Oh no, it can only do 99% of my transportation needs instead of 100%
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Mac@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Does not protect you from weather
Cannot haul anything
Takes forever to get anywhere
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ironically also the reason people shit on EVs with 200 mile real world range
Mac@mander.xyz 5 months ago
More like 10% but you do you queen
Erismi14@midwest.social 5 months ago
Wear a raincoat or winter jacket, much cheaper than a car.
I have a trailer that can hold 40 kilos. That’s enough for anything I need regularly. I rent a moving van for the once in a couple year big item hauls.
Cars spread things apart making places take long to get to not using a car.
When you say takes long to get anywhere by bike, it is a self report you don’t live anywhere meaningful with anything fun around you
Aabbcc@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Wear a winter jacket
This reads like someone who doesn’t live somewhere that it gets cold
it is a self report you don’t live anywhere meaningful with anything fun around you
What a weird thing to criticize someone for
JayDee@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Living on the border with Canada, I tell you now that I bike during the winter. It is in fact as simple as wearing the right layers. Even some of the coldest regions in the world have bike commuting.
I don’t think the second part is a criticism. It’s pointing out that you live in a place who’s infrastructure has been completely fucked by car-centrism. Were it designed with walking, biking, or even just public transit of any kind as a priority, the distance between points would actually be short (public transit benefits from shorter distance between stops by having shorter routes Which cuts fuel and maintenance costs).
In order for cities to have changes in their structure, mixed-use zoning needs to be allowed, along with various other reforms to current infrastructure law - laws which disinsentivise driving (car-centric people label it as ‘punishment’ when it’s more just revokal of massive amounts of privilege. It takes several decades, but overtime city footprints would shrink and become much more walkable - and safer - and more quiet.
Mac@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Except that youre blaming the victim of car-centric city designs. Good one.
Mac@mander.xyz 5 months ago
This person is seriously shitting on me for living 20 minutes from my job. What an moronic ciriticism.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Biking during Finnish winters sucks for sure and bike and public transport is slower than car, but it’s a tradeoff. Owning a car here is fairly expensive and has downsides of its own.
For hauling bigger stuff I can rent a van or see if any of my friends with one are up to it.
BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Thats what your jacket is for You can get bike trailers Infrastructure issue rather than the bike
What are you hauling anyway?
beckerist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
chellomere@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Let me present to you:
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papalonian@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m gonna look like a moron here, but I genuinely have no idea what I’m looking at or how it works haha. Is the bar across the top used as a handlebar…? It doesn’t look like the front wheels turn… Where the hell do you feet go?
SolarNialamide@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Don’t even need that. My parents used to have a kid seat on the front and the back of the bike so they could take us both. When you’re getting too big to fit on the seat, you learn how to ride a bike yourself.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 months ago
What in the world, how do you see anything behind that… thing?
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Shorts, t-shirts and football boots? Have you heard of rucksacks?
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Or a little basket in the bike
JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I am an ESL teacher who is at war with the word rucksack. It is a gnomic word that blocks understanding. Backpack, a pack for the back. Is that a back pack? Why yes it is Ming! It is a bag on someone’s back! Is that a rucksack teacher? Fucked if I know, I have never seen a ruck nor would I know what kind of sack I would need for it.
Yes you are right, this prson should get a rucksack.
Yantantethera@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Kids can ride bikes in soccer gear…
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
There’s these things called “bikes for kids”. There’s over a million Dutch people who do soccer (out of 17 million people), and almost all of them go by bike.
FierroGamer@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Football soccer is the main sport where I live, everyone walks with their stuff just fine with one of these, if that even.
Do you guys carry the grass around or something?
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Robotics to Jita
papalonian@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh Jesus. I haven’t touched that beast in years. Don’t think I’ve seen a reference to it in about as long
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I was away for 10 years but got sucked back in
Bashnagdul@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Even online still going strong
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Indeed it is :)
Mac@mander.xyz 5 months ago
I have winter cycling gear, btw. It doesnt make it not suck.
My bad for having a job, apparently.
I’m not hauling a car, motorcycle, toolboxes, tires, materials, etc. with a bike trailer.