7bicycles [he/him]

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  • Bike maintenance might become untenable after awhile if you can’t get ahold of lubricant or tire repair material.

    I think a lot of this is down to a perception that your bicycle is broken if you can’t run tubeless or pneumatics or whatever but whenever people were in the shit these 2 points have been figured out. Fill your tyres with cork or make springtyres, just slather on some canola oil on the chain (more often than some specialized bicycle chain brand) and it works. Nobody does this today because it’d suck and they have other options, but it’d still beat walking


















  • The energy your brakes have to absorb to stop, and with that the stopping distance and wear, almost doubles.

    The stopping distance is mostly a given but otherwise this is mostly a non issue despite getting brought up a lot. Halfway competently maintained V-Brakes which are easy as hell to service will block a tyre which is much more the limiting factor on a bicycle. As in: It’s not that hard to do 45kmh on an acoustic bike and v-brakes are fine for that, even with the bit of weight all the electronics add.

    When I bought my first bike I got a Class 3 because I’m getting 40%~ more speed for the same price. I could arrive at my destination 40% faster than I do on my cargo bike.

    I see the idea but I think that generally never works out in urban areas fairly regardless of mode of transportation bar jogging instead of walking and from my experience in the EU, being able to use paved trails, footpaths and such generally gets you to places much faster compared to more max speed both due to being able to cut across certain infrastructure instead of taking the long way around and the fact that things like bicycle + pedestrian infrastructure doesn’t usually have any sort of meaningful traffic or traffic lights in the way that car infrastructure does