What happened during the lockdown? Did the roadways improve?

It was comfy

It was alright at first, cycling with masks was amusing, but then corona cycling happened and it was like Eternal September but for bicycles. Unracing, "but in amsterdam", and "not a cyclist just a guy on a bike" subcultures, which were loosely related but not the same, used to be something associated with eccentric but harmless old people that you could be like "oh, ha ha, yes you do have an interesting opinion, anyway..." Like we all knew a couple-a guys like that, and sure they were some odd ducks, but we all pretty much got along.

But overnight their ranks increased a thousandfold, like a starved bowl of yeast given a scoop of cane sugar, and immediately event-horizoned into a singularity of the most profoundly punchable overbearing busybody assholes the cycling world has ever known.

I think what happened is you got millions of adults with nothing better to do and suddenly a not so small amount of disposable income, and rather than putting them through the usual tentative steps, trial and error, asking questions, experimenting, making little mistakes and learning from those, like what used to be a rite of passage for new cyclists, they all arrived in one unhinged mob and glommed on to whatever pre-existing forum lore appealed best to their insecurities. And what better to appeal to a beer gutted male neophyte's insecurities than to tell him that people who are way into bicycles are all wrong and dumb, and that actually being slow and performatively unenthusiastic about everything makes you a better person and here's a group or two that sort of resembles that, let's just warp and twist the harmless views of a few friendly old geezers and turn it into a weapon of forum warfare to be wielded for reddit karma.

And as for you "rent free" guy, I know you're feeling attacked right now but you also know I'm right

Okay take a chill pill Lance Armstrong

boomers became deranged

It was the comfiest time of my entire life desu. After the pandemic everything got worse by every metric and continues to do so.

>>2047857 (OP)
Quickly realized how much quieter and cleaner it was without the constant cars.

I can't believe it's only been 5 years are retards are ALREADY doing covid revisionism
Barely anything changed, the absolute peak of COVID lockdowns only lasted like 6 months, the majority of COVID between 2020 and 2022 was barely enforced social distance and mask wearing with boomers online shrowing a shit fit.

>>2047857 (OP)
no the roadways didnt improve because everyone knows cars dont create traffic, bike lanes do. the bike lanes were still in existence, so cars spontaneously created traffic due to it.

>>2047873
meds

>>2047873
I think this poster is somewhat correct, at least with the point where they observe that the markets selection fails to some degree or some products get an 'unfair advantage' if they just happen to be the,
likely justified, meta at a point in time where demand skyrockets.
This might catapult those solutions to a position where they overshadow the next few better solutions fate had lined up.

first three months were good for roaming around, but then suddenly snitches, snitches everywhere.
by the end of the first year cars were returning to the road en mass and its like they had completely forgotten how to drive.

>>2047873
I'm like 60% confident this guy is actually the OP of this thread who literally made it just as an excuse to post this wall of text and they actually think they're being profound

>>2047925
You should get a job at the nu-CDC, your quantitative skills would make you very popular with the MAHA people

>>2047873
rent-fucking-free lmfaoooo