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winkybiker.bsky.social
winkybiker
@winkybiker.bsky.social
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Cyclists are (part of) the answer to congestion and traffic violence, not the problem. Cars ruin everything I love. They're literally killing us. Sighthounds rule. Save the Galgo. Fender > Gibson. 🍁
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 3h
Saw this thumbnail on Youtube. Made me smile.
An overhead photo and graphic purporting to show alternate racing lines for F1 drivers through a tight corner. It shows LEC and VER making successful turns, albeit on different racing lines, and STR spinning off into a tyre barrier. It is a thumbnail from a Youtube video, and I think it's funny.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 3h
Yes, but... The ability to safely and efficiently bike reasonable distances (more than a few miles) is essential in raising the cycling mode share. There are no examples of high cycling mode share cities that don't have an extensive network of connected, protected and dedicated cycle lanes.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 4h
Works for very short distances, perhaps.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 8h
Walking mode isn't really enough to get you easily started on a hill.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 8h
Agreed. My cargo bike would be much better if I could throttle-control it from a standstill up to about 10km/hr. It would make starting on hills much easier and safer.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 8h
2/ The ease of defeating the governors is designed into the bikes. The manufacturers and retailers are well aware the bikes will almost certianly be used illegally.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 8h
That isn't a loophole. It's one of the necessary conditions for the bike to be legal on bike paths. The other is a working speed governor that cuts the boost above the regulated speed (30km/hr where I live). The loophole is that e-bikes are legally sold with easily defeated governors. 2/
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 8h
2/ I've never seen a non-regulated high-speed e-bike on a bike path, and I'll bet that is the case for most people. And yet we're led to believe that this is some huge issue. On the other hand, I've seen people struck by drivers and have been hit myself. I know people who've been killed by drivers.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 8h
Every time some rants about how "e-bikes go 60-70km/hr on the bikepaths and that they should therefore be banned" shows just how complicit the media is in the shitstorm of misinformation about cycling and non-car travel generally. 2/
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 11h
Exactly. Properly restricted e-bikes are only e-bikes when under 30km/hr. Above that they're just bikes. No electric assistance. (Although a lot of people I chat to about their e-bikes gloat about how they were able to easily de-restrict them.)
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 11h
The media loves to mischaracterize them. It's part of their desire to stoke anti-cyclist hatred for clicks.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 11h
De-restricted e-bikes (i.e. electric motorcycles) are already banned from bike paths and MUPs. The legislation is mostly fine. It's the media practices (polarising the public against e-bikes for clicks) and enforcement that is lacking.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 11h
Me too. Shared mode is awful whether it's bikes & cars or pedestrians & bikes. Slow and frustrating for faster modes and fucking terrifying for the slower modes. High quality physically-protected infrastructure is the only thing that works. Bikes and e-bikes mix just fine on quality infrastructure.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 13h
In Bisbane, Australia, instead of doing proper infrastructure, they just legalized riding on sidewalks. It's weird to experience.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 1d
No kidding.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d
This is good —the Mayor of Yellowknife NWT in Canada’s far north weighs in on “Car Bloat” (truck bloat actually) and its many big costs & consequences (thanks @davidzipper.bsky.social for heads-up). And like most who dare tell the truth about that, he’s taking flack.
www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/...
Screenshot of LinkedIn post from Yellowknife Mayor describing the costs and consequences of trucks having gotten so much bigger. In the link, he explains the backlash he received for his post.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 4d
Narm-sain?
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 4d
Our children and their friends used this frequently.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 4d
1) The term "begs the question" is universally misused. The correct usage is a bit unusual, so most people are better-off avoiding it entirely.

2) The verb to be "sat" is now commonplace, even amongst professional speakers like sporting commentators. As in "The Maclaren is sat behind the Ferrari."
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 4d
People are often proud of their children, but I've yet to meet someone say they're perfect. I'd back carefully away from anyone seriously making this assertion.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 4d
Wind turbines can sometimes get a bit fiery. It's a very minor issue in the scheme of things. Unlike these, for example...
The Bluewater Horizon oil rig on fire in the Gulf of Mexico The surface of the ocean on fire due to an oil or gas leak. A pelican saturated in oil from an oil spill The Exxon Valdez oil tanker spewing oil in the ocean
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 4d
More useless landfill...
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 4d
"caddy"?
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 5d
I'm old enough to remember a time when the FBI was there to PREVENT crime, not to undertake it.
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winkybiker @winkybiker.bsky.social · 5d
Drivers don't follow any rules at all. This is readily observable. The only thing that works to control their behaviour is engineering. Concreate and steel. That's it. That's all that will stop them putting their fucking cars where ever they want at any speed they want. Everything else fails.
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