Mad Max: Origins

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“Life is a bitter mystery. We can’t give everything away for free. It’s not that kind of country.”

Tautology School Degree. Why not?

turns out building your supranational union on the basis of unanonimous votes for everything was a shit idea if you ever wanted to get anything done as that supranational union. Who’d’ve thunk it

This isn’t strictly relegated to cargo bikes as per bicycles. Bicycles (normal) are also oddly expensive new. I mean sure, you can get your local equivalent of a walmart bike for the local equivalent of $100 but it’ll kind of suck a lot, mostly because it’s overloaded with features and parts that will fail and be somewhat expensive to replace.

At some level I think comparing new cost of cargo bikes to everything else is also sort of an odd deal, an Urban Arrow is a premium cargo bike, an equivalent car costs anywhere from $60,000 upwards to $200,000 depending on where you want to draw the line. That said, bicycles are still very much oddly expensive, even if just compared to how much raw material you get out of like a dacia sandero vs. an urban arrow.

Theories are abundant. Me personally I believe it is both that nigh nowhere in the west has the stranglehold on politics that car companies have and that give them direct and indirect subsidies in a similar amount, but also: I don’t think anyone’s really done the ford factory of bicycles yet. There just isn’t a plant cranking this shit out all the time. Euro Big Box Store Decathlon probably gets closest, but even their cargo bike is comparably expensive. Maybe that’s a time issue, they’ll sell you REALLY solid normal bicycles at very reasonable prices for what you get.

EDIT: There’s also probably some regulatory fuckery going on. You can get, in europe, a chinese EV cargo trike like a Volta VT-5 for 2000€. It’s legally a small motorcycle, carries way more than any cargo bike and also beats all of them on price. I know for example that in germany, bike lights have to be individually approved by the federal car agency, while for anything for engine powered vehicles a EU self-cert is fine. I assume similar things happen elsewhere.

I don’t think this rings true in like central europe, the netherlands and such, where cargo bikes are still pretty expensive

Now, more nations ask: Why disarm if those promises mean nothing?

Who? What nuclear bomb equipped countries are even floating the idea of giving them up lmao?

It fits here and it doesn’t deserve it’s own post, while Rät - Penelope Scott which was popular around some internet niches for a while a few backs is a bop and has some banger lines I listen to it and I can’t stop to think she’d just fall for the next Elon all over again because despite the allusions to colonialism and such the whole thing reads like “We need a good Elon”

I’ve heard a lot of nonsense about cafe standards and cost/profit per unit but I still cant believe its not profitable to make this little truck.

It most likely isn’t legal due to safety standards as they relate to inhabitants of cars. Minimum windows heights, minimum crumple zones, a shitload of airbags every which direction, at this point probably a whole lot of sensors you wouldn’t really need for that kind of car, list goes on.

I have this but for bicycles and ropes exclusively. First one is out, so I’m rope guy I guess

The hard part about a simple bicycle isn’t actually the bicycle, it’s smooth road. If you don’t have that you have to invent the mountainbike and that one’s not even a 100 years old.

running both a rear rack crate and panniers of any kind that are easily removable is a huge ergonomical hassle at best

Honestly if I were just going “throw anything into it” I’d just go standard issue bicycle milk crate or cage or similar, seems much less a hassle.

what?

I agree, it’s why the disclaimer, however I’d also figure aro ace is not something your average christian cartoonist producer “believes” in or respects

I’ll admit it does ignore asexuality but I think it is an actually interesting bit pertinent to discussion here

I don’t think this works without all the other bits of dutch traffic planning like separating infrastructure very strictly for the most part, slowing down cars a lot wherever that isn’t feasible or wanted and also that basically everyone still also rides a bicycle instead of using a car exclusively. Approaches in isolation such as this are tried every few years here in germany - which is less carbrained than the US as per infrastructure at least - and it usually fails horribly because the underlying mindset of the country is still “road = cars, get out of the fucking way”. It very occasionally works out in very small, rural communities where the socetial pressure not to run your actual, known neighbour over takes hold but otherwise it’s a mess.

I once went out of my way on a cycle trip to ride through Bohmte, which has tried a rathe more dutch shared space approach with no traffic signs, no lights, no sidewalks in their inner city and it does not work one fucking bit, it works out to be the worlds most stroad. Mind you, the clearly designated sidewalk is a later addition on account of how much it did not work.

Where do cops actually do traffic enforcement in a working sense? Everywhere I’m aware of, excluding very locally contained oddities, they’re either also all hugely carbrained and don’t give a shit except for sitting at badly designed traffic spots to fish for tickets or traffic enforcement barring high speed chases and openly taunting them is primarily in the jurisdiction of some sort of boring unarmed municipal department and as such they see this as beneath them.