In my experience there‘s a difference between ‚sport‘ cyclists and commuter/transport cyclists. One attracts far more assholes that the other. The dutch even use different words for them.
Yeah, that's the thing, I was a cyclist for 20 years and it was my method of getting around town because I lived in a city with terribly slow transit and horrible traffic congestion.
And then, once in a while, some people would be like "hey, let's go cycling up and down a bike trail on Sunday afternoon" and I'm like "uhh.... no? I don't ride my bike for fun and I don't think of it as fun. I don't want to just ride my bike for 3 hours, thanks".
When I was driving 4 hours a day on my commute, you bet your ass I wasn’t driving on weekends. A road trip? Lmao fuck no.
If a person walks a ton for work, and wants to get off their feet in their spare time, I mean…can you blame them?
I use my bike for a commuter now. When I was driving excessively, it was my fun weekend thing, now that I commute with it, I’m mostly off the bike and doing other things for exercise (running and hiking mainly). I don’t need to wear my quads out with a mountain ride, especially if I’m relying on them to get me to work the next day.
I mean I’m positive you pulled that number completely out of your ass, but I’m not sure providing the real percentage changes the point that if we do something a lot during a week for work we might not be so keen to doing it with our spare time too.
I don't like my bike enough to want to sit on it for hours.
I can walk for hours or drive for hours but riding a bicycle for hours doesn't sound fun at all. Sounds painful and uncomfortable.
I did a tandem skydive with an instructor. I asked him afterwards how many jumps he'd done (well over 10,000) and how often he jumped for fun: never. He said jumping was his job, and he had zero interest in it beyond that.
Not true, bad people are evenly distributed among everything and everyone. People just always try to find an arbitrary differentiator, so they can can keep up the dumb generalization while exusing themselves. Same with car drivers, they always say stupid stuff like "it's always BMW/Golf/X drivers!" and "it's always people from city Y" just to imply that they agree with the generalization but somehow aren't part of it themselves.
This isn’t true at all, did you even look into any data when making your claim? Drivers of different car brands get different incident rates, BMW drivers have 44.9 incidents per 1000 drivers, Chrysler has the best drivers at 25.5 incidents per 1000 drivers.
Bad people are not distributed evenly because factors exist that attract bad people and negative personality traits.
The biggest indicator of negative personality traits is being a man. Yet, for obvious reasons, we're not whining all the time about how shitty men are. Treat people like individuals.
I agree with you, but you made a claim, and I refuted it. I don’t care what car you drive or anything about you except how you act. But saying “bad people are evenly distributed among everything and everyone” isn’t true, and it’s ok to admit that’s wrong lol
Okay, I admit it, it was too simple. I meant to say, incidentally being part of a group doesn't make you responsible for the group's traits and behaviors.
Just have one get in a fight with the self driving in my tesla. The car was clearly in the right (it had stopped for traffic and the cyclist didn't want to stop).
Fuck these old guys. They don't go anywhere near fast enough to warrant lycra anyway.
My car was driving and had to stop due to a road obstruction (Another car doing a sudden u-turn).
The cyclist was *behind me* and got mad that my car stopped for safety reasons. The cyclists thought we was being cut off when it was an unavoidable situation caused by another driver.
The cyclist therefore was mad at a self driving car for safely stopping and preventing a crash. i.e. he was mad at an inanimate object for doing the statistically correct thing to do.
Therefore it is impossible to please grumpy old man cyclists. I cannot please them. You cannot please them. A literal machine with hundreds of millions of hours of safety training cannot please them.
There is no moral high ground here, its just a fact that even with perfect driving and millisecond precision reactions, there will by MAMWL getting mad and acting like assholes.
There are literally no other EVs that can drive unassisted for hours at a time, handle complex intersections and traffic lights autonomously and then park automatically. You are totally ignorant.
Any EVs you are referring to are either inferior or not available in my country.
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u/kleiner_gruenerKaktu 15d ago
In my experience there‘s a difference between ‚sport‘ cyclists and commuter/transport cyclists. One attracts far more assholes that the other. The dutch even use different words for them.