I hear you. But at the same time if you brodozered your wheelchair mover with a bush bar and off road tires, I’m still yoinking the step stool haha.

More seriously, yeah it sucks there are so few practical vehicles being made that aren’t the size of an Asian elephant.

There is no world in which I’d see that truck without stealing the step stool.

I use a keyboard remapper to change the key next to space (windows maybe? Not at my desk) to control. So acts like cmnd. You could do the same in reverse on mac instead. I also recommend changing right opt on mac to forward delete. Gamechanger, that one.

So infuriating. At the very least they could have moved the bike lane inside the parked cars.

While I story of understand you anger, as there are some fools out there that are using their illegal ebikes effectively as motorcycles on bike paths and sidewalks, they are:

1. In the vast minority
2. On a 60lb vehicle, instead of a 3000lb vehicle, and can do far less damage as a result.

If you’re going to get angry, get angry at cars, car-centric infrastructure, and the fact that people on ebikes don’t have the proper cycling infrastructure to stay separated from pedestrians.

It’s like they put in so many roads to get “there” that “there” doesn’t exist anymore.

I have a seriously hard time believing there’s anyone dumb enough to buy that

You’re far more patient than I ever could be. Good one you. It’s conversations like these that change people’s minds. If not OC, than those less stubborn who read the interaction.

Congrats!! That’s some seriously quick progression, great job!

How’s it feel knowing your car fucks more than you do?

Good on them. I don’t have the appetite for risk right now to do this type of activism, as I have a family to think about, but I wish I had done more in my 20s (I did some but didn’t raise enough hell), and I intend to do a shitload more after I retire, if we’re all still around.

In my perfect world, multilaned roads would be split up. Two or 3 smaller lanes would go to the ebikes and velomobiles, but since lanes are so huge on our current roads, there would still be space left over for full sized cars. Those would include busses, which would now be freed up with almost no traffic to become the quickest way to cover long distances (think one end of a sprawled city to another). It would also include the delivery vehicles and work vehicles with stringent licensing. Perhaps automatic plate checks for people headed to a highway road trip.

What you’re describing would fit great on the ebikes roads though for short distance public transit, although the pedaling might be more for fun and exercise than a requirement, as they would need to serve people of all sorts of physical abilities. With slower speeds, would also be a great case for autonomous microbuses, which are being tested in various places.

Again, all a pipe dream, but the funny thing is is that we have all the infrastructure, technology, and vehicles (can start with golf carts) needed to achieve it extremely quickly if there was ever the will to do so.

I’ve always been fascinated by these things. When you think of the relatively miniscule amount of energy it takes for a cyclist to move along at 30km/hr, or an ebiker to move along at twice that speed, it’s absolutely insane that we use 4000lb cars to move us just a bit faster still.

If we were all to drive around in 100lb electric velomobiles with speed limits capped at around 80km/hr, everything would work better. There would be fewer safety issues, road maintenance would become almost negligible, and traffic and parking would be largely solved

Obviously, highway vehicles and towing and delivery would all still be a thing, so this would need a completely separate road network and is basically impossible, but man are cars overkill for getting us from a to b.

Fortnine on YouTube recently did a video on using a rugged android phone as a motorcycle computer. It could work well for bikes too. After watching that I looked into it, and there are quite a few options available at all different sizes, many under $200.

Maybe you or someone here can tell me why it’s a bad idea on a bike