this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
59 points (91.5% liked)

Fuck Cars

9626 readers
805 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

Recommended communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

I'm trying to use my car less and bike to places where I can. I've thought about getting an e-bike to extend the range of places I can bike to, but one things that's holding me back is what do I do with it while at the store? If it were just my crappy normal bike I wouldn't really worry too much about someone stealing it, but if I'm gonna spend a few hundred on an e-bike I am nervous about leaving it unattended.

What are your thoughts?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] hillsanddales@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] johnlawrenceaspden@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't get me wrong, I've hated and feared cars since I was a boy. But some greenwashing fuckers and their shills in the 'bike lobby' legalising riding motorbikes in what used to be safe places has hardly improved matters.

Now there's nowhere safe to ride a bike or walk, or for children to play.

Fuck cars and fuck motorbikes.

Also, 60 pounds my arse. You might get the odd actual bicycle with a little electric motor attached, but most of them are the same weight and speed as mopeds. And they don't stay "restricted to 20mph" for long.