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Seven bikes take up less space than a single SUV (infosec.pub)
submitted 6 hours ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

I really wish there was a better way to secure bicycles. Most of the time I choose to take the car or motorcycle is because I got a nice bicycle after my old cheapo got stolen from what I thought was a safe location.

I'm not even talking about lack of bicycle racks in many parking lots, but the fact that a $50 angle grinder goes through just about any chain/u-lock in about 30 seconds.

I know this because I had to cut off my own U-lock after assholes tried to drill through the lock on mine and ruined it. Also, nobody even looked twice at a guy using an incredibly loud grinder generating a ton of sparks in the middle of a retail parking lot.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 points 19 minutes ago

The solution is bike lockers. It’s an important piece of public infrastructure that often gets overlooked.

[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago (2 children)

I keep around a few beater bikes. If one gets stolen then oh well I'm out $75, which is less than 1 tank of gas.

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 1 points 31 minutes ago

Where do you live that $75 is a tank of gas?

[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 32 minutes ago

Yeah, I'll have to find a new wife if I try to put a few beater bikes in the garage. It'll get expensive fast.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 1 points 57 minutes ago

Not gonna lie, I wouldn't know how to manage seeing a guy use a grinder on some bikes.

I wanted a folding bike for this purpose but it would only be good for going to work and back. I can't just walk around a mall or something carrying a folding bike :/

[–] Flipper@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

While it doesn't really help with the stolen part, it helps with the recovery: put a tracker on it.

[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Without cops, you're fighting a bunch of junkies to get your bike back. Cops looked at me like I was an idiot when I tried to file a report for my stolen bike.

But what would you recommend? I have a bunch of PebbleBee trackers on my stuff, but I can't think of any way to hide any of those on the bike.

[–] bryndos@fedia.io 28 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I really like those stealth bike racks where they put a car shape on the road facing side so that the cars don't get upset that they lost a potential parking spot.

They'll never see through this clever ruse;. Most cars have pretty poor eyesight; the only way they'll figure it out is if they honk at it, and it doesn't respond convincingly.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 2 points 2 hours ago

Like a decoy to a duck, the problems only start when the car attempts to mate with it

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is really funny for a dystopian nightmare documentary.....

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 hours ago

Not to mention how much dead space is needed in front and behind the parking spot for that SUV.

And in all likelihood, that is a single occupancy vehicle, so the amount of space needed is even more obscene.

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

To be fair, you can fit 7 people in an suv. Picture would have been more effective if there were more bikes than how many people that can fit in an SUV. I agree with the message though.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It's not representative because the average ridership is below 2. It's not about how many people can fit, it's about how many people are using it. The car realistically seated at most 2 people. Each bicycle seated exactly 1 person, so 7 people in the same space.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

You can fit 7 people in an SUV if they’re all going to the same place. You could say “isn’t that what a bus is?” but a bus has way more space, is happy to frequently stop, is much more fuel efficient per pserson, and is part of a larger network.

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Aside from what everyone else said, not every spot is taken up in that bike rack, and the SUV is still larger than that bike rack.

[–] gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 hours ago

That assumes every seat is filled.