Just exactly how lazy can we, as Americans, get? I mean, we are already recognized as the laziest, most gluttonous country that isn’t France, but this thing that I saw on the television while eating my 1 pound pineapple-topped burger and giant steak-fries takes the cake, so to speak. There is now a bicycle that shifts itself.
a bike with an automatic transmission.
Now, I don’t know how how much exactly you people know about riding bikes. On a mountain bike there are shifters that are operated either through manipulation of a lever with your thumb (something that can be done without even repositioning your hand) or twisting a part of the handle-bar (something that can be done without even moving your thumbs). This shifting is done by a derailer that switches the chain from gear to gear.
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Seeing as how shifting gears on a bike is something that is done without moving more than two or three muscles, I ask again, what is the point of having a bike that does this for you? Kids do nothing more than play video-games these days, so one would think that their thumbs are more than up to the task and if you cant be bothered to even twist your wrist slightly forward or back there is little chance that you would be out riding a mountain bike around.
My friend brought up the idea that maybe they could be used on those bicycles that have the little motors that push you around on your Schwinn. And hes right, they have those. They are called motorcycles and they don’t shift themselves either (mostly).
Abject laziness and technological innovation make strange bedfellows indeed.
