Bike Commuting

It’s awesome to see these stations filled up around town and neighborhoods. Wishing this system and the communities who use them the best of luck!

This one is out side of Humble Sea Brewing. Right next to the rail trail is a great way to encourage safer transportation.

Great video from Tom Babin about bike racks

I was shocked on my commute to work last week when a couple blocks worth of bike lane had broken glass strewn about.

I just can't stop wondering if it was on purpose you know? Normally cars are parked or pedestrians are walking in the bike lane so it seems counter intuitive if it was on purpose.

I mean all winter people were shovelling snow directly into the bike lanes so I'm pretty pessimistic at this point.

I love commuting by bike! I just wish it felt safer.

I've never had an ebike before and don't really know where I should start. I'm looking for something practical and hopefully not too expensive.

1000w LvH Bullitt. SRAM Code brakes and Cane Creek Visco headset upgrades.

It’s so fun to ride with the kids to school and then on into the office. So lucky to still have this opportunity.

Smiles per miles at maximum.

I have just started bike commuting again. I drive to the train station, take my bike on the train and then have a 4 mile commute on my bike once I get off the train. It's mostly downhill on the way into work, which is nice because I don't get too sweaty, but that means it's mostly uphill on the way home.

I'd love to bike the whole way, but it is 18 miles and 36 miles in a day would be too long for me at this point.

BMC Alpenchallenge Road 1 with Herkelmann Wingees Fender/Rack combo and Lupine lighting.

I sort of created a system where the tiny bag in the front will contain my personal stuff like phone charger, water bottle, wallet, earphones, etc.

The first bag in the back contains the tech stuff like laptop, audio interface, and microphones (if any), and the larger bag contains the heavy lifting stuff like the cables, smaller table mic stands I can fit inside it, duct tape, scissors, AC/DC adapters and so on.

Last time I did 20km each way on it, and although I got home pretty tired, it also felt super rewarding as well.

Its a RadWagon 4 that I bought last year to haul my kiddo around (before he was even born lol). The bike's name is Clementino.

I found the berry flat on the side of the road and then zap strapped it to the front for extra grocery carrying capacity. Its a beast of a bike for sure, but hopefully not too ugly 😄

Won't have any trouble with bumpy roads riding on these cushions. At first, I thought it was electrified.

My single speed: spot

Boston has always been a confusing city for transit. Recently, in an effort to improve the Somerville region of the city, the construction group extending the green line completed work on a walking and biking path that follows the green line's tracks, connecting the Magoun Square area, through to the new stations at Gilman Square, East Somerville, and Lechmere.

The most significant part of the new extension is that it takes pedestrians and cyclists past two major obstacles of the area; the MacGrath Highway, a four-lane road with high-speed traffic, scant crossings, and a history of cyclist deaths, and the "Inner Belt" area, a network of blocked-off rail tracks for the railways coming from North Station.

The community path's new end destination at Lechmere takes pathgoers through Cambridge Crossing, a rising center that runs many outdoor events, through to connections that take people across the Charles River Dam into downtown, or through North Point Park and the pedestrian North Bank Bridge to reach Charlestown and the Navy Shipyard.

Doing commuting all-year round with my Kona Rove ST. Studded tires on the winter, now almost naked summer setup with Receptors.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/69099

If only this kind of thing was the norm where I live. My bike would get vandalised if I tried...

Apparently this is a birthday party in Switzerland

Direct link to video: https://v.redd.it/azsx5ib78d5b1/DASH_1080.mp4?source=fallback

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/CargoBike/comments/146qfeo/parking_during_a_birthday_party_at_the_park/

Edit: replaced video with picture

I'm currently commuting around 12 km one way, which takes me 30 minutes. How long is your commute?

My city is full of these Cloverleaf interchanges where cars exiting the freeway are merging into high speed traffic.

So I get to pedal down this road and get sandwiched between buses/trucks on the left and merging cars on the right. Legitimately the worst part of my commute where I might actually die. Fun!

My favorite biking photo, reposted from my Reddit account.

Posting to show there's some life here. Hopefully we'll get more folks moving over from the impending Rexit.

Understanding barrel adjusters is really important if you want to tweak or make minor adjustments to your brakes or gear shifting. This is always the first place to start before getting involved with other more impactful methods of adjusting brakes/shifting.

Essentially, barrel adjusters are a great way to fix problems without needing to use tools or take your bike into the shop.

I frequently do large grocery trips with my bike and the rear tire always looks smushed even at 80 psi (26×1.95). I was thinking of over inflating another 5-10 psi but not sure if this is going go lead to other problems.

With all of the wildfire smoke in North America right now, it's important to revisit the topic of masking. Turns out, COVID isn't the only thing that will fuck up your lungs.

TL;DR - They say N95 masks work alright, but N99 masks are preferable.

You may know the actor Nick Offerman as the gruff city parks director Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation or from his turn as the survivalist Bill on the HBO series The Last of Us, but he also has a lot to say about how people get around, share public space, and relate to nature. In his book Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside, Nick takes a wry and philosophical approach to our stewardship of Planet Earth, the value of working with one’s hands, and the many problems with the massive agricultural systems on which we all depend. Nick Offerman joins The War on Cars to talk about his experience biking for transportation in New York City and Los Angeles, his views on masculinity and conspicuous consumption, and why the best way to explore an unfamiliar city is at the speed of a good walk.

Cities are pouring millions of dollars into making safe bike lanes to enable more of us to use a bicycle for transportation. But there's an underappreciated barrier for many people -- there's no safe place to store their bike at home. This can be a huge problem for millions of people who live in smaller apartments and flats where bike parking wasn't considered when it was built, and for millions of people in newer buildings where expensive car parking is often mandated but storage for bikes is not considered at all.