alt Hacker News> It doesn't make you happier
It sounds to me like you haven’t rode a bike in a long time. I recommend you try it and get back to me.
> It doesn't make you happier
It sounds to me like you haven’t rode a bike in a long time. I recommend you try it and get back to me.
I own several and have ridden thousands upon thousands of miles.
When I got my first bike as a kid, a cheap "mountain bike" with 24" wheels that probably weighed more than my current road bike, I was at maximum happiness. I was not at only 40% happiness because it didn't have a carbon frame or a Di2 groupset from the future. I was at 100.
Later when I got my first road bike I was at 100% happiness again. But nothing can make me happier than I was with that first, heavy bicycle-shaped object. It might equal it but it's impossible to surpass.