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twobiscuits

@twobiscuits@graz.social

Irish bloke living in Graz. An obsessive interest in bicycles and cycling will be apparent. Early Gen X. Sitzschaden. Begeisterter Pilates- und Physiopatient. Naturwissenschafter. Übersetzer. Radfahrlehrer. Fachtrottel in recovery. Has a fondness for software developers, but isn't one. Integrationsüberschuss. So long in Graz that all the pubs I knew at first have closed. Toots in English or German.

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twobiscuits, to cycling German
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Please excuse the Insta link, but here’s an illustration of a shifter position I think could be practical on many touring bikes. Closer to the hands than downtube, separate from the brake levers = easy roadside repair, attached to frame = Rinko. https://www.instagram.com/p/C1jL1GaPfpQ/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

twobiscuits, (edited ) to cycling
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So yesterday I gave the Deore XT RD-/FD-M732 derailleurs that I bought a couple of weeks ago a little service.

twobiscuits, (edited ) to cycling
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Happy to say that the bike fitting efforts the last couple of weekends seem to have paid off. An extra cm of saddle setback and a short reach handlebar that is definitely within my shoulder width were ingredients, and let's not forget the 2 cm shorter front of the frame, which was why I started the whole New Old Bike project. (The 1 cm less top tube due to the 1° steeper seat tube has been swallowed up by the 30 mm instead of 21 mm setback of the seatpost).

twobiscuits, to cycling
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Made a thing. For bike fitting.

The wooden board is attached to a grey base by a white steel bracket with a strut forming a triangle
Looking at the back wheel of the bike from tbe drive side, a similar assembly. The derailleur has been unscrewed to give access.
View of the stand from abive the top tube of the bike, showing both sides

twobiscuits, to cycling
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Brooks & Carradice, a thread

So for reasons, I converted my Brooks saddle back to its sprung form as a Flyer:

twobiscuits, to ChatGPT German
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disaster:

I have been planning to integrate ChatGPT into a writing course I'm teaching. My idea was: once I have shown the students some features that make text coherent, we could ask the AI to revise some of their texts for coherence and some of these things would happen. Bc I expected it would know these patterns.

Fucks sake. I tried it on a paragraph last night …

twobiscuits, to random
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Er, Tchibo. Please.

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A little train of thought that happened to me. The other day I was looking up the history of Velo Orange. On the way I noticed there had been a band called The Orange Bicycle. Well I had to look into that, didn’t I. In the band was a character called Andrew Loog Oldham, who had to do with the Rolling Stones. He did an album of instrumental music including a version of The Last Time. This is better known in the form of a sample used by The Verve, in Bittersweet Symphony … >

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A question for the WordPress experts: is the title attribute what we really mean when we say "alt text"? Should I fill in "title" and "alt"?

twobiscuits, (edited ) to cycling German
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Hey , is there a hashtag that leads to obscure mechanical stuff about old bikes? The ones I can think of etc. don’t seem to be very alive. Is there a secret address for this stuff?

twobiscuits, to random
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Alderney. Spot the mistake.

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Watched a bit of the Netflix thing about the Tour de France. God it's repellent. These absolute pricks of DSs and bosses blathering platitudinous crap. The fake briefings in the team bus. What a pile of shit. What a collection of pathetic little arseholes. It's all too easy to see where fuckers like come from.

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Aua aua Roglič

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"Wie oft quälten auch mich die forschen Sprüche chronischer Frohnaturen" – Wolf Biermann

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Stuff that can happen when your main experience of Irishness is 8 years of working with Joe "Malarkey" Biden 🤣

twobiscuits, to cycling German
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Rather brilliant vid from Carla Francome here. Ride big!
https://youtu.be/eiMnY3zabkM?si=e0FgEfISRKOnX1BM

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Omg what a bike https://meerglas.org/blog/big-blue-randonneur/

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"O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! sondern lasst uns angenehmere anstimmen, und freudenvollere."

Sitze grad im Zug zum ersten Termin des FH-Kurses, den ich unterrichte. Es ist mein 4. Anlauf mit dem Kurs und ich hoffe, langsam so etwas wie ein Konzept dafür zu haben 😂

twobiscuits, to cycling German
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Following the big Shimano recall, is there going to be a run on old square-taper cranks? https://www.bikeradar.com/features/opinion/shimano-crankset-recall-analysis/

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Dude is gonna be shocked when he finds out how Jesus got born ...

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Started/going. 6 September 2022-17 September 2023. Mechanical arsing around has hopefully reached a plateau. Time to ride a bit more 🤞

The same bike standing in sunshine in a garden. The most visible changes are the mudguards, a large saddlebag on a Bagman support, a front bag on a small Nitto rack, and modern short-reach handlebars with TRL RRL ergo brake levers.

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Rode my hills today for the first time in a very long time. It was fabulous 😊. I had a disappointment this week, though not the bad kind, more the kind that just shows me something I really really want. & this ride was just the medicine I needed to process it a bit.

A triangle of road in the bottom right corner, behind it a field of sunlit grass, behind that, coming in from the right side a belt of dark forest, in the distance hills in a mixture of mist and sunlight. Bluish-grey sky with a little bit of puffy white cloud above the forest.

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Another mostly fabulous week in the bike training project. In primary schools in Graz. I obviously don't get to share pics of the best bits (the kids) but here are a few other fun details. First fun thing was: I got to ride The Truck to bring some bikes & stuff for a class where the kids didn't have enough bikes of their own.

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Alptraum. Ich mache ein Fah
rradtraining in einer Volksschule. Dann taucht in der Schule ein bestimmter ferrophiler Mensch auf und wir reden irgendwas und als nächstes sitze ich mit ihm in einem Zug! Er hat mich von meinen Kindern entführt! Und wie ichs ihm sage meint er, kein Problem, wir wollten eh mit dem Gegenzug zurückfahren! >

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Im Klavierunterricht ist die gar-nicht-so-kleine bei der Ballade pour Adeline angekommen 😬 Musik für die Ewigkeit: es wird wie eine Ewigkeit vorkommen, bis sie damit fertig wird 😱

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