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

[Markass the Worst]

Don't burst his bubble but even though drinking in trains is allowed it's still looked down on. Surely anyone can wait a few hours for their next beer?

You assume urbanists aren't alcoholics and are able to put the bottle down.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

My local highway has one of those blue "Food" signs and among them is an Indian buffet located a little over a mile off the freeway. I would personally not recommend that on a road trip but it's there.

Our little blue food signs will sometimes go out to three miles from the exit ramp just due to lol middle of nowhere, but still. Variety. Actual food. Not whatever Rheinhart prison food the train decides to serve you.

 

[Vesperus]

Yes, and just one mile into an urban area can give you a LOT of options. My local highway has one of those blue "Food" signs and among them is an Indian buffet located a little over a mile off the freeway. I would personally not recommend that on a road trip but it's there.

The reason I chose Marché Wörthersee is, it's literally a rest stop/service area right off the motorway. There's probably nicer places in town.

You assume urbanists aren't alcoholics and are able to put the bottle down.

If I was forced to live in a bughive and travel by public transport you'd be prying the Everclear from my cold, dead hands.
Whether I'm forced by the government or my own retardation is kind of irrelevant.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

You assume urbanists aren't alcoholics and are able to put the bottle down.

You're right, I forgot. Only an alcoholic would be happy to be served overpriced local pisswasser

 

[Vesperus]

Only an alcoholic would be happy to be served overpriced local pisswasser

So, Bud Light?
Asking as a legal alien.

 

[Amber the Hedgehog]

Is this no public toilets in Europe a real thing? Because I live in Finland and I haven't seen a paid toilet anywhere near me. Toilets you need be buzzed in sure but actual paid ones are so rare that practically they don't exist. I think I remember running into one in Helsinki years ago. I admit I have only really traveled in Germany and Sweden but I didn't have problems finding a free toilet either one. Then again I haven't done much capital cities or other more touristy areas. I go more for the smaller side places because that's where relatives with free accommodation live.

At most it's hard to find a toilet at night because most places with public restrooms are closed but during normal business hours, restaurants, libraries, supermarkets, malls, trainstations and so on have free public restrooms. Heck many stores that don't have one will let a normal looking client use the employee bathroom if you ask nicely.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

Imagine paying a "symbolic charge". Eurocucks are the worst.

The way this works is that on major stations in Germany you have a gate, once you pay you get a coupon for the amount you paid that you can spend at any other gas station with a paid toilet. On smaller ones you just ask for the key and pay nothing. In other countries they are usually not locked if the entrance to the restroom is on the shop floor. Im willing to pay 1 euro in western europe to get a clean toilet with no hobos shooting up in the stall.

TL;DR American mind cant comprehend Madame Pipi

 

[quaawaa]

/r/fuckcars loves stroads now if they're Chinese:

Some screengrabs:


Amerikkka is in the 1800s compared to China:


FYI, China subsidizes fossil fuels and doesn't have free healthcare:


Source (Archive)

 

[quaawaa]

A cyclist got killed because their pool noodle sucked them under a car.



A police officer tries to warn the people most likely to do stunts like this:

This is probably a troll, but they're taking it seriously.

More details on the incident:




But of course, they don't listen:


If only the US had European laws that blame car drivers for cyclists doing stupid stuff:


Of course, the idiots don't realize that without the pool noodle, the pass would have been perfectly safe.

The US is a "car-infested hellscape with a large religious fascist cult":


How dare you assume that cyclists have a death wish:


Source (Archive)

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Total cyclist death

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

I genuinely don't know what it is about roads that turns so many people into complete maniacs who apparently couldn't care less about their own lives or anyone else's. Like it's some kind of battle for road space and whoever gets there first wins. Sure, I like driving fast too, and I hate it when someone's riding my ass, but escalating that kind of thing into a full-blown conflict is just retarded. What is there to gain?
When my dad was teaching me to drive at 12 he always used to say that cemeteries are full of people who were in the right. Trying to prove a point at high speeds is a game that's absolutely not worth playing

 

[Dead Lion]

I genuinely don't know what it is about roads that turns so many people into complete maniacs who apparently couldn't care less about their own lives or anyone else's. Like it's some kind of battle for road space and whoever gets there first wins. Sure, I like driving fast too, and I hate it when someone's riding my ass, but escalating that kind of thing into a full-blown conflict is just retarded. What is there to gain?
When my dad was teaching me to drive at 12 he always used to say that cemeteries are full of people who were in the right. Trying to prove a point at high speeds is a game that's absolutely not worth playing

I can kind of understand the mindset of the kind of person who bought themselves a fast german car of some kind and they need to get their moneys worth. I still think it's stupid to buy this kind of car if you don't race but I digress.

Why cyclist who are by a wide margin in the most danger on the road (since bikers generally have armor head to toe these days while they wear only lycra) act like the biggest retards is beyond me.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Why cyclist who are by a wide margin in the most danger on the road (since bikers generally have armor head to toe these days while they wear only lycra) act like the biggest retards is beyond me.

Because they have the same mindset as redditors.

 

[synthetic_glazer]

A cyclist got killed because their pool noodle sucked them under a car.

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A police officer tries to warn the people most likely to do stunts like this:
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This is probably a troll, but they're taking it seriously.

More details on the incident:
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But of course, they don't listen:
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If only the US had European laws that blame car drivers for cyclists doing stupid stuff:
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Of course, the idiots don't realize that without the pool noodle, the pass would have been perfectly safe.

The US is a "car-infested hellscape with a large religious fascist cult":
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How dare you assume that cyclists have a death wish:
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Source (Archive)

Apologies for the ai voiceover and clickbait title, but I saw a bodycam video recently with a lunatic cyclist who really seemed to embody the impotence, whininess, and persecution complex so many cyclists seem to have, and this pool noodle/3ft darwinism reminded me of it.

The way these types of cyclists in particular are so dead set on proving a point either by unwittingly killing themselves with a pool noodle or trying to detain a teenager reminds me a lot of the kind of boomers who sat at home during covid until the covid hysteria was the only issue they cared about, and they'd lose their shit if anyone dared defied the dogma. Absolute insufferable devotion to a retarded cause.

How is this in any way, shape, or form a good thing to a normal, well-adjusted adult? It's not even a matter of illegal/legal to these faggots, it's just "car bad, bike good."

Total cyclist death, indeed.

 

[Dimension Sniper]

Why cyclist who are by a wide margin in the most danger on the road (since bikers generally have armor head to toe these days while they wear only lycra) act like the biggest retards is beyond me.

It's just the general cyclist entitlement. They're dicks to everybody they're expected to share space with. Mixed use trails are an absolute nightmare thanks to cyclists - they're supposed to yield to both hikers and horses since they're faster than both, but they never actually do. That's why it cracks me up when they complain about cars while behaving stupidly around them, and I don't really feel sad when they get hurt doing so.

 

[The Jewel of the Nile]

Why cyclist who are by a wide margin in the most danger on the road (since bikers generally have armor head to toe these days while they wear only lycra) act like the biggest retards is beyond me.

I should have specified that I wrote that with cyclists in mind. They have so much to lose, why tempt the fate?

That's why it cracks me up when they complain about cars while behaving stupidly around them, and I don't really feel sad when they get hurt doing so.

One well placed kick from a spooked horse would probably put them in their place, or at least I'd hope so. In reality they'd either die with a cracked skull or make a stink about horses

 

[Bonesjones]

The way this works is that on major stations in Germany you have a gate, once you pay you get a coupon for the amount you paid that you can spend at any other gas station with a paid toilet. On smaller ones you just ask for the key and pay nothing. In other countries they are usually not locked if the entrance to the restroom is on the shop floor. Im willing to pay 1 euro in western europe to get a clean toilet with no hobos shooting up in the stall.

TL;DR American mind cant comprehend Madame Pipi

You are right we can't comprehend the behavior of subhumans. What a self own.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The reason I chose Marché Wörthersee is, it's literally a rest stop/service area right off the motorway. There's probably nicer places in town.

Yup. Places like Cracker Barrel are fairly common along American highways. Whatever your opinion of Cracker Barrel is, I could put a picture of its food there and it at least looks good on the plate there with fried chicken and vegetables and all that on real plates.

This is probably a troll, but they're taking it seriously.

The big problem is I can't find any news article from the last five years where a cyclist died with a pool noodle (there are some articles from 2017 and 2019, but those aren't recent). It probably might be a troll after all.

Apologies for the ai voiceover and clickbait title, but I saw a bodycam video recently with a lunatic cyclist who really seemed to embody the impotence, whininess, and persecution complex so many cyclists seem to have, and this pool noodle/3ft darwinism reminded me of it.

The video is from 2024 (despite its 2/2026 upload) but I seem to remember another video where that cyclist or another person who looks just like him got in a pissing match with cops.

It's just the general cyclist entitlement. They're dicks to everybody they're expected to share space with. Mixed use trails are an absolute nightmare thanks to cyclists - they're supposed to yield to both hikers and horses since they're faster than both, but they never actually do. That's why it cracks me up when they complain about cars while behaving stupidly around them, and I don't really feel sad when they get hurt doing so.

The general attitude of "what's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine" attitude when it comes to road space, demanding both exclusive use of infrastructure (whether bike lanes or dedicated cyclist intrastructure) and helping themselves to mainlanes and sidewalks whenever convenient.

If we look back to an earlier post in this thread, a cyclist acts like an idiot and is yelled at by a a black motorist. As @quaawaa says, "the nigga was in the right and the faggot was in the wrong", but as always Reddit took the cyclists' side with the top comment being "Losing your cool like that behind the wheel should be a mandatory 1-year license suspension, upgraded to a permanent revocation for second offenses", which is basically "you even RAISE YOUR VOICE toward a cyclist, you get punished". Of course they put in nothing when a cyclist is acting improperly.

Our little blue food signs will sometimes go out to three miles from the exit ramp just due to lol middle of nowhere, but still. Variety. Actual food. Not whatever Rheinhart prison food the train decides to serve you.

I've stated way upthread that I'll concede that train food is probably pretty decent. The problem is that it looks too expensive for what it is, transit advocates act like it's five-star restaurant quality even for convenience store-style options like a chicken caesar wrap, and it's the ONLY option you have on a long trip. The logos of course are only a general idea as you have to pay for them and some states like California are more restrictive about what qualifies.

The sign where I mentioned the Indian buffet only has (as of early 2025) the Indian buffet and a full-service sit-down restaurant off the highway that has since closed. Those are far from the only places, though, which is what an uneducated person might not realize. At that particular exit there's no restaurants or gas stations there (a few hotels, a car dealership, and an office building), but between the Indian buffet and the exit there's a lot more fast food restaurants between there (Arby's, McDonald's, Wendy's, KFC, and a few others) and since the Indian buffet is in a strip mall, there's even more restaurants in said strip mall. All together, while there's only two blank spaces on the sign, there are almost a dozen places that could qualify, the lodging side of the sign is blank despite a Holiday Inn and Country Inn at the next exit that have both been there since at least 2010.

That's what smartphones are for, you can figure out what's there and where you'd like to eat.

 

[Mukhrani]

/r/fuckcars loves stroads now if they're Chinese:
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Some screengrabs:
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Amerikkka is in the 1800s compared to China:
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FYI, China subsidizes fossil fuels and doesn't have free healthcare:
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The Chinese would literally kill these Redditors lmao. Always so weird to see urban libtards talking about what a socialist paradise China is and every FOB Chinese I meet likes that property is cheap in America and they can live in the suburbs but hates the high taxes, the burdensome regulations, and the grunge, graffiti, and crime in all the city centers. Mr. Cyclist would be digging in the bauxite mine while a well-connected tuhao redeveloped his affordable housing into luxury apartments.

 

[Dimension Sniper]

One well placed kick from a spooked horse would probably put them in their place, or at least I'd hope so. In reality they'd either die with a cracked skull or make a stink about horses

Spoiler: equestrian sperging

One of the things that utterly infuriates me about cyclists is their inability to comprehend that a horse is not some sort of organic bicycle. They're prey animals who survive by assuming that everything is potentially going to eat them, and we train them to do this less by gradually introducing them to new things and making the new thing a pleasant experience. Me riding a bike around the pasture can help desensitize them, but it's still just me (person they know who feeds and loves on them) in the relatively safe environment of their home, with the only variable being the weird rattly wheel contraption. A stranger riding an unfamiliar bike past them on a trail is going to be a totally different scenario. Even though my horse has seen bikes before, he hasn't seen *this person* on *this bike*. Maybe he's fine. Maybe he needs a minute to figure it out. Just be polite and slow down or pull off to the side so everyone can pass by each other safely. Also, if the bike is stopped, that's an opportunity for me to let my horse have a look and give him lots of praise and positive reinforcement for being chill about it, which helps him continue to be chill around bikes in the future. You know what doesn't help him be chill? His human having an argument with some douchebag in spandex about how the trail is meant to be used every other time he sees one.

tbf I have met a couple of cyclists who were very friendly and accommodating, but they've been the exception. If you want to bike on a trail without worrying about horses, just go find a trail where only bikes are permitted instead of harassing me about having my animals somewhere they're specifically allowed to be.