Er, sorry. Misspoke. Ground-based telescopes!

I don’t need a folder right now, but that’s good to know in case I need to hop on a bus with a bike for work :)

It’s great for cities that have the budget and manpower to build protected bike lanes everywhere. But even the North American cities that are at the forefront of bike infrastructure are still decades away from having a system competent enough to remove 50% or more of cars and car roads from their cities. :/

Until the time when most cities and small towns are safely bikable, I see class III speeds being the only rapid bandaid on a complex and unfortunately, quite political problem in both Canadian and American cities.

In the meantime, we will fight NIMBYS tooth and nail for every square meter of bike lane, boneheaded decisions from city governments, and federal governments complete resistance to funding major continental projects like HSR, or anything that doesn’t remotely rely on cars. I just wish we had the time, but we really don’t, with climate deadlines getting awfully close.

Damn, they have some folding bikes on sale for $419. That is shockingly affordable.

My buddy started balding at 16. He held on for a number of years, but eventually we helped him rip the bandaid off and he shaved himself bald. Instantly looked younger again just because he didn’t have a ring of hair at 27 anymore. Honestly, it can look really cool if you shave it.

Poor man. I wish the Project Veritas “journalist” a very interesting life for inflicting so much pain and suffering on some normal person.

The speed, too, is a safety issue. Studies show that differences in speed between vehicles sharing a road are a statistical cause of crashes, and many of New York’s streets are shared between bikes and cars. A bike that can do the 25-mph speed limit is safer than one that can’t.

The future of personal mobility shouldn’t be autonomous EVs, it should be e-bikes. E-bikes that are lightweight, that don’t spew tire microplastics into the environment, that require little power to move a person from point A to point B.

This is the sort of safe, common-sense stuff that should be a boilerplate on every article.

The other thing that’s kinda cool is that you get to see a bunch of people who normally are kinda invisible, but make up a considerable part of your city and life. It’s incredibly fun to see people from all walks of life and backgrounds all having fun together. It makes us all stronger and more unified. It reminds me that we absolutely can do anything when we all work together as a team. Also, about 60% of the crowd there is probably running your city’s IT infrastructure ;)

Also, the triangle part is just really cool as well. I love both, but the progress pride one feels much more officially flaggy to me :)

Gearing, tires, and geometry make all the difference in the world.

My Transition Sentinel is only geared for mountain biking. It’s a terrible city bike. Tons of shock, high torque gears for steep hills, cannot go very fast. But it’s insane when you need to climb or descend mountains. It has knobby, 2.4in tires.

My city bike is an ebike, and even though it’s a single speed, it’s pretty comfortable going between 10-30mph on that gear alone. The battery allows me to haul lots of groceries or baggage (and climb steep hills), and it’s tires are wide enough to not get stuck in tram rails or gaps in the concrete road. I have knobby tires to avoid popping tires, but smoother, thinner tires will be more efficient.

Edit: if you have a shock, try locking it out if it has lockout.

I’d also recommend checking out city bikes, such as road, gravel, and upright bikes. There’s an incredible amount of diversity, and a downhill mountain bike is about as far from a road bike as one can get. One can roll over a rock the size of a watermelon, the other can coast for meters off of a pedal stroke. Ebikes also are phenomenal as car replacements (or even just as car offsets), but generally cost $1,500+ with tariffs.

I lived too close to a hospital. Apparently, the road I lived next to was the road that all fire, EMS, and police used. Tons of sirens at all hours of the night and day. I toured the place on a quiet day, so it never occurred to me about the noise. That was a bit of a suffer fest.

One funny thing about that place, someone always swore consistently on the street between 17:00-20:00 each evening. It was always someone new, but it was like clockwork. Guests wouldn’t believe it at first, but it became a thing, lol. Sometimes it was someone on a skateboard eating shit in the protected bike lane, other times it was a pissed off pedestrian, someone having an argument, someone having fun, or someone clearly off their medication. No apartment has had that before or since.

The book is so good, I don’t know if I wanna see the movie.

Black mesa is worth it, full price. I played both the OG and black mesa back to back. Fantastic game!

Sweater weather. I already didn’t like the downtempo vibe, but it got painfully overplayed back in the day. Unfortunately, I still hear it occasionally. Anything but that, please.

And the orange menace’s POS daughter is attending, as icing on the cake.

It’s interesting to see other people rock them with a slightly different look. Little bit wider in the chest and riding slightly higher on the hips.

(Btw, thank you for finding these!) <3

Oh yeah, I’ve bought non unisex clothing before and I’m used to the different cuts. That’s just the world we live in! Sometimes you get baggy spots where your hips are thinner, or narrower in the chest.

I cannot believe the average person spends over 2,600€ on an ebike. Mine was a bit over 1,100€ and I’ve put 3,200km on it in a year. Good ebikes shouldn’t have to cost an arm and a leg.

Interesting ratings, some of these seem more progress-based than who has the best overall infrastructure. That said, I’m really happy to see cities like Paris and Manhattan on here, who have made big strides to work on being better about micromobility and pedestrian safety. The more large cities deploy protected bike lanes, the more smaller cities and towns will get inspired and follow them.

Especially cities/towns that forbid their DOTs from traveling to transit conferences to hear how cities like Montreal and Vancouver pulled off their rail and bike infrastructure on a lower budget.

Oh yeah, no worries buying from the women’s section. They get all the fun clothes that guys can also look cute as hell in. One of my buddies got some shortalls from the women’s section and looks great.

Chubbies has some shorts that are currently out of stock, but come in many sizes and colors. https://www.chubbiesshorts.com/products/the-khakinators-2-originals?Size=L

I ended up going with some shorts from Huckleberry just to test the waters and have something immediately, I found 5" dark green chinos, not unlike the model above. Unfortunately no D-ring closure, but still close.

https://huckberry.com/store/flint-and-tinder/category/p/84733-365-short-5

Thank you for the tips and terminology! I’ll keep up the hunt for good tops to pair with these shorts.