Stopped at my local for a couple of pints and some hang time with friends.... A buddy snapped this as I was getting ready to pedal home
#BikeTooter
#PedalOn
#WindsorON
#YQG
#Ontario
#Canada
#Bicycle
#BikeNite
And our last question of the week:
Q8. Do you have a photo to share from a ride or of something cycle-related from the past week? It doesn't have to be anything special. If you'd like to, share one and tell us about it!
#BikeNiteQ#BikeNite #BikeTooter#Cycling#MastoBikes cc @bikenite
More detail here (although I've now had advise that it's unwise to put the aramid layer on the outside)
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2024-09-11-Thoughts-on-bent-cycles/#composites
Having not written anything about my #tricycle project in months, I've now written two posts in two days. Here's the first:
Rethinking the tricycle drive train
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2025-08-24-Rethinking-the-tricycle-drive/
And here's the second, about why I've been hesitating with the project and what the blockers are:
Things which are blocking the tricycle project
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2025-08-25-blocking-the-tricycle-project/
Having not written anything about my #tricycle project in months, I've now written two posts in two days. Here's the first:
Rethinking the tricycle drive train
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2025-08-24-Rethinking-the-tricycle-drive/
Whew! Mistakes were made, but I got the dashboard of the Beat Bike put together. I can now pedal to set the tempo while I live program the drum machine. (No video of programming yet because I had to hold the phone up high!)
Whew! Mistakes were made, but I got the dashboard of the Beat Bike put together. I can now pedal to set the tempo while I live program the drum machine. (No video of programming yet because I had to hold the phone up high!)
The bike is an old cranky Raleigh mountain bike my neighbor gave me for free, up on a trainer in my basement.
The control box (top, center) takes input from a reed switch at the real wheel, from the magnet mounted on the spokes.
Power for RD-6 is 6 AA batteries in a pack. Power for control box is from a USB power bank.
I still need to mount the amp, speaker, and another battery on a rear rack.
Whew! Mistakes were made, but I got the dashboard of the Beat Bike put together. I can now pedal to set the tempo while I live program the drum machine. (No video of programming yet because I had to hold the phone up high!)
Some mid-life crisis guy in a classic Porsche decided to mock my weight and bike while stopped at the lights, so I beat him away from the lights and heard him swearing behind me as I crossed the entire intersection faster than him.
Of course he beat me at top speed, but lol, fuck off.
Some mid-life crisis guy in a classic Porsche decided to mock my weight and bike while stopped at the lights, so I beat him away from the lights and heard him swearing behind me as I crossed the entire intersection faster than him.
Of course he beat me at top speed, but lol, fuck off.
Dan Calverley writes:
“Au revoir, le Tour - it's for the best.
Big sporting events, like so much we hold dear, are at odds with a liveable climate”
https://dancalverley.substack.com/p/au-revoir-le-tour-its-for-the-best
Cycling boosts health, the planet, and the economy! 🚲
✔️ 92,000+ km of EuroVelo routes across Europe
✔️ Nearly 10M bikes made in the EU yearly
✔️ 1.35M cycling-related jobs
With our European Declaration on Cycling, we are committed to boosting cycling across the EU, including through:
🦺 Safe cycling networks in cities
🚌 Better links with public transport
🔋 Deployment of charging points for e-bikes
🚴 Bike highways connecting cities with rural areas
Find out more: https://europa.eu/!p97hdK
We'll be back, and hopefully this time we'll have our own seat at the table.
Last year, dissatisfied with the low quality of commercially available bike wheel lights, I set out to make my own.
Several kilograms of filament and several meters of LED strips later, I had a solution that worked. Bright, eye catching wheel lights that I only had to charge once a week.
I toyed with the idea of starting a small business to sell them online, but there were too many unknowns.
So I released them open source: https://www.instructables.com/DIY-3D-Printed-Rechargeable-Bike-Wheel-Lights/
Ride brightly, my friends.
Last year, dissatisfied with the low quality of commercially available bike wheel lights, I set out to make my own.
Several kilograms of filament and several meters of LED strips later, I had a solution that worked. Bright, eye catching wheel lights that I only had to charge once a week.
I toyed with the idea of starting a small business to sell them online, but there were too many unknowns.
So I released them open source: https://www.instructables.com/DIY-3D-Printed-Rechargeable-Bike-Wheel-Lights/
Ride brightly, my friends.
Nasty headwind home 💨
#cycling #biketooter
Spent an hour and three broken tyre-levers changing fitting new tyres. Then had to pump them up to 70psi to get them to seat. Imagine having to do this out on the road. Told my bike mechanic friend about the ordeal and he said 'Welcome to my world.' Apparently this is the new normal. Anyone else have this issue? #BikeTooter @bikenite#BikeNite
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