Wowzers that's so beautiful

Cycling was my primary mode of transport in 90s Beijing when I was 8, had very recently learned to ride without stabilisers (training wheels) & had never ridden on a road before. My parents kept an eye on me but mainly so I didn't get lost.

You don't need experience to use good safe infrastructure.

I hate so much that people are getting priced out. My mum can make more of a case for the expenditure because she's retired and she loves sport so she gets a lot of use out of it but even she's starting to waver on keeping her subscription because what you get for it is so bad.

If people post "AI" misinformation like the (3-armed reporter being arrested) and refuse to take it down when told, block them. They are toxic pollution of your information.

This bollard was knocked down before & reinstated less than a year ago. Either drivers so incompetent that they can't stay off the pavement or doing it on purpose so they can drive on the pavement to the car park. Meanwhile I get a load of earache about cyclist entitlement & the cost of bike lanes.

Even when it's not on adverts, it's not great - they didn't know who three of the four riders were who are retiring for ages and, unless I've missed it (which is possible), they still haven't told us who one of them is.

TNT coverage of the Giro di Lombardia is 20% adverts. Imagine trying to follow a live football match but every 12 minutes they go to a 3 minute ad break so you end up missing 20 minutes of the match - possibly including the winning goal.

As Wes Streeting comments to condemn some vandalism by trans activists has he said anything about this?

Why people don't trust mainstream politics is a mystery...

Just one more.

"It's terrible now they've put that bus lane in! I don't even go by car anymore; I take the Metro."

Lmao going to let her carry on thinking she's got one over on, presumably, me and/or the council by doing exactly as intended.

I know it's currently a legal requirement many places but I think emphasising the need to pedal as a fundamental distinguishing factor between ebikes & emotos is a mistake. If it behaves like an ebike, why does it matter if someone's pedalling? But not needing to would make ebikes more accessible.

I think a lot of the arguments against them sound similar to the arguments against ebikes in general - but often come from people defending pedal assist ebikes. And I don't care if people who could pedal choose not to - that's their business & I care about including people who can't pedal far more.

I'm not really interested in the semantics of it & I'm not saying all or most throttle ebikes meet these criteria currently but if it behaves like pedal assist ebikes (comparable speed & acceleration, roughly the same weight range), what harm does is do to anyone else if that person isn't pedalling?

I know it's currently a legal requirement many places but I think emphasising the need to pedal as a fundamental distinguishing factor between ebikes & emotos is a mistake. If it behaves like an ebike, why does it matter if someone's pedalling? But not needing to would make ebikes more accessible.

Certainly seems that way!

“You’re always playing the race card”

Anyone who says this has no idea how power dynamics work.

Race is not a card I can play. It is a hand I’m dealt.

Black people have never had the power to keep white people from voting, reading, or writing. If anyone’s had a race card, it’s white people.

1. Riding a bike on the road.
2. My mum riding a bike on the road.
3. Being too sick to ride a bike or walk or drive (even if I had a car) and having to attend medical appointments that take forever to get to by public transport.

The Labour Party: Making health services more hostile to people who are unwell.

I think we need to consider what it is that makes throttle bikes a problem & address that, rather than get hung up on definitions. In my experience, aside from speed, it's acceleration - which could also be controlled. I recognise that this adds complexity but it would greatly improve accessibility.

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

If we had responded to Covid by normalizing masking, providing respirators in healthcare & adopting clean air standards…we could have beaten the virus.

We would also be seeing less measles, colds & flu.

We would all be healthier.

I believe history will see it as one of our greatest failures.

Lost faith in the online medical dictionary I was using when I tried to look up burr hole (as in trepanning) and it not only didn't have an entry but asked if I'd intended to search "butt hole."

For my Italian homework, I have to write a sentence using a specific idiom. The idiom exists in a very similar form in English except now I've thought about it so hard I can't use it in a sentence in English either.