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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come back when the weather’s bad.  Around here, that’s frequent. [/quote]
It’s the first couple weeks of school. Two people with too much disposable income decided to try the new lifestyle fad they read about in the New York Times. It will last until the day of the first big fall morning rainstorm, if they make it that long. After that, the cargo bike will sit next to the camping backpack carrier and the jogging stroller, perhaps to be carted out just once next summer with the idea of riding down to the mall for the fireworks but then realizing that the kids have now outgrown it and are too heavy on the uphill ride back home. After that it will go on Craigslist. [/quote]
Do you also hate Christmas? And singing, do you hate songs? What other dire predictions do you have that fail to take into account that today's cargo bikes are electric, freedom from cars is addictive, and e-cargo-biking preschoolers for 5 blocks on a continuous path of protected bike lanes is actually super duper easy?[/quote]
Super easy when the are pre-schoolers and the weather is nice. Both are have very limited periods of time. But sure, the world should cater to your faddish hobby and whims. I get it. It’s the same reason why Palisades Rec Center had pickleball courts that are never used. Fortunately that’s a little less consequential allocation of public resources and goods dedicated to a niche hobby. [/quote]

We talked about this on some other thread. When they're too old for the cargo bikes, families with a good path of protected bike lanes will bike single file together. We're already seeing plenty of this. But I say this, forgetting that you see adults carrying adults on electric cargo bikes. It looks ridiculous, sure, but the electric upgrade is a game changer in that way.  
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“We”?

Nice to admit that you have an organized group of your buddies to post about bikes to try to generate a false impression about the popularity. Kinda sad imo. But you do you. [/quote]

Whatever dude. We = You and me. [/quote]
Uh no. I’m a different poster. It’s not a bilateral discussion friend.[/quote] I have a hard time believing there is more than one guy creating multiple threads titled "Gah! Hate Bikes!", then saying things like "But sure, the world should cater to your faddish hobby and whims." AND relentlessly pushing the dumb idea that most electric cargo bike families will use it for one month and then never commute using any sort of non-car again. There really aren't that many of YOU with this much energy to hate.
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Same PP: at least you've evolved from seeing bike lanes as "the hobby of a few hundred white guys in spandex." (Connecticut thread) to a "faddish hobby" of cargo bike parents. We're making progress![/quote]
Things are not mutually exclusive. [/quote]

I'm going to estimate at least 99% mutual exclusivity between actual spandex-clad road biking "lance armstrong (or whoever) wannabes" and "electric/cargo bike parent".  They just are sooo different.[/quote]

[b]I think the angry man wants to retain the right to be mad furious at more than one category of people, while also claiming they don't really exist in any significant number, while also claiming they don't do the thing that represents them in his eyes more than a couple of times ever.[/b] [/quote]

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