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[–] BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.social 26 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

2 stroke engines as means of transport for teenage boys.

What? No, of course that gathering of mopeds 150m from my apartment building isn't affecting my unbiased opinion on this.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

Lol and they are polluting as fuck.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Mopeds do indeed suck, in my opinion, because their technological niche is just "filtering through heavy traffic easily"

The heavy traffic usually exists because

  • a city has expanded car ownership beyond its transport capacity
  • but cities shouldn't even be mainly-car, they should be mainly public transport and pedestrian (see c/fuck_cars for more info)

So they're basically colving a problem that didn't need to exist in the first place. The riding of bikes is better for pepple

Ah, that's not really a thing here. Sometimes they do zip through the traffic, but we don't really have a standstill traffic jams too often and when we do, the mopeds sort of just hang in the traffic, being stuck with everyone else.

I guess we are a bit German in that sense.