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[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 38 points 4 weeks ago

There's 2 types of bikers, those who are sweaty af and love it and those who are sweaty af and miserable and the latter is why people prefer cars. Me? I want a train... that i can drive OFF ROAD!

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 21 points 4 weeks ago

those who are sweaty af and miserable and the latter is why people prefer cars

but now that ebikes and electric motorcycles exist cars should basically be banned in all downtown areas

[-] Salah@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago

You must live somewhere with hills.

[-] Lowleekun@hexbear.net 6 points 4 weeks ago

People have the wrong kind of bikes. You either need a cheap women's bike that goes 20 km/h if you try hard and 15 km/h if you go easy (you will chill!) or an Ebike if you got the cash.

Everything else is a hobby bike.

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Living in a flat city, I have the opposite philosophy: biking is more fun if you go fast without putting in any effort, and you don't need an e-bike for that: you need an excellent bike that's built reliable.

I have a 2k€ city bike that I bought like a decade ago. Configured for max reliability, it only needed absolutely minimal repairs so far. E.g. it has a belt instead of a chain which I didn't need to touch yet. It was like 200€ out of the 2k, but it not needing maintenance is so convenient.

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago

What trains are you taking that can drive on roads? I would somehow exclude streetcars from being trains but we basically don't have any of those anymore so I'll leave the statement as it is.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 16 points 4 weeks ago

Heh, heh, ahem, have you heard of a railroad berdly-smug

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

Bike slower if you get super sweaty.

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 25 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah but can I eat a burger while riding a bike? Checkmate atheists.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 28 points 4 weeks ago

yes?

I've eaten slices of pizza from the box while riding before lmao

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 15 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

let me tell you, I can no longer do this

damn i gotta get my bike serviced and start riding again

[-] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago
[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 23 points 4 weeks ago
[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 12 points 4 weeks ago

I swear someone on here shared a video of someone cooking and eating a can of beans while riding a bike, but somehow search engines fail to find it doggirl-gloom

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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago

and you can wash it down with a beer in a paper bag, and hardly anyone will care because you aren't in a megagram+ mass vehicle

[-] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

I absolutely have while drunk as shit. One of my favorite things to do ngl

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 7 points 4 weeks ago

I used to eat fries a bit while biking around on campus. Holding the clamshell in one hand and grabbing the fries with the other.

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 4 points 4 weeks ago

I think getting ketchup and burger grease on my handlebar tape would disturb me even more than squirting it straight into my keyboard.

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[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

You can! Just gotta learn how to bike without using your hands. I see people do all sorts of dumb shit in bikes in Copenhagen

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 24 points 4 weeks ago

Oh yeah but the RANGE on these things SUCK. How am I supposed to travel 500 miles in a single trip!

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 23 points 4 weeks ago

Having a bear chase you the whole distance helps

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

Eating 566 Nerds gummy clusters at a rate of one every 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

[-] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago

High speed rail, there is hands down no better way to travel 500 miles in a single trip.

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[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 17 points 4 weeks ago

Cars:

Have air conditioning

[-] Czechmate132@lemmy.zip 47 points 4 weeks ago

And a lot of areas would be cooler without cars its crazy how much a traffic jam heats up an area when you have a bunch of cars idling

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 55 points 4 weeks ago

chopping down all the trees and paving a 12 ft wide strip of black tarmac so cars can even drive there in the first place also massively increases the temperature

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[-] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 27 points 4 weeks ago

Cars:

Also require everything to be further away, increasing your time in extreme weather.

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[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 4 points 4 weeks ago

And need big asphalt roads that retain heat and make the surrounding area significantly warmer compared to either light rail, smaller roads needed for bikes and even regular train tracks

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[-] Kopfrkingl@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago

collisions are significantly less likely to kill

I guess if it is with another bike...

[-] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 weeks ago

With any other non-motorized traffic participant.

[-] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

Written by a USian because they never encountered bike traffic and bike parking problems, which are issues basically in any west European city

[-] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 weeks ago

My town used to have problems with this up until a decade ago (sadly most people switched to cars by now).

We have several factories here and they all had to have their own bike parking lots which used to be a sight of its own, with bikes hanging from walls and even roofs sometimes.

Drivers hated it specially during end of shift times as the streets would get a massive amount of bikes and even if there were not that many of them, folks would cycle side by side with their friends and neighbors which slowed down the car traffic anyway.

Now that most people use cars, the dedicated parking areas that were used for bikes are mostly empty or at most been converted into a couple parking spaces for cars, which gets reserved for higher ranking employees only since its limited. There are no parking lots anywhere so people park their cars on the street.

Most streets had to be converted to maximize parking space, which took even more space than the side-by-side bikers used to and slowed traffic more as well. Food trucks were banned so it doesn't take parking space. Traffic lights were all replaced by mini roundabouts (not sure what the name is in English). Between 5 and 7pm it takes several minutes to get a chance to cross a street now.

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago

Incompatible with traffic jams

You would be surprised. Rush hour in Copenhagen is quite something.

[-] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 weeks ago

[Laughs in Dutch]

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