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Electric bike > Car
That greatly depends on where you live.
Not really. I live in Northern British Columbia and there are people riding their bikes in all weather. Ebikes have a temperature limit, but you can get winter tires for your bicycle. Unless you drive for a living, it's perfectly reasonable.
I'm talking about rural vs suburban vs urban, not climate.
Fair enough, but if only rural people drove and everyone else walked, rode bike or transit in town it would make a huge difference.
The great majority of people live in places where an electric bike would be good enough.
It does depend. I live maybe 5 miles from the closest dollar general and maybe 15 from the closest town.
I live 40 miles from work. They don’t have showers are you suggesting I cycle 40 miles in the British rain?
Read my other comments in this thread and you'd see the answer is clearly no, I am not suggesting that. It's almost like you intentionally ignored the fact that I already addressed rural commuters and attacked an earlier comment to avoid that I had.
Yeah I did, because I didn’t know I was expected to read every other interaction you’ve had in this thread before I could comment.
Obviously I’m not supposed to do that!!
It's literally one comment down. You can't not see it on the screen.
It's -20 right now so I'll stick with my car for winters
Meanwhile, in Finland: https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU
Not just Finland. I see people on their bikes in -40°C in Canada. People just need reasons to not let go of their cars so they feel better about using 5 people worth of space and fuel to get to and from work.
You're really telling me you ride your bike to and from work in -40c regularly? How far do you commute daily? Why do you feel justified in acting so superior to others?
I walk because I can't ride a bike and if I can't walk because it is too icy, I transit 5 kms. But I don't think myself superior, I used to be a car brain too. I bought in to the needing a car hype and that owning a car was freedom. I'm so much more free and stable now without car payments, insurance, car maintenance, outrageous fuel prices and cops following me just for driving 🤷♀️
I too ride my bike when I can but I live over 60 kms from my office. Unfortunately there is also no real public transit for my commute. Driving a car is the only reasonable solution. I hate the situation I'm in and wish I didn't have to spend as much as I do for all the things surrounding my little smart car. But still, you consider me a "car brain". Get off your high horse and just be glad of your situation
Rural commuters are different, you never asked about that.
Though if more people lived in urban areas it would solve a lot of problems when it comes to unnecessary commutes and anyone who chooses to live suburbanly and commute is a car brain, yes.
And you might not necessarily be one (though you never mentioned a bike or a "smart" car before) but anyone who makes excuses to continue bad habits is most definitely a car brain. People driving 5 people's worth of space and fuel the 12 blocks it takes to get to work are most definitely car brains. The people in over sized trucks and SUVs when they really don't need to are most definitely car brains. And people who make excuses for their bad behaviour...guess what? Car brains. I don't care if you think I'm on a high horse. Better a horse than a car.
🤘 fuck cars.
I don't know how to link communities cause I'm old and stupid, but there is a fuck cars and a micromobility community.