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Jeremy Cole
@jeremycole.bsky.social
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he/him – Seattle, WA – Bikes, mobility, food security, compassion, and building better cities. Sometimes: MySQL, Ruby, etc. 🚴‍♂️ strava.com/athletes/106905687 📸 instagram.com/bikeseattle 📚 blog.jcole.us
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · Jan 3
I wrote up a (lengthy) summary of my biking in 2024, a total of 7,880 miles. Of that, about 2,770 was on e-bikes, mostly towing trailers doing volunteer work. The remaining 5,110 almost entirely on my Specialized Diverge (a few on other non-e-bikes), mainly exploring.

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Reflections on a year of biking for 2024
Everywhere I’ve ridden my bike in the PNW in 2024. Since shortly after moving to Seattle in July 2022, I have not driven a car. I’ve gotten around by bike and public transit. During 202…
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 15h
Takes some of the sport out of though, doesn't it?? 😅
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 16h
Huh, I never thought about parking at the police station. I usually park my cargo bike right near the doors and double lock it to itself, but it’s not great. My regular bike I just walk around the store with it.
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 17h
You are “we”, too, right? Have you bought the lumber and steel? Fundraiser for it? Organized anything? If not maybe stop talking shit about the people putting their lives and bodies out there, just because you disagree with the exact method. Their protest, their choice.
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 17h
And grassy light rail/streetcar.
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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 20h
Here is this intersection of California and Edmunds highlighted to show the areas where cars have priority (red) and where pedestrians can (maybe) expect not to intersect with cars (yellow).

Yet somehow we're asking drivers to sacrifice too much.
California and SW Edmunds with driveways, roads, and parking lots highlighted in red, and sidewalks where there are no potential vehicle conflicts, in yellow. The red makes up well over 90% of the ground level space.
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 17h
Yep, and it’s all shown to be a farce once you ask the same person to pay $100+ to park near the stadium. Suddenly they’re happy to walk all the way from far reaches of SODO *and* tell everyone else to do the same. So we just need to make parking like an asshole cost at least as much, every time. 🎉
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d
Also visible in the photo:
• shark teeth markings indicating who is to yield, even for the bike/bike crossings
• separated pedestrian and bike signals (and cycles)
• cyclist eye level signal likely with countdown
• clear signage indicating bike path, separated MUP, or shared MUP
• bike wayfinding
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d
😂 I was #2 in the Netherlands on Wandeer for September. 😁
Screenshot of wandrer leaderboard showing me at #2 with 431.22 new miles
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d
I know there’s a lot of serious issues involved and everything sucks but can we take a moment to bask in the hilarity of the right wing obsessively rallying against an imaginary organization against fascism… and then believing they’re the good guys?
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d
Where am I?
Part of mural on brick wall of bird with rainbow feathers riding bike
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 3d
The masses have decided that em dashes and bullet points mean something is AI, but em dashes and bullet points are just a writing style used in authoritative technical writing, which is the style the AI is mimicking based on its training (technical writing). Now nobody believes humans can write. 🤦‍♂️
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 3d
All I can really do is point you to the place with the best developed bike infrastructure in the world and say that mixing of mopeds and bicycles is the standard in the Netherlands and mopeds zooming by is commonplace. They could do better, too, of course.
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 3d
The term “moped” is just a lower powered motorcycle (both in gas and electric forms), not really similar to a pedal-assist e-bike. Some still have vestigial pedals but they are not actually intended for use. For actual e-bikes the term pedelec exists mostly in Europe but hasn’t caught on much.
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 3d
Yer a wild man, Paul.
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 3d
Done this but nooooope. Last time I did this I noted that the sidewalk on that side doesn’t even extend far enough to get you a reasonable spot to cross past the ramp with the inbound speeding cars.
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 3d
There isn’t a way as you’ve discovered. Practically useless. You can use SW City View St instead of the stairs, but it’s fucking steep and not usable on a cargo bike etc or by a regular human on a pedal bike, either.
Annotated image of a map
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 3d
Put another way the use of e-mopeds/motorcycles is only a problem due to squeezing them into the margins and scraps with pedestrians (and to a lesser but still valid extent, bicycles).
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 3d
And at the same time the widespread use of e-mopeds/motorcycles is a signal that they actually fit pretty well with people’s desires for non-car lower impact and cheaper transportation. So societally rather than banning them maybe we need to make space for them?
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 4d
Bluesky glitched on these photos and even reposting them they’re still glitched. I think it must dedupe photos so reused the glitched versions in the repost. Huh.
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 4d
Did some grocery shopping by cargo bike again today at the West Seattle Thriftway. Took the long way home and stopped to admire this view from High Point.
Cargo bike parked at grocery store Cargo bike with Elliott Bay and the Puget Sound in the distance behind on a very clear and sunny day Strava map
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 4d
Did some grocery shopping by cargo bike again today at the West Seattle Thriftway. Took the long way home and stopped to admire this view from High Point.
Cargo bike parked at grocery store Cargo bike with Elliott Bay and the Puget Sound in the distance behind on a very clear and sunny day Strava map
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 5d
I dunno man, Sweden exists. Surely there are such attachments there!
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 5d
This is so fucked up and I’m sorry that they had to experience that.
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 5d
NW right?
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 6d
Real talk but why is the iPhone Mirroring app limited to 2x Actual Size? It's still tiny on my monitor, and isn't the point of mirroring to make it usable on the bigger screen etc?
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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 7d
In Germany, Denmark, and Sweden there were many places where the cargo bike wouldn't be great, mostly S-turn gates on bike paths, but also narrow spots, steep curbs without ramps, and excessively steep grades.
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