• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      No less safe than wheeling a kid around in a little red wagon or letting them ride their own bicycle.

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        1 year ago

        Little Red wagons generally don’t travel at 20mph in the street with cars going even faster. That kid in the photo can barely hold herself upright. One little wiggle or unexpected turn and she’ll slip right through those bars and under an SUV.

        Seriously, you might as well just put your kid in to one of these.

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          Oh no, look at all the super dangerous people biking with kids on them.

          https://youtu.be/rQhzEnWCgHA?si=qlcN0Y9YrykPIlPe

          People really don’t fall off of bike seats easily. Maybe you should try biking.

          Literally millions of people have bought e-bikes specifically to carry kids. I own one, and my kid loves riding on the back. I have never heard of a kid falling off of one either.

          Radbikes even makes a bicycle specifically designed to carry children on the back (the radwagon) - and so does Extracycle, Trek, Lectric, Yuba and half a dozen or so other long tail e-bike brands.

          https://youtu.be/-ypwGlE-f88?si=l0RGbouB6efBHAZs

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            Maybe you should try biking.

            You wanna compare Strava profiles Big Boy?

            My issue isn’t with carrying kids on the back of bikes. It can and is done safely. My issue is with what is happening in this specific picture, and even more specifically with the smallest child.

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              If you want a pissing competition, I’ve spent the last 25 years biking about 10 miles each way for work. Plus a couple of trips to the coast every year, so that’s about a hundred miles each way.

              I don’t even own a road bike.

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      it’s only unsafe because of all the cars. aside from that, whats’ the danger, they might fall out?

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        it’s only unsafe because of all the cars. aside from that, whats’ the danger…

        Swimming in a pool of razor blades is only unsafe because of all the razor blades. Aside from that, what’s the danger?

        …they might fall out?

        Yes

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          car dominance is literally a conspiracy by big oil to make us dependent, it is in no way natural.

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            Cars exist, you can’t just ignore them. They’ll run you over whether you believe in them or not

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      Nah this is completely right though. Soon as she stops those two kids are gonna bonk heads together, the smaller one needs a bike seat at the very least, and the toddler probably needs one as well. You could still do that with a bike like this, so it doesn’t discount the point entirely, but the image itself is a pretty stupidly conceived piece of work.