You can say disabled, it’s not a bad word! :) there are quite a few bike options for disabled people actually. From 3 wheeled bikes to handbike/ebike hybrids. It’s awesome.
Source: I’m a wheelchair user from The Netherlands
Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike?
Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Con: not suitable for elderly or hanicapped people.
win95@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
E-bike or custom made bike
Bilbo_Haggins@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Trike! Or recumbent trike. Or an e-trike.
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nice toy, but nothing my wife could actually use. Apart from that, it is way to wide and would cause loads of issues on most of the bike paths here.
dmalteseknight@programming.dev 6 months ago
Go to asian countries, plenty of elderly on bicycles. It is just the elderly in western countries are sedentary which leads to atrophied muscles.
With the handicapped you can make the same argument with operating a motor vehicle.
Side note: I like cars. I even have a sim rig at home to race around in. But car centric infrastructure brings more negatives than positives.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The major difference is depending on the city.
Absolutely in Tokyo and Saigon, bike riders of all ages were going about their lives. But I can’t imagine being a elderly bike rider in some US cities. Some drivers WANT to fuck with bikers. It’s disgusting.
dmalteseknight@programming.dev 6 months ago
Indeed, I should have worded my comment better. I just want to point out that it is an infrastructure issue rather than bicycles being objectively worse than cars.