Not Just Bikes
A Community for the Not Just Bikes YouTube & Nebula channel run by Jason Slaughter.
Official channels:
- https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes
- https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes
- https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes
- https://www.patreon.com/notjustbikes
NOTE: This is an unofficial Community in no way affiliated with NotJustBikes or Jason Slaughter.
RULES
1. Be nice. Please.
I know it's the internet, but be nice. And report trolls & spammers.
2. Stay on topic
Try to stick to posts and comments related to the themes of NJB videos, or content creation. Things like urban planning, mobility & transportation, social equity, Dutch culture, etc..
3. No Trolling
Go troll somewhere else. We don't need that shit here.
4. No comment screenshots
Please don't post screenshots of stupid comments as a post. We all know there are ignorant morons online, we don't need to bring even more attention to their stupid comments.
5. No vehicular cycling
Jason has no patience for advocates of vehicular cycling, and neither do we. You can talk about vehicular cycling, but if you promote it as an alternative to safe bike infrastructure, you may be banned. You can post that crap somewhere else.
6. No people being hit by cars/road violence
Do not show videos or pictures of people being hit by cars, or other road violence. We don't need to see that shit. We know cars are dangerous, and many people have bad memories of car crashes. Keep it out of this subreddit.
7. No tone policing
We don't need any more tone police. If you don't like the tone that Not Just Bike takes in his videos, there's a very easy solution: stop watching them.
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None of them are "perfectly comfortable" when it's >100*F outside with 90% humidity. I don't understand why you completely glossed over this part of the comment except to strawman.
I've never seen that anywhere.
I am aware of the urban heat island effect. It's still very fucking hot and uncomfortable riding MTB on dirt. And that's completely ignoring the idea of just, removing all of the pavement from the city?
This is exactly the kind of nonsense I'm talking about. Showing images of people riding bikes and then going "see, no one cares about the weather!" is completely proposterous, and, dare I say, lazy. Because there are actually people in those same videos in their cars. And certainly many of them would prefer to not be outside, given the option.
I would love to see statistics that show that no one cares about how cold it is when they're outside. Because that makes absolutely no sense. People in my area already complain about the cold when commuting in their cars. Even if it did, it completely ignores hot and humid/rainy.
I don't believe you. You've yet to explain how the city can be designed to protect you from hot or cold.
All of your points are just "I have never experienced this and I can't imagine things being like this." I literally talked about how cities such as mine are built with shade and weather sheltering in mind. You don't believe that I have a raincoat that works in 40C weather. You seem convinced that videos of people driving and cycling in the same video debunks people cycling in the rain. I don't really know where else to go from here. You've kind of indisputably proved me more right than I ever expected to be when I said "you don't know how bad it is and how good it can be until you've experienced it."
No, all of my points are "I experience this on a regular basis and you are lying". All of your points are strawmanning about how raincoats repel water while ignoring that they're hot as fuck, and how videos of a handful of people riding bikes in the rain in a city with limited car infrastructure disproves that it's uncomfortable, and you continually ignore mind-numbingly obvious evidence to the contrary.
Shade doesn't immediately make it not >100F with 90%+ humidity. Removing pavement doesn't remove all of the heat either, not to mention it turns the ground to mush at the first sign of precipitation. Everyone does not sweat the same. A coat doesn't suddenly make it warm and cozy when it's 17F outside. Having to plan your day and your clothing around the weather is going to impact your life. Only being outside for a half an hour doesn't suddenly mean you're immune to being impacted by the weather.
There is nowhere to go from here, because you're obviously not interested in an honest discussion or you would actually engage with my points instead of just repeating the same nonsense over and over.
I'm not lying, I'm describing my life to you. I believe you when you say your car centric city is miserable to walk around in. Why don't you believe me when I say my walkable city is walkable?