The peacock example manages to be stupid even on it's own terms, how do the females get mogged? It's the other peacock dudes gettin' mogged so you get the girl(s)
7bicycles
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I'm gonna be honest if that top reddit post holds true neither being familiar or it being sunny would've saved that one
If the reddit comments are to be believed: straight from the parking lot into the drink
I was sober except for the part where I maybe wasn't except in a legal sense and then on top of that suffered a bunch of other ailments that made me drive into a pond, over a curb and some other shit
On good will I hand it to this person that this sounds american-with-no-alternatives as fuck and they didn't frame it as a sort of passive "I got into an accident" but like still
I'm 7bicycles gimme some deets here
What drivetrain are ya running there
german historic building preservation is incredibly anal about this even going by german standards to the point I'm genuinely surprised the faceless megacorp would hedge their bet on this property
To make matters worse it's at best done at a county level and is embedded in germanys deeply "whatever" building codes which results in at best like 3 jerk-off architectural dipshits deciding what goes and what doesn't with little legal recourse
Like not to jump in the trenches for Burger King here but surely unless you install a plaque every bit of historical pathos is gone from the building once it becomes a burger king
It does keep baffling me that your average western government keeps rolling out the scary china bad AI face recognition panopticon but like without building a gajillion miles of high speed rail and then people who advocate for the panopticon are still stumped that maybe being chinese sort of fucks rn
he does suck, like, a lot. I know the principled libertarian thing gives him a few sympathy points but my god is this guy a pathos laden idiot
This dude is like Forrester for MTBs if anything. Actual Forrester was way too urbanism-headed to think of "bicycle to cross wilderness border" as a use case
I mean I'll hand it to him on that one that if you do the non-public transport stuff like roughing it through the wild that's probably really doable
Every 1 in 1,000 libertarians seems to realize bicycles are good even according to their principles and then you get a post like this.
If you don't know Hickman, I think he'd best be described as a sort of primitivist-nostalgic liberterian for settler times in the USA. To fulfill his dreams he moved out into the boonies of upstate new york and ever so often hates how it's full of uncultured swine, by his definition.
You'd probably be correct, the basic premise has been around since 2013
https://news.mit.edu/2013/new-system-uses-low-power-wi-fi-signal-to-track-moving-humans-0628
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It has been so long....I thought it was over....alas, the fixie riders have mounted their back-at-it-ing
(hexbear.net)
I freely admit from an manufacturing perspective it is somewhat impressive
Picture from the german wiki article
Being fast on a bicycle has a lot to do with aerodynamics so you go build an aero chassis around a recumbent and bam, fast as fuck boy.
If you do 200 Watts on a regular bicycle on a windless flat and a regular road, you're looking at going about 30kph. With this? 50kph. Obviously generalizing a lot here but you get the point.
They suck ass on hills though, because they weigh ~30kg with the chassis. not so much a problem in motion on the flat, kind of sucks uphill where aero doesn't matter. From my experience you don't see a lot of e-bike variants so far because with EU regulations the motor'd cut out at the speed you'd go for a leisurely ride on a normal bicycle, but maybe it'd be interesting to make them more hillclimbing capable.
Fun fact: in 1968 some dude did 100kph in this with by himself with no outside help.
Chassis are usually some sort carbon fibre or fiberglass and built monocoque, which means you better not ding them babies because repairs are gonna be expensive as fuck.
Prices run around 10k€ and then up to whatever you feel like paying for a new one. But they do look like old timey racecars which is fun. From personal experience of having chatted up a few of the local velomobile riders I feel like there's about a 50:50 split between buying one and somebody going fully "dad in the shed" and just building the entire thing from scratch
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carbrain is "this is the fault of 3 million parallel, separated, individual actors" a lot
I jest, of course. Become xbikers
this is in jest, it's the top comment to this post
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Up until this I'd've figured their whole entirely compromised GDPR-Authority that every other GDPR-Authority in the EU malds about on official channels constantly was at least leverage for something but I guess they're just in it for the love of the game. Like tell them to kick rocks and move all their HQs to another country unless they build and staff every datacenter with a no-show-job union level of people and reap the benefits at least ffs