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Twitter post by @DirtyTesLa: Thankful to have Cybertruck to help me with the real work and big loads 🙏 (image of Cybertruck with several bags of soil in the trunk)

Reply by @KralikLj: Hell boy that would fit in a bicycle. Way more carbon free than that wankpanzer. (image of cargo bicycle with several bags of soil strapped to the front)

  • JordanZ@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Anything I can fit in my Miata is not a ‘big load’. Although there are always the people that like to go above and beyond…

    I have an album of collected photos of people transporting goofy/large stuff in Miata’s.

  • graeghos_714@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    LOL, my son and I both drive hatchback Mazda 3’s. My son had to drive to a customers site because the boxes were too tall to fit in a truck like this. And I just went to Lowes for mulch and stuff and put 7 bags of mulch, 4 bags of dirt, and 1 bag of compost in the back with my seats down without going over my weight limit. But I did similar in my Saturn Aura 4 door with fold down back seats. I only drove a truck when I needed to tow a boat. When the boat went so did the truck

      • Albbi@lemmy.ca
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        7 months ago

        A lot cheaper to keep around than a $80,000 truck which requires insurance too.

  • BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br
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    7 months ago

    Well, I guess that some people just like to put big loads on their back and post it on the internet… Who am I to judge…

  • Squirrel@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’m in the unfortunate position of not living in a place to practically use that bicycle, and being unable to afford a cybertruck. I wouldn’t buy one, even if I could afford it, but I’d like to be in that position.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Yeah you’d want it on a trailer or side bags. Maybe a handlebar box. It’s definitely doable. I saw multiple bikes tonight that could do it at the shop I contribute at.

      • png@discuss.tchncs.de
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        7 months ago

        I see them around here (Germany) and they seem quite practical, although ones with 3 or more wheels are most popular here. Especially for such heavy loads.

      • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        Downvoted by delusional people who don’t live in the real world.

        I get that they want bikes to be the solution to everything but stick a heavy toolbox on a bike and ride uphill, in the rain, after a heavy day working. Sure it’s fine for someone doing local runs on an open schedule with small loads but for most people that’s not how life works.

        I hate driving, love bikes and agree we need to transition to better transport systems but pushing absolutely absurd non-answers is just going to make everyone laugh at the idea and dismiss it as stupid. We’ve had the same issue in the green movement so many times, anyone old enough in the uk will remember when we had an green party with an amazing platform pushing investment in solar, localisation, cycling infrastructure, and loads of good stuff then instead of talking about it every time they got platformed they talked about yogic flying and healing energy. Even my mum a total woo loving hippy was angry at them about that.

        Something else they forget is that not everyone can cycle, i used to cycle all over the place until my knee injury and while even at my peek I never would have been able to get that heavy load up the hill on the way back from my local garden center I can only just do it now on a lightweight bike after years of strength rebuilding.

        If you want meaningful change you need to be sensible about it so other people know you can be trusted.

        (And yes I understand the yogic flying was coming from an actually sensible place when you get down to it, I was a child enrolled in similar mind and body fitness programs based on the same idealism but every time it was mentioned they’d talk about superpowers instead if saying ‘obviously it’s just exercise and breathing with mental clarity exercises combined, we think this is missing from most peoples lives and wish to enable access and understanding but recognize its only a small step in transitioning to an ecologically, emotionally and aocially suatainable way of life, which is our primary goal.’

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I saw one IRL the other day and it was way bigger than I thought based on pictures. This shows how shitty the trunk on it is. Whole car was bigger than an Escalade, but this is all that trunk can fit. What a hunk o shit.

  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I appreciate what Len’s going for, but showing a Cybertruck with a load that would fit in a normal car, and ‘owning’ it by showing a bike carrying what appears to be half as much, is only going to give ammo to the dipshits with their massively oversized trucks.

    ‘Hey, bro! My Ford SuperMacho DonkeyDong Pavement Princess edition would fit the load from the Cybertruck and the load from the cargo bike. I could throw the bike on top too!’

    Reframing it as ‘the Cybertruck’s so shitty that half the load will fit on a bike with no issues, and you don’t have to be seen driving a Cybertruck’ would probably work better 👍

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Them: I pay $700/m on my truck loan so I can move a ton of mulch every year.

      Me: I pay a $57 delivery fee so I can move six tons of mulch every year.

      We are not the same.

      • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        Can rent a truck from home depot for like $20/hr. Most people are probably paying more than that a week in added fuel costs to drive a gas guzzler of a truck.

      • n2burns@lemmy.ca
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        7 months ago

        I think $700/m is unreasonably low for a Cybertruck, which makes your most even more. I don’t think you can get the financing details for one through the website, but I did it for an $80K Model X for 84 months in California and got $1,390/m.

    • Skua@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      The packages on the bike look far longer, it’s quite possible that it actually is the same load

      • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        7 months ago

        They do look bigger, but it seems like the pink section is bigger, and the rest is the same size as the bags in the truck, making the bike’s cargo of four bags equivalent to about five of the truck’s bags.

        That’s just a guess from a bad photo though.

        • Skua@kbin.social
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          7 months ago

          My curiosity has been piqued, so here are the actual numbers:

          There’s actually more on the bike. I love this post even more now

          • nednobbins@lemm.ee
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            7 months ago

            A liter of potting soil is roughly a kilo. Very few people will be able to move a bike with 200kilos on it unless the ground is perfectly even.

            There are plenty of vehicles that are better for moving around that much mass than a Cybertruck is but a bike isn’t really one of them.

            • Skua@kbin.social
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              7 months ago

              Are you sure about that weight? I can’t say I’ve used a lot of potting soil in my life, but the first google results for it that have weights listed for the bag are all more like quarter to a third of a kilo per litre. That puts the weight of the load at less than 70kg, which is much more reasonable

              • nednobbins@lemm.ee
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                7 months ago

                I’m not sure at all. It’s just the first number I found online. Since a liter of water is a kilo it seemed reasonable to accept a liter of soil being a similar mass.

                But shoot. I just went downstairs and checked the bags of soil we recently bought. 44 liters and 16 kilos. That’s about 0.36 kilos per liter, so you’re correct.

                That said, when I had 4 of those sitting in the back of a Subaru hatchback you can definitely feel the accelerator get mushy. It probably wouldn’t be terrible to carry that much weight for short distances occasionally. Regularly riding long distances on less than perfect roads with that much load sounds pretty painful.

            • barsoap@lemm.ee
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              7 months ago

              It’s a cargo bike: Low centre of gravity, adequate transmission for hauling heavy loads uphill, moving it isn’t the issue. You should be more worried about the actual load capacity: A good cargo bike, as in two wheels not four or a trailer configuration or something, usually maxes out at ~150kg load (including driver). Trikes about 250kg, quads or trikes with trailer at 500kg.

              But then a kg of soil weighs more like 400g so we’re talking more like 80kg. Including driver you might be exceeding load capacity, but not by much (assuming obese people don’t ride bikes which I think is a fair assumption) it’s probably going to survive, especially if you’re careful around kerbstones and stuff. Those load limits are all calculated off some maximum drop distance, if you don’t drop your wheels then you can generally go much higher. The frame is very unlikely to break or bend, the axles would probably be the first to fail.

              • nednobbins@lemm.ee
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                7 months ago

                It looks like these bikes are 100% human powered. That’s the part I’m worried about.

                I’m starting to get kind of old but I know how to ride a bike and I’m in pretty decent shape. In nice weather I ride for several miles at a time with my kids. I could move a heavily loaded bike for short distances but if I’m doing regular transportation with that for hours at a time I can forget about my knees.

                • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
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                  7 months ago

                  I’m fat and out of shape. I know I wouldn’t be able to move that bike without some sort of motor assistance. You can 100% get a battery-powered engine to help, though.

                • barsoap@lemm.ee
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                  7 months ago

                  The usual distances for these kinds of bikes are a couple of km max, once or twice a week. Big shopping trip if you’re living on the outskirts kind of deal, or smaller shopping trip and the kid rides in the cargo bucket. If you’re up for it sure you can also tour them, tent and sleeping bags don’t tend to weigh much and there’s ample of space.

                  Bikes for parcel deliveries etc. tend to be quads or trailer-trikes, also, electric. Noone is running a landscaping business with one of those bikes that still is, and probably always will be, a VW transporter with flatbed kind of deal.

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Reframing it as ‘the Cybertruck’s so shitty that half the load will fit on a bike with no issues, and you don’t have to be seen driving a Cybertruck’ would probably work better 👍

      I fully agree with this, but I have to say I think it’s equivalently and succinctly encapsulated by “wankpanzer”.

  • Noxy@yiffit.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    my wagon can definitely carry that, without the risk of slicing off pedestrians’ faces in an accident, too.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Lol, I don’t know about a bicycle but I routinely toss six bags of dirt in the back of my Honda Accord and my ex- boss has a trailer for his Corolla.

    Also, presumably he got it to the checkout at the store in a grocery cart, he (I am making an assumption here that this is a dude) has to know you don’t need a truck to move it.