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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • i will ignore that you are not person i was asking and this is not an answer to my question and i will answer to this irrelevant randomly placed piece of information.

    You can’t even park a van for streets sometimes.

    and you can park cargo bike there? how are you going to do that? do the parked cars suddenly disappear?

    or are going to just illegally park it on the sidewalk, because rules don’t apply to you? do you think people will still tolerate it when there isn’t going to be one bike parked on the sidewalk, but twenty?

    the think is, you (general you, not you personally) always think some problems don’t affect bikes, just because they are rather curiosity right now.

    if you had successfully managed to replace all delivery vans with cargo bikes, you would put on surprised pikachu face finding you actually need more parking space than before.








  • The footprint of a cargo bike is at most a fourth of your average delivery van

    yeah, no. the cargo bike needs width of a car lane and its not four times shorter. it will actually add to congestion when every car behind it has to change lane to go around.

    maybe you have some really generous bike lanes somewhere, but they don’t lead to home of every one of your potential customer and, surprise, they also take a space.

    Cargo bikes are usually e-bikes, giving them a speed of at least 25 km/h.

    that’s top speed. top speed of the car is somewhere else. and the average speed for both of them is somewhere else and if you believe that average speed of a bike is going to be in the same category as average speed of the car, then go, fly back to other pigeons and tell them you won.

    cargo bike is not efficient alternative to a car, because it is far slower and has much lower capacity than the car, so you will deliver less cargo in longer time. or same cargo in same time using a LOT MORE bikes.

    that doesn’t mean and i never said they don’t have its use-cases, but claiming it will solve the traffic congestion is wild exaggeration.


  • You post a picture of a bike that’s as wide as its handlebar, which is not wider than a regular bike which also has to have enough space to fit its handlebars through and claim it is too wide for a bike lane.

    yeah, there are absolutely not wheels on its side which makes it wider, the whole construction doesn’t give it totally different driving characteristics and there is a bike lane to home of every single one of your potential customer, so, you know, these bikes won’t use the width of one car lane, because often times it will be the only option.

    and a lot of empty space in the cargo-hold

    yeah, lot of empty space to take everything you would fit in your average delivery van. everyone can clearly see that.

    you don’t seem to argue in good faith

    oh i am? are you sure about that? 😂

    cargo bike is not efficient alternative to a car, because it is far slower and has much lower capacity than the car, so you will deliver less cargo in longer time. or same cargo in same time using a LOT MORE bikes.

    that doesn’t mean and i never said they don’t have its use-cases, but claiming it will solve the traffic congestion is wild exaggeration.


  • Are you high?

    no. is that a requirement for talking to you?

    I see tons of those cargo bikes on the bike lanes each day. Parents bringing their kids to daycare, postal workers bringing letters and parcels, landlords bringing all their tools between apartment complexes around the city.

    oh i would like to see your face when all goods that is being transported in vans would suddenly start clogging these bike lanes.

    fortunately for everyone it is not going to happen, so you can dream on and fly to tell other pigeons you have won this discussion. 😂