Imagine just riding for fun or to get somewhere else.
“Not everything is political!” - self-absorbed asshole that makes everything political.
Many such cases
Policy that has worked and been effective and loved by the people: We need to revisit this policy to see if we can make money out of it.
fucks sake, the DOT is removing bike lanes from national maps. Fuck
topping a bike
I have better things to do
I have better things to top
Das ist der witz
Everything is political. Always has been, always will be. What changes is whether we notice and care.
I’m out of the loop, what happened? I just dropped 2k on a bike 😑
DOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websites
This article covers it. The DOT has directed 100 % of funding into cars and is deleting anything from their website that includes the word ‘bike’, evena lot of safety related things and tools.
Yep, and more generally, articles like this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/politics/trump-bike-lanes-funding-dei.html
EDIT - better write up, not pay walled:
Thanks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro-masculinity comes to mind again
Fuck, even in my european country, there are many people hating on bycycles. Not even the bike lanes, just the fact of a person riding a bicycle.
Fucking awful how dividing the propaganda has gotten.
And what statement would that be? My bike is my primary method of transport and it’s great.
I don’t even know how much petrol costs because it doesn’t matter. Fully electrified my house within a few months of buying it too.
Cycling to work for me is faster than any other legal method of transport.







