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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · 13d

Oh my goodness. You beautiful, brilliant people #bikehfx

I love you all so much

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Raccoon in the sky @seebo429.bsky.social · 13d

I'd like to thank @samdraws.bsky.social for making a fantastic Andy. Her work held up very well for most of the ride (we won't talk about the pump track incident). And for asking me to be the spokes-person to get Andy around today.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 13d

Two mayors at Halifax's first annual deputy mayor's bike ride

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · 21d

I was riding home from a mooseheads game in late November on the part of the Barrington Greenway that was below road level. It was completely dark, bitterly cold, and very icy. The kind of day you resolve to put on your winter tires ASAP.
It made me question if I slid out, would anyone find me?

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · 21d

We're about 20km round trip, carrying 80-90lbs of kids and cargo. The Bosch 500 Wh/ 36V has been fine for us. We typically charge daily

Feel free to PM me. I love talking about batteries

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · 21d

I would also love an optimized for summer battery, and an optimized for winter battery. Most batteries in a bike are best 20-40C

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · 21d

My work has recently introduced a policy where batteries must be removed from ebikes to use the indoor secure bike parking area

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · 24d

The 2022 Dartmouth kidical mass has a special place in my heart. It was our first ride.

We rolled up with a trailer we'd borrowed from someone we'd just met (thanks @envirojen.bsky.social !), test rode a "stranger's" e-cargo bike, and totally changed our bike trajectory

Jen @envirojen.bsky.social · 24d

A 🧵 of my reflections on #KidicalMassHfx.

In 2022 (our first season) our Dartmouth ride had ~12 participants.

In 2023 we had 76, and in 2024 we had 90.

Yesterday, 130 people rode bikes with us in Dartmouth, in support of our kids safety and independence in their communities.

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · 24d

Same kid who bellows "STUPID TRUCK" from the back of the bike when we deem it unsafe for him to ride solo. Soooo maybe we work a little more on tact before turning him loose to marshall 😅

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · 24d

And thank you for marshalling! One of my kids has decided they should be a ride marshall.

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · 24d

THIS! 🔥

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Jillian @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social · 24d

“Riding on the hilly streets of downtown Dartmouth is also a demonstration that the limitations to what kids can do on their bikes are not about the geography or their physical abilities, but about the infrastructure needed to enable safe cycling.”

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · 24d

Just riding bikes with all my friends ❤️
#kidicalmassHFX

Slightly out of focus picture showing a neighbourhood street full of people on bikes

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Halifax Regional Municipality @hfxgov.bsky.social · Aug 29

Effective 4 p.m. today, Friday, Aug. 29, the province has lifted restrictions on access to woods within the Halifax region. The provincial burn ban remains in place for the entire province. More details: www.halifax.ca/home/news/re...

ID: Photo of a wooded trail with the message: "Lifting of restriction on access to woods in the municipality"

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · Aug 29

Dal too! www.dalbikecentre.ca

Dal/King's Bike Centre

Free bike loans, repairs and events for students at Dalhousie University and University of King's College, Halifax - Nova Scotia

www.dalbikecentre.ca

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yeah! Let's do it!

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · Aug 29

You can learn better when you're not sick seems pretty obvious.

"Here's one quick fix to raising your district's test scores!!"

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · Aug 29

I want to speculate traffic, and Mayor Fillmore, were stopped on Barrington. Which gave the opportunity to snap a heavily-zoomed photo of the buses stuck midblock on Morris.

It was frosh move in day. There were a zillion out of town families trying to navigate the city

Split screen screenshot from Google maps showing top panel street view, bottom panel map location. Top panel shows building with characteristic patterning consistent with Mayor's post. Bottom panel shows map location on Morris between Queen and Barrington

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 29

It’s baffling to me that so much of the U.S. (and the world) has decided that letting their kids get sick at school all the time (and spread illness to their parents and everyone else) is preferable to just … adequately cleaning indoor air

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · Aug 29

It was a great night for watching the boats. We had a commercial fishing boat (trawler? seiner?), a seadoo, and a speedboat pass under the bridge in quick succession

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is the real tragedy. Robbed of the treasure hunt for friends moment

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · Aug 28

Same! Best is whenever you get 30s of chatting while waiting for the light to change

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · Aug 28

Bike friends we saw today: the same neighbour, a friend of a friend, @sarah-bikes-hfx.bsky.social, and a the bike friend we normally park beside

Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · Aug 27

We saw you, a neighbour, and a daycare dad riding, in addition to our normal bike friends! I love the bike party aspect of September.

Agree the drivers have seemed worse than usual the past week

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Jessie Harlow @jessieharlow.bsky.social · Aug 27

We saw you, a neighbour, and a daycare dad riding, in addition to our normal bike friends! I love the bike party aspect of September.

Agree the drivers have seemed worse than usual the past week

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