“I’m wondering if something subliminal has happened after reading Bicycling Monterey. I’ve been riding the Rock Island Greenway Trail for the last week and a half. Just a wonderful and beautiful ride! It’s not Monterey, California, but a real gem for Peoria, Illinois.”—Richard Coers
Castelli came up with the „Unlimited Pro Jersey“ featuring a mesh pocket for a 1.5 l hydration bladder.
I have no idea how fiddly it is getting a bladder in and out for refill (can imagine top racers would rather swap into a complete fresh jersey in an aid zone). Nor how durable (and thus sustainable) the construction is. Nor whether it would actually feel „right“ on your back.
Nach den Regenfällen trockneten die Strassen recht rasch ab. Es war Zeit für eine nächste Runde.
Nach dem Mittagessen liessen die Regenschauer nach. Ein paar einzelne Regenzellen könnten sich noch in der Gegend auflösen, mehr war nicht zu erwarten.
Die Strassen waren grösstenteils schon trocken, als ich mein Rennrad nach draussen stellte. Nach ein paar markierten Munzee in den Quartiere ...
It increasingly clear, as the media furore around Iain Duncan Smith's proposed law on cyclists causing injury & death grows, that this has been intended a s divide & roll measure in favour of car drivers.
Its clear from the data that both pedestrians & cyclists are more at denser from cars than from each other on the roads.... so Smith's attempt to shift the narrative to see pedestrians fume about cyclists, looks like a political help to dangerous drivers, not endangered pedestrians!
🧵 Even before I formed @ucaccessnow, I persisted through campus channels trying to get them to acknowledge that cycle racks ALSO have to be accessible, not car parking spaces. After months of brick walls with UC and my union, I got a meeting with the head of UC Davis TAPS, who
launch a form so coalition members & supporters throughout UC could pressure the Governor, the Board of Regents, and every UC chancellor to finally make the University of California accessible to the public that built it - including disabled ppl.
UC has stonewalled every step of the way. It has cherrypicked ideas from the Demandifesto and from our activism, implemented them without working with us
Rationing out the space is both ableist and car-centrist. It says that disabled people's needs are "special" and must be rationed & policed by the university's Disabled Students Center & Disability Management Services and UC Davis TAPS...not that UC has multiple legal and moral obligations to make things accessible by default.
It also says that space must be maximized for drivers -
not only untold square yds of dedicated single story auto parking space, but UC Davis driving employees parking on sidewalks blocking egress to & from bldgs simply because the abled drivers of air-conditioned vehicles want to park them in the shade of trees or don't want to walk 15 feet further to legal safe parking.
This is the 3rd installation of more accessible (but still not the equitable solution) cycle racks at UC Davis that I know of.
IT IS DUE to work I & later UC Access Now did.
UC Davis TAPS has never notified me when these are installed nor credited my work as the impetus. They would not have installed these without a lot of hard work (including the damage to my health) from me.
Worse, non-activist disability groups within UC are pulled in to give it the veneer of being UC just happens to be doing for the disabled community at UC and some folks within the disability community have been happy to take credit for UC Access Now's work and put UC's approval on their CV.
This is UC strategy. Ableist power does not want student-led activism to get credit or it will beget more.
I put the camera down so I could get a photo of the sheath with its bollard missing, and the SUV that is now able to get beyond it because UC Davis driving employees take these bollards out and (in this case) make them go missing. #UCAccessNow#CarCentrism#Urbanism#Cycling@fedibikes@mastobikes