Be me
Download Pokemon Go
Start running to work
Gotta catch them all
4 months later run a 50K
“What was your training like?”
“I dunno, run more?”
(true story back in 2022)
You might want to check out walkscape to run even more
I couldn’t get into Walkscape, but it’s definitely better for running as you don’t need it open until you’re done.
I’m trying to figure out, how do we get them to POKÉMON GO TO THE POLLS
Bro pokemon WENT
Couldn’t finish reading that disaster of a paragraph. What a fucking loser, “bicyclefag?” Calling people “tards?”
Yeah… fuck that guy.
Yeah, but do you dress like a chode and hang out at vitamin shops?
Have fun commuting 30 miles to work on that thing. Especially when there’s 8 or 10 inches of snow, -10 wind-chill, or there’s a thunderstorm rolling in. I’ve seen people do it; they look absolutely fucking miserable and it’s a miracle it doesn’t kill them.
Don’t live in the USA, simple as.
That’s when it gets fun no bad weather just bad gear
Children in Norway ride their bikes to school every day, even in the snow. Are you saying you’re weaker than these literal children and need your climate controlled box to keep you comfortable? You can also choose to live closer to work if you want. Surprisingly most adults get to choose where they live.
sees happy person
gets mad
Yeah good luck driving your car through a tornado. I’ve seen it, these people didn’t look happy.
Respect to those folks. A miserable ride is often rewarding because it’s one of those lows that is eminently temporary and gives you an appreciation for the highs, especially if you are dressed appropriately so as not to catch a cold or some such. Kind of like shoveling snow for that sweet sweet mug of hot chocolate on the sofa afterwards. But yeah, also a good city will provide alternative options for its citizens, trains, buses, rideshare even. If a 30 mile bike ride is the only alternative to driving from place A to place B, your government doesn’t want you to have any kind of freedom to choose how you get from place A to place B, if there are no affordable housing options or good job opportunities that change that equation, your government is working on behalf of the big car manufacturers and dealers to keep you enslaved in debt to them, which is pretty fucked up
Enter the saviour of the commuter - trains.
I like trains
Bruh I will literally just stay home if there is that much snow I’m not fucking stupid
You may have missed read the history. The man is having fun with his current commute and he is does not seems to be looking for some sort of a change in his routine.
Some corrections:
You may have misread the history. The man is having fun with his current commute and he
isdoes not seemsto be looking for some sort of a change in his routine.Get a life.
The commenter I replied to is from a French instance. If I were writing in a different language, I would want to know where I’ve made mistakes.
I didn’t ask for your life story.
Actually, in a way, you did! You said “get a life”, which indicates you think I don’t have one. Me giving you information about me shows that I do have one. So now you’re more informed than you were before!
Thank you. I’ll change that.
You’re welcome! I hope I didn’t come off as rude.
Nah… don’t worry. I know I never check twice the messages I wrote on social media. They are bound to be full of mistakes. Plus my french autocorrector modifies my english. Still, if I write to be read I should try to be readable (^_^)
This person just wanted to feel clever. Your English is fine and required no corrections to understand because this is a forum not a university essay.
We don’t know that. Maybe he was genuinely trying to help me improve my English, maybe he was genuinely having a hard time reading me bc of my mistakes. Even if it was about being clever there is no point for me or any of us to react with negativity and ruin our mood.
Lets be forgiving. It will make our life better. 🫰
And park directly in the immediate front of the building I’m visiting. No circling around and around a without finding a space to park my overly expensive rust box. Just arrive, lock the bike to a post and be there.
Totally different experience in that aspect alone.
Hm… Is there any law that says I can’t ride my bike in the store? 🤔
Sure would make shopping faster.
where I live is quite common to ride bikes for transportation, lots of places have stickers disallowing riding the bikes in the buidings
You can still take the bike in in some cases, but not ride it.
I don’t think laws forbid that.
Ask the shop owner what he thinks of your idea.
idk about bikes, but I saw some madlads rolling slowly on their electric scooters in shops
Actual unironic gigachad moment
1 gal of gas: ~29k calories - $4.609
~29k calories of rice: ~$600It’s simple: drink the gas.
Yeah but I don’t have to carry an actual ton of weight on my bike.
Except when I’m taking yo mama home after date night
stfu nerd
My mom has lost a ton of weight and im v proud of her 😡Okay I’m sorry that was mean
I meeeeaaan, she lost that actual ton before you started biking her around and she’s still somehow fat. Someone had to say it. You shouldn’t apologize.
you better watch out
my dad is microsoft and he will delete your accountPlz dont im so srry. I bag ur 4givness. I hav sweet ethral fools cristal sord in d2. I wil giv it 2 u. My mom wil kil me if I get a nother virus. She mite blame my dad and devors him. Plz. I bag of u!
Your mom is so fat when she sits around the house she’s morbidly obese.
I don’t get it?
You’re so dumb your IQ is below average.
See, if you keep fumbling the 2nd part of your jokes, I’ll have to keep asking around to have them explained.
You’re so unable to understand the concept of the anti-joke that, uh, you’re unable to understand the concept of the anti-joke.
It’s a stab at fat… I can’t help but feel targeted but I’ll have to wait until the stabbing pain in my chest subsides. The shooting pain down my left arm is lessening already! I’m fine, everything’s fine… just let me catch my breath for a moment.
Still don’t get the joke
Old “your momma” joke… Your momma so fat when she sits around the house, she sits “around” the house! Meaning that she’s as big as the whole house or even bigger than the house.
Which someone that fat is morbidly obese.
So the joke is a twist on the joke, with a jab at the fat person, in the form of faux concern over their health.
Sort of in the same vein as “bless your heart” or “he/she has a great personality”.
Thanks now I get it and can rest assured it wasn’t funny.
If you drink a whole canister of gas, that’s enough to cover your nutritional needs for the rest of your life!
BRB
Also, gas is less toxic than vitamin C. So you should be fine! :D
One thing to account for is that humans are very inefficient at converting food into energy output. Only about 25% efficient to be precise. So you need to eat about 4 times more calories than you end up outputting into the bicycle.
The same thing applies to ICE cars, their engines are also very inefficient. EVs however reach an efficiency of 80-90%, they only end up using more energy than a bicycle because of how much faster you usually drive them. But if you drove an EV at the same speed you would ride a bicycle they would be vastly more efficient. And that’s not even accounting for the amount of energy used to produce food in the first place, which is a lot higher than the energy content of said food.
The superior choice is obviously an electric bicycle though when you want to have the most sustainable transportation, you get all of the efficiency gains from a battery operated motor, whilst still having the low weight and drag of a bicycle
EVs however reach an efficiency of 80-90%,
That’s not accounting for the inefficiency of turning heat into electricity in the first place (turbine generation is about 90% at utility scale) or turning photons into usable electricity (photovoltaics are at about 20%). And with turbines, you have to account for the inefficiencies in processing the fuel to get it to that point.
The whole universe is just an entropy generator and we’re gonna lose a lot of useful energy as we try to manipulate it.
Gross metabolic efficiency is gonna be around ~25% so you’re best off measuring kilojoules of work as an approximation of calorie burn, and then compare that to how many gallons of gas would be consumed when in a car, but you’d still probably wanna drink the gas
100 grams of raw white rice is 365 calories, meaning that it’s about 3650 calories per kg. 29k calories of rice is 8 kilograms.
Where are you buying rice that it costs $75/kg???
I did my math wrong lol
Found some at 66c/lb. Need 17.5 lbs. $11.5 👌
If you bike regularly, you actually don’t spend more calories. You only see calorie burn uptick when first taking on new exercise, which falls off over time back to your usual normal calorie cost. Because of this, that calorie cost for a biker is calorie intake they’d already consume even if they didn’t bike. It’s essentially free, in contrast to the gas of the car which is always a cost.
Checkmate liberal. /s
You can’t convince me of free energy
NICE TRY SCIENTOLOGY
There was a Kurzgesat video about this a couple weeks ago. Apparently if you don’t spend calories exercising/biking, your body will find other ways to burn it like increasing your immune system activity (which can have poor long-term effects). There’s an adjustment period when you do start exercising where energy is still spent on sedentary things and the actual exercise before the former is reduced to mostly match the latter.
I have also read that regular exercise can lead to an increase of base metabolic rate by ~5% though, which is like an extra 100 calories per day.
You should always doublecheck Kurzgesagt videos, btw.
They’re not a good sole source due to being heavily simplified (they know this and often provide further reading (you probably also know this (just commenting anyway for general visibility (this should be considered good practice tbh (to be honest)))))Yeah, I started taking Kurzgesagt videos with a grain of salt a while ago, hence the “apparently.” Their explanation just fit NoName’s assertion pretty well. Never bad to make the possibility of being wrong explicit though!
Taking this further, that $4.60 of gas will power the most efficient car for about an hour.
That $12 of rice is enough energy for you to power your bike for like 50 hours.
Conclusion: Just drive your car. Do you really want to waste 49 hours on your bike? /s
But that’s because that fuel is used to do much, much more work. if you scale down the unit to, say, a scooter (50cc) it will last much longer. Most scoots have 1gal tanks and they can get over 100mi per tank.
That being said everyone will think you lost your license due to drunk driving so to prevent this you should replace alcohol in your life and simply drink gas.
Real ones will switch to drinking biofuels because they’re better for the environment.
Ethanol is a good option.
Pro-tip: make sure it’s not denatured and is purified—it’s less dangerous for consumption that way.Wait a second…
simply drink gas
No, drink diesel - more calories per gallon, even though it costs more per gallon, too. The calorie difference is more than enough to offset the cost difference.
> be me
> be downtown on bicycle
> actual protected bike lanes
> zipping past hundreds of people that decided to drive for some reason
> bumper to bumper traffic
> road capacity literally maxed out
> honking and yelling at almost every intersection
pic related
Road capacity in traffic: basically zero Single bike lane capacity: absolutely massive.
Ngl, I have a nice ass and legs. Nice compliments, too! It’s worth it to bike everywhere if your city allows it
I forgot to mention that the cost of repairs is also dirt cheap here.
I can’t bicycle anywhere. Well, at least my commute would be certain death, There is a nice bike trail a few miles away but I’d have buy a bike and a rack for my car to haul it over there. Can barely afford the car.
Depending on your personal circumstances you might not need a rack. I always just take the front wheel off (quick release) and shove my bike in the back seat
Well, at least my commute would be certain death,
RIDE TO VALHALLA! WITNESS! WITNESSSS!!
pics or it didn’t happen
I’ll let these babes do the talkin’
🥵
Too bad for the lung cancer
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Pretty cool study. Shame its so small of a sample size, but it shows some very positive signs.
Idk, I used to cycle to work a lot before changing jobs, and I’ve got to tell you, the fumes I felt in my throat were more noticeable than anything I’ve ever experienced in my car. Plus when exercising you simply breathe more.
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You’re using your personal experiences to validate a broad generalization regarding the effects of air pollution on rates of lung cancer for the population of an entire country; this is wrong. Your sample size is one and your argument is “I felt the fumes in my throat more when cycling then compared to when I was in a car; therefore it must be cancer”. I appreciate that you actually had somewhat of a baseline, but your self experiment essentially tells you that exhaust fumes hurt your throat [full stop].
That just prove how much we are accustomed to the polluted air in our cars, and not to the less but still polluted air outside.
People who regularly cycle live longer than people who don’t.
I do think it’s funny that America has the worst traffic in the western world, yet in Europe we can get by just fine with roads built by people that even the Romans considered to be ancient.
I mean there has been some work done to those roads in the meantime and it’s not remarkable you chose to build them on the quickest way to go from A to B while keeping construction cost in mind…
It has to be said that people from one place underestimate the other…
In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance.
In America, 100 years is a long time.That’s because Europeans invest in all forms of transport, so you don’t get people who can’t fathom the concept of taking any trip from point A to B in anything other than a car
Would be great if Europe actually invested in all forms of transport. Where I live, the rail system is run into the ground instead of getting maintenance and expansion.
Yes, but you have a rail system.
Compared to Canada you guys have it phenomenally good.
Sorry.
My job is 18 mountainy miles away, and when I show up drenched in bicycle sweat everyone in the office says I smell bad
You can get an E-Bike or other personal electric vehicle if you want. Eco-friendly, inexpensive, fun, and won’t leave you drenched in sweat.
People shouldn’t live that far away from their workplaces. They didn’t used to, before we invented shitboxes.
I would love to live 5 minutes away from my workplace
But I saved about $300,000 on my mortgage when I bought a more rural house that isn’t near the city/my office building
I saved about $300,000
Sold your own future lol.
How so, I have a place to live now
If it’s cheaper to live in the middle of nowhere, with water and electricity and internet needing to be piped all that way out there, and the gas bills, and the road wear, then the government has failed. High and medium density housing costs the government less in maintenance, stimulates the economy, and is cheaper to build. Any functioning economy would price those homes cheaper. If you’re saving 300,000 by costing the government all that extra money and polluting the environment, someone fucked up on a colossal scale.
Spoilet alert: someone fucked up on a colossal scale.
Welcome to every modern country, but especially North America.
That’s the downside bike enthusiasts like to gloss over about - and in summer it doesn’t even have to be mountainous.
You could get a decent e-bike?
“But they’re so expensive, I’m not paying that much for a bike! I’d rather pay 10 times as much for cheap car that’ll sell all my text messages to data scraping companies.”
Bro my car cost $4k, has no radio and manual windows, if this 20 year old civic and sell my data, it’s earned it
Even more reason to get an e-bike lol. Too late I guess since you already decided to pay 4000 dollars for a shitty car. :p
4k for a top of the line e-bike.
Or 5k for the best e-bike in the world.
None of these have radios either. And you don’t have to work up a sweat by rolling down the windows because there’s no windows!
Sure, but that doesn’t allow me to bring home a family worth of groceries, or let me drive 4-5 hours away to see family for the holidays, or give me a way to drop my partner off at the airport with three suitcases for work conferences, or a way to get my 110lb dog to the vet.
The bike is not a replacement for a car, not even if it’s an expensive e-bike.
If those are your use cases, then you would probably want to get a Dutch bike (>5k); specifically for a big doggo, groceries and suitcases. Unfortunately there are no North American companies currently making cargo bikes as good at replacing cars as the Dutch ones. Though most people do perfectly fine with North American versions, even with children (but not big doggos lol).
The only good reason to drive a car in the situations you listed is driving it to another city, which would very likely not be feasible with an e-bike. Unless that trip is taken up every weekend, the best (and cheapest) way to accomplish that would be to rent a car.
A good e-bike is certainly a good replacement, unless you focus on certain situations like driving 4-5 hours out of town. Everything else it can do just as well and even make it easier and less stressful.
> be me
> live in a relatively new part of town in the Netherlands
> bike 20 minutes to the city center
> no hills or mountains because netherlands
> See almost no cars because most bike routes are completely seperated and shorter than car routes
> Park my bike in a surveilled parking area funded by the city
> Do all my shopping for the day and return
> MFW my friends and family don’t even realize how good we have it
No hills or mountains is great for biking, but bad for beautiful nature experiences (BNE)
So how easy is it for an American to move to the Netherlands? Asking for myself
If you are skilled labor, yes: https://www.expatica.com/nl/finance/taxes/the-dutch-30-ruling-explained-101641/
But what @abbadon420 said is equally true. Housing market’s fucked beyond belief. Now, if you want to WFH and live out in the sticks, you’d be set.
The Netherlands is less than half the size of my state. There is nowhere in the Netherlands that is more rural than where I live right now, lol.
Or you’ll need to bring like 500k. No, that’s not a joke.
For a small flat in an older building, surely not for a single house or even semi…
The average price of all sold houses, including the shitty apartments in the middle of nowhere, is 440k
You can drive though the Netherlands in 3h, for Americant’s that means there are no sticks.
Drive though the Netherlands in 3h
It takes 1 hour to get from Germany in the east to Belgium in the west.
On a plane maybe
If I can get from Dortmund in Germany to Calais in France in 4,5 - 5 hours (including stopping to fill up), I sure as hell don’t need 3 hours to go across the Netherlands.
I used to drive regularly to Antwerp from Dortmund in a truck and it took between 3,5 and 4 hours.
You wrote “from Germany in the East”, that means Berlin or farther East, Frankfurt/Oder maybe, to “Belgium in the West”, that means Antwerp or closer to the channel. And you said you can do that in 3h. Which is not possible on a road, even if you drive at 200km/h with no breaks. As for NL: The speed limit in NL is 100 nowadays, if you need less than 3h, you’re breaking the law.
But, you’re a truck driver, so I can’t take you seriously. You never received any education. You probably vote right-wing. So fuck off.
I guess it’s easy enough, but good luck finding a house.
Scooby-Doo and the Case of the Missing Houses
I always wanted to learn how to ride a bike. Always looked like fun.
Absolutely go do it! Riding a bike is one of the simplest joys in life once you get the hang of it. I live ripping around doing all my errands on it. I have a reasonably nice vehicle but really I only drive in the worst of the winter, or to get out of town to do some activity. In the summer that activity is usually mountain biking, go figure!
Do it. I took up cycling last year (although I learned as a kid) and now it’s literally my favourite thing to do ever. I’m also the fittest I’ve ever been.
I wouldn’t even know how to start. And, even though I know it’s silly, I’d be super nervous to try in front of people. I’m fat. They’d laugh at me 🤣
There are videos on youtube that can help. Tom Scott did one where he learns to ride a bike as an adult. He seemed to get the hang of it pretty quickly.
You’re going to do great. Keep the seat low and push with your feet to get the feel of coasting, just like kids learn. Small steps and you’ll be riding in no time. Depending on where you live, see if there are community bike groups you can volunteer at - these are great for learning about bike maintenance, and some places will let you build a bike for yourself from donated stuff for your time. Bike shops are pretty much universally supportive too.
For what it’s worth, I think you already did the hard part by coming here and expressing interest :)
Given that’s a greentext, legitimately expected anon to somehow get injured or killed by some not paying attention driver on unsafe road or something. Glad he didn’t.
