Since I brought my bike charger with me, I decided to leave the pedal assist on for my whole ride. With that, I managed to shave off about 20 minutes on my ride into the office this morning.
For how long this ride is, it's pretty enjoyable! A lot of trails and bike paths, and I get to ride along the National Mall.
This past week on my commute there has been someone writing homophobic and fascist stuff, so I've been covering it up. This is not to pat myself on the back, but to share how easy it is to carry a can of spray paint with you to make sure those things get covered as quickly as possible so that they know we are there to hold the line. Fascism is persistent, so we must be persistent as well.
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It’s been a while since I’ve updated my pinned toot so fixing that! I’m a #GenX nerd who is a #vegetarian and who gets around mostly by bike, specifically an ebike. I enjoy doing a variety of #crafts to get out of my head and create something.
A few of my interests:
#knitting
#reading
#ScienceFiction
#Fantasy
#BikeTooter
#embroidery
#BoardGames
#BikeCommute
@ascentale @uxmark A2: Other reasons include getting of the decaying subway when I lived in NYC & finding a time-effective way to fit regular exercise in my life by #BikeCommute -ing. And then that turned into being social on bikes, so it made up a lot of my leisure & friend group.
Also — bikes are a convivial tool & pro-social, whereas driving & it’s superstructures are fundamentally & unavoidably anti-social. #BikeNite
I’m sure there are days when I will just hate it, but today was my first go at hopping on a bike after #rowing practice to commute to the library and I feel great! #BikeCommute #BikeTooter
First time to work on a non-e-bike since the pandemic. Time wasn’t too far off e-bike time, but much more sweating. #bikecommute #hartford #bushnellpark
Finished the first draft of my play in iambic pentameter! Because I have the freedom to do weird shit now! Anyway, given that I've been bike commuting in Boston since 2008, I was thinking I could put together some bike commuting tips for folks considering it. Do you think anyone would want such a thing? #bike #bikecommute #transportation #boston
The mist is burning off, and blue sky is emerging. #Photography #BikeCommute #Ottawa
Dogs in the morning mist. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #BikeCommute #Ottawa
Dewy fields, willow trees along a creek. #Photography #Ottawa #BikeCommute
Bike commute: I feel sorry for the little bugs hovering on-station doing their little buggy business and then I come out of nowhere with my blazing headlight and plough into them.
The moths that flitter crazily on my front wheel for 20+ meters and then smack into my face… not so much.
Here's a related graph from a 2021 report from Western Australia's Department of Transport. In six countries, the percentage of children walking and biking to school has declined steeply over the past five decades.
I just found this, which underscores how NZ towns and cities are currently a bit broken.
"A 2016 study conducted by AUT concluded that 96 per cent of children would prefer to walk or cycle to school; however, data from the Ministry of Transport shows that the number of 5–12-year-olds walking to school decreased from 42 per cent in 1989 to 29 per cent in 2014."
https://gazette.education.govt.nz/articles/the-school-commute-on-foot/
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