Guild Wars 2

This is not a mounts thread.

Do bicycles exist in Tyria?

It’s strange, I’ve not seen any static artwork or objects around to suggest they do. There are for example Charr vehicles, but it is curious that there are no bicycles.

It’s probably a question that might be best being asked, and might get moved to: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/lore as you’re asking a lore question.

However, I couldn’t answer you myself, but since there are Charr motorcycles, it stands to reason that the natural progression of transportation between horse carts that are seen by those and the Charr Motorcycles would be that one would have been made at some point.

But probably because of involvement of Asura gates and waypoints might have made it infeasible to mass-produce bicycles, as Waypoints & Asura Gates seem to be the most efficient mode of transportation.

(p.s. That was not an anti-mounts answer! A genuine theory on the lore of this subject!)

penelopehannibal.8947:

But probably because of involvement of Asura gates and waypoints might have made it infeasible to mass-produce bicycles, as Waypoints & Asura Gates seem to be the most efficient mode of transportation.

(p.s. That was not an anti-mounts answer! A genuine theory on the lore of this subject!)

The need to hop on a bicycle to get to a local store for example, would hardly interfere with the economics of Waypoints and Asura gates. Not every merchant could/would set up at a waypoint or near an Asura gate.

P.S. This reply was not intended to defuse the “we have waypoints so mounts aren’t necessary argument”

Pure Heart.1456:

The need to hop on a bicycle to get to a local store for example, would hardly interfere with the economics of Waypoints and Asura gates. Not every merchant could/would set up at a waypoint or near an Asura gate.

That is indeed a valid point you have made.

However, if you take Divinity’s Reach for an example, virtually all the Waypoints that are currently in existence are within a 90 – 120 second walk with each other. So in The Reach at least, those distances would probably not warrant a bicycle trip.

On the other hand, when you take places such as Queensdale, the distance between each other are a little greater, which may warrant taking a bicycle with you.

But then, you have to take into account that Tyria is in a wartime situation too, in which it is not just possibly about distance covered, but also about safety too. If I were an apple merchant trying to get from Edna’s Orchard to Shaemoor, I would rather use the Waypoints from fear of banditry, than travel on bicycle.

That said, I am not dismissing bicycles 100% (or at all for that matter) – since there is also the fun factor with riding a bike! I think in “reality” a few bicycles would probably be dotted around Tyria, though probably only a fraction of what we might have “in real life”

(P.S. Again, to people outside this conversation, this is not a mounts, nor an anti-mounts thread! It is a question about lore! Please don’t grace us with that beating horse .gif!)

I’ve always wondered how canon is waypoints being an easy way of transportation…

We still see donkey carts everywhere carrying stuff from one waypoint to another; I do really think that while they exist in lore, they aren’t as acessible as much.

are there Toilets in the Lore of GW ?

I feel thats a much more pressing question

You’d think an engineer would have invented these items by now.

why bike if you can teleport? though maybe if you look in the charr areas they might have something that may interest you?

penelopehannibal.8947:

But then, you have to take into account that Tyria is in a wartime situation too, in which it is not just possibly about distance covered, but also about safety too. If I were an apple merchant trying to get from Edna’s Orchard to Shaemoor, I would rather use the Waypoints from fear of banditry, than travel on bicycle.

You also have to take into account the “condensed” scale of the game. something like The Grove to LA by foot or carriage would likely take several days or weeks, not the 5-10 minutes our characters can do it in. I’d probably venture that the maps themselves are condensed by 100:1 or higher.