• tired_fedora@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    16 days ago

    I recently saw a scatter plot somewhere, I believe it was speed vs energy efficiency or something body weight vs cost of transport. And all animals, as well as most modes of transport follow a roughly anti-proportional relationship on a log-scale. If you’re fast heavy, you use a lot of energy. If I remember it right, the fastest most efficient animal was the salmon (?). There was one single outlier from that trend, an animal that is much too fast and much too efficient for its weight at the same time: Human on a bike.

    Edit: Found it: https://slowrevealgraphs.com/2025/12/31/a-human-on-a-bicycle-is-among-the-most-efficient-forms-of-travel/

  • Kowowow@lemmy.caEnglish
    171·
    16 days ago

    cars require roads for the most part and that’s a socialized freedom boats would be a better symbol of freedom

  • JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    7·
    16 days ago

    Also the transmission lasts between 2 years and forever. Probably also depends on how aggressively you use it.

    Well, the bicycle I use now is actually somewhat decent unlike the one I had as a child (so maybe that’s why it doesn’t have many problems).

    • nodiratime@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      15 days ago

      It’s all kinds of comfort. Comfort to only walk a little when you arrive. Comfort of being “safe” while others are endangered (by you). Comfort of only pushing a pedal with minimal force, instead of propelling yourself. Comfort of having all your shit with you, like a miniture house/oversized backpack. Comfort of keeping a distance to others, being able to hide all you flaws with your carry-on personal space while othering everybody else. Comfort of being sheltered from environment while driving (+ AC), actively worsening the environment.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      15 days ago

      There have been hot days where friends met me at a bar and asked me ”Weren’t you hot on a bike?” It was only then I realized the day was considered hot, because I had wind cooling, and they had a metal greenhouse with solar gain.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        15 days ago

        That only works if by “hot” days you mean “comfortably warm”. For actually hot weather, it’s gonna have to be evaporative cooling (sweat) and even then it gets pretty uncomfortable unless you’re going at a leisurely pace IMO.

        • FireRetardant@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 days ago

          And if its hot and humid you’re screwed. I love being physically active but i literally need to bring a second shirt if its warmer than 25C and even just a little humid. Especially if i have a backpack which i almost always do. I can wring the sweat out of the back of my shirt after 20 minutes on days like that.

  • huppakee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    17 days ago

    Answer: freedom without effort is more freedom than freedom with effort. If that difference was small, nobody would put up with all the negative effects of cars

    • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      16 days ago

      driving cars is quite a lot of effort and money. though in other ways.

      • huppakee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        Personally i see what you mean, but most car drivers will not agree. Especially if those car drivers live a long distance from shops or work, or if those car drivers live somewhere where you have to go up and down hill to get to your destination.

  • Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    15 days ago

    I can’t drive because I am neurodivergent and traumatized, so I get panic attacks when I drive. It’s too fast, too much power and responsibility and my schizoautismo brain shuts down not knowing what to do. So I ride my bike everywhere.

    • Noodle07@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      15 days ago

      Too scared of my ADHD to drive… Too scared of my ADHD and other cars to ride a bike :x

      • LouNeko@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        Funnily, driving is one of the few things that keeps my ADHD at bay. Danger is immediate, reactions are required, action is mandatory. It’s exactly what my brain needs. I usually need a 2 day warm-up to make a simple phone call but if somebody does an emergency stop right in front of me, I react like a cat.

    • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      i have adhd and i’m terrified of driving, well, i’m terrified of other people driving. if i knew everyone played by the rules that’d be fine, if i knew everyone didn’t play by the rules i’d also be fine. but in my country i’m expected to assume everyone follows the rules and blindly trust people do as expected or i’m “disrupting traffic”. fuck that! i wouldn’t trust a random stranger with keeping an eye on pet rock let alone my life!

      pretty much everyone in my life tells me i have to get over that fear but i’m not in a hurry, i’ve got my electric bike and i’m happy

      • Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        14 days ago

        I cannot figure out what some people are doing in their cars when I’m on my bike. I’ve been hit before, both with it being my fault and not. I’m getting better at familiar strips of the area. People don’t realize life can be fundamentally different if you leave your little pocket of reality. Drivers in NY are not the same as drivers in AZ.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              14 days ago

              Bingo bongo I like morrey mongo! Flarstiloppos! What is this ghost in my heart? A machine gun blessing in the disguise! This is my perfartmance fart and I ain’t nothin but a hound dog to all you hater hogs. We are all one and Jesus lives in my butthole rent-free!!!

              • Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.worldEnglish
                26·
                14 days ago

                Jesus cannot live rent free in your ass because he lives rent-free in my ass every night and day. Plus he’s black, and you’re too racist to love that throbbing dark meat.

                See, you’re saying random shit. I’m being honest. There’s a difference between you and me, and that is why I am Anonymous, as my phone’s keyboard’s predictive text tells me to tell you, boy.

                • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  14 days ago

                  O holiest of holies! I am repent of this situation but I don’t know what you think about me but 😭

  • minty@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    17 days ago

    Unfortuntely would require me riding at least 20KM to get to work in relatively dangerous conditions (could get run over lmao). But I am very much an exception, being in the country.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
    36·
    16 days ago

    yes, except for the collision thing.

    in my city they are as deadly as motorbikes.

    getting bumped by a car will get you just as fucked up.

    • Art3mis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      16 days ago

      But see, the issue is still the cars. Bicycle v bicycle or bicycle v pedestrian is almost never catastophic

      • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        it is, but that’s a moot point since we have to share the road with them anyway. they are even making them bigger and less safe.

        • Art3mis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          11·
          15 days ago

          Nah nah nah. They have to share the road with us. If a car hits a pedestrian, they are at fault unless it is provably a scam. Same should go for bikes. Its that car centric thinking that got us here.

    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      Getting hit by a car will fuck you up way more than a motorbike going the same speed, they’re lighter, more likely to hit indirectly.