eventide]

So they step over the homeless and crack pipes in the entryway of their bughive and tell themselves polite fictions about it.

At least in my state (Oklahoma) people who ride bikes generally are the people smoking the crackpipes (and meth pipes). No, seriously - methheads fucking LOVE bicycles. They love hoarding them, stealing them, riding them with pallets of roofing tiles tied to a dolly weighing them down. It's a mystery of the ages.

 

[Lady Bizness]

At least in my state (Oklahoma) people who ride bikes generally are the people smoking the crackpipes (and meth pipes). No, seriously - methheads fucking LOVE bicycles. They love hoarding them, stealing them, riding them with pallets of roofing tiles tied to a dolly weighing them down. It's a mystery of the ages.

Same over here in lib central. Every time there's an encampment clean out there's piles of bikes!

 

[Xarpho's Return]

absolute cinema
the fucking fanny pack is KILLING ME, there is no way whoever designed that character was not wholly aware of the connotations.

They've gotten butthurt enough over car carpets that someone actually did make a "transit-family" car carpet, I'm surprised they haven't tried to pitch their own show with "Professor Carbrain" fighting against our bike-and-transit loving heroes. (I bet I could pitch a show on Reddit with enough tells that make it clear that this is wholly sarcastic and deliberately making the protagonists look like shitty people, and I would still have people I'm brilliant).

 

[Yamamura]

They've gotten butthurt enough over car carpets that someone actually did make a "transit-family" car carpet, I'm surprised they haven't tried to pitch their own show with "Professor Carbrain" fighting against our bike-and-transit loving heroes. (I bet I could pitch a show on Reddit with enough tells that make it clear that this is wholly sarcastic and deliberately making the protagonists look like shitty people, and I would still have people I'm brilliant).

When you said that the first thing that came to mind was an episode of Thomas the tank Engine that I watched as a child. In the episode a train gets into a quarrel with a steam roller and the steam roller keeps saying something like, "turn rails into roads" or something to that effect.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Something I'm wondering is how pissed many of these cyclists got what they wanted and car culture collapsed to the point that public transportation and bikes were the most common form of transportation they'd still complain because of how clogged the roads and streets would be of them.

 

[quaawaa]

Something I'm wondering is how pissed many of these cyclists got what they wanted and car culture collapsed to the point that public transportation and bikes were the most common form of transportation they'd still complain because of how clogged the roads and streets would be of them.

I shared a post a few days ago about where they say that “carbrained bikers” need to take transit and that bike lanes need to be dieted:

Post in thread 'Not Just Bikes / r/fuckcars / Urbanists / New Urbanism / Car-Free / Anti-Car'

Jun 24, 2025

Who is at fault for cyclists refusing to yield to pedestrians? /r/fuckcars discusses:

Road diets for bikes:



There is disagreement on that though:


The same user also thinks that stop signs should be banned (especially for bikes):


Another user is getting downvoted for quoting Jason:


He gets called "car brained for bikes":


The cyclists should take transit instead:

The last paragraph is insane. The ultimate form of the urbanist is not allowing you to...

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They hate all forms of personal mobility, cars are just the current target.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

It was never about cars, and always about personal freedom.

 

[Lovely Kin]

Same over here in lib central. Every time there's an encampment clean out there's piles of bikes!

Bikes here are either tourists (who clog shit up) or methheads as well. You can even tell when tourist season starts by the amount of people riding bikes increasing

 

[Kyria the Great]

Leftists in general tend to be this way. I've watched tragedy of the commons destroy several well-intentioned community projects. They can never seem to get around that there are people who are assholes and that these people are either utterly feral or are completely venal. These people need enforced rules in order to participate in society or keep them out of it completely. But leftists tend to believe in tabula rasa, that experiences write who a person is, therefore if they were in a good environment they will just behave nicely. It's very naive. So they step over the homeless and crack pipes in the entryway of their bughive and tell themselves polite fictions about it.

All those nice and lovely social and public institutions remain that way if it's a high trust society, otherwise it will fritter away

 

[Lady Bizness]

Bikes here are either tourists (who clog shit up) or methheads as well. You can even tell when tourist season starts by the amount of people riding bikes increasing

Maybe we live in the same place!

All those nice and lovely social and public institutions remain that way if it's a high trust society, otherwise it will fritter away

So true, and then you have these ninnies that champion inclusivity which is always the beginning of the end of something nice.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Leftists in general tend to be this way. I've watched tragedy of the commons destroy several well-intentioned community projects. They can never seem to get around that there are people who are assholes and that these people are either utterly feral or are completely venal. These people need enforced rules in order to participate in society or keep them out of it completely. But leftists tend to believe in tabula rasa, that experiences write who a person is, therefore if they were in a good environment they will just behave nicely. It's very naive. So they step over the homeless and crack pipes in the entryway of their bughive and tell themselves polite fictions about it.

That's not even a proper application of tabula rasa, being "raised" in a good environment is very different than "being" in a good environment, it's literally the difference between raising an animal in captivity and dropping them in a room full of toys and food, they will behave very differently.

The biggest problem with blue cities and left-leaning communities is as you mentioned—the line on what is and isn't acceptable behavior is never drawn (and I'm talking modern Western left ideals, China and the USSR have/had some decidedly left-wing ideas and politics but anyone that crossed that line was swiftly dealt with).

And yet, most of them spend all day isolated inside their pods posting on reddit and watching YouTube videos. Maybe they think if people are forced to interact with them they'll magically make friends?

When I think of my college experiences, not one of them has involved making friends on the campus bus line. Classrooms, sure, oftentimes I ate lunch with basically complete strangers, but if you extrapolated those...eating at restaurants or making friends at work, those are in the suburbs too. And when I talk about restaurants, I am referring to actually eating at restaurants...not getting delivery, carry out, or drive-through.

And with the "true" urban restaurants being cramped and ready to rush you out the door, why would they? (See my previous post on the issue). Most of the food experiences urbanists tend to talk about are bodega kitchen options (mogged by any half-decent modern gas station convenience store, cheaper too) or overpriced food trucks.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Trevor Noah did a standup in Amsterdam about the Netherlands where, among other things, he joked that he would rather step in front of a car than a bike since the cyclists are psychopaths who never use their brakes.

(12:15)

Surprisingly I have not seen urbanists or Dutchaboos seethe about this yet.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Bikes here are either tourists (who clog shit up) or methheads as well. You can even tell when tourist season starts by the amount of people riding bikes increasing

What about the Methhead Tourists?

 

[Eventide]

Trevor Noah did a standup in Amsterdam about the Netherlands where, among other things, he joked that he would rather step in front of a car than a bike since the cyclists are psychopaths who never use their brakes.

(12:15)

Surprisingly I have not seen urbanists or Dutchaboos seethe about this yet.

Oooh, shots fired!

I wonder if Mr. Not Just Bikes will make a response?

What about the Methhead Tourists?

Methheads don't travel; they only go to airports to break into cars in its parking lot.