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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡

@solarpunkfox.bsky.social

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Solarpunk communist, novid enthusiast, falconeer and member of the Not Fine Gang. Less posting, more building.

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · Jun 30

I’ve spearheaded an operation to deliver ice cold water to an encampment of unhoused neighbors.

The e-bike makes it so much easier but I’m still often having to do multiple trips a day.

We really need to fundraise for ice or an ice machine. Buying $12 of ice a day is pretty unsustainable.

Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · Jun 27

This bike fucks.

-the water pervert

E-bike leaning up against a pallet with two blue 5 gallon water coolers on front and back racks. That’s 80lbs of ice cold life juice!

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 13h

It’s a shame there’s not a web based version of it.

It seems most apps are pretty much just a glorified webpage anyways, just the map functionality would be something.

Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 13h

They will never forgive Hamas for treating their prisoners with dignity.

Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 1d

“Masks don’t work, I wore a mask and still got infected”

How they wore a mask:

The smiling face of some dipshit wearing a baggy blue surgical mask on his chin

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · Aug 11

My e-bike and my repurposed pedicab allow me to support my unhoused neighbors by bringing in tons upon tons of ice and water into the woods without the police or fascist sympathizers in my community being able to track me.

Without giving fossil fuel companies a cent.

Right into the damned woods.

Formerly a festival pedicab this heavily modified trike has a rack that can carry eight five gallon water bottles and a large cooler that holds twenty gallons of ice. There is a bullhorn hanging from the handlebars, bottle handles from the clamps holding the deck on the trike. The cooler has a Texas Trike Pilots sticker on it.

A blue e-bike with a front milk crate basket holding a 5 gallon water bottle. It has a yard cart with eight various kinds of five gallon water jugs in it is held on to the rear rack by a 2x4 and bike tubes.

The pilot is wearing a green Outback hat and has his eye on the oncoming traffic

The same bike but this time with a pink crate on the front with an umbrella strapped to it.

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 3d

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry, while I’m glad he got free this is like the 1/1000 times people just standing around filming an abduction with their phones did anything. Homeboy getting nabbed did all the real work.

Have a mask? Wear it.

Have an e-bike? Ride it.

This phone nonsense is well past it’s usefulness.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly, don’t even snag their masks off their faces.

And for the record, if all you cowards didn’t take yours off during this ongoing plague they wouldn’t know who TF you even are.

Get an e-bike, fight MFs fight!

Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 7d

Is there another tube on the inside?

If not, how did you get it to spiral so neat and stay in place?

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 7d

And honestly I could make it work without the cautious, but it sure puts a crimp in the creative juices having to compromise on that.

And I just don’t think that I’m the only one in town of a million people, it’s just every force has been mobilized to isolate us in particular.

Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 7d

There needs to be a dating site but for Covid cautious communists who need a lab partner building the best mutual aid e-bikes the world has ever seen.

I know it’s a tall order and even if it wasn’t for cautious part it would still be. We are in a bad place for creatives and pickings are slim.

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 7d

With the heat of a thousand suns!

Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 7d

You don’t see Hassan post here at all because he’s addicted to the Nazi website and making money for Elon/Jeff Bozos.

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 7d

What I’m really curious about is the effectiveness of a long John cargo bike as an alternative to the Toyota Hilux as a technical vehicle.

I’ve pondered using my cargo trike in this regard but it is rather cumbersome in an urban environment.

Anywhere to test this theory @sundance.bikesky.social ?

A bullitt cargo bike with a rifleman sitting in the cargo area.

A Toyota Hilux with a mounted machine gun in the bed, riflemen sit on with their legs over the side.

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 8d

*rarely what the manufacturer claims 😂

Frequently the numbers are so absurd, like double what the range would be on its lowest setting pedaling your ass off.

Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 9d

Maybe not the exact kind of bigger you were looking for, might actually be too big.

Time will tell and I hope it’s not too much of it before someone beats me to the idea. Looking at a 40”x21” cargo bed.

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 9d

I’m working on it.

And by working on it I mean I have some parts and the 2”x4” steel tubing to make the frame out of that I won’t be able to start cutting till mid November.

Sketch of a very large front loading cargo e-bike concept.

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 9d

How I imagine your mother in law…

Anne Ramsey in a pink bathrobe pointing her cane threateningly in the movie “don’t throw momma from the train”

She is more well known in her role in “Goonies” as Mother Fratelli

Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 10d

Reason #42,069 communists should make e-bikes a central pillar of the platform.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 10d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 10d

It’s a good move honestly. With tariffs starting to choke off the imported complete bikes knowing how to put together motors, batteries and controllers from new and/or used bikes is going to open doors.

Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 10d

Hell yeah, that’s a good introduction. Building one from scratch is only marginally harder if you’ve already done that part.

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 10d

a man in a helmet is looking at the camera with the words `` desire to know more intensifies '' written below him .

Alt: a man in a helmet is looking at the camera with the words `` desire to know more intensifies '' written below him .

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 10d

There’s a reason you always see pro bike mechanics wearing gloves.

Many years it took me to take up the habit.

Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 12d

The bafang bbs02 or lower powered bbs01 would be a perfect fit.

A hub motor would be acceptable if you’re in a flat area but any other scenario I would highly recommended a mid drive motor.

Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 12d

True e-bike ninjas evade both infection and facial recognition.

polly @pollyguo.bsky.social · 12d

ok but if i wear a respirator on an ebike riding in an all black outfit ill be at risk of looking really cool

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Count of Monte Carlo 𓉡 @solarpunkfox.bsky.social · 12d

I test rode this one for a week about ten years ago and it changed my whole perspective about both folders and lower speed e-bikes

youtu.be/UQnwENbPglA

Easy Motion Neo Volt Sport Review - $2.6k

YouTube video by ElectricBikeReview.com

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