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“Life is a bitter mystery. We can’t give everything away for free. It’s not that kind of country.”
Tautology School Degree. Why not?
turns out building your supranational union on the basis of unanonimous votes for everything was a shit idea if you ever wanted to get anything done as that supranational union. Who'd've thunk it
Chrome (2003) is sort of like if Far Cry, Deus Ex and Shadow of Chernobyl had a baby. I've never seen it mentioned anywhere.
Replace "most progressive pope" with something like "friendlist dog kicker" or "nicest guard at the black site" and there's your answer
What's holding you back from doing it?
This isn't strictly relegated to cargo bikes as per bicycles. Bicycles (normal) are also oddly expensive new. I mean sure, you can get your local equivalent of a walmart bike for the local equivalent of $100 but it'll kind of suck a lot, mostly because it's overloaded with features and parts that will fail and be somewhat expensive to replace.
At some level I think comparing new cost of cargo bikes to everything else is also sort of an odd deal, an Urban Arrow is a premium cargo bike, an equivalent car costs anywhere from $60,000 upwards to $200,000 depending on where you want to draw the line. That said, bicycles are still very much oddly expensive, even if just compared to how much raw material you get out of like a dacia sandero vs. an urban arrow.
Theories are abundant. Me personally I believe it is both that nigh nowhere in the west has the stranglehold on politics that car companies have and that give them direct and indirect subsidies in a similar amount, but also: I don't think anyone's really done the ford factory of bicycles yet. There just isn't a plant cranking this shit out all the time. Euro Big Box Store Decathlon probably gets closest, but even their cargo bike is comparably expensive. Maybe that's a time issue, they'll sell you REALLY solid normal bicycles at very reasonable prices for what you get.
EDIT: There's also probably some regulatory fuckery going on. You can get, in europe, a chinese EV cargo trike like a Volta VT-5 for 2000€. It's legally a small motorcycle, carries way more than any cargo bike and also beats all of them on price. I know for example that in germany, bike lights have to be individually approved by the federal car agency, while for anything for engine powered vehicles a EU self-cert is fine. I assume similar things happen elsewhere.
I don't think this rings true in like central europe, the netherlands and such, where cargo bikes are still pretty expensive
I am, off coursh, already wearing the owl costume all the time
Now, more nations ask: Why disarm if those promises mean nothing?
Who? What nuclear bomb equipped countries are even floating the idea of giving them up lmao?
Frame made out of bamboo, pictured here is a My Boo that touts a partnership with a fair trade social program in Ghana to make the frames.
It's supposed to be more ecological, for obvious reasons. Weight on one is about 15kg, which is pretty good for a kitted out city bike.
I can't speak to longevity of this and whether it actually pans out vs. say, a steel bike that you keep welding back together, on account of these haven't really been around too long. It's held together via a composite glue made out of hemp and resin, so at least they're following through here I suppose.
Reviews I've read is that the ride quality is really nice, being stiff yet compliant in the ride cases as to not make it a boneshaker.
Price of these is, obviously, fairly high, these'd run you around 3000€ euros, I'd argue a comparable bike made out of traditional materials would run you maybe 800€ new. But I'd argue it's more a proof of concept.
I also sell to individual customers but you're gonna either have to be a pretty good runner to keep up or rather more dexterious so you can cycle next to me. Close passing cars and bike lane parkers get a nice squirt of mustard on the roof
Pictured here is the new spacecamper, usually a business for converting vans and such into campers, for cargo bikes.
I'm kind of undecided on this. It feels very convenient, unless you have an ultralight tent the weight of your bike, and your supplies and the tent and the bags and whatnot seems sort of the same as this stuff.
What do we think about the concept? Cool idea to incorporate your bicycle into your sleeping arrangement for trips or dumb playtoy?
Pictured here is a Van Raam, who make some other bicycles for people with disabilities, but they're hardly the only one. I think it's cool people are doing things like this. They are, sadly, rather pricey.
You get a nice box in the back or whatever but it's not really THAT much bigger than a box you could fit on any old regular bicycle
You can plop like two children there but then you can do that with Long Johns and 3-wheelers and such, too and ALSO you have the fuckoff-big box. They don't really seem all that shorter than comparable versions either.
Anyone got one or know why someone got one?
I'm deleting this entire shit I think I'm having a stroke