Jesse Peers
@smokedporter.bsky.social
Bike advocate, urbanist, drummer, Tolkien nerd, local historian, utilitarian cyclist, W/NBA fan, genealogy nut, beer snob, INFJ, Episcopalian
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Check out the Top Ten Cycling Developments of 2025 in Monroe County! And if you're able, please consider a year-end donation to strengthen Reconnect Rochester's work in 2026. We could really use the support! 🙏🏼 reconnectrochester.org/2025/12/top-... #ROC #RochesterNY
December 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Check out the Top Ten Cycling Developments of 2025 in Monroe County! And if you're able, please consider a year-end donation to strengthen Reconnect Rochester's work in 2026. We could really use the support! 🙏🏼 reconnectrochester.org/2025/12/top-... #ROC #RochesterNY
Professor Tolkien, Welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social.
December 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Professor Tolkien, Welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social.
Finished The Bovadium Fragments by JRR Tolkien.
December 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Finished The Bovadium Fragments by JRR Tolkien.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @humantransit.bsky.social Has this come across your radar yet? A newly published satirical fantasy by JRR Tolkien about car culture ruining Oxford. It deserves an episode! 😉
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
@thewaroncars.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @humantransit.bsky.social Has this come across your radar yet? A newly published satirical fantasy by JRR Tolkien about car culture ruining Oxford. It deserves an episode! 😉
Finished Hockey in Rochester: The Americans’ Tradition by Blaise Lamphier.
December 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Finished Hockey in Rochester: The Americans’ Tradition by Blaise Lamphier.
Finished Expositions & World’s Fairs: In The Beginning by Bob McGlincy.
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Finished Expositions & World’s Fairs: In The Beginning by Bob McGlincy.
Finished the unpublished biography of George Eastman written by Lawrence Bachmann.
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Finished the unpublished biography of George Eastman written by Lawrence Bachmann.
Finished The Game by Ken Dryden.
December 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Finished The Game by Ken Dryden.
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2003 Miller High Life (American beer) commercial: "Alternative Fuels"
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
2003 Miller High Life (American beer) commercial: "Alternative Fuels"
Finished Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose.
November 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Finished Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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So annoying that the Trump administration is going after “fat” people while simultaneously clawing back funding for projects that would give people a safe place to ride a bike, walk or jog.
October 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So annoying that the Trump administration is going after “fat” people while simultaneously clawing back funding for projects that would give people a safe place to ride a bike, walk or jog.
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E-bike: 1
Goons: 0
Goons: 0
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
E-bike: 1
Goons: 0
Goons: 0
Finished Radical Welcome by Stephanie Spellers.
September 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Finished Radical Welcome by Stephanie Spellers.
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Ted (Jason Sudeikis) and Keeley (Juno Temple) encounter a Brompton for the first time when Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Sarah Niles) rides up and collapses one in an episode of Ted Lasso
Keeley: "That's not a bike, that's a transformer!"
#BicycleBirthday Jason Sudeikis
Born September 18, 1975
Keeley: "That's not a bike, that's a transformer!"
#BicycleBirthday Jason Sudeikis
Born September 18, 1975
September 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Ted (Jason Sudeikis) and Keeley (Juno Temple) encounter a Brompton for the first time when Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Sarah Niles) rides up and collapses one in an episode of Ted Lasso
Keeley: "That's not a bike, that's a transformer!"
#BicycleBirthday Jason Sudeikis
Born September 18, 1975
Keeley: "That's not a bike, that's a transformer!"
#BicycleBirthday Jason Sudeikis
Born September 18, 1975
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Ever felt like you're driving to work to make money to pay for your car to drive to work? 😩 The total annual cost of owning and operating a new vehicle this year is $11,577, or $964.78 per month. newsroom.aaa.com/2025/09/aaa-...
AAA: New Vehicle Costs Drop to $11,577
ORLANDO, FL. (Sept. 16, 2025) – For over 70 years, AAA's Your Driving Costs analysis has offered valuable insights into vehicle ownership expenses. This
newsroom.aaa.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Ever felt like you're driving to work to make money to pay for your car to drive to work? 😩 The total annual cost of owning and operating a new vehicle this year is $11,577, or $964.78 per month. newsroom.aaa.com/2025/09/aaa-...
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Five days out from our final Local History Bike Tour of the year. Get your tickets today! reconnectrochester.org/localhistory... #ROC #RochesterNY
September 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Five days out from our final Local History Bike Tour of the year. Get your tickets today! reconnectrochester.org/localhistory... #ROC #RochesterNY
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Washington, D.C., September 6, 1980: Bicycle activists protested the rule banning bikes on the D.C. Metro by carrying a full-sized cardboard cutout of a bicycle onto a Metro car to show how easily bikes could be wheeled into the cars.
September 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Washington, D.C., September 6, 1980: Bicycle activists protested the rule banning bikes on the D.C. Metro by carrying a full-sized cardboard cutout of a bicycle onto a Metro car to show how easily bikes could be wheeled into the cars.
Finished The Pioneers (or The Sources of the Susquehanna) by James Fenimore Cooper.
September 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Finished The Pioneers (or The Sources of the Susquehanna) by James Fenimore Cooper.
Post your dream ride. (Finland used the Helkama Jaakari to fight Nazis)
August 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Post your dream ride. (Finland used the Helkama Jaakari to fight Nazis)
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What's wild about the 85th percentile is that lots of US states use it to set all speed limits, but the original idea (from the 1930s) was to let observed driver speeds shape speed limits on **rural roads**.
It was never intended for urban areas w/pedestrians & cyclists!
It was never intended for urban areas w/pedestrians & cyclists!
States rethink a long-held practice of setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travel
Road safety activists and some states are pushing to depart from a longstanding rule that sets speed limits in the United States based largely on how fast drivers actually travel.
apnews.com
August 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
What's wild about the 85th percentile is that lots of US states use it to set all speed limits, but the original idea (from the 1930s) was to let observed driver speeds shape speed limits on **rural roads**.
It was never intended for urban areas w/pedestrians & cyclists!
It was never intended for urban areas w/pedestrians & cyclists!
Finished The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
August 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Finished The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
Finished History of the Conquest of Peru by William Hickling Prescott.
August 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Finished History of the Conquest of Peru by William Hickling Prescott.
Finished The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara.
July 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Finished The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara.
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Post your grocery-by-bike pics!
July 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Post your grocery-by-bike pics!