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#BikeNite A5: I don't wear made-for-biking gloves, but either thin leather gardening gloves, and I've recently been using work gloves with retro-reflective stripes. My problem isn't the fit of the gloves on my hands, but the bulky gloves give me trouble working the shifters.

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@trouble @bikenite @drajt

#BikeNite A2: I've never had chance to try a velomobile, but I'd love to. I see photos from David Hembrow riding his velomobile with friends, and it seems like a lot of fun!

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#BikeNite A1: Posting in #WaterlooRegion on a Sunday 'cos I was busy on BikeNite itself.

Many decades ago I was cycling with friends a long way from home when I got a large gash in a tire. One of my friends ripped off the bottom of his T-shirt to wrap around the innertube. It stuck out through the rip in the tire, but it lasted the rest of the day.

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@FourT4 @bikenite

@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite Sunday night from airport in northern VA. I’ve had to do that once, and I would never push it farther than it took for me to replace the tire/tube. #bikenite

@ashok @etp @ascentale @uxMark @bikenite Those EZ-clamp springs are a good idea. I think I'll buy some for my Brompton. Thank you for posting about them. #BikeNite

@enobacon @ascentale I have not seen any ghost bikes in this country yet, so I think it's probably ignorance of that aesthetic. #BikeNite

@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite A1a home in Santa Clara, CA
A1b I almost booted a tire once. I fixed a flat and while reinstalling it, I found this large sidewall cut (not the cause of my flat) , but the LBS was only 2 blocks away, so I bought a new tire there and installed it immediately. If I had to go any further I would have booted it. #BikeNite

@moz @ascentale @bikenite

I don't know if it is or it worked at one point.

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So I don't have to do the Bike Rodeo because the city I was going to do it in -- is doing their own Bike Rodeo.

Thank you *all* for all your help with such great information if I ever need to host one.

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@pete @uxMark @ascentale @bikenite Yeah. There was some recall on the handlebars. I think later it involved replacement, but at the time the recall was made for me, they were installing a cross-bar that gripped across them to stabilize things.

Despite all this, my '90s Brompton was great and the only reason I didn't bring it with me was because I am over the weight capacity for it. 😭

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@ai6yr @ascentale @bikenite

A8. Worked at getting 2 gargoyles for or front walkway and found out statues that can survive weather aren't just expensive, but are too heavy for us to transport by my Spouse's car.

There are some nice ones for inside made out of some ridiculously light material that isn't Styrofoam as I first thought, though.

Really wanted something like "Between the Lions" at the NYC Public Library.

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@yantor3d @ascentale @bikenite

That would have been the car I would have bought if I had bought a car at the time I briefly (about 2 days) considered getting my own car.

So glad I've stuck with bicycling as transportation for so long.

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@pete @ascentale @uxMark @bikenite Yeah. At least my old L5 Brompton had crappy brakes. Definitely something to get a stronger variety of. Not sure how the recent models compare. #BikeNite

@pete @ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite

A1b. Wow, that's impressive that it worked long enough.

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@ascentale @bikenite

A8. This is at Convivium in Dubuque, Iowa where we ate lunch yesterday. They grow everything they can there and help out the community by feeding people in need.

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@ascentale @puercomal @bikenite

A6. Not collarbone, but calf, calf again, shoulder.

Listen to your Doctor and your physical therapist. Do not rush the healing process. Take it easy besides your exercises, improve gradually. Think of it a a "marathon of healing" instead of a sprint.

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@ascentale @trouble @bikenite @drajt

A5. Not that issue, but XL are the largest I usually find, while my hands really need XXL. Mainly because they're wide.

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@ascentale @Amgine @bikenite

A3. When I was a student I bicycled to and from school about half the times I walked. Car brain was so around me and instilled into me, that it didn't occur to me that under the right circumstances -- I could just keep bicycling for transportation.

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@ascentale @bikenite

A2. No, but I would like to. I've wanted an ELF since the first tme I saw them., always out of my budget range.

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@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite

A1a. Rushford, Minnesota

A1b. Yes, dollar bill twice, candy wrapper once.

Temporary. Would not trust it for longer.

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