#recumbent — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://mas.to/@meganL/117211594928738527
Thank you to the two folks who bought my music during Bandcamp Friday and helped me towards paying down some disability-related costs!
Thanks to the other swell person who contributed directly via https://paypal.me/plantedu !
#MutualAid #Disability #Accessibility #BikeTooter #Recumbent
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First ride after tube replacement went well. I checked all the tire pressures. I knew some would need it because I checked the good front tire yesterday and it was down. And then my mini-compressor needed charging again before I could get to the desired pressure. But the one installed yesterday and pumped by hand by the mech was a bit low as well, and the rear one needed more.
Hard as rocks ride (I wish I could have afforded full suspension), but no flats!
#BikeNite #BikeTooter #CargoBike #Recumbent #Cycling #Regel17
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@JillsJoy Thanks. If you can see my reply to my toot, I made an update from Schwalbe, who made that very suggestion!
So if I can source it where I am, I'll be getting that put in. #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #CargoBike #Recumbent
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@ascentale From the answer, it sounded to me like speed/acceleration is a factor. That is, motorization makes it so the rim can go faster than the tube is going unless you create more friction that grabs the tube. #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #CargoBike #Recumbent
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OK, here's an update from Schwalbe US (where I had previously made a contact so I had an email).
They offered to make good on it even though they are saying this is something common on many tubes with e-cycles.
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Got a question, but I suspect tonight's #BikeNite queue is full and I need an answer quicker than next week:
If you ride your cycle ~ every other day, how often should you be checking your tire pressure?
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This afternoon's bike trip was a 37 km round trip in one hour and ten minutes to collect a 20 kg sack of "greensand" olivine for the garden.
I think it's a good example of the efficiency of velomobiles: how they make human power even more effective than when riding a normal bike. Even on the return journey with a headwind and loaded with the sack of sand, it was easy to keep the speed above 35 km/h.
Being able to stow a lot of things inside the aerodynamic form of the bike helps a lot with efficiency. You feel extra weight when accelerating, not so much once you get going.
And why the olivine ? I calculated a few weeks back that in the worst case this last winter our heating could have emitted 105 kg of CO2. This sack is enough to absorb about a fifth of that amount from the atmosphere.
Each time we plant things indoors or in our garden we add a bit of olivine.
Once humanity (especially those of us in the highly emitting richer countries) has reduced emissions by a lot, it's possible to make a bit of a dent by using a product like this. But there's no chance of compensating for ever larger emissions by trying to mine ever larger amounts of olivine.
#recumbent #velomobile #regel17 #cycling #biketooter #olivine #greensand #weathering #enhancedweathering
