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Do people have three hands in Copenhagen, because last time I checked my bike had two handbrakes, and I have to use both of them to stop safely?
If you have to use both brakes to stop your bike then your brakes are too weak.
The bike is the most elegant mechanical systems in history, elevating humans from earth's least efficient creatures to it's most efficient. Electronic shifting and other boondoggles completely undermine the reliability, elegance and simplicity of bikes. I've fixed my bike while on the side of a mountain a hundred miles from home and ridden home. What happens when my derailleur firmware crashes?
Beyond singlespeeds, I don't think bikes are that reliable or elegant, at least for 2017. The drivetrain is especially bad, I'm open to any proposed improvements there (gearboxes! i'm similarly meh on electric shifting, but it can solve some real problems). There are so many issues - exposed mechanical parts which collect dirt, bad/sticky cable housing, cable stretch, chain stretch, gear wear, floppy derailleur which…
Do you mean chains?
The Rearview Radar exists because of how terrible seeing behind you is on a bicycle. I ride a recumbent tricycle, and I simply have a mirror on the side which I can easily keep an eye on; due to my sitting position I conveniently behold the road before and behind me, unlike a road bike where it’s constant effort to do the same. I really wish recumbent tricycles were more popular. The story of the exclusion of recumbe…
Mainly because of bike snobbery: mirrors are seen as for dummies. [0] I have a rearview mirror on my road/commuter bike that replaced the plug on the bar end and it works a treat. [0] http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#66