hi-vis isn't inadvisable but I want to point out that the issue most often isn't car drivers literally not being able to visually see you, it's that they either don't look at all or alternatively their brain scans for "cars" and seeing none assumes this means "clear". Some defensive, but confident riding can help with this, albeit you're still admittedly on the short end of the stick
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I got a back rack with a wire basket so I can get groceries, it's so keener. I've been racking the web for a front basket/rack seeing as my frame has some pre-set screws for one, but the company I bought it off doesn't seem to have one available, maybe not in Canada. I found a few that may but it's a pretty expensive risk for a basket that may not fit, those things can cost a pretty penny.
Just jury rig that shit with some zip ties honestly. Maybe some metal affixings with old tube on the hang points to not scratch your shit. I got a collapsible wire basket on one side of my rack and it is so, so, fucking good man.
I just ordered a studded tire now that it's getting colder, I intend to try and bike to and fro as much as possible.
Studded bicycle tyres are fucking hilarious to see other people witness because no one knows they exist. Car drivers look at me in awe as I pull a 15° corner lean at 30kph on my bicycle, wondering how I'm not eating shit. It takes like 5 minutes of not trusting them before you're ready to huck yourself down a bobsled track. So much fucking grip.
this always seems kind of dumb until you realize every road was cobblestone and the metallurgy to produce chains wasn't quite mass market ready and then it makes perfect sense. The big wheel both serves as gears and also makes you just roll over most gaps in cobblestone
I feel this. What helped me was making it an errand, even if the car was nominally faster. But time spent biking is exercise, which is good, time sitting in a car just burns money.
Or you could go for the coffee-ride. Ride somewhere, get a treat, ride back. Just to have a goal.
Alternatively you could just go for something like wandrer - there's similar services. Some gamification here helps.
Now obviously I hate cars but gotta say bicycle / truck is a working combination. Run something similar myself, basically just for things that are actually unrealistically far to go by bicycle or if I need to haul more shit than a bicycle can feasibly carry. Allthough I gotta get a bike trailer honestly, there's this missing middle where I feel dumb using a car but it also doesn't really carry well on my bike and I say that as someone who regularly rides short distances one handed carrying shit like a rain barrel in one hand
you get into carry shit olympics yet?
Measure your sit-bones by putting some thicker cardboard on a hard surface and sitting on it. Measure distance between both central points of distention and shop for something that advertises this as it's seat width or similar (not the technical outside spec)
Also remember, saddle comfort has like 0 bearing to price. Two of my most comfy saddles are unbranded and I have 0 idea who even made them, but they came with cheap bikes. Another one is like a 10 eurodollars Decathlon one.
Also do note unless you do short-short trips, like a 1 mi / 2km too much cushioning just means you're gonna rest your stoff on your soft bits instead of your boney bits. Think maybe more fabric-covered public transport seat and not couch
counterpoint: maybe militaries and intelligence work just attract pedophileremoveds as is
Honestly if you're over the age of like 30 I think you gotta realize the luddites were, like, entirely correct.
It's insane to me that so many people seem to have a concept of legal loopholes informed entirely by like non-specific-pop-culture. As if it's magic incantations that get power to fuck off instead of like a purposefully built system.
Here's a hot take: all the sovereign citizens and equivalent in other nations are just the average persons general ideas about how the law works cranked to 11. Basically everyone believes in the magic incantation, they just overshot a bit.
Pictured here is a Van Raam, who make some other bicycles for people with disabilities, but they're hardly the only one. I think it's cool people are doing things like this. They are, sadly, rather pricey.
You get a nice box in the back or whatever but it's not really THAT much bigger than a box you could fit on any old regular bicycle
You can plop like two children there but then you can do that with Long Johns and 3-wheelers and such, too and ALSO you have the fuckoff-big box. They don't really seem all that shorter than comparable versions either.
Anyone got one or know why someone got one?
A Randonneur is a long distance travel bike just for context.
The VSF stuff is usually solid, albeit entirely too heavy, but I gotta say, a randonneur in british racing green? I want one.
Just noticed I've never heard them discussed here. Surly basically invented them and called them the Corner Bars, but given it's "bits of metal pipes" you can get some without the name branding now. They're supposed to give you like a drop bar-esque experience except without changing out all the controls and most likely drivetrain, so if you ever wanted to try one, maybe this is interesting for you. You might have to readjust some cables or hydraulic lines.
I post this here because I feel like "how do I convert my flat bar into a drop bar" is a very common question in the bicycle world and while it is possible, it is often sort of not very advisable unless you like wrenching on your bike
Been meaing to post about this, this a reconstruct of some fossil in the Rhineland-Palatinate which, for obvious reasons, made quite the rounds on the german internet for a while
I mean look at it. It's great. Reportedly the scientific artists responsible for this picture was quite pleased with it getting meme'd
Correct, yes I do, stop reminding me because then I am reminded of all the times i have to hear some drivel about rules based international order, rogue states or racism from someone who doesn't
Yes, this is from /r/fixedgearbicycle
What do you need it for?