Also, your time wasting comment is ironic since you're likely to get to your destination twice as fast on a bike.
Not me. I live in the hills. I can bomb a hill faster on a skateboard, and walk up a steep one faster with a board than a bike. Oh, and I get to skate, so ha!
Learn to push right and you won't need a bike.
You're regular if you have that much hate for the actual act of riding a bike. I don't like the hipster posturing that seems to be a main feature of the general bike enthusiasm right now but seriously, grow the fuck up. I guess by your standards you are automatically disqualified from "skater"-dom if you ever drive a car, use public transit etc. You fucking weiner.
I rode and used to own a bike, and thought it sucked and just detracted from time I could be cruising down the street. Unless you are one of those lame assholes who rides his bike to the spot with a board hanging from his bag, a bike won't help you go skate.
The car and transit argument you put up is called a "straw man" fallacy, it attempts to make it seem like if I hate bikes and think bikers are dorks, that I must be against all transit methods that aren't a skateboard. I don't have to be. I just think bikes are stupid. Public transit with a skateboard by the way- way more rad than with a bike.
I just don't understand how people who have had enough time to learn to ride a vehicle that is almost as efficient, way more fun, and a lot cheaper than a bike would waste their time with that crap.
Go ride a bike, I'll skate. You make it there faster, I'll have more fun.
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I have just always thought "Why ride a bike somewhere when I can skate there?" There is no way you will ever get me to ride a bike when I can have 1000x more fun just cruising down the street. What the fuck are the rest of you supposed skaters doing wasting your time on that shit?
I ride it in place of driving my car when possible. We don't really have a bike-hipster crowd here though... if we did I'd probably be bummed a little bit, but I'd still ride it to save gas and strengthen my busted parts.
I have bike hipsters every where and sick cutty skate spots and hill bombs on every street. I can see why we have different perspectives.