I'm feeling like a dinosaur.
I feel like I'm in noodle doodle crazy-land.
I'm sick of people who have local shops they can/would buy from and trust acting like everyone has a choice of dozens of them in every town, when for many of us it's a two hour round trip at minimum.
I'm sick of people who act like bicycle infrastructure is everywhere. Or who are shocked when I say riding on the sidewalk is illegal and we have no real bike lanes here.
I'm sick of people who don't even realize their social status acting like having a bike collection that combined is worth more than both my family's cars put together is "normal" or "within reach if you work hard"
I'm also sick of the assclowns who seem to talk about "high speeds" that are slower than I was when I was 100 pounds heavier on a crappy, steel framed, non-motorized $250 three speed internal hub beach cruiser that had nothing more than a coaster brake for stopping. People acting like 15mph is fast need a boot up their ass.
I'm sick of pretentious know-it-all jackasses --
who actually don't seem to know diddly squat, apart from parroting propaganda and obvious lies -- flipping out because nubes are
daring to ask questions or have opinions and ideas that differ from the "echo chamber norm". Much less occasionally bringing in new information that DARES to contradict the popularist BS peddled by marketers, propagandists and the bandwagon
mentality.
Emphasis on the "mental"
I'm sick of fools who seem to think that just having a throttle is magically some sort of "evil". Or worse equates speed, particularly when on most bikes (in my limited experience) the top speed on throttle is two-thirds (or less) that of pedaling with assist.
But what I'm getting really sick of are self centered egotists on all sides of the discussion thinking that just because what they own means nobody else should be allowed to own something different of differing capabilities.
You're happy with what you own, fine. Don't act like a total jackass just because people have different needs, live in different places, or might actually ride places -- like 50mph+ speed limit main roads with zero space allocated for bikes -- where going 30+ isn't a danger to anyone, and if anything makes for a SAFER ride because you're not as much in the way.
Or assuming that just because the bike
can do 20+ means the people owning them are barreling down trails shared with pedestrians at unsafe speeds.
At which point you might as well make all cars in America illegal if they can go faster than the 20-30mph found in school zones.
