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Bikes sound like a great idea until you decide to live in the hills/mountains, or a place where it rains/snows often, or you need to buy more than 4 bags of groceries, or you live in a desert.
Please tell me more about how easy it is to move furniture with a VW Polo!
Right lol, you either use a truck or rent a uhaul for that kind of business.

Exactly. And in a hilly/mountainous area, you get a bike with multiple gears (21 gear bikes are not a rarity even in the north german plains where I live ) prone with electric motor support. If you need to get a lot of groceries you either do groceries more often or get a cargo bike. For bad weather there’s clothing.

Nobody says a bike is perfect for everyone. But the vast majority of people live in urban environments and don’t need to haul tons of cargo daily. Bikes are a piece of the puzzle and if only those people had a car who actually need one often it could be a huge piece.

21 gear bikes are not a rarity even in the north german plains where I live

It is not amount of gears that matter, it is range of transmission that does.

For bad weather there’s clothing.

Yeah, it seems a lot of people just don’t know or don’t want to know what proper clothing is. Maybe they don’t even know it exists.

Nobody says a bike is perfect for everyone.

Well, anyone who can’t use bike will use powered wheelchair.

It is not amount of gears that matter, it is range of transmission that does.

You are completely right. I just don’t want to get too nerdy here.

It is not amount of gears that matter, it is range of transmission that does.

You are completely right. I just don’t want to get too nerdy here.

Yeah, it seems a lot of people just don’t know or don’t want to know what proper clothing is. Maybe they don’t even know it exists.

Which is surprising given how many people I see wearing super expensive outdoor/hiking jackets to go from the parking lot to the supermarket every time a drop of rain falls.

  • You picked a subcompact car, rather than a vehicle that any person with more than one braincell would pick for moving furniture, such as a truck.

  • You 100% will have a better time doing everything else I said in even a subcompact like the Polo than a bicycle.

  • But I don’t need a bigger car 99.999 percent of the time. Why should I buy a bigger one and pay it while not needing it instead of take a rental when I need to?

  • Please read my other comment.