#bike
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#Bike #Vancouver #BC
Mobi bikes make 2.4 trips per day, & that it takes 18 bikes to remove tailpipe emissions from one gas-powered car
Through this, they found that 54% of Vancouver bike share trips would have otherwise been done in a car, reducing about 298 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year
That’s pretty good, but if those bikes were used eight times a day, it would only take five bikes for every one fossil fuel car & reduce tailpipe emissions by more than 3%
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-bike-share-climate-benefits
#climate
You work in tech. You regularly have to input some form of MFA, whether passkey or a rolling code MFA from something like Google Authenticator or Authy. You work from home, and slack is the primary form of communication, with email becoming a distant secondary form. Time AFK (Away From Keyboard) is possible if you have your #smartphone, and you panic if it's not within reach.
How do you go to a #dumbphone, in this scenario? I would like to ditch my smartphone, carry a camera on #bike trips, reduce my #addiction to the internet a bit, reduce the #surveillance of my activity a bit.
My main concern is work requirements for communication and MFA. I am curious about things like #grapheneos, #fairphone, dumbphones. I have a Google #Pixel, an older model, and definitely don't want something newer that has more #AI integration, surveillance.
Have you done this? How did it go? Please boost.
Today in 'blog posts I wrote because I'm going through some shit': why riding my bike helps me inhabit a feeling that nothing else in life has ever given me.
https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/called-a-lot-but-never-this/ Gorgeous art by @stuart_cb@mastodon.social that I really want a print of for my flat. #cycling #BodyImage #bike
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NEW: "Fine, We're Doing a Helmet Episode."
After New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted a social media video showing him listening to concerned citizens and deciding to wear a bicycle helmet, social media exploded. What is it about the mere mention of bicycle helmets that causes the conversation about bike safety to go off the rails? What are we talking about—or not talking about—when we're talking about helmets?
https://podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/fine-were-doing-a-helmet-episode/id1437755068?i=1000788446973
#podcast #bike #biketooter #nyc
#bike #Toroto #Ontario #canada
I want to tell stories to give the overwhelmed, but caring, majority a reason to support climate solutions and ways to get involved. Solutions grounded in people’s daily experience and challenges exist. This film shows how much better life can be if we take actions like bike lanes at scale
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/08/opinion/climate-science-accessibility-kit-lister
#ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #ClimateReversal #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Came across this crash scene. Someone hit several inches of sand at the bottom of the Runymede underpass between St. Clair and Dundas. They got injured.
It was not marked with any pylons, nor cleaned up after the storm.
A parking enforcement officer briefly stopped and I was shocked that they did not try to put some yellow tape or pylons. Ive seen random trees in parks encircled with yellow tape, but not here where it would have mattered.
I'd like to thank the person that was warning people at the top of the underpass. I went and found some pylons strewn about and tried to block the bike lane off.
City staff should be taught cycling, so they could intuitively understand and address such dangers.
This sand washout from the railbridge has repeatedly happened. Why was it not properly fixed months before?
#topoli #onpoli #toronto #bike #biking #ontario #cycling
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@Vibracobra23@social.vivaldi.net - when all these little stations were wrenched out of the landscape nobody realised, or probably cared, that it still has an impact, and makes rural areas, in many cases, completely inaccessible, without a car. And that means that many people, looking to move out to the country, including me, need to go from using their car once a week, maybe, to using it every day.
Unless anyone knows how to teach my dog to sit, and to stay, on the handlebars of a bike..?
#railway #travel #bike
Yes, new contra flow bike lane in #Toronto
Oakwood near Rogers, on Earlsdale.
#Bike #biketooter #Topoli
Where there's a will there's a way.
A modest entry in the #CarryShitOlympics, but it wasn't aided by my neglecting to bring any bungee straps.
#CarryShitOlympics #Quaxing #Bike #Cycling #Bikes #NewZealand #NZ
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I also had a lovely conversation with and older lady cyclist at the supermarket. She arrived as I was attempting to strap the box to my bike, so I vacated the single cycle rack for her.
We started talking about the general lack of cycle parking in #NewPlymouth and ended up discussing the Queen St pedestrianisation project, the tim-tam cycleway and the upcoming election.
You just don't get these kinds of interactions traveling by car.
#Bike #Cycling #Bikes #Quaxing #NZ #NewZealand
3D Printing A Usable Airless Tire https://hackaday.com/2026/08/05/3d-printing-a-usable-airless-tire/
#TransportationHacks #3dprinting #Airless #Bicycle #Bike #Mountainbike #Pneumatic #Tire #TPU
Took the road bike for a ride, it had been *a while* because Scarbs and all.
I had forgotten how fast and light this bike feels compared even to the new commuter - I try to stay around 25km/h in the city for safety and I have to watch myself so I don’t go too fast. It’s very easy to go whoosh and I know from personal experience bad things can happen when I whoosh
Love this bike 💜
#biketooter #cycling #bike
Took him out for a 5km ride in the midafternoon sun and he’s out like a light.
Normally I’d put something over his face for his privacy but the sunnies sitting askew do that well enough! #UrbanArrowAdventures #UrbanArrow #Quaxing #Bike #Cycling #Bikes #Wellington #LowerHutt #CargoBike
randomly, today i was reminded of the time (aug 28, 2012 according to jpeg metadata) my #bike was trapped in a "hot set" of a sketch being filmed for #portlandia (S3E9).
the gag was about how everything in the city was an art project and a building we had our office in was used for this fake rain scene. they wouldnt let me move my bike until shooting was done.
so i was stuck at work for a few extra hours, but we watched the shoot from our window.
#pdx #portland #biketooter #filmmaking
Cyclist is annoyed by hanging leaves, puts string trimmer on his helmet
https://youtu.be/g6iRBKOiye8?is=-VcxNOsUynRE0Unm
😐😂
#cyclist #trimmer #bike #diy
Guerrilla urban landscaping
#Kellys #Saphix to #rower, na którym zjeździłem okolicę i wyruszałem na długie wyrypy. Zrobiłem nim setki kilometrów. To było jeszcze przed erą graveli i bikepackingu. Zakładałem dwie koszulki kolarskie, mając do dyspozycji tylko kilka kieszeni, do których pakowałem wszystko, co było mi niezbędne w drodze. Spałem tam, gdzie zastał mnie wieczór. Owijałem się folią NRC i zasypiałem gdzieś w krzakach.
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#cycling #bike #atb #oldbike #mtb #przebudowa #diy #warsztat #biketooter
We have a bike rack in the garage, behind our car. It’s not the most practical / convenient bike parking for a commuter bike - I have to take the elevator to the garage to get there - but, for the time being, bike will be parked there so I’m able to sleep at night
The road bike lives in my office because that one is light as a feather, smaller and I can bring it up or down with one arm 🪶🚲
We do what we can
#toronto #biketooter #bike
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The condo manager told me there are bike racks in front of the building I could use and there are cameras
I checked them out and they’re a cemetery of stolen bike parts. No fucking way I’m leaving my bike there.
They also don’t let you lock your bike against your own porch railing.
I wish Toronto condos were kinder to their cyclists.
#toronto #biketooter #bike

