I’m a person living in a rural area and have to either go by train, the nearest station being 15 mins away by car and the trains having a schedule that keeps fluctuating.

Or have to go by car where it takes 60 mins to get where I need to go. I wouldn’t want to get a late pickup or anything outrageous just something to get me places.

I’m not a car enthusiast or anything like that.

  • arctic pie (he/him)English
    7•1 year ago

    I live in a rural area and have just accepted that owning a car is a necessity. The shitty thing about living in a car dependent system is that your awareness of the shiftiness of the system doesn’t necessarily exempt you from having to still live inside of it.

      • arctic pie (he/him)English
        5•1 year ago

        I bought an ebike and that’s been kind of a game changer. Its allowed my partner and I to share a car, and I just ebike around at 40km/hour whenever she needs to drive. It requires a bit of willingness to get cold/wet, and some creativity with bike locking, but it makes those 10-15km distances in my hometown realistically accessible by bike on an everyday basis.

        • Toffeewad
          2•1 year ago

          Thanks for the info! I was thinking of getting a e-bike but I always ran into this issue of not knowing where to lock it and also what I would do if the e-bike broke down. How do you deal with these things?

          I’ve been using a ratty old normal bike to take care of those issues: I can just chain to like parking signs and people don’t care enough to steal it, and I can fix a regular bike, but as you’ve said sometimes one just isn’t down for 20km of exercise.

        • CinnamonOPEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          That’s amazing, although in the EU rules are more strict on ebikes. Especially with ones over a certain limit. They can only really go max 25/h and if they go over they become by law a vehicle and need a license plate and a driving license to drive.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•1 year ago

            25km is so frigging slow. My wife has a normal bike and she has to slow down for me (on ebike) to catch up. I don’t understand why they didn’t make it 30km/h, plenty of people cycle that fast.

            • @[email protected]English
              3•1 year ago

              I can cycle faster than 25km/h with my pedelec by using my legs. The bike does not stop me from going faster, there is just no motor support then.