And biking is good for your health
ya something I dont get is why humanity is OK with this ‘opting in’ to getting rid of all other forms of transit JUST to sit in a car and get unhealthy and probably die quicker.
Our ancestors have been walking , running, or riding on animals or walking beside tired animals for thousands upon thousands of years…and …humanity has simply chosen to opt out of our ability to do so without examining the risks that this may pose?I feel that huanity has evolved to walk large distance or rather to expend energy when we go large distances (that includes biking and walking beside our tired animals) . So certainly humanity will be having to face some sort of ‘issue’ cause we have evolved to expend our energy when moving large distances rather than take an automobile , right?
Like humans didnt evolve to survive repeated harsh blows to the head and we see that humans who keep on getting hit in the head from war training, or foot ball or hocckey or soccer have higher rates of being diagnosed with ALS and CTE.
Humans also didnt evolve to live in such SUPER-individualiistic societies annd thats why so many people’s mental healths are failing them and we have increased deaths of despair . In fact the countries with the lowest population desnsities and with lower allocation of resources to mental health care have the highest suicide rates
Humans also didnt evolve to take in large amounts of junk food but then not do cardiovascular exercise at all. Thats why heart diseases are the leading killer of people globally.
There’s no ‘cost’ for us giving up walking? Certainly there muust be something. I guess heart diseases is one of those costs
I’m anti bike because you don’t know how to fucking drive a bike.
Except you can’t kill people nor highlight your need to compensate for something with a bike
8.000€ racing bike
Allow me to introduce myself
Sub 10k bike not a dentist i recon ?
strap a giant dildo on the front with a metal spike inside to hold it up. two birds one stone.
$6000 custom bike, helmet, and full body suit on your commute
Broke: biking is unsafe
Woke: biking doesn’t require government issued privledge
Bespoke: Biking gives you a fat ass and chiseled calves
Yep, my wife loves that I’m a cyclist for that reason
I’m going to need a source on the fat ass part. I cycled for years when I was younger and I certainly have glutes of steel, but they’re not big. I do however find myself very much attracted to a big ass on the opposite sex so if that’s true in any way shape or form, I should start cycling to meet more women who cycle perhaps lol
My ass has fattened up since I started bike commuting is my only source, so grain of salt I suppose
Another major bonus is the fact that it only takes about a weekend of study to learn how to maintain and repair 99% of bike parts. Also, far cheaper parts. And also free bonus exercise.
Another major bonus is that learning how to bike doesn’t bleed the wallet, while my talentless ass trying to learn to drive a car does.
free bonus exercise
Which allows you to enjoy even more freedom fries!
I like how you think brother
Actually, bikes really are far left and a tool for liberty. They were especially significant in the US movements for feminism and women’s suffrage, as bicycles allowed women to scootle around on their own, where before they were restricted by access to horses and male escort. (Yes, I used the verb to scootle.)
Also bicycles encouraged women’s fashion to allow for pants, which were utilitarian for bicycling sooner than they were for equestrian riding.
(Bicycles also encouraged the paving of roads before automobiles dominated them.)
Many opponents to women’s suffrage (to women’s rights and women’s autonomy) also opposed bicycles. Including the Roman Catholic Church. The Holy See asserted that bicycles, especially tandem bikes, were an instrument of the devil.
So bikes are Satan-approved!
Some recent useful videos (on YouTube):
Rebecca Watson’s take after SoT Sean Duffy decided bike lanes are woke
The Bicycle Episode of Climate Town with help from Not Just Bikesthat is crazy
Also this video by J. Draper about cycling and feminism
Riding the instrument of the devil! Fuck yeah!
I just don’t think children should be using them and I think anyone whose uses them should be wearing a helmet. I think law enforcement should ask people to dismount their escooter or ebike if they’re not wearing a helmet and issue warnings or citations. I’m not usually in favor of making rules and stuff but it’s just like, we got one thing to protect our skulls if we’re on things that can go 28mph which is fucking fast and requires time to slow down then, maybe making the helmet mandatory isn’t bad.
Lol what? Loads of kids cycle to school here and have done for longer than most people have had cars.
I meant the ebikes or ecycles but I guess times have changed. Back when I was a kid we didn’t have ebikes only the pedal bikes. Those aren’t any safer, I guess I’m just not with the times.
Yeah no one had an ebike when I went to school either. We all used pedal bikes.
E-bikes can go much faster, though. Kids on pedal bikes are inherently speed limited.
Are you talking about ebikes specifically or any kind of bikes?
There is more danger with ebikes. They’re heavier and they accelerate faster than conventional bikes. I’d be ok with restricting their availability for kids.
Helmets I’m more ambiguous on. They’re usually a good idea, but you could say the same for people walking or driving.
Helmets I’m more ambiguous on. They’re usually a good idea, but you could say the same for people walking or driving.
Yeah true but you’re not exposed to the environment going over 20mph in a car vs on a moped or motorcycle. Like if you’re riding a moped or a motorcycle, you should be wearing a helmet. You may not come out looking the same if you fall on your face but your odds of surviving without a brain injury are higher, than if you didn’t wear a helmet.
Then again, the only place on Earth where having a vending machine that’s hooked up to city water and a tank in a locked box that has a sterilizing agent and sprays helmets in a vending machine for blue bike users, would be Japan. - Someone take this idea.
Always wear a helmet. Always. I’ve had more people die in my life because of no helmet or non safety approved helmet then any drugs or alcohol issues. Same with my high school class. At our 20 year anniversary most people died from accidents and some related to helmets
Have been seen seeing a LOT of e-scooter and e-bikes around lately. The e-bikes are classified as power assisted bicycles so no license or insurance is required in most states.
Yeah, they’re popping up there, too, even though there are harsher regulations in place here
I support fuckcars and njb in general but they really do be sounding like that
njb? sorry noobie here.
Yea, not just bikes
They mean well if they come off… Badly…
Not just bikes, I’m guessing.
Time to start selling tactical bicycles
Bonus points for including authentic WW1/WW2 images in your promo material. Stealth!
Tbh if I could buy a new production version of the British Army folding bikes from WWII, I totally would. They look so much cooler than contemporary folding bikes!
The Japanese took Singapore largely thanks to bicycles. There must be a few photographs of that shit.
You joke but I actually did 3D-print a picatinny rail for my bike handles to install a flashlight lol
Most of the headlights out there kind of suck anyway, I really prefer a decent flashlight.
Good flashlight: 15 bucks
Really good flashlight with a wide beam: 30 bucks
just-barely-acceptable- bike lamp: 40 bucks.
Getting a rail for my bike sounds like an excellent idea!
Plus, you can disconnect it and then you have a regular flashlight. I did something similar but jankier
What this will do, is make them want the right to drive unregistered, untested vehicles that run on used frying oil.
make them want the right to drive unregistered
Lol so many of these fuckwits already think that’s true … as long as they’re just “traveling” and not involved in commercial activity.
Most places i feel you can get away with riding drunk. Not swervey drunk, but more intoxicated than you should drive in a car. I don’t feel cops really care too much for drunk cyclists.
I mention this, because some people drive drunk in a 2 ton vehicle capable for killing or maiming others. Those same drivers on a bicycle would be better (though there’s still a chance for injury and death, more of that risk is to the rider than others)
Depending on the state, you can still get a DUI for riding a bike while drunk.
In Austria i’m pretty sure you can lose your drivers license for cycling drunk
Same in the UK apparently. Don’t need a drivers license for my bike so go ahead and take it I guess?
I remember at school they used it as a threat before, the fact that we could get points on our license before we even had one for stuff on a bike. I laughed in too poor to learn to drive.
Florida used to use these sort of overturned metal soup bowl things as turning lane dividers. It was a way of giving a tactile warning to drivers of lane departures without damaging the cars. It was also a way of landing drunks riding their bikes at night flat on their fucking faces. You can guess how I know.
I think that’s what we in the drunk biker gang call a “skill issue”
In the Netherlands, it’s technically illegal to ride a bike while drunk (or operate any other vehicle). But they pretty much never test or ticket anyone, because if people start getting tickets for cycling drunk, they’re just going to drive instead.
Be careful, you can accidentally make an error and and end up getting hit and killed, I love cycling but it can be dangerous.
I personally know more people who’ve gotten somewhat badly injured biking drunk (clipless pedals…) than who have hurt themselves or others driving… (1 vs 0)
Actually now that i think about it, the car accident people i know are dead, that’s why i didn’t remember… (2 fatalities that i can think of, not sure if alcohol was even involved).
People should have a right to endanger themselves but not others
Agreed. Most people think that biking drunk is harmless, and it mostly is. My friend got badly hurt but she’s still alive; and that was part of her turning her life around. Unlike the people i know who were killed by cars.
Depends how much. Gone on a bike after a couple of pints before but I wouldn’t after a proper drinking session.
The problem is biking after drinking is also really fun :/
Even then, another bonus with biking vs drinking and driving, you can get off your bike and walk home with your bike. With cars you can’t do the same, and, at least in my area, there a lot of times you can leave your car overnight at places. So there’s a huge incentive to drive it or pay for a ticket (which of course, pay the ticket over a DUI, but still).
clipless pedals
There’s your problem. Those things are useless and just increase the chance of falling over.
Turns out 99% of the force is on the downstroke anyway and clipless pedals don’t matter. I will die on this hill, I’ve read the studies
Car[…]Requires regular inspection
Not in most areas, unfortunately
This is a somewhat misleading map as some of the colored ststes have exceptions for living far enough from the testing centers
Fundamentally not a serious country
For a long time Vermont allowed people living out-of-state to register their vehicles in Vermont and get a VT license plate. They do require inspections but if you were out of state and never actually went to Vermont, the inspection requirement was irrelevant. This was often used by the skoolie (school bus converted to motorhome) community to get a bus registered and legal before it was converted to a motorhome (at which point you can register it normally in most states). And it was used generally by people with shitty old cars that couldn’t pass an inspection and didn’t have a valid title. However, they closed this loophole three years ago and now you can’t newly register an out-of-state vehicle there any more.
I live in an emissions check only state. My car is an EV and I admit I take enjoyment in knowing ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) car drivers have an inconvenience that I do not.
That said, I’d rather we had regular mandatory inspections. Cars are already dangerous. We should be proactively trying to catch issues that could suddenly cause them to behave unexpectedly.
Funny
I mean good to make cars less dangerous but doesn’t this disproportionately hurt the poor? Like well off people have newer cars, and can afford to fix any code violations, but broke people are just trying to get to work. If I had lost my janky car when I was just starting out, I wouldn’t have been able to ever save up for a nicer safer car. Now I’m broke as fuck again and I hope my car would pass but it’s getting older.
doesn’t this disproportionately hurt the poor?
Is there any aspect of car culture that doesn’t disproportionately hurt the poor?
I hadn’t considered that. Which I should have, having been in that very same type of situation before.
I don’t have any great solution. Given how car-centric the US is car ownership really isn’t optional for a lot of people.
I spend too much time on Lemmy because I thought you were talking immigration, not combustion engines.
New Hampshire is grey as of this year. No inspection required!
yay pro…gr…ess??
They think it is. It’s the live free and die state
ya something I dont get is why humanity is OK with this ‘opting in’ to getting rid of all other forms of transit JUST to sit in a car and get unhealthy and probably die quicker.
Our ancestors have been walking , running, or riding on animals or walking beside tired animals for thousands upon thousands of years…and …humanity has simply chosen to opt out of our ability to do so without examining the risks that this may pose?I feel that huanity has evolved to walk large distance or rather to expend energy when we go large distances (that includes biking and walking beside our tired animals) . So certainly humanity will be having to face some sort of ‘issue’ cause we have evolved to expend our energy when moving large distances rather than take an automobile , right?
Like humans didnt evolve to survive repeated harsh blows to the head and we see that humans who keep on getting hit in the head from war training, domestic violence, american foot ball , hocckey or soccer have higher rates of being diagnosed with ALS and CTE.
Humans also didnt evolve to live in such SUPER-individualiistic societies annd thats why so many people’s mental healths are failing them and we have increased deaths of despair . In fact the countries with the lowest population desnsities and with lower allocation of resources to mental health care have the highest suicide rates
Humans also didnt evolve to take in large amounts of junk food but then not do cardiovascular exercise at all. Thats why heart diseases are the leading killer of people globally.
There’s no ‘cost’ for us giving up walking? Certainly there muust be something. I guess increased severity and instances of heart diseases is one of those costs
1 t
FYI, it means “týden”, or week in Czech, not a ton. If any major countries except English-speaking ones adopted imperial units, the world would be like this. We would have “pc” meaning “palec” (inch) or 25.4 mm in Czech texts or parsec (3.09 × 10¹⁹ mm) in English texts.
