Is there a calculator to let people calculate actual cost per mile to drive a given car, accounting for actual purchase price, insurance, gas prices, parking costs, and length of time one has owned car? Trying to see just how much I’m saving with an ebike. #bike#cycling#biketooter#ebike#seabikes#cars@TheWarOnCars@seabikeblog
Thousand Oaks Transit: 🚲🚍Ventura County transit operators are celebrating Bike to Work Day by offering free rides to anyone boarding with a bike on May 17! Seamlessly connect your bike route by riding any bus within Ventura County for free. http://goventura.org/free
@ai6yr I’d love too! Although getting all my tools to the job would be difficult 😆.
OTOH, maybe I could use a new e mtb and use as a write off 🧐 anyone ever done that? #bike tooter
Near Ouarzazate, me and @cobic have just met Czech cyclist Mirek and Slovenian cyclist Katya, who travel all around the world on their bicycles and live on the road and work as artists. I have introduced them to Mastodon and they are now @Cyclingnomads on our #fcz instance...
So if you want Cycling Nomads in Fediverse instead of just on Facebook, don't hesitate and follow @Cyclingnomads !
So stoked that my portalble #tea set up was featured on the Bassi bikes instagram. Slowly dialing it in to be like the one from a Psalm from the wild built #Solarpunk#bike
My general stamina is far better than that of my wrists when I cycle. Any tips or postures you use to help with wrist strain while biking? I could go a lot further if I could reduce wrist strain.
TIL that @organicmaps has a (very WIP, but still) desktop app, and so now I can produce side-by-side comparisons. Voilà the query for "café" in #Toulon
Note also how the information is shown much more explicitly on the OrganicMaps view. The google map only becomes useful to #bike / #pedestrian once you zoom all the way in. Somehow their designers seem to be afraid of contrast or sth. 🤷
I just love how #OSM is so much better, thanks to all involved! 🫶
If you #bike in #Baltimore, you might be interested to know that Margo Bruner-Settles's anti-bike-lane billboard truck ran a red light in front of me today.
Discussion avec beau papa, qui m'envoie ce sur quoi il vient de tomber sur FB.
Cette dame aurait pu prendre son vélo pour acheter ses clopes, ce n'est pas grand l'Herbaudière, mais c'est tellement plus drôle de jeter des familles "à la baille".
We're looking into mobility options for our parents who can't drive any more. Just found out about Van Raam adaptive cycles, they have dealerships in the US and Europe. If you can't or don't want to drive a car one of their awesome cycles may help you! They have side-by-side sociable tandems, low step through delta trikes, wheelchair transport bikes and electric assist options. They even have tandem couplers so you can train the sociable tandem and trikes together.
If you are interested in adaptive cycling and the 30% of people in the US who can't or don't drive you might also want to take a listen to the new @TheWarOnCars on Cars podcast, an interview with the author of 'When Driving is Not an Option,' Anna Zivarts
I remember this ride clearly. It was the beginning of the COVID Era, and I was still working in-person in a customer service role. I was finishing up my degree. I took a ride out to a local state park with some empty roads running through it and did some sightseeing. I had my first "close call" when an oncoming car driver failed to notice me (a bright green cannonball), took a left turn directly in front of me, and stopped in my travel lane when she panicked.
First big group ride this year with local cycling group Charles River Wheelers (CRW).
Rode through some very wealthy suburban towns (Dover is the wealthiest town in Massachusetts with median household income of $250k+)
Very fast paced group. Started with the 2nd group (15-16mph pace) but caught the first group (17-18mph pace) shortly after. I stayed with the first group and average speed of this ride is 17.9mph!