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Jeremy Cole

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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.

blog.jcole.us/2025/01/01/r...

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 · 4h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

Yer a wild man, Paul.

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 16h

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.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 16h

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.

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 16h

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 · 1d

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.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 1d

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 with Elliott Bay and the Puget Sound in the distance behind on a very clear and sunny day

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

I dunno man, Sweden exists. Surely there are such attachments there!

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

This is so fucked up and I’m sorry that they had to experience that.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 2d

NW right?

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 4d

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.

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 4d

Since I got a cargo bike, when I am biking somewhere I often pay attention to whether I could use it there. While biking in the Netherlands (431 mi/693 km) I can't remember a single instance of a spot where I could not have taken my cargo bike comfortably: slope, width, obstacles, etc. all good.

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 5d

just so laughably bad. begging anyone at SDOT to ride a bike for something other than vehicular cycling

the should make everyone ride cargo bikes or haul a trailer.

detail of unnecessary and dangerous chicane in an undersized bike intersection

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 4d

Eventually apps on macOS will just be round, won't they?

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 4d

I yearn for the day I get to watch someone overestimate the space available and absolutely destroy their car on a median while aggro-passing. I haven't decided yet whether I'll stop to assist them or pedal on after yelling "you can't park there, mate!"

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lena @lenazun.bsky.social · 5d

very grateful I got to live in a time when computers were fun and cool

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 4d

Same. I miss it.

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Dmitri. #freeLink @momus.bsky.social · 4d

Grant's biggest mistake wasn't on the battlefield, it was making nice with Lee instead of hanging him.

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 5d

(Yes, half of my photos from this trip are of random streets and concrete bits.)

Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 5d

Chicanes, you say?

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 5d

Another thing that struck me about rural areas in NL, DE, DK, SE is that there's an entire class of road design that doesn't exist in the US: paved, high-quality but very narrow two-way rural roads, explicitly designed to make it uncomfortable to drive on them too fast, too far, or too often.

two way road with a single center lane and bike area on each side

two way road with simple dashed line on each side

two way road very narrow with dashed line on each side

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 5d

It's been having lots of moments lately.