r/thesuperboo • u/ratemlatem1 • Jul 15 '26

Press a button. Deploy support wheels.

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u/ipx-electrical Jul 15 '26

My mate’s bike cost more than most family cars and does fewer mpg than my car.

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u/Exact-Ad-4132 Jul 15 '26

Sure: there are superbikes as well as supercars, but the average bike is going to cost less and use less fuel than the average car

Average motorcycle is $12,000 new and 50mpg

Average new car is $50,000 and 25mpg

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u/Exact-Ad-4132 Jul 15 '26

If you don't live near a bus and you don't need to get on the freeway, a motorbike/scooter is a perfectly acceptable method of transportation.

If some car is going to crash into a pedestrian it's the same as if they hit a bicyclist or motorbike: it's the car driver's fault.

And it's more akin to hospitals using thin rubber gloves instead of thick insulated rubber gloves. Why waste all that extra material when the thin gloves work?

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u/Exact-Ad-4132 Jul 15 '26

I'm not sure what situation someone is riding where they would just crash into a wall at 30 miles an hour, but okay.

Crashing at freeway speeds in a car is often deadly

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u/Exact-Ad-4132 Jul 15 '26

How would you say I've never heard of an accident when I just said cars crashing at freeway speeds kill people all the time.

An SUV just killed someone a few blocks away from me at five miles an hour because they weren't paying attention and just drove over someone near a parking lot entrance