XKCD does cycling

[Wafer]

http://xkcd.com/1673/

I'm not quite sure what they are trying to say this time but it gave me a little chuckle

 

[TheJDog]

Does that bottle really say 'milk'? I'm sure milk is a bad choice.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

http://xkcd.com/1673/

I'm not quite sure what they are trying to say this time but it gave me a little chuckle

I think the message is walk, or get a car. Cycling is miserable.

I like XKCD, wonderfully subversive and cynical.

 

[rugby bloke]

Don't get it all. I like the different idea of what a bike could be, don't see how it fits in with the time line, probably over thinking it !

 

[lazybloke]

If there is a punchline to an xkcd cartoon, it is usually revealed as a pop-up by clicking on the pic (on the original website).
Doesn't work on my phone :-(

 

[winjim]

If there is a punchline to an xkcd cartoon, it is usually revealed as a pop-up by clicking on the pic (on the original website).
Doesn't work on my phone :-(

I'll be honest, the 1950s were a rough time for cycling​

 

[winjim]

My interpretation of it is:

• Early 19c the bike as we know it didn't exist. People had a go at sticking wheels on various odd types of frame.
• Late 19c Penny farthings and lots of different combinations of big / small wheeled bikes.
• 1925 Art Deco
• 1940 Dunno. Is that supposed to be a punt?
• 1955 Monster movies?
• 1980 Things like Grifters and Choppers that were sort of meant to look like motorbikes.
• 2016 Ridiculously complicated unnecessarily fancy overengineered MAMIL type bikes.

Maybe also plays with the joke that nobody really knows how to draw a bicycle.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

My interpretation of it is:

• Early 19c the bike as we know it didn't exist. People had a go at sticking wheels on various odd types of frame.
• Late 19c Penny farthings and lots of different combinations of big / small wheeled bikes.
• 1925 Art Deco
• 1940 Dunno. Is that supposed to be a punt?
• 1955 Monster movies?
• 1980 Things like Grifters and Choppers that were sort of meant to look like motorbikes.
• 2016 Ridiculously complicated unnecessarily fancy overengineered MAMIL type bikes.

Maybe also plays with the joke that nobody really knows how to draw a bicycle.

Naaah. 2016 is that thing that Graeme Obree had on the inside of that space capsule bike of his. It had a treadle system, didn't it?

1940, the VV (Venetian Velociped), designed by a Gondolier who's house only occasionally floods.

The rest are spot on. No cigar, sorry.

 

[srw]

Here's the link to explainxkcd.com ("It's 'cause you're dumb.")

http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1673

They don't really know either. Every so often Randall Munro comes out with a pure flight of fancy. I think this is one of those times.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I told you all that 1925 model was inspired by a fractal because it corresponds with Benoit Mandlebrot's birthday, but you wouldn't listen. I knew that!

 

[davefb]

just... because..
https://xkcd.com/386/