While I only wear #cloaks at -30 to 0°C, and #capes from 0 to 10°C, on this 19°C sunny day while #biking in #Montreal, I encountered someone on the cycleway who:
✅ …wore a blue velvet cape
✅ …with a cat-ears motorbike helmet
✅ …on a Segway.
So of course I shouted, « Merci de normaliser les capes! 👍 » ("Thank you for normalizing capes! 👍") as I passed them.
I started working on a silly logo for my joke about there being a group of people who ride bikes in the cemetery by my house but it's really just me...
Took the third-wheeled cargo carrier out for a little ride and uh
wow that's loud :(
Didn't think about that. The wheel attaching to the bin directly means it acts like a drumhead and it's REALLY loud.
I mean it's not damages your hearing loud but EVERYONE hears you
considering idk maybe a hinge to keep it off the ground when not loaded or maybe just angling it so it's only low to the ground on heavier weights. dunno.
on the plus side, it works fine, handles turns, generally good.
Biked to the lake with my wife. Still on the cool side, with a headwind on the way back. Starting to see more buds and greenery popping out along the way.
I biked from noe to the conservatory of flowers today with the kid on the back and HOT DAMN it was honestly one of the most incredible experiences of my #biking life.
Gorgeous gorgeous day. Got to ride up Page #SlowStreet, which is just so lovely. Then down #JFK which is honest to good one of the most beautiful promenades on the planet right now. There was art! There was nature! There was community!
God, #SanFrancisco you can really show off when you want to.
today’s #30daysofbiking was Anna’s usual preferred exercise route with a stop at the library after since my hold finally resolved and i got emily wilson’s translation of the iliad. 14km. ish.
Started the ride chilled to the bone, 3 layers and wearing extra gloves I’d brought just in case. At one point I looked over to see a giant pile-o-turtles trying to catch whatever fleeting sun they could.
It was one of those rides I was working on an excuse for not doing within a mile of starting: "too cold", “too windy”, "looks like rain”, "I don’t wanna climb hills”, “this seems complicated”, “nobody is out” but I just kept going, mile after mile, constantly thinking about alternative routes, but never diverging. Then I was at the big climb, “Ah, might as well go a little further." You can go a long ways saying that. Go far enough and you'll be riding snow down the other side. #BikeTooter#GravelCycling#biking#turtles
I have a Shimano FC-MT611-1 crankset on my bike. It's time to replace the chainring, but I can't for my life, find any information about any replacement parts at all.