I guess I was right in being suspicious of western urbanists who were always deafeningly silent on massive projects in China but won’t shut up for weeks about the Dutch king taking a bike-shaped shit. This is how they respond when they are forcibly confronted with the topic.

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 47 points 6 months ago (1 children)

r/Ebikes has a strange relationship with China. Whenever a post mentions it, there is one of three themes:

I bought a $300 dropshipped ebike on Amazon and it turns out those sneaky Asiatics sold me a cheap bicycle. They can't make anything right and if you buy a Chinese bike it will explode immediately.
Holy shit China is an electrified paradise where there are so many ebikes, they're much more affordable, the infrastructure for them is so much better than the west, and the companies aren't on the edge of bankruptcy: https://www.reddit.com/r/ebikes/comments/1hd2w55/im_in_shenzhen_china_right_now_and/
We need to ban all Chinese things while supporting the western companies that assemble bikes from Chinese components, even though they're risking imminent collapse because they can't domestically manufacture a battery or the frame to put it in while the import tariffs strangle them

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