@ascentale @bikenite A8. Last week, I was mostly riding frozen back roads and cycleways, as our local government ignores their transport policies and don't clear walking and cycling routes.

@ascentale @bikenite A8. Here's a rock garden I saw while visiting family in Victoria. Here's the website with more pics: http://rock-art.ca/index.html

@ascentale @bikenite #bikenite A8. Heading south on an exposed straight gravel road, leaning to the right into near gale-force winds from the west, and trying to stay out of the deep sand sections. After taking over an hour for 16km it stopped being fun so i called family to come and collect me

@ascentale @bikenite I finally made a triangle bag for my bamboo mini cargo bike. I am just waiting for some pink shock cord to arrive to put the bag on my bike.

I also made a gigantic roll top bag to sit on the front platform, but I haven't got a good photo of that yet.

I also put reflective tape on the spokes of my bike this week, so that I am more visible in the dark.

I am very excited for the spring, when I can take this bike out again!

@ascentale @bikenite A8. Here’s a view of the Iron Horse Trail here in Waterloo this week, though I was walking rather than cycling 😀

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A8. This sign stands at the entrance to the Arakawa cycling course next to the Toda Bridge (which is where I most often join the course). It marks the beginning and also the end of the "proper" bike ride (i.e., along the river rather than in traffic). The lettering has long since faded. I was amused yesterday to see people have been tagging it by writing in the dust.

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@ascentale @bikenite A8. Tirana is more car-centric (a recent development, I gather) than other Albanian cities, but you still see a lot of bikes & trikes here, including acoustic cargo trikes. Here’s an older person cycling a load on an upright tadpole cargo trike, on a slight uphill. (1/2)

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Took a walk on Hennepin Ave earlier this week. Minneapolis just completed a 2-year makeover between Lake Street & Franklin Ave. It's a major improvement, providing good infrastructure for walk & bike & autos in that ~1 mi stretch. Also of note: The City has done a good job keeping the three (walk, bike, auto) types of lanes clear of snow & ice in this stretch, in contrast to surrounding neighborhoods.

Additional detail in alt text for each pic. #BikeNite A8 #MNastodon 1/2

@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8: The first picture is from my morning commute this Thursday. I discovered that now a Kindergarten sledge run seems to run over my usual commute route.

Unfortunately in the evening most snow was either gone or converted to slippery and partially icy slush. Friday was even a bit warmer, but now it gets colder again. ☃️🥳

The other two pictures are from #BikeTouring during my winter holidays in the 2 weeks after Christmas. (So yes, not really from the past week. 😇)

@ascentale @bikenite A8. A photo from last weekend of bad bike infrastructure that we spotted while driving home from vacation. This “bike lane” runs along a 4-lane road with a 55mph speed limit, plus features several spots where it just disappears completely. Someone might have had good intentions with this, but whoa, talk about missing the mark! #BikeNite

@ascentale @bikenite A8 #BikeNite We've had a spell of freezing but still dry weather that made for some amazing riding. I met some inquisitive—may one day trample me to death—cattle on a trail the other day and had fun picking a line through them before they gave up chasing and just stood and stared again.

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Me trying to get over my seasonally affected disorder with some summer weather in virtual small town USA

@ascentale @bikenite A8. The bike lane I was in today when the BMW cut in front of me to enter the parking lot. Maybe there is too much of a buffer here? Of all the places I thought I might get wacked, this was not on the list. #BikeNite

@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8 Photos from past week: these are from our Jan 4 ride. https://sfba.social/@bikemonterey/115839463314048011

@ascentale #BikeNite A8 I'm working on changing the controller and battery on the cargo bike. I had plugged the throttle into an extension under the frame and need to redo that. The grin kit has a different plug than the waterproof higo but I want it waterproof down there even though my mud flap is doing pretty well at keeping the underbelly clean!

https://urbanists.social/@enobacon/115868045312827402

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Last few days were nice fat biking in woods with decent snow cover. 42°F tonight, I can just *feel* the snow melting. 🫠
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@ascentale @bikenite A8: here’s one from my commute this morning. #BikeNite

@ascentale @bikenite A8: two photos, a few hours apart. One of ice in the Hudson River, and one after we finished eating Chinese food in Flushing, a mostly Chinese part of Queens, NY.

@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8. Not a photo, a screenshot of data from the National Safety Council on bicycle-related injuries and fatalities, showing nonfatal bicycle injuries are disproportionately suffered by young males, and fatal bicycle injuries are disproportionately suffered by males aged 50-74, and a dramatic rise in the number of fatalities among males, as well as disporportionate rates of injury and fatality suffered by males, from 1999-2023. Be careful out there, gentlemen!

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A8. Today was good.

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@ascentale @bikenite I've been trying to figure out how to get these "mounting disks" to clip on regardless of spoke diameter. Several iterations later and I have something that works for spokes from 1.8mm to 2.4mm.

They're purple because that's what color filament was in the 3D printer that day.

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