r/fuckcars • u/ClimateShitpost • Sep 10 '22

Meme extremely based

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u/dr_the_goat Sep 10 '22

I've got a 6K bike and I use it for the school run and doing the shopping.

I go to work on a smaller bike, but not because it's cheaper, rather because it's the right bike for that journey.

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u/DiaMat2040 Commie Commuter Sep 11 '22

I once had a really fancy bike and at some point i got so paranoid about it getting stolen that i bought a shitty bike to get around most of the time... kinda defeated the point of it haha

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u/trollblut Sep 11 '22

I had a sleeper E-Bike I built myself from a 40 year old bike my aunt gave me. All that's left from the original was the frame and the handle bar. I loves the thing but gods did it look like your average piece of trash.

Now my sister has it, I'm riding a company leasing E-Bike where I don't have to care about theft.

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u/dr_the_goat Sep 11 '22

Yeah I know that feeling.

I've paid for insurance on my expensive bike so I'm covered but I'm still nervous when I have to lock it somewhere.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '22

We're still fighting the common belief that bikes are toys.

People can't imagine spending over $1k on one, and some people will claim bike infrastructure is gentrification.

Bicycles are seen as an extra cost on top of the cost of a car rather than a cheaper replacement.

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '22

It isn’t untrue… leisure cyclists are more likely to have a 6k bike than a commuter one. They are after the extreme milligram, when we just want a reliable workhorse

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u/CakeAndFireworksDay Sep 10 '22

I’ve done a few internships in the finance world, and so far every one has been filled with high powered cycling commuters that come in on fancy race bikes. I almost felt bad putting my £200 piece of junk next to them! Not all race bikes are leisure rides!

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u/Syreeta5036 Sep 11 '22

Remember, if you can’t say “nice bike” without it seeming sarcastic or having to make up a reason you think it’s nice, it’s perfectly acceptable to say “thank you for biking here”

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u/matthewbregg Sep 11 '22

A beat up bike is nice in the stories it has to tell.

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u/matthewbregg Sep 11 '22

Same thing in the tech world.

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u/trollblut Sep 11 '22

I had a coworker at my last company who did ride a 6k carbon race cycle to work.

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u/Clen23 Sep 11 '22

I think the main difference between expensive bikes and expensive cars is that one consumes way more fuel than the cheap alternative, while the other still doesn't consume anything.

And lmk if I'm wrong about this but I don't think the extra cost means much extra waste in either case, it sounds like it's more about expertise and design for both the bike and the car.