I currently ride a 15-or-so-years old KTM trekking style bike with an assortment of random parts Frankenstein-ed to it. Apparently that and never cleaning it makes it ugly enough to not be stolen in a medium city.
Also, I technically do have an engineering degree, which is why the lights and wiring are, ahem, functional. Most of the time.
If replacing the bike is a concern (I’m assuming due to theft etc), then buy used. Not only do they cost less, they also look cheaper. It does require you to put in some work if you want to be cheap. But that’s the same with a car, it won’t magically change its brakes either.
Auctions by municipalities, police and the like are a good tip if you have time and the skills to determine what is a hopeless trash pile and what is slightly rusted but good quality.
Online listings, but it requires patience.
Bike groups/coops/repair shops, if you have decent ones.
I hope that you have a better job right now, Polish minimum wage is rough.
The one downside is that a lot of people I know have had some nasty accidents and broke a bone or something. Sure, in cars you are also at the risk of kissing a tree at highway speed, but bike accidents feel a lot more common and have a lot less protective metal involved
Gift a man a bike, and he will ride for a year. Gift him bolt cutters, and he will ride forever.
Jokes aside, where are you? Here, good new bikes are ridiculously expensive, but if you know where to look and what to look for, used ones are cheap. You don’t even have to deal with a shady dude in a back alley, a lot of municipalities etc. auction off bikes they confiscate, which are often a few hours of work away from being pretty okay
What is the ping supposed to be like in mycelial networks? I seem to have congestion issues in mine
Somewhere I heard someone say something like we don’t vote for Biden or Trump, we vote for coal. It’s hard to convince single-issue voters when that single issue is the only thing they see every day.
And just like with dehydration, drinking too much water at once will be bad
Story time!
Some years ago, I had to get up very early for a job. So, to make it easier on me, I bought/built some programmable LED lights and set them to gradually shift from dark red to bright blue-white.
Fast forward some years, and I can comfortably ignore bright sunlight and 50W of white LEDs in my face. I don’t even bother to put down the shutters any more. I wake up, semi-consciously acknowledge that it is morning, turn around and continue sleeping.
You’re the first lemmynsfw I spotted in the wild. Wear the horny with pride.
Honestly? I know nothing about your situation. So maybe this is completely off. In that case, sorry for being cliche. But try burger flipping (or shelve packing, or…) at least once. In the worst case, you have a better reason to hate the system now, in the best case, you get some routine. Or, I don’t know, help some people with stuff. Does not even matter what it is. But humans were not meant to do nothing.
Yeah, and the being funny and charismatic part is nontrivial. If you are the born entertainer already, sure. If not, well…
Could you drop a link? Now I’m curious :)
“Sex U” for short
Yup, Europe is pretty heterogeneous
Wie just hate strangers, that’s all. Or rather people in general. If someone is friendly to me on the street, I look for an escape route and check if my wallet is still there.
No, they are way worse