“The money is in the car,” Comrie insists. “Who’s the spender? Does a bicyclist go and buy sporting goods, or furniture, or clothing? Or are they just out for a ride?”
Does this guy think cyclists are sitting naked in empty apartments wishing they had clothes and furniture? Luckily he did not win the election.
Yeah, “serious” cycling — a sport where a $1k bike barely qualifies as a bike, $5k gets you something rideable, and $10k gets you a pretty decent bike — is so anti-consumer!
(I love cycling, and I’ll defend spending more on my power meter pedels than I would spend on a decent used bike. More bike lanes everywhere please!)
US here with bonus points for a conservative city in the bible belt. I see people literally just driving in circles around the block or up and down the street endlessly almost every day. Multiple times a week at least. Don’t fucking tell me drivers only do so with purpose. eyeroll.gif
It is exactly what some people I know do. If there’s a lot of car enthusiasts or bored teens old enough to drive in that area I can believe seeing that kind of thing. Although I do think it’s an exaggeration.
It’s not even limited to the US. In Finland it’s called “pilluralli”, “pussy-rally”, and the general associations are of 18-19-year-olds of lower socioeconomical class.
You’re awfully angry over a passing internet comment and are trying to argue an absolute because of it. Perhaps you’re the stupid and hateful one here?
We had some winners in my city a few years ago.
Here’s my favorite quote from that article:
Does this guy think cyclists are sitting naked in empty apartments wishing they had clothes and furniture? Luckily he did not win the election.
I have a lot more money to buy shit ever since i rid myself of that money pit we call a car…
He did say the money was in the car, he just didn’t mean to imply that a car is a hole in the road that you throw money into.
Is that guy a blatantly lying piece of shit, or just a moron?
In factual reality, cyclists buy more stuff than motorists, not less!
See also:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-08/for-store-owners-bike-lanes-boost-the-bottom-line
https://cyclingindustry.news/why-cycling-is-good-for-everything-from-retail-sales-to-property-prices/
Why, the cyclist needs no clothes or food, for the cyclist is sub-human and is therefore an animal (what these car-brained people probably think)
Not “probably,” “certainly!” It’s proven by research: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/more-than-half-of-motorists-view-cyclists-as-subhuman-cockroaches
Yeah, “serious” cycling — a sport where a $1k bike barely qualifies as a bike, $5k gets you something rideable, and $10k gets you a pretty decent bike — is so anti-consumer!
(I love cycling, and I’ll defend spending more on my power meter pedels than I would spend on a decent used bike. More bike lanes everywhere please!)
US here with bonus points for a conservative city in the bible belt. I see people literally just driving in circles around the block or up and down the street endlessly almost every day. Multiple times a week at least. Don’t fucking tell me drivers only do so with purpose. eyeroll.gif
No you don’t.
It is exactly what some people I know do. If there’s a lot of car enthusiasts or bored teens old enough to drive in that area I can believe seeing that kind of thing. Although I do think it’s an exaggeration.
“Almost every day?” Maybe, depending, but not always. Which is why I fell back on multiple times a week which is depressingly not an exaggeration.
Almost every day? Bullshit. Those people are driving somewhere for some purpose, this dude is just too stupid and hateful to realize it.
It’s not even limited to the US. In Finland it’s called “pilluralli”, “pussy-rally”, and the general associations are of 18-19-year-olds of lower socioeconomical class.
You’re awfully angry over a passing internet comment and are trying to argue an absolute because of it. Perhaps you’re the stupid and hateful one here?
They only think of cycling for sport and not cycling to a destination. That’s where the confusion lies.
I really hate that that’s treated as a legitimate argument as opposed to a criticism of capitalism