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FYI, it means "týden", or week in Czech, not a ton. If any major countries except English-speaking ones adopted imperial units, the world would be like this. We would have "pc" meaning "palec" (inch) or 25.4 mm in Czech texts or parsec (3.09 × 10¹⁹ mm) in English texts.
Except you can't kill people nor highlight your need to compensate for something with a bike
8.000€ racing bike
Allow me to introduce myself
Sub 10k bike not a dentist i recon ?
strap a giant dildo on the front with a metal spike inside to hold it up. two birds one stone.
Greg hates car culture!
(and so do i)
I'm anti bike because you don't know how to fucking drive a bike.
They can't even stop you from biking for booze touring. Revoke your licence? Lol OK.
There are fines and it make it more difficult for you to get a driving license later depending on country.
In germany you can actually lose your drivers license for riding a bike drunk (iirc upwards of 1.5 promil)
Once that happened your free to go, but likely liable if you're involved in an accident
In Virginia it's the same but at or above 0.08% (0.8 promil). It's also an automatic license suspension if you refuse to take a breath test.
But I don't want a driving license. Also just looked it up and interestingly while it can be illegal its not like it is in a car. In a car there is a specific blood alcohol limit and that doesn't exist for cycling. They need to show you are unfit to ride. So I guess if you are not swerving all over the place.
Then again, they would provably use the same test result if they did test you. I wonder if you can just refuse to provide a sample... Its illegal not to with a car, but unsure if that still applies with a bike.
Have been seen seeing a LOT of e-scooter and e-bikes around lately. The e-bikes are classified as power assisted bicycles so no license or insurance is required in most states.
Yeah, they're popping up there, too, even though there are harsher regulations in place here
ya something I dont get is why humanity is OK with this 'opting in' to getting rid of all other forms of transit JUST to sit in a car and get unhealthy and probably die quicker.
Our ancestors have been walking , running, or riding on animals or walking beside tired animals for thousands upon thousands of years....and ....humanity has simply chosen to opt out of our ability to do so without examining the risks that this may pose?I feel that huanity has evolved to walk large distance or rather to expend energy when we go large distances (that includes biking and walking beside our tired animals) . So certainly humanity will be having to face some sort of 'issue' cause we have evolved to expend our energy when moving large distances rather than take an automobile , right?
Like humans didnt evolve to survive repeated harsh blows to the head and we see that humans who keep on getting hit in the head from war training, domestic violence, american foot ball , hocckey or soccer have higher rates of being diagnosed with ALS and CTE.
Humans also didnt evolve to live in such SUPER-individualiistic societies annd thats why so many people's mental healths are failing them and we have increased deaths of despair . In fact the countries with the lowest population desnsities and with lower allocation of resources to mental health care have the highest suicide rates
Humans also didnt evolve to take in large amounts of junk food but then not do cardiovascular exercise at all. Thats why heart diseases are the leading killer of people globally.
There's no 'cost' for us giving up walking? Certainly there muust be something. I guess increased severity and instances of heart diseases is one of those costs
Actually, bikes really are far left and a tool for liberty. They were especially significant in the US movements for feminism and women's suffrage, as bicycles allowed women to scootle around on their own, where before they were restricted by access to horses and male escort. (Yes, I used the verb to scootle.)
Also bicycles encouraged women's fashion to allow for pants, which were utilitarian for bicycling sooner than they were for equestrian riding.
(Bicycles also encouraged the paving of roads before automobiles dominated them.)
Many opponents to women's suffrage (to women's rights and women's autonomy) also opposed bicycles. Including the Roman Catholic Church. The Holy See asserted that bicycles, especially tandem bikes, were an instrument of the devil.
So bikes are Satan-approved!
Some recent useful videos (on YouTube):
Rebecca Watson's take after SoT Sean Duffy decided bike lanes are woke
The Bicycle Episode of Climate Town with help from Not Just Bikes
Riding the instrument of the devil! Fuck yeah!