The cobblestone roads shook up all the drinks I was carrying home on my bike 😠
As long as they’re hot they shouldn’t pop. The fizzing over should only happen when it’s cold.
that’s a first world problem if i’ve ever seen one
What kind of bike is that?
That’s a lot of sugary drink 😂
Technically no sugar, it’s the ‘zero’ variant.
It’s Zero caffeine too! Which makes it the ‘zero zero’ variant, I think
Next level: zero American. Zero zero zero.
Lidl does have some zero caffeine and zero sugar cola. They introduced it this year I think.
ooh I’ve had that before, it’s awesome!
That’s olidligt (as they said in their Swedish marketing campaign, lol)
Are you drinking 0 caffeine coke because you have a life threatening heart condition or because you’re a child?
Both! I don’t have the self control to not drink caffeine before bed and stay up all night, but if I drink it during the day I get pretty bad chest pain because caffeine doesn’t play nice with my adhd meds :(
I find I need both ADHD meds and a quad espresso or two to be even borderline functional.
All I know is that it’s beige and from 2011! Held up pretty well all things considered, the battery still lasts for 10km or so, which is plenty for getting to work and doing grocery trips :D
Oh I helped someone fix one of those. Nice.
Looks pretty cool! Should have known it was an e-bike
Would have been fine if you bought real food/drink.
Sometimes people want some nice snacks and shizz
No reason to buy American snacks, lots of European alternatives to choose from in that department.
nice drinks don’t support am Apartheid genocide
Hmm?
coca cola has illegal Israeli bottling plants in the west bank.
huh, that is good to know. Another reason to just get the store brand next time
TIL
How would padding it with vegetables have helped? Would seltzer water have been less shaken up?
Shaming someone biking to and from the store for getting zero calorie soda is ridiculous. Post the contents of your last trip to the grocery store. Made on foot or bike I’m sure, right?
To be clear, even if the answer to that was yes and you eat nothing but ‘health food’ it wouldn’t give you the right to sneer at what other people eat and drink.
Nah, cola is fine, it’s just that it’s American. There are quite a few awesome local brands you can drink here.
As a Dutchy, and BuyFromEU, Fritz Kola from AH is amazing.
I drink that and Fentimans when I do.
Fentimans or Bundaberg ginger beer and whatever Kinley sells is not even the same league.
They have taste beyond the insane amount of bland sugar.
Yes!! Bundaberg also has blood orange and passion fruit. Great stuff.
nah they’re right, I eat like shit
Although, it is also bad for beer.
Now that’s an argument!! Gotta get a little trolley for my beer trips
I find trailers for bikes tend to bounce pretty high until you have significant weight. Then they only bounce about as much as the bike. Unless you were talking about a hand cart.
You don’t want your trailer to bounce like a hiphopper’s car?
Or switch to whiskey
Hats off to those who recognize their own bad habits.
Although really, in terms of bad habits, this is relatively minor.
Still doesn’t give anyone a reason to be an ass about it. Nobody has a perfect diet and habits without having an eating disorder.
Great username
As someone who’s lived on a cobblestone street before, it’s nice to look at, but a lot less functional than asphalt or concrete. Especially trying to walk home from the bar with a few drinks in you.
It also makes blisters on your feet hurt A LOT (probably not a problem for most people, but I have a condition that makes me blister a lot more :( it’s ruined so many trips that I would have otherwise enjoyed)
They’re apparently also pretty good for slowing down cars in pedestrian-heavy areas, but yeah, taking a fall on those after a few drinks does hurt like shit haha
I was very fortunate to go on a vacation last month in Belgium where we rode bikes to several different towns.
It was awesome, but the cobblestone streets in some of those old cities are ROUGH. Just bone shaking. The chain on the bike I was riding bounced off once when I needed to shift.
I don’t live in Europe, but I’ve heard horror stories about how slippery those streets get in the rain
There’s a really good reason they’re only used on low speed streets and squares, and now large roads.
You are right. They are. But they’re less common than driveways in the US and I don’t know why you guys make yours so smooth that if there’s freezing weather you can’t even walk up it if there’s the tiniest incline.
Not that this is any sort of competition, just thought about it
They do, they get very slick in some conditions. In winter/freezing conditions it’s an outright hazard. But there really aren’t that many such streets left, and the few that are are slowly being changed to asphalt too.
Also a bitch to walk on in high heels, no matter the weather!
At least 50% of the problem is high heels though. Respect the sacrifice of anyone who wears them
Can confirm, having worked food delivery in the Netherlands.
On the pro side, if done well, they outlast every tar road by centuries.
No cobbles in the pictures
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Now I’m gonna tell you a “secret”.
We European drinks mainly water from the tap, when we don’t drink beer or wine od course.
(except many Italians mi, they’re stupid and buy water in plastic bottles).
In Barcelona, I was told their tap water was trash so I had to buy bottled water. The hotel I was staying at said the samething and they were giving me bottles for free.
Talking seriously, I’ve been in some places where the tap water was disgusting. Probably safe but still undrinkable.
There are some places where it is in fact undrinkable. Always check online first.
A backpack would solve this. Our bodies are suspension, so just put anything shake-sensitive in your backpack while driving home.
but 6 liters of cola? you can’t fit that in a backpack
Why not?
I just backpacked home 18 cans which is about exactly 6 litres.
But I could easily also fit 3 2 l bottles or 6 1l bottles or 12 0.5 bottles.
And that still leaves like half to a third of my backpack available, depending on the shape of the containers.
Backpacks are usually around 20-30 liters in size.
Edit also tbh that looks more like 6 1.5l bottles but I’m not sure of that and I think it’ll they’d fit in my backpack
1.25L actually if you look at the top of them. but that must be an exceptionally big backpack. or maybe that size is just not that common in my country for some reason
If that’s the worst part you’re having a goddamn amazing time.
Get some shocks for your basket 🤷♂️
Or just wait a few minutes before opening them
They need to be cooled anyway before being drunk, so the beverage has some time to relax
also if you spin the bottle a few times (while it’s oriented normally) all of the bubbles stuck to the side go to the top and redissolve….
learned it on “better call saul” and it works amazingly.
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since the bubbles are lighter than the liquid, when you spin it centrifugal force knocks the bubbles off the wall….Also, with those bottles, if you’re prepared for them to potentially explode, you can open them carefully and just close it again if pressure leaks out quickly once the seal opens. Then let out the extra pressure in short bursts and the bubbles won’t bring a bunch of liquid with them because they can’t build enough momentum to lift it.
It still takes hours for those to dissolve.
Seems like the worst part is not too bad, all things considered. All you need is half an hour patience with the fizzy drinks ;) Have to say, hate cycling on the cobbles, but love the look of them in the cities! Also, cobbles generally force cars to slow down indeed.
Two nuns are riding their bikes back to the convent.
One nun says to the other, “I don’t think I’ve ever come this way before.”
And the other one says, “It’s the cobblestones.”
Did you know there is a maximum pressure in the bottle, at which point shaking has no more effect since the pressure keeps the bubbles in your drink? This point is quickly reached, and already happened before it went into the store.
I can feel your pain, switched to Picnic though, never looked back.
I have even put cobblestones in the garden now for nostalgic reasons. (Basaltkeien)
