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My personal favorite is how if someone bumps you and you get the smallest scratch or dent on your door, you now have to be late for whatever you were doing, pull over (impacting other traffic) exchange insurance info deal with possible hostility for that and ultimately have a crappy day because of it.

if entire cities were designed around these the way they are with cars, everyone would be fine with it and you would live less than 6 miles from where you work.

drenched in sweat

Skill issue.

frozen fingers

There's these things called gloves. You should look into them.

Only if you live at one train station and work at another.

I ride a bike to work every day. I'm never sweaty. The infrastructure to cycle exists so I won't get run over by cars.

Can't tell if satire

As soon as bicycles are mentioned, everyone suddenly has to transport their washing machine 200 miles in sub zero temperatures.

Honestly, no matter the mode of transportation, I'd arrive drenched in sweat in a 40° environment.

• kryptonite U-lock.
• locking skewers for the tires, gears, seat and handle bars.
• an ugly color

At this point, they'll need an angle grinder to get anything valuable off the bike. It's more expensive but so long its not the standard of ever biker, bike thieves'll target easier bikes to steal off.

I think the point was to contrast this with cars. Having your car stolen is 10x worse than having your bike stolen

Think of it that way - whoever stole your bike was probably more happy to get it than you are sad to lose it. The total happiness in the world increased. So, whatever.

You have enough money for a pair of bolt cutters.

Unusable by almost everyone that's disabled, most of the elderly, and cannot carry any significant amount of goods.

Damn, I should call my 80 year old mom and tell her to stop doing her shopping on her bike. She'll pass it along to all her friends of similar age when they bike to the community centre together, I'm sure.

you still run into range limitations that are incompatible with living anywhere but a city.

Damn, so it only works for 274 million Americans and 555 million Europeans who don't live rural.

but it also would have made my main job impossible back when I could still work. You can't ride a bike thirty miles across mountainous terrain in snow and ice to get to a patient's house.

Oh no, it doesn't work for everyone all the time everywhere. Since this isn't a perfect solution for everything always, we should just completely ignore it and never use it.

I do 90% of my trips by bike, but sometimes I have to work at a construction site or a factory complex or some other middle-of-nowhere place, so I go by car. But when I go grocery shopping, or to a cafe, or out for dinner, or to my friends nearby, I go by bike. Most of the time I go to the DIY store, or clothes shopping, or just for fun, I go by bike.

And when it doesn't work, I take the car, but it's by far the minority of trips.