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Bikes suck
Bikes squeak. They make noise. They squeal. You try to fix one thing, and another breaks. You keep trying to fiddle the same piece, and metal fatigue sets in and it snaps. Eventually you give up and get used to the idiosyncracies.
Like the bike I rode at college. I got tired of constantly replacing bent wheels so I just opened up the brakes so the bent wheels went through and stopped it by dragging my feet.
There's a reason bicycles aren't a cost-effective alternative to cars, and its not weather, traffic, sweat, or any of those other disadvantages -- it's that including maintenence costs, cost of ownership is about the same for a bike and a car.
Thus endeth my rant.
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