r/fuckcars / Not Just Bikes / Urbanists / New Urbanism / Car-Free / Anti-Car - People and grifters who hate personal transport, freedom, cars, roads, suburbs, and are obsessed with city planning and urban design

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BubbaDaLoveSponge said:
Yeah that has to be insurance fraud, it has been a while since I rode a bike, but I'm pretty sure there is a thing called brakes, and you can turn to dodge it
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He was just navigating by looking at the ground and assuming as long as it was green beneath him? He was in the untouchable bike lane and all was good.

Nobody who's planning a nuisance lawsuit that would take you admitting you almost killed yourself as part of the complaint has the guts to deliberately injure themselves in anything but the most superficial and ambiguous ways.

If he'd just tapped it, fallen over, and started screaming like a soccer player and clutching his leg? Then I'd agree he's faking it for a settlement.

But to actually do a full frontal somersault dismount off a bike? In just spandex? With nothing but traffic and hard surfaces around? And actual flying debris?

Nah, he really was THAT stupid.
 
TowinKarz said:
He was just navigating by looking at the ground and assuming as long as it was green beneath him?
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That's how cyclist tend to ride on these major bike lanes. Head down, body forward for minimum drag, so they can eke out a few extra micro-newtons of friction reduction.
 
Major said:
I mean, that is a bullshit arrest; I don't know how you can be arrested for obstructing when there's no actual crime. Just seems a waste of time and money. Even the cops were skeptical.
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It being a super-expensive part of town indicates that cops are looking for any reason to find you to be a problem.

On the other hand this fuckwad finally got found out after fucking around one too many times.
 
Xarpho's Return said:
It being a super-expensive part of town indicates that cops are looking for any reason to find you to be a problem.

On the other hand this fuckwad finally got found out after fucking around one too many times.
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A lot of technically "good" but seemingly excessive arrests only look that way to us because we didn't see the previous 30 times he was warned to stop it......
 
Major said:
I mean, that is a bullshit arrest; I don't know how you can be arrested for obstructing when there's no actual crime. Just seems a waste of time and money. Even the cops were skeptical.
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Cop states he got the obstructing charge for evading the police for several blocks and according to the cop swerving throughout the road to do so. This is where I don't really like these clickbait channels because they didn't include dashcam or security cam footage as important context, you just have the cop car having to speed up and use sirens for several blocks to go by, if the cops only submitted the BWC footage as evidence without capturing the biker evading given the myriad of cameras a cop car alone has it'll likely get thrown out since most DAs are liberal women.

Threadtax: To this day, NYC citizens are still celebrating the fact that they successfully cucked themselves out of even more of their wages by promoting the retarded ass congestion charge experiment. Keep in mind that they aren't putting the same level of outcry when their system charges Ambulances that are already operating on razor thin margins, or won't go out on the streets protesting the subway system failing to stop homeless people from setting their own citizens on fire.

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Honestly this entire "MicromobilityNYC" reddit seems to be a goldmine of leftist drivel.

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Guess what also kills people, a speeding E-Bike. Except when a biker speeds on a vehicle weighed down significantly by batteries and a motor and has no regards for the safety of those around them, these people don't even open their mouths and whine when pedestrians literally get killed by them. This is why speeding in a car is highly illegal and you can even get put in jail for life if you commit a crime that results in a fatal accident, it's wild that regulators are this slow at adapting these same rules to one of the worst road users when it comes to breaking the law.
 
kiwirevolving said:
Wonder what the reaction of r/fuckcars would be to this blind woman showing off her car. She needs a second speedometer since it's more visible and she has to listen to Google Maps' directions every time she drives

At least she doesn't drive when it's raining, if it's dark outside or on highways, but reddit would still probably call a truck more dangerous.

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She's blind and she's still a better driver than One Eyed Kevin (he has a Glass Eye)

 
quaawaa said:
Most of the comments are saying that there's nothing car-centric about the mall because it's Dutch, not American:
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Predictable behavior from these idiots. You could post a picture from the Netherlands, but claim it's American and they'd hate it regardless of what it looked like.

Ravier Xavenblood said:
Doesn't matter to urbanists. They still want to ban cars and micromanage every aspect of your life.
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We need a containment city where we can send all of these people. Make it have a mandatory HOA so they can all torment each other even more.
 
Irene and 22 others said:
Predictable behavior from these idiots. You could post a picture from the Netherlands, but claim it's American and they'd hate it regardless of what it looked like.



We need a containment city where we can send all of these people. Make it have a mandatory HOA so they can all torment each other even more.
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Yes. A nanny state to end all nanny states.
 
Kiska said:
Threadtax: To this day, NYC citizens are still celebrating the fact that they successfully cucked themselves out of even more of their wages by promoting the retarded ass congestion charge experiment. Keep in mind that they aren't putting the same level of outcry when their system charges Ambulances that are already operating on razor thin margins, or won't go out on the streets protesting the subway system failing to stop homeless people from setting their own citizens on fire.
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Pre-congestion charging, many Manhattan streets were already deserted during the day. When I went there as a tourist, I walked around much of Manhattan and was alone whenever I was outside of major hubs like the Financial District.

Obviously, this makes perfect sense as most people are either at work or home, but it would have been very easy to take a photo of a completely empty avenue.

Their doublethink is amazing: “the streets are so much better now that the cars are gone” and “the MTA is making so much money to fund transit by charging all the cars”. Can’t have it both ways, and from looking at Google Maps, they still get congested during rush hour.

Congestion also is also worsened because the government deliberately tries to increase it by dieting roads, lowering speed limits, timing lights for “red waves”, and importing half the third world.
 
Requiring speed limiters in e-bikes is dumb; takes very little effort to either raise the limit or bypass it entirely. It's time to apply the boating world solution and say everything with a motor requires a license. It's not like you're one of those anti-regulation CHUDS anyway... are you, urbanist?
 
McMitch said:
Right, but fixed-gear bicycles are obsolete for literally everything that isn’t track racing. Commuting on one is grounds for immediate ridicule by everyone he meets. Even a penny farthing would be more acceptable despite operating under the same principles solely due to the novelty and skill necessary to ride one.
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True, although it has to be said that the feeling of a fixed gear is somewhat different than a free wheeling hub. Going in a straight line feels nice, the momentum keeps you going. Also, I guess people like them for the robustness. No gears, no freewheeling, just a thick chain that needs maintenance.
I built one up mainly out of curiosity, but it's my main daily bike these days. It does have its drawbacks, though. Slowing down is as exhausting as accelerating, and without aggressive skidding (which I don't do due to an unfavourable gear ratio giving me a single skidpatch and not using clips or anything on the pedals) your stopping distance is much longer without brakes. For emergencies I have a brake, but usually I just ride so carefully that I don't use it.
It's fun, but not for everyone for sure. I usually use it as an example for Green fags who harp on how much more efficient the electric motor is compared to an internal combustion engine. On paper, a fixed gear bike is as efficient as a bicycle can get, so why isn't everyone riding one? Because efficiency isn't everything.
I wished there still were velodromes around where you could go and ride for fun, but those don't really exist anymore. Wouldn't wanna disconnect my brake every time, anyway...
 
Meriasek said:
True, although it has to be said that the feeling of a fixed gear is somewhat different than a free wheeling hub. Going in a straight line feels nice, the momentum keeps you going. Also, I guess people like them for the robustness. No gears, no freewheeling, just a thick chain that needs maintenance.
I built one up mainly out of curiosity, but it's my main daily bike these days. It does have its drawbacks, though. Slowing down is as exhausting as accelerating, and without aggressive skidding (which I don't do due to an unfavourable gear ratio giving me a single skidpatch and not using clips or anything on the pedals) your stopping distance is much longer without brakes. For emergencies I have a brake, but usually I just ride so carefully that I don't use it.
It's fun, but not for everyone for sure. I usually use it as an example for Green fags who harp on how much more efficient the electric motor is compared to an internal combustion engine. On paper, a fixed gear bike is as efficient as a bicycle can get, so why isn't everyone riding one? Because efficiency isn't everything.
I wished there still were velodromes around where you could go and ride for fun, but those don't really exist anymore. Wouldn't wanna disconnect my brake every time, anyway...
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Bugmen are obsessed with efficiency to an autistic degree and not because they're transportation and logistic spergs, but because they have no sense of ownership or something being for the long term.
 
Kyria the Great said:
Bugmen are obsessed with efficiency to an autistic degree and not because they're transportation and logistic spergs, but because they have no sense of ownership or something being for the long term.
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In most cases I see on places like LinkedIn it's because they're semi-retarded marketing and sales people who don't really know shit, just which numbers need to be low or high to be good. They don't really think beyond that. I think general bugmen are similar. They just see "number good", and that's it.
 
Lobster Cult High Priest said:
She's blind and she's still a better driver than One Eyed Kevin (he has a Glass Eye)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wOM0BgaQwDs
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It got a couple things wrong regarding Ontario traffic law and obviously couldn't train people to truly survive on the road or drive courteously in the real world due to limitations of (at least American) infrastructure and it conflicting with road laws (I'm pretty sure you can be in an intersection after the light turns red in all of North America, you just can't cross the white line. Not sure why they dropped the ball with that one especially since you couldn't ever turn left here otherwise), but this show was one of the greatest things ever to be broadcast on television - either ironically or unironically depending on how you see it.

Leftists point to it as proof that licenses are handed out like candy (many nominees were third worlders that didn't even have Canadian licenses, a huge issue in and of itself that anti-car leftists definitely think is a good thing) and that only the Party's high brass should be allowed anywhere near motor vehicles, but it actually sort of displayed the opposite: behind the wheel of a vehicle was clearly the state in which the majority of the nominees caused the least amount of damage during their everyday existences. They were all violent, mentally ill, mentally disabled or some combination of the 3. They were absolute trainwrecks as individuals in every aspect of their lives, and at least a quarter of the nominators every season were even worse. Driving to go to work or feed themselves was the least of their problems. Their neighbors (even in a SFH neighborhood, let alone an apartment), family, coworkers and anyone else not sufficiently separated from them must've endured a living hell being in proximity to them for extended periods of time. They'd be taking out their deficiencies, dysfunctions and demons that would've gotten them killed and removed from society any time before 1945 on every person that was unfortunate enough to pass them on the street or be stuck on the bus or train with them if they couldn't or didn't "need" to drive. When they're behind the wheel of a car however, there's an unnaturally strong barrier of metal and glass physically and mentally separating them from the outside world and limiting the interaction you have with them to a split second as they fly away from you at an inhuman pace, leaving you with no idea what the monster inside was capable of doing to you. Driving your own car further puts 2 crumple zones between you and their actions, something any mentally-developed adult should want to prioritize. Even if you're a kid or otherwise can't own a car, living a relative life of luxury under the Sword of Damocles is infinitely preferable to actually dealing with these people face-to-face in any capacity, let alone day in and day out.

Especially with this in mind, it's particularly almond-activating that like a third of the "winners" - Kevin included - were gay on top of their personal issues and shortcomings. I'm sure it's just a coincidence and that Krystal wasn't the most median lesbian to have ever existed
 
Thrak said:
Krystal wasn't the most median lesbian to have ever existed
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Krystal was my favorite contestant on the show for all the wrong reasons. When she learned you can slowly ease on to the gas pedal and you don't have to floor it each time was hilarious.

I don't doubt a lot of fuckcars members might be a good fit for this show judging how they can't even obey traffic rules on a bicycle.
 
Meriasek said:
I wished there still were velodromes around where you could go and ride for fun, but those don't really exist anymore.
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Not to PL but I know of a public one in the area(public as in owned by the local Govt) and while the infield is used for Athletics in summer the velodrome itself is almost completely unused for bikes since the local bike club folded and their clubhouse removed.

I'm amazed the local 'YIMBY' astroturfers haven't demanded it be turned into housing yet, and tbh the club closing is definitely a sign the lycra dickheads aren't doing it for sports or exercise, Otherwise it would still be open.
Yamamura said:
Krystal was my favorite contestant on the show for all the wrong reasons. When she learned you can slowly ease on to the gas pedal and you don't have to floor it each time was hilarious.

I don't doubt a lot of fuckcars members might be a good fit for this show judging how they can't even obey traffic rules on a bicycle.
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Genuinely that show taught me how to spot bad drivers way easier, particularly the last season where the pointed out that chick would swerve to the centre line, then to the shoulder when cars approached, then back to the centre line when they passed.

Tbh the delusion those contestants had is r\fuckcars down to a T, just the fuckcars losers couldn't even get a drivers license xD
 
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