Car bad, bike good and all that but bicycle maintenance is absolute bullshit. This is what I've been through just this year:

• First the chain and sprocket needs to be replaced. Also the front tire is flat.
• I try to replace the chain myself. It's too loose and worse than before.
• I try to put a new hose in the tire. The bike pumping station malfunctions and explodes the hose.
• I buy a new one and put it on.
• The next morning it's flat again.
• I give up and go to the bicycle repair guy
• The day after it comes home from the repair guy some spokes break and one of the tires on the bike trailer is flat.
• Bike lights? The little fuckers just vanish in thin air all the time.
• Front wheel? Flat again!
• I manage to patch it and put it back on. I inflate it.
• A few hours later it has pushed the tire off because of some dumbass fold
• This goes on for days. I inflate the tire, thinking this is the time that satanic monstrosity has straightened itself out, only to discover I was wrong. This goes on for days.
• Guess what? Another broken spoke!
• Bonus: The gear cable is almost breaking in half.
• The plastic wheelguard? It breaks in half. Because it can.
• Then I run over a branch of some tree that best can be described as nature's own version of barbed wire and one of the tires on the bike trailer is impaled on a big ass thorn.
• I manage to patch the tire. As I put it on the tool slips and pokes two new holes in the tire.
• I patch the tire again and gets everything together.
• The next morning it's flat again. The second patch didn't adhere properly for some reason.
• I patch it up for the third time. This time our seems to hold.
• The next morning the other tire is flat.

What the absolute fuck? This is ridiculous. I didn't remember having so much stupid pointless trouble back when we had a car. Why are bicycles such absolute shit?