• 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    So much shit around bicycles is a scam because barring some major inventions like shocks for mountainbikes or maybe carbon frames it’s very much a solved problem, but it doesn’t fit into a capitalist economy if everybody just buys one bicycle and then occasionally parts for it to fix it.

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      1 year ago

      laughs in Dutch… we don’t do crap like that. Just buy a bike you use daily, and fix the parts that brake. (stadsfiets)

      Although… we have a population of 17.9mln, but 23+ mln bicycles. So some of us do by in to the fancy-pants bullshit bikes as a second bike.

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        1 year ago

        Same in Denmark, just have a bike there can handle your needs and that’s it. One bike can transport you everyday and be a Mountain bike(we don’t have mountain’s)

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        laughs in Dutch… we don’t do crap like that. Just buy a bike you use daily, and fix the parts that brake. (stadsfiets)

        yeah except of course when y’all invent something like the now defunct VanMoof

    • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
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      1 year ago

      Yeah but I need a road bike, an all weather commuter and a mountain bike. Oh and a CX bike and and and…