• pc486@reddthat.com
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    9 months ago

    Those are value judgements. How does a carbon bike get stolen if it’s never locked in a public place? Why would a carbon bike be loaded with anything more than a bottle of water and a small saddle bag?

    These considerations are important for commuting, touring, and other fun activities, but are perhaps less important for the bike racer.

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      9 months ago

      You’re in the “fuckcars” community. Bikes are part of non-car transportation. How do you use a bike as an primary or secondary form of transportation if you never park in a public place or carry anything more than a bottle of water and a small saddle bag?

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        9 months ago

        I’ve had many coworkers roll into the office with their carbon bikes because it makes quick work of a long commute and it’s so easy to carry a lightweight machine up the office stairs. They’d wear a backpack if they needed to carry a laptop. No cars involved; not even a bus.

        There’s no need to gatekeep which kind of bike someone chooses to use when the objective is to not drive a car. They can ride a carbon bike if they want too.

      • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
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        9 months ago

        Not every bike needs to be for transport. Also, I’ve brought my carbon bike in my office at more than one job. My commute was already 1 hour each way with a nice road bike. My hybrid might be nice for running errands, but there’s no way I’d have made the trip to work with that. Now I have an ebike that makes it even easier to do the trip to work (doesn’t save much time except when there’s a headwind, but I don’t get as sweaty). But if I didn’t live on the ground floor, there’s no way I’d be able to deal with getting that up and down stairs every day.

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        9 months ago

        Somewhere like the Netherlands, every bike racer is going to have at least two bikes: a regular commuting ‘granny bike’, and a racing roadbike.

        Just as it’s common for a runner to have regular-ass shoes for going grocery shopping and a pair of running shoes they only really use when training for a marathon, or for reasonably well-off car/ motorcycle enthusiasts to have a more practical regular car they use for daily driving and a less practical sporty vehicle for pleasure drives.

        Road bikes like you see in the Tour de France aren’t really a practical form of transportation. You have special shoes that clip to the pedals, you wear lycra bike shorts, etc.