• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    28
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    A “bike bus,” or rolling mass of happy kids and parents on bikes that builds as they travel a parent derived route to school. Basically a mini peleton of kids and parents, with parents acting as “captains, sheepdogs and cabooses.”

    Pretty rad, spinning up a “critical mass” though community organizing instead of each sitting in a car, waiting hours to drop kids off or pick them up.

      • KnightontheSun@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        That’s the automobile term and is quite offensive in this context. A “chain of bicycles” would be more appropriate. Stragglers would be called “spokes”. You should probably edit your post and then go apologize to the bicycle sub post haste before this gets out of hand. --> /s

        • shastaxc@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          5 months ago

          Because I’m not sure which part of this is intended to be sarcasm, I just wanted to clarify that the term “caravan” has been used before the invention of the internal combustion engine.

          • KnightontheSun@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            5 months ago

            I’m not sure which part of this is intended to be sarcasm

            100% of it. Sorry I wasn’t funnier to help you there. Story of my wife…life! I meant life!

            Of note is that I did not create the “chain of bicycles” term, but did find it alluring to use here.

      • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        Sure. The movement calls itself a “bike bus,” but it strikes me as a tiny “critical mass,” where riders get together and ride enmass to express solidarity and take back the streets to some degree from cars.