All you seniors posting about how you survived lead paint, no seatbelts, no helmets etc… I’m very happy for you. Would love to hear sometime from those who didn’t, but for some reason their posts don’t show up on my feed.
I would like to share the track of my recent 4-days tour through Uppland, Sweden. I usually start planning a route with the app BRouter (Android) with the profile "trekking" for finding suitable routes. Next I check the chosen route and might manually improve it by using smaller "no-name" roads. Quite often I also check the pavement of the road by using Google Street View.
This question is kind of a continuation of a discussion last week. @esnyder@MylesRyden asks about what good cycle infrastructure looks like on rural roads.
Q8. As someone living rurally in OR, I am not sure what exactly I want changed on most of the rural roads. I would love to hear more about / see some links to / etc. really good examples of what it could/should look like.
In 2023, word was it would be the last production season of the Surly Big Dummy (non-electric) cargo bike. It's still for sale today. https://surlybikes.com/bikes/big_dummy But they have made some changes that not everyone is happy with, including using a single chain ring up front and removing the mount points for a centerstand like the one that Xtracycle made for it originally.
I started a blog to promote the idea of electric cargo bikes a decade or so ago. At that time, many electric bikes and cargo bikes were still made from kits. The combination was even rarer.
The idea caught on so much that it seems non-electric cargo bikes on their way towards to extinction. It's true that cargo and electric pair very well on a bike.
It's also true the non-electric Surly Big Dummy is joy to ride whether it's around town for a long bike tour. #bike#cargobike
This is my ninth year of having goslings here, and I'm still amazed by how big they are at three weeks old. They're fully waterproof (the top layer of fluff gets a bit soggy but the undercoat is now feathers) and safe to leave out with the adults.
You will read stuff about goslings on the internet like "goslings can be taken off heat at 6 weeks old" and WHAT?! Wild geese fly up to the Arctic to breed! Goslings are tough as old boots, and under good grazing conditions they grow like mushrooms.
A lot of people who spent the last 10 years telling us that respect for the flag was the most important thing in the world suddenly don’t want us to care about who flies what flags how, I notice.
On the topic of #ebike brakes. It's also been my experience that disk brake pads will need to be replaced each year. I can afford it but I can't help but think about regen braking whenever I see the bill. I understand why it isn't really used, but I still wish there were an option.
NREL’s Open-Source Vehicle & Mobility Tools Offer Routes to Reduce Transportation Energy Use, Emissions
Simulation and modeling software helps railway operators model the integration of technologies to encourage transportation decarbonization and move toward a net-zero carbon economy.
"The ultimate test to prove what cars have done to the American psyche only requires that you walk out your front door. Take a photo with your phone. Now highlight in red the places in which it would be fully legal for a car to strike and kill you. Now highlight in yellow the places in which a car could strike and kill you and you would have to make a legal case that it was not your fault. Now highlight in green places where you believe you are safe from cars." - Dan Sheehan #fuckcars
RT @schwartztalya Call in tomorrow, May 21st at 9:00am, to the NJTA commissioners meeting and tell them to cancel their miserable highway expansion project. Dial 1-800-346-7359, Entry Code: 487219.
The contrast with failed #VisionZero plans like #Portland's seems pretty basic: "They said: 'You as provider of the road transport system are no longer allowed to kill people on that mass level that you've done'
Always stop for pedestrians. Because it may be your workplace’s IT guy trying to cross the street. And they may see you stop and then remember to sign-off on your new work laptop.
To all the supporters of universal basic income out there, what happened to make you support it even more after you already came to support it?
For me it was learning the many dirty details of traditional welfare benefits and how programs like TANF are designed and treat people, and how many people in need they don't help.
Wild how it took so long to do something so simple. Not that I long to visit the byward Market but Majors Hill or Rideau Falls were rarely on the list of destinations if this was the direction of travel. But this makes basic access possible especially with the bridge open and the new NCC lookout on the +50% complete?? status #ottawa#ottbike#biketooter
