mosscap 5 days ago • 95%
Oh look, another old white man with stupid ideas
mosscap 2 weeks ago • 100%
Pro-tip: a bicycle would never
mosscap 2 weeks ago • 100%
I straight up thought this was AI generated...wtf
I have an aluminum Brodie Revel bike that I've attached a kids seat to. Is it safe for me to mount a double kickstand like the one in the link to this bike? It doesn't have a mounting plate, and someone told me I should only attach these to steel bikes or it will break the frame. Any insight would be super appreciated!
mosscap 1 month ago • 100%
I remember Boston recently elected a really awesome mayor who prioritized transit...does anyone know how she's doing politically?
mosscap 1 month ago • 100%
How about we tax billionaires enough so that the government can train thousands of people to be heat pump technicians and potentially own their own trades business, and then also pay to buy and install them?
mosscap 1 month ago • 100%
Today was not about determining consequences / repercussions. It was only about deciding yes or no on the monopoly issue. The next step in the legal process is determining repercussions for Alphabet, and it seems like there are some pretty dramatic options on the table.
mosscap 2 months ago • 100%
Why not both?
mosscap 2 months ago • 80%
Judging from the way many of my neighbors reacted to a homeless camp moving into a local park, I think there a lot of people homeowners who would literally jump at the first opportunity to "disappear" unhoused people
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24901802
mosscap 2 months ago • 100%
Ah, capitalism
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
Jesus fucking Christ the court system is just hammering away at my faith in the survivability of humanity under our current system over the past few days. I feel like curling up into a ball and crying at how hopeless this all feels.
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
I really hope you are right, and tbh I'm going to hold that opinion going forward because it can be a self fulfilling one I think.
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
Lol we are so deeply fucked. This last week has been a bigger impact from SCOTUS alone that the election is small potatoes in comparison
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16790112 > Just tried commuting on my bike from Santa Monica to downtown Culver City today. I took the Exposition bike path, which was fine until I needed to get off of it to head south. > > Google recommended I take National and--lo and behold--there's no bike lane with cars flying past at 55mph+ on blind hills. That's a death trap. > > On the way home I left early to avoid traffic. I took Venice Blvd, since it has a protected bike lane all the way until McLaughlin which Google Maps called "bicycle friendly." No bike lane, of course, with cars flying past leaving a foot of distance between me and death. One testy driver in a BMW didn't want to wait the 15 seconds for me to pedal into the left turn lane to get back onto the Exposition bike path, honking and then flying by nearly killing me. Jeez lady, I'm not the city planner. Don't kill me to save 15 seconds. > > How does Culver City put zero bike lanes going north to south connecting to the Exposition path? How do these drivers maintain their licenses? > > What's a cyclist to do?
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
Man, fuck everything about this. No way in hell a CPC government is going to shut this down if they are in power in 2029. The Liberals are such a profound disappointment.
As mentioned in the title, BikeForums.net is a treasure, and you should bookmark it
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
If you really want to protect children, start by going after fossil fuel companies
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
JFC that's dark.
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
Haha that makes sense - thanks for the context!
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
For someone who probably wants America to be a strictly Christian nation that respects Scripture, its shocking that this dumbass isnt aware that Paul never met Jesus, and that its actually the Sermon on the Mount (not Mound).
mosscap 3 months ago • 84%
As a current biker, I've gotta say I don't care what you think is overblown. Thanks for your unnecessarily crass comment that contributed nothing of value to the thread. Have a downvote and don't feel obligated to hang around here any longer if you feel triggered by cyclists who don't appreciate coal rolling.
mosscap 3 months ago • 60%
You'd be surprised how dumb some people can be https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-exercise/index.html
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/33429181 > The staggering health improvements from bike commuting (Shifter)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15958402 > Coal Rolling Is a Menacing Crime—And It's on the Rise > > *Paywall-free link: [https://archive.ph/3tLtL](https://archive.ph/3tLtL)* > > The crash occurred on September 25, 2021, the first crisp day of fall after a hot Texas summer. Claudius Galo intended to ride a hundred miles or more that morning. “There was a chill in the air. It felt so good. The energy was high,” he recalls of the small group that gathered to ride with him. > > Galo had moved to the Houston area from Rio de Janeiro, about 14 years prior. A calm and inquisitive engineer who works in the oil and gas industry, Galo had become unhealthy and overweight in his late thirties. He tried running but got hurt, so his doctor recommended adding swimming and cycling. Now 45, he’d lost 60 pounds and completed six Ironmans and almost a dozen half Ironmans. > Tamy Valiente, 45, had come to the United States from Costa Rica nine years before. Inspired by the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, in her twenties, she’d dreamt of becoming a competitive bike rider, but first, “I had to raise my babies,” she says. After going through a divorce, she eventually saved enough money to buy a bike frame and slowly began building her first racing bike part by part. She would often wake at 4 a.m. to train on the narrow roads close to her home back near San José, where buses crept by within inches of her handlebar. To Valiente, the U.S. felt like paradise. “The roads seemed safe. The traffic laws were actually enforced,” she says. > > On the day of the crash, David Reynolds, a 45-year-old tattooed photographer with two teenage children, had ridden 11.5 miles to meet the group at Hockley Community Center, about 30 miles west of downtown Houston. Cycling was his “Zen time,” when he could zone out and let all his worries wash through him. Though he wasn’t training for an event, he had ridden for nearly 600 consecutive days. > “I just like to ride,” he says. > The group that rolled out that morning included three other experienced cyclists: Craig Staples, Brad Stauffer, and Keith Conrad. The six regularly met up to ride through Waller County, an agricultural and ranching community just outside the sprawling metropolis. The group would become known as the Waller 6. > > . . .
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
I mean, if you can afford to pay your workers a living wage, then you can't afford to field that job in the first place.
Getting rid of a company that pays my neighbor poverty wages is better for my community (and therefore for me), than letting said company keep delivering me a service of convenience while my neighbor can't afford to buy food.
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
"Nothing hidden", except for, you know, the audit plan.
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
To be honest I've found a really incredible community of like-minded people on BW and regularly find top quality book suggestions just from seeing what these people are reading. One key is to find your favorite books, and then follow lots of the same people who felt similar to you. Some will be misses and have bad recommendations going forward, but at least a handful will be very like-minded readers.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20850985 > The safest road, mountain bike and urban helmets as rated by Virginia Tech
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
Thanks, friend! I appreciate the reply! Randonneuring is definitely the goal that I have been working towards. Finishing a 200km ride this year is my peak goal, as that would qualify me as a legit randonneur!
I think that perhaps I will pump the breaks on the 157km ride, since it's on Canada Day and I think my spouse would appreciate me being available for childcare, but I think I'll find a better training plan for completing the 200km in September.
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
What a beautiful bike! What kind of handlebars are you using here? I love the flair out to the sides - I've been looking at Salsa Cowchipper bars myself
Hi friends! I feel like I'm at a bit of a crossroads with my cycling journey right now, and I'd really love to get some feedback from some of y'all. For background, I started getting into longer distance cycling events last year as a way to stay healthy and fit, especially since my partner and I have an 18 month toddler. Cycling is both a mental health and physical fitness outlet for me. I'm riding a Surly LHT with 700x32 Schwalbe Marathon Plus tires, so I'm almost always at the back of the pack. I am not part of a team, so I'm never able to draft behind people either. Last year I completed 2 Gran Fondos, one of which was the Whistler Sea to Sky Fondo. Yesterday was my first ride of the year and despite spending all winter with TrainerRoad 3 times a week, my time was actually slower than it was a year before and I missed the cutoff time. Granted, I had an exhausting week leading up to their ride, I got slightly drunk 2 nights before the ride which resulted in bad sleep, and then a toddler-induced bad nights sleep the night before the ride. Needless to say, that was pretty discouraging, especially since my plan has been to try and go for even longer rides this year (a 157km ride on July 1 and a 200km in September). My partner wants me to back down from leaning into these fondo style rides (and the longer ones too obvi), and in my disappointment from this weekend I'm inclined to go along with that. But here are my questions: - How much should I read into my results this weekend? Could it just be chalked up to a hard week and a bad nights sleep? - If I had a really hard day going for 120km on June 9, should I pull back on trying to go for 157km on July 1 and 200km in September? - If anyone is a toddler-parent who works full time and engages in long-distance cycling, I'd love to hear how you make that work
mosscap 3 months ago • 100%
This is the bad place
mosscap 4 months ago • 100%
This is awesome!
mosscap 4 months ago • 100%
Rest in piss
mosscap 7 months ago • 100%
Having known a few Germans, I can blindly extrapolate that they love cars even more than Americans do. Although, they love cars because of the science and mechanics of how cars work. Americans, on the other hand, love cars because they are lazy and homicidal people who will literally burn the world to ashes as long as they can get to Costco 15 minutes faster.
mosscap 7 months ago • 100%
Mark Steyn is Canadian?! The guy who wrote all those fashy books about how America is also the only hope for the world ISNT EVEN AMERICAN?
As an American / Canadian dual citizen, double fuck that guy!
mosscap 7 months ago • 100%
Anne Hidalgo is a goddamn saint
mosscap 8 months ago • 100%
mosscap 8 months ago • 100%
Conservatives are literally a death cult.
mosscap 9 months ago • 80%
I hope Bill leaves Substack and finds a better platform, considering their recent decision to be pro-Nazi
mosscap 9 months ago • 100%
This is a really cool article - thanks for sharing! It's nice to read about good things that are happening in the world, instead of the ever-present signs of collapse that we're constantly inundated with.
mosscap 9 months ago • 95%
I mean, the Mozilla Foundation supports a lot of open-source projects so...a lot of us, and the greater internet as a whole
mosscap 9 months ago • 100%
Flipboards been fucking crushing their platform rollouts
mosscap 9 months ago • 100%
I'm probably the most vocal person for car-free lifestyles and micro mobility in my community, and I absolutely hate the the effect that these stupid things have in the car-free discussion.
At least as their existing solutions were rolled out, they made public spaces uglier and more dangerous for all involved.
mosscap 9 months ago • 100%
Aaaaand its dead https://9to5google.com/2023/12/09/apple-beeper-mini-imessage/
mosscap 9 months ago • 100%
Because the bad kids love coal, and they also run shit
A common frustration in my part of the world is that transit does not run very often, and there are only 2 spots for bikes on the front of buses. There have been many times when I've had to wait an extra hour just to see if the next bus happens to have a spot for my bike. Every time this happens, I promise myself that I'm going to someday spend the money to buy a folding bike (which can be taken on the bus if it's folded). In my head, riding a folding bike is a joyous experience, partly because of Dr Sharon riding a Brompton in Ted Lasso, but I'm curious what it's actually like. My dream folding bikes are any model of Brompton, a RadExpand 5, or a Tern Link D7i.
Maybe both Biz AND Babcock are insufferable pricks...