Bicycles is worse than mopeds and scooters.
The need to fully straighten your leg when pedaling requires you to raise the saddle high, which leads to a too high center of gravity, which makes the bike less controllable and easier to fall on.
This also makes it difficult to climb onto a bike - on a scooter I can instantly stand up and sit down, on a moped you just have to lift your leg a little, on a bicycle I have to move the pedal to the desired position, stand on it and lift the other leg very high to finally sit down. With a rear rack, the process of getting on turns into hell. A telescopic dropper makes this easier, but firstly, it is not enough, and secondly, they are unreliable, have backlash, the switch takes up space on the steering wheel and needs to be pressed every time.
Very low efficiency relative to the energy expended by a human(not the transmission), which could be spent on a more useful thing.
Pedaling is an absolutely unnatural physical activity for a human that leads to problems with deer, if you want to lead an active lifestyle - go to the gym or hiking.
Bicycle parts are less reliable, break faster than scooters and mopeds, because absolutely everything is brought in for the sake of less weight. At the same time they are much more expensive. This is very clearly expressed in the example of dual suspension bicycles.This is very much true for shock absorbers, tires and transmission. A full-suspension bike is ridiculously expensive, expensive 12-speed transimission and shimano chains that have a resource tens of times shorter than a gearbox with a motorcycle chain or even a CVT with belt
Most digusting is road cyclists with narrow tires, rigid fork and frame, agressive high seating position, AERODYNAMIC clothing. Sane person does not mind spending extra liters of gasoline or watts of electricity on better grip with the road due to thicker tires and soft shock absorbers, on greater air resistance while riding in his favorite loose clothing.

Ebikes should require registration and an active insurance policy. $15 million in liability insurance per bike, minimum, to cover the average damage they do every time they explode. That doesn't even cover the loss of life but it's a start. Possession of an unregistered ebike or unregistered parts such as batteries should be a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years in prison and being banned from touching another ebike ever again. Second offense is life in prison, you can't prove me wrong.

>but muh cost of deliveries
Muh cost of rebuilding the entire block after it was leveled and rebuilding the lives destroyed, cash me outside howbou dah?

No middle-class family will ever want to live in your heckin walkable cities until the urban public schools stop being ghetto shitholes (not happening) or the private schools stop being insanely expensive (not happening). Spending an extra 30 minutes commuting to work is nowhere near as much of a drawback as sending your children to a school with future murderers and armed robbers.

Best watch out old boomer.

"Winter randonneuring" edition

Resources:
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
https://www.parktool.com/en-us/blog/repair-help
RJ the bike guy on youtube

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Gentle Density Edition.

Discuss transit projects and improvements in your city.

Why is it so hard to find physical copies of Christopher Awdry's Railway Series books? No publisher has re-released any of his work on The Railway Series in recent years. A good example of this is book #42: Thomas and His Friends, the finale to The Railway Series and published in 2011. It was released not long ago and getting a copy of this book can cost you hundreds of dollars, it's mind boggling to me.

What's the worse you've ever pissed off a driver whilst on your bike?

>top of a hill
>4 way stop 1/2 way down
>time my approach so I can just run through
>Driver has to slam on his brakes
>Chased me down the road for good km or so
>act oblivious and turn into a mtn bike trail and escape

Literally scrapped because of a refrigerator.