I Don’t Know Who I Am Any Longer

"Future Heap Owner" (aperiodic) 10/25/2018 at 02:20 • Filed to: Introspection

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Oppo, help. I don’t know what’s happening to me.

I’ve always identified as more of an anti-car person than a car person. I’ve been a bicyclist from a young age. For the past seven years, my bike has been my primary transportation. It’s fun, it’s healthy, it’s better for the environment. Cars are deadly, wasteful, have way too high of a priority in the average USAn city’s planning, and honestly are baseline frustrating to drive around in a city. It was a point of pride for several years that I didn’t drive at all. I never even owned a car until 18 months ago, in my 28th year.

And now, I post regularly on a car forum, I have pictures on my phone of just random cars on the street (ok, mostly Delicas), and I just paid a couple hundred bucks to rent the pictured Fiat Spider, purely for the experience of driving it around.

What’s happened to me?

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Future Heap Owner 10/25/2018 at 02:30

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You have tasted both sides of the transportation fence and are generally comfortable in either world . That’s good. As p artisanship is mentally unhealthy.

atfsgeoff > Future Heap Owner 10/25/2018 at 02:57

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There is no judgment here my friend. Lots of Opponauts are into bicycles too. They are magnificent examples of mechanical efficiency.

No reason not to like and embrace both cars and bikes (and motorcycles too!)

MGS315 > Future Heap Owner 10/25/2018 at 03:26

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Sounds perfectly normal to me. If driving a car isn’t viable, don’t do it. I’m pretty much the same with car ownership (first personal car at 28, only company vehicles before) and I cycle roughly the same mileage as I drive these days.

Driving in cities isn’t fun. It’s a chore. It’s expensive.  If there’s a faster/cheaper/healthier alternative why not take it eh?

Nom De Plume > Future Heap Owner 10/25/2018 at 03:44

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I hate to accuse you of this, but did you grow as person? ?? ???!?!!!!?

CRider > Future Heap Owner 10/25/2018 at 04:47

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It sounds like you need to throw a leg over a motorcycle!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Future Heap Owner 10/25/2018 at 05:05

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you see the benefits of owning both forms of transport

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > CRider 10/25/2018 at 05:40

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I hesitate to page Ms Mercedes but hey...why the heck not?

404 - User No Longer Available > Future Heap Owner 10/25/2018 at 07:07

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As long as you’re not this type of cyclist, you’re fine.

shop-teacher > Future Heap Owner 10/25/2018 at 07:19

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One of us! One of us!

OPPOsaurus WRX > Future Heap Owner 10/25/2018 at 08:30

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you are just trying to become a better cyclist by seeing how the road needs to be shared from the motorists point of view. Y ou just happen to enjoy that point of view .

My bird IS the word > Future Heap Owner 10/25/2018 at 08:56

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You realized pedaling is for suckers.

Svart Smart, traded in his Smart > Future Heap Owner 10/25/2018 at 10:05

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One of us. One of us.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Future Heap Owner 10/25/2018 at 10:13

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BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!

One of us. One of us... =)

Tristan > Future Heap Owner 10/30/2018 at 14:53

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I grew up obsessed with cars and bikes. I loved cars, but bikes were all I could play with prior to 16, so they became a passion, too. In my early twenties I lived in Minneapolis (a FAR more bike-friendly place than Portland) and rode everywhere all the time. In 2006, I rode from Minneapolis to New Orleans as a means of raising money for Katrina relief. Then, I joined the military and my bikes have gone largely unused for years. Sad! I’d commute, but I live in Tigard and work at the airport. 

Future Heap Owner > Tristan 10/30/2018 at 16:13

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I grew up in Minneapolis from the ages of  4-17 , which is certainly a big part of why I’m such a bike person.

Tristan > Future Heap Owner 10/30/2018 at 16:26

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Then y ou understand why I roll my eyes when Portland calls itself “Biketown”!