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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 6h

Oof

Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 7h

Another fantastic glove for this weather is unlined buck or goatskin. The Defeet above can even pair with them to make a warm duo. The key is a windbreaking layer. I don't personally start with insulated gloves/mittens until the 30s F (0-4 C) but your milage may vary

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 7h

Classic scarves work fine, but a nice neck gaiter or buff is pretty handy. Some of them can be lifted over your ears and face when it gets truly cold www.rivbike.com/products/pos...

Possum Merino Wool Neckie - Cable Knit

Possum Wool Neckies (neck gaiters, neck tubes) 40% Possum Fur, 50% Merino Wool, 10% Nylon. We sell 150 of these every year, often repeat orders. Everybody needs at least two of these. Useful as neck g...

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 7h

Love my wool Randi Jo cap with ear flaps that can be up or down. They've also got linen, waxed canvas, and others randijofab.com/collections/...

Wool Flip-Up Caps

Plain and simple. Our wool caps are made from US wool with classic four panel proportions. Our brims are slightly wider than standard cycling caps giving you a bit more protection from the element. T...

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 7h

My personal fav gloves for in the 40s F (4.5-10 C) are these Defeets defeet.com/collections/...

Duraglove ET Charcoal Wool w/Black Grippies

52% Nylon, 40% Merino Wool, 7% Lycra, 1% Silver Ag Wool blend glove designed for use in sports such as cycling and running, recommended for temperatures from 40F to 60F. With no-slip grips on palm and...

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 7h

#MSPCycleCast
A lovely ride in to work today. Crisp, but not windy. Perfect chance to practice your layering skills if you wanted to try riding into late Fall or even Winter

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 18h

So sad you can’t experience it

Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 1d

Truly. Thankfully it's getting a median/modal filter when University is reconstructed! The ironic story so far is that, against all odds, it's MDOT & Henn Co that is taking the lead (Lowry, Marshall, Central, University). The City is still on a do-the-least-possible trajectory in NE

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, I would love for NE to get even one complete cycling facility. Last neighborhood in the City without one

(I don't count minor sections that don't connect to other facilities until they're connected, i.e. Johnson, 18th, 1st/Henn)

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 1d

And 2nd St NE is getting reconstructed from Lowry to Broadway. A major bus line, school, hot new food epicenter, community center, etc are on this street. The City has a chance to do right, but I worry the Marshall reconstruction will be seen as "good enough" www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...

2nd St NE, Broadway to Lowry Ave

The City will rebuild about 1 mile of 2nd Street Northeast between Broadway Street NE and Lowry Avenue NE.

www.minneapolismn.gov

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 1d

13th Ave is set to be reconstructed from the river to 2nd St. By its own standards it should get a sidewalk-level protected facility. It's in the future, but public input is being taken www.minneapolismn.gov/government/p...

13th Ave NE, Water St to 2nd St NE

The City will reconstruct approximately 0.4 miles of 13th Ave NE, Water St to 2nd St NE

www.minneapolismn.gov

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 1d

Once Central and Marshall are done in a few years, that will change the game significantly. Yet there isn't a truly complete, safe N/S or E/W connector between them

The City will have at least two chances to show they're actually committed to the AAA in Northeast/

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 1d

So a section of an 80ft street gets no treatments whatsoever but it's often lifted up as the great Mpls example of a Bicycle Boulevard done right. Please.

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 1d

So for instance take 5th St NE. Once it crosses south of Broadway it goes from 60ft to 80ft wide. At one point they put a few advisory lanes in until the mega intersection. But it got a chip seal treatments a few years ago and they haven't bothered repainting the Blvd indicator or the advisory lanes

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 1d

Advisory Lanes - those dashes on Monroe, for instance - are the bottom rung facility according to the TAP. In any context they do not meet AAA standards. Except, that is, for sections of a Bicycle Boulevard. There they are transfigured into low-stress bikeways where everywhere else they aren't

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 1d

The problem with Bicycle Boulevards is that there are a bunch of suggestions but almost no rules. So the City can do whatever it deems sufficient, up to and including nothing - as with most stretches of 22nd - and call it an All Ages and Abilities facility

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 1d

Which isn't even to mention the absolute, total lack of wayfinding signage

This is why I agree with the Transportation Action Plan that "bicycle boulevards" should have been abandoned in favor of Neighborhood Greenways

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 1d

There is one speed bump across from the library, and one across from a park next to Edison HS. That's the sum total of what might lead some people to believe it's a cycling facility at all. Not so much as a lost parking spot or some bumpouts

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Tony (Dystopian Butter) @adalehunt.bsky.social · 1d

22nd Ave is one of the very few semi-continuous routes through NE that isn't Lowry or Broadway. It's said to have a "existing low-stress bikeway," but there are two and two only intersection treatments on its whole length: A ped refuge island at Johnson & a traffic circle at Polk