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You’ve got it backwards: Most people who ride bikes do not fit this description. Working class riders represent the large majority of riders globally. They ride
by femiagbabiaka 4y ago
You’ve got it backwards: Most people who ride bikes do not fit this description. Working class riders represent the large majority of riders globally. They ride for transportation, not pleasure, and on whatever bike they can, in whatever state they can get it. Because you’re right: a car is actually not an achievable purchase for those in precarious financial situations. This is the case for most forms of alternative transportation. So funding support for those forms is really important, even if for some reason you want to not do that to spite… moderately well off people.
- paganel 4y agoThis is what normal people understand right now when someone mentions bicycles: "Portlandia bike clip" [1]. It's a 10+ year old clip but all the better for it, sitcoms like Portlandia were in the vanguard of a lot of class-suppression and gentrifying stuff that we now see as "good for everybody!", not just for the middle-classes from which we're a part of (and which those sitcoms were targeting, self-parody used to be part of our class-related shtick). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3nMnr8ZirI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3nMnr8ZirI
- femiagbabiaka 4y agoYou’re right, there’s a long way to go. My family think I’m nuts any time I ride my bike more than a mile or two, when I go get groceries on it, etc.