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[โ€“] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Bring back steel bikes ๐Ÿ™Œ

[โ€“] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They've never gone away, I ride mine almost every day.

[โ€“] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 5 hours ago

I know this would be one rebuttal. Yes, you can still ride your steel bicycle, but the manufacturers left are few and premium-priced.

[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I wish the cardboard ones became a thing. would love to lock up my bike with a luggage lock and some thin wire

[โ€“] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Can you redirect me to a showdown of successful cardboard bikes?

[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

if they were successful they would have been a thing instead of not being one. they were supposed to be like 20 bucks and technically as light as the super high end bikes. At that price I figure you could just not lock it up but I figure a token lock like what connects projectors in a classroom would be prudent. This is the one I was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard_bicycle#Izhar_Gafni's_prototype