I reformated that so much I forgot to include my dissatisfaction was mostly with e-bikes and the associated electronics lmao

But yeah, bottom brackets are ridicolous. Only reason we ever moved away from BSA was cost cutting and now that everyone and their grandma has creaky high end bikes people just return to BSA anyways.

I tell you, if I ever become emperor of a country it will have the world largest bicycle industry and everything is in absolutely standardized parts

yeah the whole dang teenagers and their bluetooth boxes always struck me as odd. I mean not that it’s not dick behaviour but considering we allow sports cars to annoy everyone in like a 1 mile radius when the owner decides to compensate for whatever it feels odd that there’s this focus on people listening to music

I feel like every new comfort feature on a car is solved legally by still having the person at the wheel responsible and since now the computer does it (well enough maybe 60% of the time) you see way more of an increase in stuff like too bright lights, missing lights cause the rain detector isn’t working and things of that nature because people just assume the car will take care of it

To add to this, I feel this with recent updated road laws here to make them more “cycling friendly”, a trend that laws keep getting written that are either impossible to enforce the way they’re written or nobody gives a shit either. Basically just making the question of liablity easier after the fact. Which seems sort of like a very shit proposition for road laws to me

I work in IT and you can basically track enthusiasm about self driving cars along the lines of technical knowledge

have you considered my spontaneous daily shopping trip for my family of 8 that includes either a washing machine or large furniture

The propietary shit around bicycles was never good, especially drivetrains, but on the other hand most of it was some sort of standard easy enough to machine with modern technology that you got at least 1 factory in china still cranking out the most esoteric shit possible because ehh it costs them $2 to make or something and they can sell it for $25 or something, why not. It’s just pipes and diameters and threading.

It’s cool and that’s the foremost design rule of MGS since always. All the deeper or more complex stuff just follows along

A large portion of South Wales is small towns and villages built on hills and mountains, so it’s difficult to cycle from place to place for most people. Mid Wales tends to be very spread out and hilly, so again, difficult to cycle around unless it’s for pleasure. If you cycled to work, you’d probably be very sweaty by the time you got there.

E-bikes have been invented for a while now

Have a look at Google Street View to see how steep some of our hills are. They’re great for a challenge, but you definitely wouldn’t want to tackle them on a cold, wet, Welsh morning on the way to work.’

This is just bog standard “It wouldn’t work here” stuff. It gets cold and wet elsewhere and it doesn’t stop people from cycling

Even the main road going north to south through the country is a single lane in each direction for the majority of it.

That’s a policy choice not an inherent condition of geography. Switzerlands full of mountains and they have good trains.

It’s just the type of comment to be proven wrong, even admitting it, and then still not changing the position towards the policy. Things can be both marketed badly and also good

not going far enough there is my point

his solution was something along the lines of remove traffic laws, make it harder to get licenses, this will separate the wheat from the chaffe, and the rest can get “bus passes with all the other knuckle draggers.”

This fits squarely into the the common brainworms of the car is the best transportation there is if all the other schmucks couldn’t drive one. Car drivers all hate each other, too

for all it’s worth carbrained people all hate each other, too, but boy are they good at rallying around a common enemy

I do not get the 20mph speed limit here. E-Bicycles get to do 15.5mph in Wales, apparently. On a perfect, no traffic, no obstruction 1 mile stretch of road the speed difference here would save you, what, 30 seconds at most?

You think maybe all the other people without disabilities might see some other options here which in turn would free up more road for you, a person actually needing to drive a car, for it?

“Fuck cars = fuck lives”

are cars sentient where you live

Then they’ve screwed up the marketing.

c’mon

Do literally anything to actually address the issue at hand. Not check.

enlighten us

Wrong angle I think, this is just to punish teens for not having been in dunkirk like the boomers

stealings a tough job m8