Would be ideal to release with the price they need it to be and do a price cut later but I know that’s difficult to do realistically.
We’re not getting any younger here. Prices have been creeping up for a while and the longer we wait, the idea of saving a few hundred dollars might end up being a wash with inflation and time lost. Also, there’s no guarantee prices won’t be even higher in 6 months.
We’re about to have some quality quantum-titties in the future.
You add your milk before the ball bearings? Wtf is wrong with you?
The real answer is that it’s not as interesting to film and write a story around. In cars, they’re louder and faster. You can set up scenarios for injured passengers and gunners. You can build up tension with zombies smacking the windows.
Bikes are too practical for action flicks and harder to mount cameras to for 3rd or 1st person chase shots. Not impossible, but also not something that relates as much to the general carbrained audience.
Some of the replies here speak of difficulty for spare parts. But it’s pretty easy to stock up on basic components and repairing is way easier than a vehicle. Also, you don’t need to look for fuel constantly. In a post apocalyptic world, fuel would be quiet scarce without a steady stream of production and would likely be more useful for electric generators or heating in winter. Vehicular travel would have to be hauling lots of cargo or people to be worthwhile to burn all that precious fuel.
That being said, it’s entirely possible to make a damn good zombie flick with bikes being a more prominent mode of transport in certain settings. New stunts and different terrain.
Dynamo lights work off a similar principle. It extracts energy from pedaling or the wheels spinning to power lights on the bike. You can feel the drag and it’s probably about 5w of power. Really not a whole lot. About the same energy you’d save from wearing smooth socks or cleaning the chain for some perspective.
The extra weight required to implement a solution like yours would probably rob the rider of any gains. But in a very theoretical sense it could work if the material weighed an insignificant amount.
If you extract enough energy from pedaling to charge a battery while also travelling, you’ll definitely end up using more power than less. Which absolutely defeats the purpose.
All these “smart” ideas would already be implemented if they were actually clever and deployable. The reason no one does it is because physics doesn’t work that way.
The best part about this is that the section near the tip is clearly more worn out than the rest.
This is just a personal opinion but I suspect the trend is not linear. There will be a surge in acceptance and then possibly a calm in popularity. Social pressures aside, I feel there may be some portion of the world that is bi/pan but not in numbers so large that it would be a huge shift in current status quos. We’re also at a time when mental health is seeing an identity crisis and we’re trying to label every quirk. Gender identity almost seems like part of a shotgun approach to try and fix other issues.
I do not want to sound like I’m downplaying the importance of sexual orientation and gender identity, but there’s just so much going on socially with how fast we’re moving as a culture with the Internet that it’s hard to predict what is real and what is trendy.
Of course I could be entirely wrong.
On the contrary, when I’m going for a long bike ride, I’m literally drinking syrup for fuel and eating high carb snacks.
The carbs are great sources of energy, but aren’t meant for post workout. Just enough to power through a long, multi-hour cardio session and avoid bonking out.
It’s the reward you get to have while doing the work and a healthy meal with whole foods is what you have afterwards. Good to train yourself that the sweets should never be at the end.
For anyone only doing short exercise sessions, absolutely no reason to carb load or fuel on anything other than water and maybe some electrolytes. Especially if weight loss is the goal. Even then, diet should be priority 1 over exercise. That one Oreo could cost you 30 minutes to burn off.