The dream 🚲

All you need is to completely disregard human rights and Singapore is pretty decent.

Singapore is not the dream. It's a police state and dictatorship

Singapore laws play for keeps tho

I know it's almost impossible but I'd be taking the bike out so much more often if I knew I could leave it somewhere and it'd still be there when I got back.

Is it unattended? Looks like someone is standing right in front of it taking a photo for Twitter.

I'm pretty sure it's because Singapore has security cameras pointing everywhere. Also, caning is a big deterrent to theft.

The secret ingredient is surveillance.

How TF is that bike (or any) $15k?!? Does it come with a bike path concierge on every trip?

To me, the culture shock would be that there is a bicycle that costs $15K

I'm more wondering why someone would spend that much on a damn bike. I bought my car for 15k of course that was in 2010 but I'm still driving it to this day. Toyota Corolla before anyone asks.

Edit: I just realized this was posted under fuck cars and now I feel like a dick comparing it to the price of my car. It wasn't intentional but still holy shit that's still a stupid amount of money to spend on a bike. Like how can you even justify that price? It has to be a completely insane amount of markup.

People do that all the time in my area. It's not because it's "safe", it's because they're stupid. Then they want to join my communities so they can spam it with their stolen bike posts and get help finding them.

It might have a tracker.

$1,500 bike blocking access to the coffee shop window and the beer kegs.

Edit: I have been corrected, the bike is $15K. Thanks u/pacoboyd!

I've left my bike like this for 50 seconds total in the 25 years I've had it - and I had to chase it down to get it back.

Reminds me of my first weeks in Japan....

I took my Kona Private Jake with me (nowhere near that bike, but $2-3k) which I would expect to be gone in an instant in the UK. I kept placed my bike on the balcony of the monthly apartment in Roppongi, which was only on the 2nd floor, and would check it at night as I thought someone would nick it

This shortly progressed to leaving it outside when going to the conbini, etc

Ah yes, people commenting how much Singapore is a facist/police state. Can't have nice thing, eh?

3 years jail time for theft.

I'd much prefer bicycles be affordable.

Not my kind of bike personally, but damn that looks nice 😍 the matt black one in the back looks hella stealthy too

Much like how Vlad the impaler would leave the golden chalice in the city square, daring anyone to take it...

Can do too, Germany, the nicer part of the city here. Left my car with open windows in the summer, with my stuff in it, over night, nothing. Wouldn't do it in the northern city though. My seats would've been gone.

This must be one of those AI pictures

It's my dream to ever be well enough off to be able to spend 15k on anything, let alone a bike.

I heard that owning a car in Singapore is very expensive, even for the cheap model. Leaving the money for a better bicycle seems legit

This needed a trigger warning, I'm having heart palpitations 😵‍💫