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  1. Follow up.
    In a post a while back I mentioned finding mounting screws under Bontrager saddle. Turns out that's a "Blendr" mount. I designed a mount for my light radar. There's also a variety of printed designs on Etsy.

    etsy.com/listing/1723591462/ga

  2. @ascentale @pete @bikenite A7. Story time! Ok back in '09, in Chicago, I decided after years of working with fellow freelancers who ride to get a bike. At that time I was dating a lovely lady who was riding to work regularly, and that did help the decision, and one of our friends was leaving the country and was looking to sell their bike, an '81 Schwinn Traveler. So my lady and I do a test ride together, I pay my friend $80 for the bike and the rest is history.

    Married for 14 years.
    #BikeNite

  3. @ascentale @pete @bikenite A7. Story time! Ok back in '09, in Chicago, I decided after years of working with fellow freelancers who ride to get a bike. At that time I was dating a lovely lady who was riding to work regularly, and that did help the decision, and one of our friends was leaving the country and was looking to sell their bike, an '81 Schwinn Traveler. So my lady and I do a test ride together, I pay my friend $80 for the bike and the rest is history.

    Married for 14 years.
    #BikeNite

  4. @ascentale @ai6yr @bikenite A6. I think you need to see a professional first who can help your physical rehab, which will give you that sort of exercises. And then look for exercises that will keep you from being injured again, strength, flexibility, and mobility are all important for that.

    #BikeNite

  5. @ascentale @ai6yr @bikenite A6. I think you need to see a professional first who can help your physical rehab, which will give you that sort of exercises. And then look for exercises that will keep you from being injured again, strength, flexibility, and mobility are all important for that.

    #BikeNite

  6. Great question! Every time I travel (trying to do less flying) I bring my Bike Friday New World Tourist, which fits in regular check-in luggage. I can then unpack it at the other end and ride a bike that matches my regular bike fit. I've used it:

    - to travel to meetings and see friends
    - to explore a new place (like my ride along the Berlin Wall trail)
    - to get to more interesting restaurants and cultural institutions
    - to meet people I wouldn't have met otherwise
    - to ride back home from a meeting. Since I live ~225 miles from NYC, I often take the bus down and ride back

    @ascentale @bikenite

    #BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

  7. Great question! Every time I travel (trying to do less flying) I bring my Bike Friday New World Tourist, which fits in regular check-in luggage. I can then unpack it at the other end and ride a bike that matches my regular bike fit. I've used it:

    - to travel to meetings and see friends
    - to explore a new place (like my ride along the Berlin Wall trail)
    - to get to more interesting restaurants and cultural institutions
    - to meet people I wouldn't have met otherwise
    - to ride back home from a meeting. Since I live ~225 miles from NYC, I often take the bus down and ride back

    @ascentale @bikenite

    #BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

  8. @ascentale @bikenite A8. Late entry... I found a photo of my 1999 Bike Summer bumper sticker on my old Haluzak Horizon rack. Someone else has it now. 😭

    Nice memento of an era in SF Bay Area cycle activism, before tech fascists moving in had destroyed quite as much of Bay Area progressive culture. #BikeNite #BikeTooter #SFBayArea

    web.archive.org/web/1999100702

  9. @ascentale @bikenite A8. Late entry... I found a photo of my 1999 Bike Summer bumper sticker on my old Haluzak Horizon rack. Someone else has it now. 😭

    Nice memento of an era in SF Bay Area cycle activism, before tech fascists moving in had destroyed quite as much of Bay Area progressive culture. #BikeNite #BikeTooter #SFBayArea

    web.archive.org/web/1999100702

  10. @ascentale @bikenite A8. Late entry... I found a photo of my 1999 Bike Summer bumper sticker on my old Haluzak Horizon rack. Someone else has it now. 😭

    Nice memento of an era in SF Bay Area cycle activism, before tech fascists moving in had destroyed quite as much of Bay Area progressive culture. #BikeNite #BikeTooter #SFBayArea

    web.archive.org/web/1999100702

  11. @ascentale @bikenite A8. Late entry... I found a photo of my 1999 Bike Summer bumper sticker on my old Haluzak Horizon rack. Someone else has it now. 😭

    Nice memento of an era in SF Bay Area cycle activism, before tech fascists moving in had destroyed quite as much of Bay Area progressive culture.

    web.archive.org/web/1999100702

  12. @ascentale @bikenite A8. Late entry... I found a photo of my 1999 Bike Summer bumper sticker on my old Haluzak Horizon rack. Someone else has it now. 😭

    Nice memento of an era in SF Bay Area cycle activism, before tech fascists moving in had destroyed quite as much of Bay Area progressive culture. #BikeNite #BikeTooter #SFBayArea

    web.archive.org/web/1999100702

  13. @ascentale @geonz @bikenite A1. Eastern PA.

    And yes in so many ways. Often it is a whole bike of a mid 20th cent design with a handlebar basket with flowers in it. Sometimes it's a wheel with things in the spokes or other bits and bobs. I sadly have no images to share.

    Oh, and this too: Go to these coordinates and see the many old bikes propped up as a mixed museum/art display. Coordinates: 40.75195° N, 75.19838° W. The pics I took of it a few years ago are missing.

    #BikeNite

  14. @ascentale @geonz @bikenite A1. Eastern PA.

    And yes in so many ways. Often it is a whole bike of a mid 20th cent design with a handlebar basket with flowers in it. Sometimes it's a wheel with things in the spokes or other bits and bobs. I sadly have no images to share.

    Oh, and this too: Go to these coordinates and see the many old bikes propped up as a mixed museum/art display. Coordinates: 40.75195° N, 75.19838° W. The pics I took of it a few years ago are missing.

    #BikeNite

  15. @ai6yr @bikenite A5. I don't know what you have, but I think I had a separated shoulder a while back from a fall and I did exercises similar to this and all of the pain went away in a couple of weeks. It was amazing: healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/h

    I can't find the PDF I used but those exercises look similar. But maybe your issue is entirely different!

    #BikeNite

  16. @ai6yr @bikenite A5. I don't know what you have, but I think I had a separated shoulder a while back from a fall and I did exercises similar to this and all of the pain went away in a couple of weeks. It was amazing: healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/h

    I can't find the PDF I used but those exercises look similar. But maybe your issue is entirely different!

    #BikeNite

  17. @ai6yr @bikenite A5. I don't know what you have, but I think I had a separated shoulder a while back from a fall and I did exercises similar to this and all of the pain went away in a couple of weeks. It was amazing: healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/h

    I can't find the PDF I used but those exercises look similar. But maybe your issue is entirely different!

    #BikeNite

  18. @ai6yr @bikenite A5. I don't know what you have, but I think I had a separated shoulder a while back from a fall and I did exercises similar to this and all of the pain went away in a couple of weeks. It was amazing: healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/h

    I can't find the PDF I used but those exercises look similar. But maybe your issue is entirely different!

    #BikeNite

  19. @ai6yr @bikenite A5. I don't know what you have, but I think I had a separated shoulder a while back from a fall and I did exercises similar to this and all of the pain went away in a couple of weeks. It was amazing: healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/h

    I can't find the PDF I used but those exercises look similar. But maybe your issue is entirely different!

    #BikeNite

  20. @ascentale @rasterweb @bikenite #bikenite A3: As a quick roadside fix for motorcycles and bicycles, I've had good outcomes from lightly scuffing up the pads on some flat concrete using a figure 8 motion ... gets rid of 'glaze' or baked on dust. Also worth trying to clean the disks and pads with reside-free brake cleaner from the auto parts store. If that doesn't work I just replace discs and pads, the parts are cheap so I just keep some on hand.

  21. @ascentale @rasterweb @bikenite #bikenite A3: As a quick roadside fix for motorcycles and bicycles, I've had good outcomes from lightly scuffing up the pads on some flat concrete using a figure 8 motion ... gets rid of 'glaze' or baked on dust. Also worth trying to clean the disks and pads with reside-free brake cleaner from the auto parts store. If that doesn't work I just replace discs and pads, the parts are cheap so I just keep some on hand.

  22. @ascentale @rasterweb @bikenite #bikenite A3: As a quick roadside fix for motorcycles and bicycles, I've had good outcomes from lightly scuffing up the pads on some flat concrete using a figure 8 motion ... gets rid of 'glaze' or baked on dust. Also worth trying to clean the disks and pads with reside-free brake cleaner from the auto parts store. If that doesn't work I just replace discs and pads, the parts are cheap so I just keep some on hand.

  23. @ascentale @rasterweb @bikenite #bikenite A3: As a quick roadside fix for motorcycles and bicycles, I've had good outcomes from lightly scuffing up the pads on some flat concrete using a figure 8 motion ... gets rid of 'glaze' or baked on dust. Also worth trying to clean the disks and pads with reside-free brake cleaner from the auto parts store. If that doesn't work I just replace discs and pads, the parts are cheap so I just keep some on hand.

  24. @ascentale @rasterweb @bikenite #bikenite A3: As a quick roadside fix for motorcycles and bicycles, I've had good outcomes from lightly scuffing up the pads on some flat concrete using a figure 8 motion ... gets rid of 'glaze' or baked on dust. Also worth trying to clean the disks and pads with reside-free brake cleaner from the auto parts store. If that doesn't work I just replace discs and pads, the parts are cheap so I just keep some on hand.

  25. @ascentale @bikenite A8 #bikeNite I’m liking the fields at the mo. I’m told they are only baling early morning or late evening to lesson the fire risk.

  26. @ascentale @bikenite A8 #bikeNite I’m liking the fields at the mo. I’m told they are only baling early morning or late evening to lesson the fire risk.

  27. @ascentale @bikenite A8 #bikeNite I’m liking the fields at the mo. I’m told they are only baling early morning or late evening to lesson the fire risk.

  28. @ascentale @bikenite A8 #bikeNite I’m liking the fields at the mo. I’m told they are only baling early morning or late evening to lesson the fire risk.

  29. @ascentale @bikenite A8 #bikeNite I’m liking the fields at the mo. I’m told they are only baling early morning or late evening to lesson the fire risk.

  30. @ascentale @bikenite A8. Ableism-caused weight gain is what sent me from a recumbent USS bike I was perfectly happy with to a quad. I couldn't move over the ocean with a quad and ended up with a trike, which has a much lower weight capacity than the cargo quad and my own weight takes up most of that capacity.

    Today was my first time taking an unwieldy load. It was less heavy than groceries I usually take in the panniers, but I decided to lighten my load by taking one less lock, not taking my GoPro, etc.

    I chose the way home with the least shitty infrastructure so that I had fewer bumps that could stress the frame or make the chair fall off. And I got it home! #BikeNite

  31. @ascentale @bikenite A8. Ableism-caused weight gain is what sent me from a recumbent USS bike I was perfectly happy with to a quad. I couldn't move over the ocean with a quad and ended up with a trike, which has a much lower weight capacity than the cargo quad and my own weight takes up most of that capacity.

    Today was my first time taking an unwieldy load. It was less heavy than groceries I usually take in the panniers, but I decided to lighten my load by taking one less lock, not taking my GoPro, etc.

    I chose the way home with the least shitty infrastructure so that I had fewer bumps that could stress the frame or make the chair fall off. And I got it home! #BikeNite

  32. @ascentale @bikenite A8. Ableism-caused weight gain is what sent me from a recumbent USS bike I was perfectly happy with to a quad. I couldn't move over the ocean with a quad and ended up with a trike, which has a much lower weight capacity than the cargo quad and my own weight takes up most of that capacity.

    Today was my first time taking an unwieldy load. It was less heavy than groceries I usually take in the panniers, but I decided to lighten my load by taking one less lock, not taking my GoPro, etc.

    I chose the way home with the least shitty infrastructure so that I had fewer bumps that could stress the frame or make the chair fall off. And I got it home! #BikeNite

  33. @ascentale @bikenite A8. Ableism-caused weight gain is what sent me from a recumbent USS bike I was perfectly happy with to a quad. I couldn't move over the ocean with a quad and ended up with a trike, which has a much lower weight capacity than the cargo quad and my own weight takes up most of that capacity.

    Today was my first time taking an unwieldy load. It was less heavy than groceries I usually take in the panniers, but I decided to lighten my load by taking one less lock, not taking my GoPro, etc.

    I chose the way home with the least shitty infrastructure so that I had fewer bumps that could stress the frame or make the chair fall off. And I got it home!

  34. @ascentale @bikenite A8. Ableism-caused weight gain is what sent me from a recumbent USS bike I was perfectly happy with to a quad. I couldn't move over the ocean with a quad and ended up with a trike, which has a much lower weight capacity than the cargo quad and my own weight takes up most of that capacity.

    Today was my first time taking an unwieldy load. It was less heavy than groceries I usually take in the panniers, but I decided to lighten my load by taking one less lock, not taking my GoPro, etc.

    I chose the way home with the least shitty infrastructure so that I had fewer bumps that could stress the frame or make the chair fall off. And I got it home! #BikeNite

  35. @oheso @fgbjr @ascentale Yup. It's a real #accessibility issue. Even when I was not as disabled as I am now, it was not really possible for me to lift my recumbent up stairs just to cross a road. Big car-centric and ableist approach that's all too common in the US. #BikeNite

  36. @oheso @fgbjr @ascentale Yup. It's a real #accessibility issue. Even when I was not as disabled as I am now, it was not really possible for me to lift my recumbent up stairs just to cross a road. Big car-centric and ableist approach that's all too common in the US. #BikeNite

  37. @oheso @fgbjr @ascentale Yup. It's a real #accessibility issue. Even when I was not as disabled as I am now, it was not really possible for me to lift my recumbent up stairs just to cross a road. Big car-centric and ableist approach that's all too common in the US. #BikeNite

  38. @oheso @fgbjr @ascentale Yup. It's a real issue. Even when I was not as disabled as I am now, it was not really possible for me to lift my recumbent up stairs just to cross a road. Big car-centric and ableist approach that's all too common in the US.