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Twitter post by @DirtyTesLa: Thankful to have Cybertruck to help me with the real work and big loads 🙏 (image of Cybertruck with several bags of soil in the trunk)
Reply by @KralikLj: Hell boy that would fit in a bicycle. Way more carbon free than that wankpanzer. (image of cargo bicycle with several bags of soil strapped to the front)
I think I'm going to refer to pick ups and SUVs exclusively as "wankpanzers" from now on
Panzerwanken. Perfect.
LOL, my son and I both drive hatchback Mazda 3's. My son had to drive to a customers site because the boxes were too tall to fit in a truck like this. And I just went to Lowes for mulch and stuff and put 7 bags of mulch, 4 bags of dirt, and 1 bag of compost in the back with my seats down without going over my weight limit. But I did similar in my Saturn Aura 4 door with fold down back seats. I only drove a truck when I needed to tow a boat. When the boat went so did the truck
Can we just officially call it the Wankpanzer? That's too good.
I appreciate what Len's going for, but showing a Cybertruck with a load that would fit in a normal car, and 'owning' it by showing a bike carrying what appears to be half as much, is only going to give ammo to the dipshits with their massively oversized trucks.
'Hey, bro! My Ford SuperMacho DonkeyDong Pavement Princess edition would fit the load from the Cybertruck and the load from the cargo bike. I could throw the bike on top too!'
Reframing it as 'the Cybertruck's so shitty that half the load will fit on a bike with no issues, and you don't have to be seen driving a Cybertruck' would probably work better 👍
The packages on the bike look far longer, it's quite possible that it actually is the same load
They do look bigger, but it seems like the pink section is bigger, and the rest is the same size as the bags in the truck, making the bike's cargo of four bags equivalent to about five of the truck's bags.
That's just a guess from a bad photo though.
My curiosity has been piqued, so here are the actual numbers:
There's actually more on the bike. I love this post even more now
Unbelievable, and nice!
A liter of potting soil is roughly a kilo. Very few people will be able to move a bike with 200kilos on it unless the ground is perfectly even.
There are plenty of vehicles that are better for moving around that much mass than a Cybertruck is but a bike isn't really one of them.
It's a cargo bike: Low centre of gravity, adequate transmission for hauling heavy loads uphill, moving it isn't the issue. You should be more worried about the actual load capacity: A good cargo bike, as in two wheels not four or a trailer configuration or something, usually maxes out at ~150kg load (including driver). Trikes about 250kg, quads or trikes with trailer at 500kg.
But then a kg of soil weighs more like 400g so we're talking more like 80kg. Including driver you might be exceeding load capacity, but not by much (assuming obese people don't ride bikes which I think is a fair assumption) it's probably going to survive, especially if you're careful around kerbstones and stuff. Those load limits are all calculated off some maximum drop distance, if you don't drop your wheels then you can generally go much higher. The frame is very unlikely to break or bend, the axles would probably be the first to fail.
It looks like these bikes are 100% human powered. That's the part I'm worried about.
I'm starting to get kind of old but I know how to ride a bike and I'm in pretty decent shape. In nice weather I ride for several miles at a time with my kids. I could move a heavily loaded bike for short distances but if I'm doing regular transportation with that for hours at a time I can forget about my knees.
The usual distances for these kinds of bikes are a couple of km max, once or twice a week. Big shopping trip if you're living on the outskirts kind of deal, or smaller shopping trip and the kid rides in the cargo bucket. If you're up for it sure you can also tour them, tent and sleeping bags don't tend to weigh much and there's ample of space.
Bikes for parcel deliveries etc. tend to be quads or trailer-trikes, also, electric. Noone is running a landscaping business with one of those bikes that still is, and probably always will be, a VW transporter with flatbed kind of deal.
That makes a lot more sense. A bunch of groceries or other bulky but not that heavy stuff seems ideal. I could occasionally do some short trips with a bunch of soil as long as my regular trips had much lower weights.
I'm fat and out of shape. I know I wouldn't be able to move that bike without some sort of motor assistance. You can 100% get a battery-powered engine to help, though.
I've never tried a battery assisted bike but I imagine that would make a huge difference.
Once you've got some speed it's easy to stay stable
Oh, wow! Sometimes it feels nice to be wrong 😁
Reframing it as 'the Cybertruck's so shitty that half the load will fit on a bike with no issues, and you don't have to be seen driving a Cybertruck' would probably work better 👍
I fully agree with this, but I have to say I think it's equivalently and succinctly encapsulated by "wankpanzer".
You don't even need a bike like that, just a couple bicycle bags hanging off the side of a standard old bicycle
Meanwhile in a real truck...
Call me crazy, but I think original op, the one with the cyber truck, was actually making a joke
I also think it's more of a sarcastic remark about size of the cargo bed, if you can even call it a cargo bed.
Lol, I don't know about a bicycle but I routinely toss six bags of dirt in the back of my Honda Accord and my ex- boss has a trailer for his Corolla.
Also, presumably he got it to the checkout at the store in a grocery cart, he (I am making an assumption here that this is a dude) has to know you don't need a truck to move it.
One drove by us at the end of a hike yesterday and I literally thought.. "what the fuck is.. oh - oh wait is that their.. ugh, oh no. Fuck this- fuck this guy driving. Hey buddy you look like a jackass fuck your Nazi CEO funding bullshit pedestrian murdering truck."
Wankpanzer has now been added to my lexicon.
My takeaway as well
I'm in the unfortunate position of not living in a place to practically use that bicycle, and being unable to afford a cybertruck. I wouldn't buy one, even if I could afford it, but I'd like to be in that position.
People are so triggered by the cybertruck. I want one just for the pure entertainment value of triggering the fragile.
Literal "eats shit so other people have to smell your breath" mindset, lmao