#bicycle culture

[governmentissuedclone]

Listen to me okay!!!

A comparatively affordable, environmentally friendly, one time purchase that doesn't make you regularly line the pockets of Big Gas Executives and directly fund the fossil fuel industry.

Bicycles are far easier and cheaper to replace, repair, or modify to your liking by yourself! Pretty much anyone at any skill level can learn basic bike maintenance, they don't require nearly as much specialized knowledge and pretty much all the tools you will need can be easily and relatively affordably sourced from a hardware store, bike shop, or used.

'but they're not cool' first of all, caring about being cool automatically makes you uncool. Second, cool is a learned association and what is cool now won't be cool in five years. What was cool 5 years ago isn't cool now. We have been conditioned by movies and tv to think the only people who ride parks are losers and the butt of the joke. We can literally make bicycles cool by simply being a bunch of cool people who ride bicycles.

As car culture is the dominant mindset in North America a bicycle is, in fact, counterculture! Piss off drivers simply by existing! Although do be warned many think it is completely reasonable to attempt to murder you with their car because they had to slow down a little bit to pass you.

The first step to dismantling our current car culture and pedestrian hostile infrastructure is to opt out of using cars as much as possible. Cities are not and have not been built for people in decades. They are built for cars. You shouldn't have to be forced to clean out your wallet paying for a car, fuel, insurance, etc because a corporation hardcore lobbied your government to design the world around you to be inconvenient, miserable, and impossible to navigate without one so they can make more money at everyone else's expense.

The more people use bikes, the less money corporations make. The less damage they can do to the planet. The demand for bike and pedestrian friendly infrastructure rises. Cities become cleaner, nicer, and more liveable for everyone.

You deserve to be able to live.

#bicycles #bicycle #cars #car culture #car infrastructure #punk #punk subculture #counterculture #bicycle culture #bike #city infrastructure #walkable cities #urban planning #city planning #my thoughts

[hilbrandbos]

Cargobikes as seen in my home, the city of Amsterdam

#cargobike #carrgo bike #bakfiets #bakfietsmoeder #cargo bike mom #cargo bike mum #lastenfahrrad #fietsen #cycle chic #amsterdam #bike culture #bicycle culture #bicycle life #bicycle #bici #high boots #thigh high boots #fashion illustration #dutch moms #dutch mothers #dutch women

[stone-cold-groove]

Auto World’s custom bicycle accessories.

#custom bicycles #bicycle culture #custom bikes #choppers #chopper accessories #custom choppers

[lotusinjadewell]

Hội An, Vietnam. Credit to truong.howard (Instagram).

#vietnam #vietnamese #culture #history #travel destinations #travel #hoian #hoi an vietnam #hoi an travel guide #visit vietnam #travelgram #travel pics #traveller #ancient town #old town #bougainvillea #bicycle #children #yellow house #cute #pretty #beautiful photos #beautiful places #beautiful #sunny #serene #pink flowers #flowers

[originalaccountname]

if a game that is a poem, a philosophical question, a love letter to life and humanity, and is both a walking sim and a scrapbook sim sounds interesting to you, please play Season: A Letter to the Future

#it's got: #beautiful stylized landscapes #colorful characters #a camera and sound recorder #scrapbooking #incredible sound design #a bicycle you can ride #goats and cows you can pet #existential dread with a complimentary hug and promise it'll be ok #moral choices in video games #you get to be the journalist/historian you wish to be!!! record nature! people! culture! history! #what else do you need #i did not cry but i very well could have. and not because it was sad. just because it was a lot. #anyway play season: a letter to the future #apparently i talk sometimes

[veiligplekje]

#achterop de fiets *hele band plat* #just dutch things #the netherlands #cycling #bicycle #holland #dutch culture

[mostlystuckony]

#marvel #mcu #tony stark #the avengers #darcy lewis #fandom bicycle #fandom culture #fandom #marvel fandom #marvel fanfiction

[panchicha]

EL ETERNAUTA

#el eternauta #argentina #comic #buenos aires #culture #cultura #arte #sculpture #escultura #bicicleta #bicycle #sturmey archer #folding bicycle

[shiroikabocha]

I am jealous of this train infrastructure. And the bike infrastructure. And the pedestrian infrastructure. And basically just… how much less stressful it is to travel from point A to point B here, even though I’m totally unfamiliar with the place and I don’t speak the language. It’s almost like the city is built for people to live in!

Amsterdam is very nice, I’m glad we came here.

#honeymoon #amsterdam #I knew about Dutch bicycle culture in theory but to see it in practice is another thing entirely #the lanes for cars bikes and pedestrians are so well-organized! #maybe one day my city could be like this

[tzuchiao]

(83) #photography #trip #tripphotography #japan #直島 #naoshima #island #farm #village #villagelife #bicycle #vendingmachine #cocacola #red #green #hills #oldhouses #culture #view #canon #5d3 https://www.instagram.com/p/CfrgioqvcQ-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#photography #trip #tripphotography #japan #直島 #naoshima #island #farm #village #villagelife #bicycle #vendingmachine #cocacola #red #green #hills #oldhouses #culture #view #canon #5d3

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

- Dervla Murphy, Irish writer and explorer.

The author of 25 classic travel narratives published over half a century, Murphy was unique even in a genre boasting more than its fair share of singular characters. Eccentric, opinionated and with an inexhaustible
curiosity about parts of the world even the most intrepid travellers might avoid, she began her authorial career by cycling from Dublin to Delhi in 1963 and published her last book, an exploration of Israel and Palestine, in her mid-80s in 2015.

In between, she travelled through Ethiopia on a mule, spent a gruelling winter among the poor villagers of Baltistan, walked the crest of the Andes, spent six months working in a Tibetan refugee camp run by the Dalai Lama’s sister and, in her 70s, explored the farthest fringes of Siberia. She got tick-bite fever in South Africa, amoebic dysentery in Pakistan, hepatitis and gout in Madagascar, brucellosis in India, suffered a triple tooth abscess in Cameroon, broke a selection of ribs in various out-of-the-way locations and an ankle in Romania. In Belfast, a dog bit her.

Any combination of the above would have been enough to dissuade most people from ever leaving the house again, let alone venturing abroad, but Murphy’s inability to resist the pull of the horizon never dimmed. “I simply
 travel to enjoy myself,” she said in 1982.

Other than when accompanied by her daughter Rachel, barely out of nappies before joining her mother donkey-trekking through Peru, Murphy always travelled alone. “To really enjoy travel you have to be alone,” she said. “You are much more likely to make friends with people if you arrive alone on a bicycle than if you arrive by motor vehicle or train. It makes getting to know people so much simpler. It sends a message to people that you really do trust them.”

Yet for all her hardships, perilous adventures and run-ins with some of the world’s most debilitating diseases, few things irked Murphy more than being called courageous. “You’re only courageous if you do something you’re afraid of doing,” she said. “I am fearless, a totally different thing. Courage is a virtue, you’re overcoming fear. When you’re fearless there’s nothing to overcome.”

Fearless she may have been, but she wasn’t reckless. She always carried a knife for self-defence and, on her early journeys, a pistol that was fired on two occasions, once when attacked by wolves in Bulgaria and once in Azerbaijan when attacked by a man.

Murphy lived with an unshakable conviction she would survive, forged in her early teens when she set out from Lismore to climb a mountain she could see from her bedroom. It was 3,000 feet high, she fell into a bog on its lower slopes and the trek took so long she had to spend the night on its slopes. As cold and as frightened as she was, Murphy never once doubted
she was going home.

This fearlessness also allowed her to endure – and enjoy – serious hardship. She was far happier sleeping on a dirt floor listening to rats scrabbling in the dark than in the decadence of a hotel bed. For one thing, how could she look the people she met in the eye, people with nothing, if at the end of the day she put away her notebook and headed back to an air-conditioned room for a hot shower?

#murphy #dervla murphy #quote #travel #writer #explorer #bicycle #cycling #exploration #irish #femme #icon #author #traveller #books #culture

[rte-66]

I finally found a true Dutch bike in North America. Here's what you need to know

#nederland #the hague #winnipeg #calgary #vehicles #bikes #bicycles #culture #ideas #cities #settlements #video #Youtube

[stone-cold-groove]

Yeah, that could be me.

#cool kids #custom bikes #custom bicycles #choppers #bike culture #the 60s #life before the internet

[tetsunabouquet]

Do you drive?

No. In the Netherlands, we actually have a pretty great infrastructure when it comes to transportation. I travel to most places by train and within my own city I can get to pretty much every place I need by foot. It's one of the benefits of having a country so small. I'm one of the people who sees cars as a luxury product unless you actually need one for things like work related reasons, and I don't really care for luxury products.

#driving #cars #netherlands #transportation #train #walking #plus there's out bicycle culture #I don't really need a car

[gwmac]

Which Region Dominates? 75 Essential Comparisons of American and European Homes

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#accessibility #American homes #architectural design #architectural diversity #balconies #barbecue pits #basements #bicycle storage #carports #central vacuum #comfort #cost-effectiveness #cultural influences #decks #durability #en-suite bathrooms #energy efficiency #European homes #fireplaces #garages #garden sheds #gardens #geographical influences #GFCI outlets #gourmet kitchens #greenhouses #hardwood floors #home advantages #home comparison #home construction

[majormisunderstanding]

WOW!

All those cool things. Great idea.

#oh wow #smoking #skateboarding #bicycle riding #bicycle #riding #rollerblading #great idea #graffiti #signage #skate culture #skate or die