7bicycles 13h ago • 100%
Especially compared to cars bicycles are more often stolen, fucked up, vandalized or just suffer something like a popped inner tube due to road debris. If you actually depend on your bike for transportation, it's not a bad idea to have a fallback
7bicycles 2d ago • 100%
I do not understand why you would release this. This is going to be pro-Israel PR for like 20% of any given global north nation and and anti-Israel PR for like everybody else.
7bicycles 2d ago • 100%
I do know a few young people are tech/programming wizards but "generally tech savy" people seem to be declining. It's either you're really into it or barely know anything outside popular apps.
I feel like we also got a new kind of guy, the tech-forward digital illiterate. They run most of everything.
7bicycles 2d ago • 50%
I'm here to report that divine punishment did get served, albeit god has a cruel sense of humor, so that specific whales jaw got sheared off by a speeding ferry, causing it to drown after hours of vocal, agonizing pain
7bicycles 2d ago • 100%
Yes, the point is to see something like your birthyear or maybe that good summer in your 20s being described as too old to be relevant anymore stings
7bicycles 4d ago • 100%
Liberals are, above all, motivated by decorum
7bicycles 4d ago • 100%
I feel like if arms dealers aren't an acceptable target you've kind of backed yourself into a corner as per acceptable targets of protest
7bicycles 5d ago • 100%
"the olive greens" as a nickname is well deserved
7bicycles 5d ago • 100%
The problem is everything Trey Parker and Matt Stone ever did is satire about believing in literally anything except nihilistic libertarianism. It ends you up at this "satire of the americans that's also just what the americans think"
7bicycles 1w ago • 100%
I think I'd play any such variation if only to see how much of a trainwreck it is
7bicycles 1w ago • 100%
fuck you [undirts your owl]
7bicycles 1w ago • 100%
Well if the LOONY left could propose a better approach to transportation than eternal arms race of the killdozers I'd sure like to hear it!
7bicycles 1w ago • 100%
7bicycles 1w ago • 100%
Easy - Success: President Putin, I am ready. Send me to the frontline.
Legendary - Failure: Wait, what?
7bicycles 1w ago • 100%
I love Disco Elysium because depending on the choices you made and how far along you are in the game this can either be genuine "God I wish I wasn't stuck with this weirdo" from Kim or "Well, the weirdo I adopted keeps being right about his hunches, best to let him get on with it"
taken from /r/fuckcars: https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1g1vt88/there_is_no_trolley/ Also it plays onto one of my major I-come-across-a-crank points, societally the trolley problem is solved: it's your fault for being tied to the tracks instead of driving the biggest trolley
7bicycles 1w ago • 100%
Each game has a plot but it's just to keep the Fortress Accident Sidequest moving along
7bicycles 2w ago • 100%
The changing historical events to push current messages as per BF V is just having one women on your never built prototype nazi gyrocopter that flies away from the historically accurate fortnite firewall innit
7bicycles 2w ago • 100%
I dunno, this feels like a victimless crime, even if the perpetrator is unequivocally bad
7bicycles 2w ago • 100%
In this alternative universe I'd sound like a racist turbocrank over my refusal to call the british people sexish
7bicycles 2w ago • 100%
There is currently a requirement for regular testing to see if water that sits for 8+ hours leaches enough lead (& copper) to be dangerous if someone drinks it for 20 years.
Hold up, what if I live in a house for more than 20 years? Just get lead poisoning?
Cygnet ladies pneumatic safety bicycle ca. 1898 Stoddard Manufacturing Company, Dayton, Ohio via cool twitter channel CoolBikeArt https://x.com/CoolBikeArt1/status/1843370334445265344/photo/1
It's funny. Here's some pointers off the current front page: [The FBI loses their shit over the Russian Admin of Z-Library taking a vacation](https://hexbear.net/post/3566393) [Conceptualization] Easy - Failure: Tell them they can't have this. Make up a story about how giving away free things is making them afford lavish camping trimps in a bog. The people will rally around you. [Squee? Squee.](https://hexbear.net/post/3566975) [Electrochemistry] Medium - Succes: Tell them about the knightly muscle mommy. The people will love to hear your thoughts. They all agree. They all want the muscle mommy knight, covered in the viscera of the enemy.
I cannot explain otherwise how so many people can nearly hit a vulnerable road user at like 20kph and then be mad when those people are quite irate they nearly just got hospitalized. Like yeah this'd be a nuisance if I was in a car, but I'm not. Anyways give everyone not in a car a gun so they can retaliate. You may not hit the car, you may shoot periliously close, though.
They're like brutalism haters in that while I personally enjoy it, they're not wrong. There's very bad examples of it. But also anyone who gets into hating it a lot seems entirely incapable of producing any evidence for it being so. They're like truffle pigs for getting it wrong. What the Habitat 67 is to architectural aesthetics is "guy getting run over by a car cutting the corner standing still at a red light" is to active transport
New and wired: Using "dutch courage" to being overly optimistic about what you can carry on a bicycle and then just doing it
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Monster Energy Drink can turned human, Sam Pilgrim, is back again with a cool bicycle idea with literally 0 possible downside Honestly love the guy. I'll excuse him being a public nuisance in any and all cases on account of how much he is the pantheonic ideal of dudes rock.
Frame made out of bamboo, pictured here is a My Boo that touts a partnership with a fair trade social program in Ghana to make the frames. It's supposed to be more ecological, for obvious reasons. Weight on one is about 15kg, which is pretty good for a kitted out city bike. I can't speak to longevity of this and whether it actually pans out vs. say, a steel bike that you keep welding back together, on account of these haven't really been around too long. It's held together via a composite glue made out of hemp and resin, so at least they're following through here I suppose. Reviews I've read is that the ride quality is really nice, being stiff yet compliant in the ride cases as to not make it a boneshaker. Price of these is, obviously, fairly high, these'd run you around 3000€ euros, I'd argue a comparable bike made out of traditional materials would run you maybe 800€ new. But I'd argue it's more a proof of concept.
I also sell to individual customers but you're gonna either have to be a pretty good runner to keep up or rather more dexterious so you can cycle next to me. Close passing cars and bike lane parkers get a nice squirt of mustard on the roof
Pictured here is the new spacecamper, usually a business for converting vans and such into campers, for cargo bikes. I'm kind of undecided on this. It feels very convenient, unless you have an ultralight tent the weight of your bike, and your supplies and the tent and the bags and whatnot seems sort of the same as this stuff. What do we think about the concept? Cool idea to incorporate your bicycle into your sleeping arrangement for trips or dumb playtoy?
I get why things like hot dogs or bratwurst are readily available as streetfood, it's logistically easy - but so is soup! You need like a pot, maybe two if you're getting crazy with it, maybe some bread rolls and that's it. It's cheap to make, cheap to buy, you could get hot soup on a cold day to warm you up or something like a gazpach or okroshka on a cold day to have a chilling meal. They're stupidly easy to make, all the ingredients basically cost zilch, very easy to adjust for all kinds of different dietary needs if you offer some sort of toppings optionally instead of throwing it all in there. So why isn't there more soup? It's a style of meal you can find in basically any cuisine yet in all my travels I remember like two instances where I could just get a soup. What drives streetfood and why is soup shafted?
How hard is that shit? I'd like a control panel of nicely haptic buttons for some of the Arma 3 side features, Lights on/off, Engine on/off, Chaff, Smokelauncher etc. From what I gathered researching it's basically just building a box, soldering some switches to a micro controller and bob's your uncle. I feel 80% confident I can do those things - am I missing something? Anyone ever build their own "sim"-control-deck?
Whenever any sort of disinformation, fake news and propaganda is discussed I feel like all the talk about it always get's stuck on it's existence. Like "the russians are spreading misinformation in europe" or whatever. Which, sure, they do, how the fuck is there no talk about what to do of it? Cause the way I see it, there's two options, either there's no more russia or whatever other rivaling hegemonial power follows up, forever, or alternatively you ask the question about why the fuck this shit lands in the first place and make sure it doesn't
Pictured here is a Van Raam, who make some other bicycles for people with disabilities, but they're hardly the only one. I think it's cool people are doing things like this. They are, sadly, rather pricey.
You get a nice box in the back or whatever but it's not really THAT much bigger than a box you could fit on any old regular bicycle You can plop like two children there but then you can do that with Long Johns and 3-wheelers and such, too and ALSO you have the fuckoff-big box. They don't really seem all that shorter than comparable versions either. Anyone got one or know why someone got one?
It's the Kenyan Kalendjin for marathons and then also the most noam-chomsky-as-of-today-looking rich white guy on a 10.000€ bicycle. Interesting split!
Quote by some random cycling guy in /r/de that stuck with me. It was in response to some carbrain malding their shit over the fact that you are legally allowed to undertake cars stopped at a red light in the same lane on the right in germany, if you're on a bicycle.
Just noticed I've never heard them discussed here. Surly basically invented them and called them the Corner Bars, but given it's "bits of metal pipes" you can get some without the name branding now. They're supposed to give you like a drop bar-esque experience except without changing out all the controls and most likely drivetrain, so if you ever wanted to try one, maybe this is interesting for you. You might have to readjust some cables or hydraulic lines. I post this here because I feel like "how do I convert my flat bar into a drop bar" is a very common question in the bicycle world and while it is possible, it is often sort of not very advisable unless you like wrenching on your bike
I'm curious. I know where my life diverged and where I would've been a car guy otherwise, would be interested to see what the dealio with other people is or whether they even ever thought about it