Angela Antunovic
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Thanks, I hate it!
I’m hoping it’s an art piece in which case I still hate it, but less.
Thanks, I hate it!
I’m hoping it’s an art piece in which case I still hate it, but less.
Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
and 1 other
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If you have to put up a sign asking cyclists to please use your shared pedestrian path, you've designed it wrong.
As a commuter cyclist, I want to get from point A to point B as fast as I can, without dying. Just like a car driver.
When given the option of riding on the road verge, or weaving in and out of people walking their dogs with headphones on and children walking to school and friends walking along chatting to each other, and giving way to cars at every little side road, then I choose the road verge. So do people on road bikes zipping past me at >30 km/hr.
I really like the separated cycleways that Christchurch city has built. They're safe and fast and well used.
I worry about the recent proliferation instead of "shared paths" in new road developments which combine cyclists with pedestrians and discourage bikes from being on the road at all.
Shared paths are useful for children on bikes, if we teach them how to ride around pedestrians, but they're impractical for an adult cyclist trying to travel 20–30 km/hr.
Please, let's keep investing in separated cycleways for cycle commuters. That's what will get more commuters out of cars, not shared paths.
If you have to put up a sign asking cyclists to please use your shared pedestrian path, you've designed it wrong.
As a commuter cyclist, I want to get from point A to point B as fast as I can, without dying. Just like a car driver.
When given the option of riding on the road verge, or weaving in and out of people walking their dogs with headphones on and children walking to school and friends walking along chatting to each other, and giving way to cars at every little side road, then I choose the road verge. So do people on road bikes zipping past me at >30 km/hr.
I really like the separated cycleways that Christchurch city has built. They're safe and fast and well used.
I worry about the recent proliferation instead of "shared paths" in new road developments which combine cyclists with pedestrians and discourage bikes from being on the road at all.
Shared paths are useful for children on bikes, if we teach them how to ride around pedestrians, but they're impractical for an adult cyclist trying to travel 20–30 km/hr.
Please, let's keep investing in separated cycleways for cycle commuters. That's what will get more commuters out of cars, not shared paths.
Jonathan Schofield
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on today's ride, I & I went to the hill trails as usual, this time on my hybrid classic bike whose steel frame is still enduring, suitable for a good workout... 😀🚴♂️🍃🌳
#BikeTooter #Biking #FediBikes #Bicycle #Hills #OutDoors #Nature #Cycling #Bicicleta #Trails
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on today's ride, I & I went to the hill trails as usual, this time on my hybrid classic bike whose steel frame is still enduring, suitable for a good workout... 😀🚴♂️🍃🌳
#BikeTooter #Biking #FediBikes #Bicycle #Hills #OutDoors #Nature #Cycling #Bicicleta #Trails
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So my toot about helmet laws increasing heart disease has got a few replies by people wondering wtf. The way it works is that mandatory helmet laws reduce cycling, fewer people cycling results in an increase in obesity related illnesses like heart disease and diabetes.
One of, if not rhe best, things that a government can do to improve health at a population level is increasing active travel (walking and cycling).
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https://theconversation.com/ditching-bike-helmets-laws-better-for-health-42
@quixoticgeek I had a bike accident that broke one wheel and cracked my helmet. Without the helmet, I wouldn't have gotten up off the pavement and limped home to bike another day. I will always wear a helmet, and strongly advise everyone to wear one. #biking #helmet
Jonathan Schofield
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Bikes with cargo trailer to pick up an old junky free monitor to use as a display for my signal level meter. The trailer worked fine, and it’s the furthest I’ve gone with it so far. So, yay!
(And it’s very old and junky and this rare single-purpose use kept it out of recycling, nobody else wanted it. Everybody wins. ^_^ )
Bikes with cargo trailer to pick up an old junky free monitor to use as a display for my signal level meter. The trailer worked fine, and it’s the furthest I’ve gone with it so far. So, yay!
(And it’s very old and junky and this rare single-purpose use kept it out of recycling, nobody else wanted it. Everybody wins. ^_^ )
Winter bivouac camp on the bike to clear the head. Got to see a nice sunrise over the Vercors 🌄. More hike-a-bike than I'd like to admit but a good time nonetheless. Ça grimpe ! #bikepacking #bivouac #AdventureBiking #AdventureCycling #cycling #biking #mtb
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Like son and father in The Road I have arrived at an empty East coast.
Except, I have a bicycle instead of a shopping chart and I am waving to Shetland instead of Russia.
#sykleistavanger #sykling #cykla #cycling #bø #randaberg #nordsjøen #norge #norway #2026 #januar #biking #rogaland
Got myself second hand bike trainer rack. Will help keep biking consistency when it's cold or rainy. Did my first 45 min. Its harder then irl I think. You don't know how fast you go. First 20 min I feel like I was sprinting way too fast. But overall great thing \o/
#biking
hypebot
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A full day of full sun in November? I try to take advantage of every moment. Hiking this morning, biking this afternoon. We'll find out tomorrow if I overdid it. I got to join these geese on a segment of their flight.
#CanadaGeese #biking
Nice to know from replies that there is a wide range of different names to call the neck-tube thing! (which I did not know existed before living in Saskatchewan, and now wear every day for probably ~1/3 of the year)
This is the pattern for my favourite one (the one that I need to find...) and it's called a cowl in the pattern! Yet another name! https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sockhead-cowl
I haven't seen anyone call them a "dickie" (although Wikipedia does list it as an alternate name).
My Mom always called them dickies, and coincidentally I just found the bag with my Mom's dickies that I was going to use for biking.
Until we got 20+ cm of snow that tell me biking season is over, dickies or not.
A full day of full sun in November? I try to take advantage of every moment. Hiking this morning, biking this afternoon. We'll find out tomorrow if I overdid it. I got to join these geese on a segment of their flight.
#CanadaGeese #biking
Lisa Melton
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I like to sit in a comfy warm room next to a contented cat and ruminate on Mastodon. Maybe have a nice warm beverage and disapprovingly side eye the grey outdoors
Other people like to... oh jesus christ, fuck no
https://bikerumor.com/red-bull-rampage-recap-another-wild-weekend-in-the-utah-desert/
( #HannahBergemann's second place run at #RedBullRampage a few weeks ago)
I like to sit in a comfy warm room next to a contented cat and ruminate on Mastodon. Maybe have a nice warm beverage and disapprovingly side eye the grey outdoors
Other people like to... oh jesus christ, fuck no
https://bikerumor.com/red-bull-rampage-recap-another-wild-weekend-in-the-utah-desert/
( #HannahBergemann's second place run at #RedBullRampage a few weeks ago)