#30daysOfBiking today is carrying the kid over the hill to and from school with 50lb of percussion instruments, a common excuse for why biking is impractical. 350W front hub motor on the #supercargo bakfiets (20in wheel) makes it doable but a lot of work whether you go fast (high motor eff) or slow (motor gives up and then it's even harder.) Zig-zags help, but as usual, drivers are the problem.
Popped out for a quick ride in between rain and incoming thunderstorms to pick up some lunch downtown. I’ve probably said this before, but in the 18 months I’ve been biking, I’ve been to downtown Nashville more times than in the 18 years before that combined. It’s a little too far for a casual walk and a nightmare in a car. Perfect use case for a bike. Few biz with bike parking though. Thanks @timcoffman for some action pix! Day 11 of #30DaysOfBiking#BikeTooter
When you're not trying to squeeze in parking spaces at all costs, the streets are wide enough to offer good conditions for two-way cycling. #30daysofbiking
Quand on ne cherche pas à caser à tout prix des places de stationnement, les rues sont bien assez larges pour offrir de bonnes conditions de circulation en double-sens cyclable à #Orléans. #30joursàvélo
PS : merci à DAMMO d'avoir suivi de très près ce chantier.
Oh yeah, forgot, work is stupid this week but yesterday and today i got on bike just to do it, 1km each day, basically around the block down the street and such.
The barrier to #30daysOfBiking for most people was never the weather, hills, or distance, it has always been the luxury car and/or SUV #drivers with tinted windows who don't stop for crosswalks, or otherwise brandish their vehicle as a weapon to cow people into giving up their rights to public space.
today's #30daysofbiking is "down to the neighbour's house" which is nothing but I did work on the bike cargo carrier so that ... doesn't count at all, right
otoh i'm not late for #monsterdon and that's what really matters
Spent the return trip getting muddy while trying to find a way across SW #Portland that hasn't been ruined with cars (trying, not succeeding.) #30daysOfBiking
Got an Abus Granit Extreme 2500 U-lock today. Can confirm the mechanism quality is outstanding. This is a new generation of u-lock that is reinforced against battery-fed grinder attacks. They still can be defeated, but the time to cut is extended to multiple cuts over minutes instead of seconds.
also also my #30daysofbiking is technically met by a combination of fucking around with designs that didn't work and biking down to the next street and picking up mail
Riding through a swamp because cars are too important to get wet and also the only way you can get somewhere if it rained in recent memory, unless your bike has fenders. What if we grew the plants on the other side of the bike lane?#30daysOfBiking
#30DaysOfBiking, Day 5, Part 2: Went into the weekend a bit earlier due the time I worked during the Easter weekend on understanding and locally mitigating the #xz f🤬ckup. Ran some cycling related errands: bringing a rain jacket to #Transa for repair and visiting my #Brompton repair shop #Velofix for making an appointment for the next maintenance. The boss came out, pointed to their window and said "You're hanging in our window!" And indeed, there's a printed version of https://www.provelozuerich.ch/magazin/bromptonaut-unter-strom/
#30DaysOfBiking, Day 5, Part 3: Wasn't sure if I should already do the planned full day tour through the #Sihl valley and back via #KnoauerAmt, but I decided to see how far I get. Worked very smooth. In #Sihlbrugg (turning point of the tour) I managed to make a check mark on my #BucketList: I rode through a #DriveIn (#McDrive) with my #Brompton. 😁 I had fun and the #McDonalds personnel were amused, too.
More pictures from the tour later when I'm back home. Just to had to share this. #BikeTooter
#30DaysOfBiking, Day 5, Part 4 and Day 6 Part 1: It ended up as 70km and 8h tour (5h in the saddle). I started ~16:45, ran the mentioned errands, and actually started the tour ~18:15. Came back around 02:00. The Garmin GPS said it were close to 600m difference in altitude over all. Unfortunately the Garmin rebooted upon saving the tour data. It then offered me a second time to save it (and also still showed the track and the metadata), but then errored out and went into an endless loop → lost 🤬
today’s very short #30daysofbiking ride was to pick these up for my cargo wagon to see if I can get more weight onto wheels and have it stay more level and all that. no time for anything else sadly.