#regel17 — Public Fediverse posts

Heute ein Treffen in #behringersmühle auf Kaffee und Kuchen. Wir waren 8 #velomobil e, 2 #recumbenttrike und 1 #liegerad.
Die B470 war im Rahmen des Marathons in der #fraenkischeschweiz gesperrt für Krafverkehr, so konnten wir mal die komplette Fahrbahn nutzen. Mit dabei waren unter anderem @radlpit und @s_masto .

#regel17 #recumbent #fahrrad #forchheim

Kamperen op Fort Everdingen. Prachige plek! Ook thuisbasis van brouwerij Duits&Lauret. Het is goed bier drinken na een fietstocht van bijna 100 km. #regel17

Dang. Was going to boost a toot but the images all lacked alt text.

I would love to boost your #Regel17 toots, but screenreader users would love your alt text & image description first.

De trike reed via Cuijk (daar zag ik de fazanten op een muur van een flat) naar Haps dat ook ooit een station had want het lag aan het Duits Lijntje. Daar is niks meer van over behalve dan een seinpaal. Rondom Haps zie je nog wel de spoordijk liggen dat nu deels een wandelpad is #regel17

Nachtelijke rit met de Bulk. De IQ-XL lamp in de neus schakelt van dim- naar grootlicht. Bij droge weersomstandigheden heb ik hier ruim voldoende licht mee om met vertrouwen bijna even snel te fietsen als overdag. De legale fiets led lampen die niet verblinden hebben de laatste jaren een enorme ontwikkeling doorgemaakt. #regel17 #nachtfietsen

Es stürmt und pfeift, mein #ChillOut2026 hat begonnen, aber meine Radtour beginnt erst am Montag. Ich mache heute schon den Sprung nach Aachen mit der Bahn.
Frage ist, ob ich mein Fahrrad im Fahrradabteil wiederfinde...

#regel17 (Microversion)

#regel17 #cyclingWithDogs #wildSwimming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W-WvIuTYrk

Henning hat von unserer Neujahrstour in und um #Ottersberg bei #Bremen ein schönes Video gedreht.
#Velomobil #Regel17 #Fahrrad

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

And then, after one final reminder that the city will officially be worshipping fossil fuel next week, I got back home, with a loaf of bread for my lunch picked up in the city centre and a 20 kg sack of olivine ("greensand") which will eventually absorb about 20 kg of CO2 when I use it in the garden. I don't use any fossil fuels, but others unfortunately still do. It seems better to buy this stuff to dilute our home-made compost than other things which are more environmentally destructive.
#velomobile #regel17 #cycling #biketooter #weathering #enhancedweathering #olivine #greensand

This morning's exercise ride was a 34 km round trip to collect another 20 kg sack of greensand. We've been using it with our house-plants, mixed with compost from the garden to start tomatoes, and here in the front garden it's levelled up the ground above our potatoes.

Over time, each sack permanently removes 20 kg of CO2 from the atmosphere and the process is beneficial to growing plants.

Three sacks make a very small difference to our historical emissions, but if I'm going to buy soil of some kind for the garden it may as well be this. I certainly won't buy #peat which would help to destroy an ecosystem somewhere and release CO2 into the atmosphere.
#olivine #greensand #weathering #enhancedweathering #regel17

Photos of this morning's recreational ride. It took an hour and ten minutes to ride 37 km, my average speed being pulled down by riding slowly into a farmyard at around the half way point to buy another 20 kg sack of olivine.
We've been using this sand-like ground up olivine in pot plants indoors and also in the garden to fill gaps.
Plants seem to grow well in it.
Olivine is one of several minerals which absorb CO2 from the air as they weather so my feeling is that if I'm going to spend money on something to put in the garden or use for planting indoors, why not use olivine which has a small positive effect on the climate?
#regel17 #velomobile #cycling #netherlands #bicycle #greensand #olivine #weathering #enhancedweathering #BikeTooter