@limelight79 30 minutes? Sounds ideal.

@limelight79 @socsa No, you should have safe options for riding an ebike for your commute.

@Successful_Try543 @hemko I’m sure there is some language/legal jurisdiction differences, but isn’t suing for illegal but not criminal things and charges are for criminal acts and always brought by the state?

Operating while insolvent feels like more of a criminal thing to me, more than an illegal act.

@limelight79 @someguy3 Fixing the bike infrastructure so an ebike is suitable instead of a motor bike would help you a lot.

@someguy3 @VerPoilu Yeah, anything that shouldn’t be on a bike path should need registration.

@someguy3 The better infrastructure I was meaning it better options that don’t mingle with cars, so the slower speeds are fine.

And any trip that isn’t fast enough at 20mph should involve a train ;)

@limelight79 @someguy3 Just because other infrastructure sucks doesn’t mean other laws should suck, we should fix the infrastructure.

@psud I really should try a recumbent bike one day, I enjoyed my trike but the bikes always scared me. But I should give one a try.

@Showroom7561 @snekerpimp Cycling as a sport is a different goal to cycling as fitness or transport.

@psud I got enough skin taken off my knee at 20kmph to make dancing at my wedding 6 weeks later sketchy.

Although that was gravel.

@psud @snekerpimp honestly the gravel rash you can get at 40kmph is pretty significant, and hills to get that much speed aren’t weird.

@ExtremeDullard thinner first layer (many profiles default to a thicker first layer), colour sequence too.

Those would be the first things I’d try.

@stray @turtlesareneat erecting fences to prevent unsafe crossings is usually done way before adequate crossing options are given.

@Endymion_Mallorn @culprit @racketlauncher831 Where everything I could think of doing in Tokyo was <300m from a train station. Just tap a card to get into the station and go where you want to be. Such a fantastic city to visit, I wish I had made an opportunity to live there at some point.

Even the much smaller city of Kyoto, which has just a small metro + buses, was a pleasure to travel around. Plentiful buses and so many things are within walking distance.

@Endymion_Mallorn @culprit @racketlauncher831 Despite the fear of dogpiling, the two cities I’ve visited that contrast the most sharply are Houston and Tokyo. When we visited Houston for my BIL’s wedding we stayed in a hotel 500m from the venue where the wedding was being held. Walking those 500m was horrific and clearly everyone expected us to drive 2 miles to park 300m from the venue. Even going between two stores in the same complex was expected to be by car.

@PhatalFlaw @destructdisc increase in retail sales indirectly but quantatively measures it. Or at least it probably does, it’s hard to imagine that more relaxed shoppers aren’t more likely to return sooner.

@TerranFenrir @mondoman712 the strength requirements for rails are much lower on the moon. I would also assume movement isn’t going to be driven by the wheels (low gravity gives low friction), so that isn’t a driving concern either (pun fully intended)

@perestroika @poVoq it looks like you can make that longer for bike fit, but yes, they have suspension in there which will impact it a little bit. But that shouldn’t be a big deal.

@over_clox ah, yes, might makes right.

For reference, when was the street invented? And for what?

@over_clox Yes, the concept is from rail, but it applies to all crossings/intersections.

The point is we lost a lot when we decided that it was okay for death machines to have right of way all around us. We shouldn’t accept it as normal.