@FediTips What I don't get is that hashtags do make way much more sense to be organised in lists, or maybe mixed - but with hashtags clustered in a list, you could group together # degoogled and # unplugtrump together with # FOSS - but keep #bicycling together with # triatlon and # running.

Is that somehow doable?

https://archive.org/details/cyclingartenergy00scot/page/n5/mode/2up
via some other post I lost #bicycling

https://archive.org/details/cyclingartenergy00scot/page/n5/mode/2up
via some other post I lost #bicycling

Hey hey #BikeTooter friends, sharing one of my favorite YouTube channels today: it's called Probably Riding, and it features Marcus, a late-30's Brit living in Seoul who rides his bikes around the city, showing lovely views of bike paths and coffee shops, and narrating with a gentle and pleasant voice.

He has a lovely collection of Rivendells. Sigh. I'm not pining at all.

https://www.youtube.com/@probablyriding

#Bicycling

Hey hey #BikeTooter friends, sharing one of my favorite YouTube channels today: it's called Probably Riding, and it features Marcus, a late-30's Brit living in Seoul who rides his bikes around the city, showing lovely views of bike paths and coffee shops, and narrating with a gentle and pleasant voice.

He has a lovely collection of Rivendells. Sigh. I'm not pining at all.

https://www.youtube.com/@probablyriding

#Bicycling

This is just glorious. It's @notjustbikes utterly, comprehensively destroying John Forrester's arguments for vehicular cycling.

It included reading through Forrester's books, going to the 1970s studies Forrester cited, and finding he fraudulently claimed the studies said the opposite to what they actually did.

(For the unfamiliar, John opposed bike lanes and protected bike infrastructure in the US because he wanted to promote a macho masculine MAMIL cycling culture where cyclists ride like cars in mixed traffic on busy main roads. Then he whined that few people wanted to cycle, and that cycling was a niche activity few people engaged with.)

Apparently Forrester also claimed to be a cycling expert yet never actually visited The Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI

#cycling #Bicycle #bike #Urbanism #vehicularcycling #bicycling #UrbanPlanning

This is just glorious. It's @notjustbikes utterly, comprehensively destroying John Forrester's arguments for vehicular cycling.

It included reading through Forrester's books, going to the 1970s studies Forrester cited, and finding he fraudulently claimed the studies said the opposite to what they actually did.

(For the unfamiliar, John opposed bike lanes and protected bike infrastructure in the US because he wanted to promote a macho masculine MAMIL cycling culture where cyclists ride like cars in mixed traffic on busy main roads. Then he whined that few people wanted to cycle, and that cycling was a niche activity few people engaged with.)

Apparently Forrester also claimed to be a cycling expert yet never actually visited The Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI

#cycling #Bicycle #bike #Urbanism #vehicularcycling #bicycling #UrbanPlanning

Bicycling in the rain and hauling a refrigerator and kids is something that comes up a lot less than critics of bicycling as transportation think.

Fair weather bicyclists often find that their definition of fair weather expands the more they bicycle.

They start thinking about the times they *can* bicycle as opposed to the tikes they can't.

#Bicycling #BikeTooter

Bicycling in the rain and hauling a refrigerator and kids is something that comes up a lot less than critics of bicycling as transportation think.

Fair weather bicyclists often find that their definition of fair weather expands the more they bicycle.

They start thinking about the times they *can* bicycle as opposed to the tikes they can't.

#Bicycling #BikeTooter

A more comfortable and healthier bicycle saddle - who wouldn't want that? The bicycle manufacturing industry does not seem too keen on it.

I wonder if they could successfully market these seats direct to consumers?

#bicycling #bicycles #cycling

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-24/innovative-bike-seat-designs-to-combat-cycling-saddle-pain/105898628

A more comfortable and healthier bicycle saddle - who wouldn't want that? The bicycle manufacturing industry does not seem too keen on it.

I wonder if they could successfully market these seats direct to consumers?

#bicycling #bicycles #cycling

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-24/innovative-bike-seat-designs-to-combat-cycling-saddle-pain/105898628

In the natural world, what is the probably the most efficient traveler?

Probably a fish like a salmon

Not a horse. Not a bird like a pigeon. And a mouse is surprisingly inefficient

And not a human

But

Put us on a #bicycle and it seems we have the entire natural world beat *and* all of our machines 😲

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-human-on-a-bicycle-is-among-the-most-efficient-forms-of-travel-in-the/

#Science #Biology #Engineering #bikes #bike #bicycles #bicycling #bikestodon

In the natural world, what is the probably the most efficient traveler?

Probably a fish like a salmon

Not a horse. Not a bird like a pigeon. And a mouse is surprisingly inefficient

And not a human

But

Put us on a #bicycle and it seems we have the entire natural world beat *and* all of our machines 😲

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-human-on-a-bicycle-is-among-the-most-efficient-forms-of-travel-in-the/

#Science #Biology #Engineering #bikes #bike #bicycles #bicycling #bikestodon

Achievement unlocked: I have ridden a bicycle with square wheels. This is from earlier this week at our department's "block party" for our majors and interested students.

I'm proud (and a bit intimidated TBH) to work in the same department as Stan Wagon, the mathematician who made the square wheel bike -- and the surface on which you can ride it.

https://stanwagon.com/

https://www.macalester.edu/mscs/multimedia/squarewheeledbike/squarewheelbike/

#HeyMac #macalestercollege #bicycling #catenary

Achievement unlocked: I have ridden a bicycle with square wheels. This is from earlier this week at our department's "block party" for our majors and interested students.

I'm proud (and a bit intimidated TBH) to work in the same department as Stan Wagon, the mathematician who made the square wheel bike -- and the surface on which you can ride it.

https://stanwagon.com/

https://www.macalester.edu/mscs/multimedia/squarewheeledbike/squarewheelbike/

#HeyMac #macalestercollege #bicycling #catenary

Swapping brakes and levers

@bicycles

I have a randonneur bike from the 1980ies which still has many of the original parts. As far as i can tell it still has the original calipers and brake levers (shimano 600 ex or something similar, with cel 60 levers that go perpendicular in front of the handlebar; the caliper just says dia compe, it might be a dia compe gran compe 400). The brake shoes have been changed of course, but still the brakes are not very good. Trying to adjust the bowden cables didn't change much.

I'd like to take the bike for a tour across the alps, and am trying to figure out how to improve the brakes for it to feel safe. Does it make sense to change them completely, or should they still do their job well if set up correctly? If they should be changed, what do I need to consider when changing them? Since they are screwed onto the handlebar, would any modern break lever fit? What kind of brake should I get for a good improvement in brake strength if I don't want to go for disc brakes?

#cycling #bicycles #bicycling

@yianiris@ajsadauskas One more important point to share: Overall road deaths per 100,000 people.

The OECD average is 4.28 people killed driving each year per 100,000 people.

The Netherlands is slightly below this at 4.19.

And the USA? It's at 12.84.

Source: https://datahub.roadsafety.gov.au/progress-reporting/international-comparisons

So you are more than three times more likely to be killed on the roads in the USA than in the Netherlands.

And you are more than four times more likely to be killed cycling (per kilometre cycled) in the USA.

#cycling #cylce #bicycling #urbanism #UrbanPlanning #bicycles #bicycle #bikes #bike #Netherlands #TheNetherlands #Holland #Europe

@yianiris@ajsadauskas One more important point to share: Overall road deaths per 100,000 people.

The OECD average is 4.28 people killed driving each year per 100,000 people.

The Netherlands is slightly below this at 4.19.

And the USA? It's at 12.84.

Source: https://datahub.roadsafety.gov.au/progress-reporting/international-comparisons

So you are more than three times more likely to be killed on the roads in the USA than in the Netherlands.

And you are more than four times more likely to be killed cycling (per kilometre cycled) in the USA.

#cycling #cylce #bicycling #urbanism #UrbanPlanning #bicycles #bicycle #bikes #bike #Netherlands #TheNetherlands #Holland #Europe