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xtaran, 3 months ago

@bicripple: In Germany there exists the term "Spezialrad", i.e. "Special Bike", mostly in the form of the Spezialradmesse (Special Bike Fair) which once was defined as for all bikes which don't have a diamond frame. At some point e-bikes became part of the fair, too.

Then again, there's the discussion that many of those "special bikes" are not really special anymore, e.g. cargo bikes and e-bikes are quite common these days.

xtaran, 3 months ago

@ascentale: Any context on that? Right turn on red for whom? For cars or bicycles?

At least a dedicated "right turn on red for bicycles" sign recently was introduced in Switzerland and IIRC a bit earlier in Germany, too.

From my point of view (as a cyclist) that's a neat thing.

"Right turn on red" for any vehicle existed as sign in East-Germany and has been adopted in West-Germany after the German reunion.

I can imagine that this could be dangerous for cyclists who don't want to turn right.

xtaran, 3 months ago

@wesley, @ascentale @enobacon: Ok, I didn't expect it to be a general rule. That indeed seems dangerous.

xtaran, 3 months ago

@davidwilkins: Fun fact: The Mitsubishi variant's name was not very helpful in German speaking areas. If you tried to pronounce it, the second part after the dash sounds like the German word "Mief" which means "stale air" or "frowst". 🤪

I think I nevertheless mostly saw the i-MiEV and the C-Zero, but I can't remember having seen an iOn.

xtaran, 3 months ago

@niavy @davidwilkins @MarSolRivas: Let's add another well-known one: the Toyota MR2 in French, too: Em-Err-Deux = Merde! = Shit! (or even "F*ck!")

xtaran, 3 months ago

@isziaui @bleeptrack: Hey, cool, two other #CityEL owners in the Fediverse!

Here's mine, nicknamed "ObriEL" and old enough to be born as #MiniEl.

Unfortunately the #magicsmoke came out when I tried to figure out why it doesn't charge. 😒 (Took it over without documentation on any of the modifications from the legacy of a late friend, @Obri, hence also its nickname. So in case anyone knows CityEL repair shops in Switzerland accepting CityELs of unknown state…)

#WeirdCarMastodon #EV #Youngtimer

xtaran, 3 months ago

@bleeptrack: Already did, yes. Main issue is that mine has 3 (!) 230V plugs and one 230V socket. And they don't seem original (all Swiss Type J/Type 13). One is for the battery heating. Not sure about the other two and the socket. It also has no more the original batteries and I assume that it has a non-original BMC.

I so far contacted 2 repair shops in CH—one of them is the one @isziaui mentioned—and one of them was rather unfriendly, accepting only unmodified cars. (Just forgot which one… 🥴)

xtaran, 3 months ago

@IPEdmonton @kubikpixel: Spät aufgestanden, trotzdem da -- Langschläfer Antifa ;-)

xtaran, 3 months ago

@IvoDuj: #Natenom hat's wohl postmortem noch geschafft, den Server www.fahradstadt-pforzheim.de zu dosen. Die Webseite meldet momentan nur noch "Error establishing a database connection"

#RIPNatenom

xtaran, 4 months ago

@Ascendor: Woah, das kannte ich noch nicht. Schade, dass es das nicht in meinen üblichen Reifengrößen (16" am Brompton, 20" auf den Liegerad-Vorderrädern — 26" hinten könnte passen) gibt. Vor allem auf dem Brompton hätte mir das vermutlich vor ein paar Jahren den Kauf eines zweiten Bromptons erspart.

@di0v0n: Danke für den Link! (https://buy.retyre.co/en-ch/pages/wie-funktionierts)

Cc: @bikes @mastobikes_de @fedibikes_de @frostpendeln

xtaran, 4 months ago

@yurnidiot: Your posting immediately and reproducibly crashes Fedilab (@apps) from F-Droid store. :thisisfine:

xtaran, 4 months ago

@apps: Seems I need to open an account on Codeberg first for that. Is there a way to send it in just by e-mail? Or from the app itself?

xtaran, 4 months ago

@mattof: At least one of my projects is now the on #250kBClub start/first page (https://250kb.club/) despite it probably would have be valid for the #10kBClub, too: https://email.is-not-s.ms/ has been recorded at https://250kb.club/email-is-not-s-ms with 5kB despite I measured it at 6.3kB transfer size. 😇 #EMailIsNotSMS

xtaran, 4 months ago

@hl @mattof: Oh, I didn't know that there is also a #1kBClub! Also thanks for sharing your view and experience on web page size reduction. Also thanks for the Link to https://bt.ht/posts/1kb/. Seems as if the 1kB Club is rather new. (And again what a pity that the #10kBClub has died.)

I also think that everything above the #250kBClub is not really an achievement, but already bloat: #1MBClub? Really? WTF! But maybe I'm just on the web for too long (since '96 IIRC) to even consider today's bloat.

xtaran, 4 months ago

@Dadmin: Aber sicher! Vor allem die von der #SPEZI. Anbei meine drei Lieblings-SPEZI-T-Shirts wegen der meist witzigen oder mehrdeutigen Motive. Das gelbe SPEZI-Trikot ist speziell für #Liegerad-Fahrer (weiß nicht, ob's das auch in Damen-Schnitt gab) mit den Taschen vorne statt hinten. 🤩

Die anderen beiden sind relativ neue #Brompton-T-Shirts, die ich mir auf #RedBubble geschossen habe. Link kann ich bei Bedarf noch raussuchen.

Cc @fedibikes @fedibikes_de @fedibikes @mastobikes @mastobikes_de

Ein dunkelgraues und ein blaues T-Shirt, beide noch teilweise zusammengefalltet. Beide haben ein stilisiertes Brompton Falrad als Aufdruck in Farben, die an ein Hawaii-Hemd erinnern Beim grauen T-Shirt herrschen Pastellgelb, Hellblau, Hellbraun und rot hervor und es steht "Urban Jungle" in den selben Farben darunter. Beim blauen T-Shirt herrschen Grün, Gelb und Schwarz hervor, das Brompton ist leicht abwärts geneigt und es steht leicht in der Höhe versetzt "Ride Urban" darunter.

xtaran, 4 months ago

@ascentale #BikeNite A8: I recently discovered and enjoyed #MatthiasParchettka's comic strips at https://theepicevents.com/ which have occasional bicycle content. I've attached four of them as the bicycle related content only starts around page 4 of his blog. Actually the "Copenhagen Cycling Signals" strip was how I stumbled upon his comic strips.

I also remember the already mentioned #YehudaMoon and I do follow @Bikeyface, too.

A single-page comic stop labeled "Cycling in Bath, England". You see a long row of yellow-ish residential houses with a street in front. The street is full of cars and it looks more like a pile-up than just a traffic jam. At the end of the pile-up there's a place-name sign saying "Bath" and a car and a blonde cyclist are approaching it. The car driver shouts to the cyclist "You're blocking all the traffic!!!". The cyclist just has a question mark above his head.
A 12-panel comic strip labeled "Copenhagen Cycling Signals", starting with drawings of more obvious and common hand signs like "turning right", "turning left" or "slowing down", (nearly) always showing a cyclist with a red shirt, blue trousers and grey helmet from the front. Then it continues with more obscure hand signs like "going backwards", "parking" (no hand sign, just shows a bicycle standing on its kickstand), "disapproval" (cyclist showing the middle finger), "strong wind" (cyclist nearly blown off the bicycle, still having his hands on the handle bar), "puddle ahead" (cyclist lifting both feet of the pedals), "circus in town" (three people on one bike, two of them are juggling), "stolen bike 1" (cyclist without bicycle), "stolen bike 2" (cyclist with second bicycle on his shoulder) and finally "bad day" (a cyclist who has fallen off his bicycle and loosing his helmet).
Single-panel comic strip labeled "My Interceptor Bike" (subtitle "Secret Construction Plan V1.0") showing a bicycle with a small bicycle trailer with a lot of weird stuff mounted to it and labeled as follows: Trailer with some highly explosive stuff (arrow points to firework rockets) 2nd seat for my bloodpack No idea what these things are called but they're awesome! (Arrow points to a standing cross mounted to the luggage rack.) Flamethrower bell (arrow points to a bicycle bell with a stick lighter on top and a spray can mounted with a tying string behind the bell) Detachable handle bar. Guitar (gonna buy an electric one ASAP) Track sweeper Spikes Advanced tire profile At the very bottom there's another label saying "After watching Mad Max I decided to add some small modifications to my bicycle."

xtaran, 4 months ago

@ascentale #BikeNite A1: Posting from Lauchringen, Germany (of SPEZI revival fame). Favourite cycling moment of 2023 was my end-of-october cycling holidays in Ticino with going up the #Verzasca valley up and back with my Brompton. 65km and around 800m difference in altitude. I managed to empty the battery of my Velospeeder e-assist after only 22km and 400m altitude difference (including the steepest part up to the Contra Dam of James Bond Goldeneye fame) and rode the remainder just acoustically.

A red-white Brompton folding bicycle with a well-packed frontbag standing on the Verzasca dam in front of the guard railing. In the background the Lago Maggiore and some mountains behind it.
The Verzasca river flowing through quite some washed out rocks with the famous romanic two-arc bridge "Ponte dei salti" in the background.
A Brompton folding bicycle with a bright taillight beneath the saddle leaning to a bridge railing just before the city limits sign of Sonogno in the municipality (and valley) of Verzasca, Switzerland. It's already dusk and the mountain in the background is nearly black. The small part of sky visible beside the mountain nevertheless ranges from white close to to the horizon to medium blue on the top edge of the picture. At the end of the road you see the village center of Sonogno with quite some lit street lanterns.

xtaran, 5 months ago

@sad_electronics: There surely will be some #blahaj plushies at #37c3...

xtaran, 5 months ago

@kubikpixel: Ich weigere mich in Shops einzukaufen, die ausschließlich Paypal als Zahlungsmöglichkeiten anbieten. Die Firma hat schon diverse Projekte auf dem Gewissen (→ Neo900), weil sie denen ihr Geld z.T. Monate zurückgehalten haben ohne triftigen Grund.

Stripe funktioniert für mich gut und ich habe bisher noch keinen Händler drüber jammern hören. Wirken im Gegensatz zu Paypal seriös. (Über Liberapay habe ich auch schon Gejammer gehört. Habe allerdings weder dort noch bei Patreon 'n Konto.)

xtaran, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

@kubikpixel:

1. https://neo900.org/news/paypal-trouble-delays-project

2. https://neo900.org/news/paypal-resumes-neo900-sources-again

3. https://thekey.company/blogs/blog-updates/as-of-november-1st-we-will-no-longer-be-accepting-paypal

(Und ja, ich habe diese Links in meinen Bookmarks für solche Gelegenheiten. 😉)

xtaran, 5 months ago

@OnkelBobbyWhite: Reminds me of https://web.archive.org/web/19981207060402/http://www.koehntopp.de/kris/inkomploehntopp/00000.html by @isotopp. #Merkbefreiung

xtaran, 5 months ago

@isotopp: Ah, da ist das gelandet! Warum macht die alte URL dann kein Redirect dorthin, sodass selbst Wikipedia in die Wayback-Machine verlinkt? 😉

Cc @OnkelBobbyWhite