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@djuber@fosstodon.org @ascentale@sfba.social @jerzone@techhub.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social #bikeNite a6 similar Usually I'm commuting ;) When I'm focused enough to organize my stuff I'll have a multitool, a patch kit or two (they were swag for some things), which include tire levers and rubber cement and the roughing stuff... spare tube, and frame pump that you can flop down things so it stands and you can actually pump with it. C02 ... has never worked for me! If I could master the motor skill (and I'm usually good with stuff like that), I would carry it and offer to inflate saggy commuters. Today I was glad to have a clementine for that guy who said he was diabetic and somethign about wanting zingers.

@ascentale@sfba.social @kimu@wandering.shop @bikenite@fedigroups.socialA1 #biken Nite Not Stuck but reveling in Central Illinois. (OK, I"m a bit tired.) 1b: communication matters!! The bike is a huge part of you *and* your health, physical and mental. A picture really is worth a thousand words and it being "weird" means there's more chance they pay attention.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io So awesome. Now if we could get him to generalize a little ;) To consider other humans in other families... and the effect one's vote has...

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party Today beginning my bike ride an older Black man with a strong accent pulled up in his car and greeted me and informed everybody present that his math skills had improved a lot because of me :) :) I love the idea that it obviously meant a lot to him. When we had to show our vax crd to get into the school, I sported a helmet with decorations and a headband and a rainbow elastic buff around head and neck. "You bring me joy when I see you!" the student said. How could that not be a favorite :) (I figured out that I can get away with being A Character and sitll do mymath tutoring ;)

@mike805@noc.social @requiem@masto.hackers.town WHen Appollo 13 happened,my father explained to me how they had 3 layers of redundancy for just about everything. It's how you do things if you like people staying alive.

@JustinMac84@mastodon.social @MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz The man even said she was under arrest several times and she was unfazed and repeated the question about being free to go from the card. Yes, I also suspect things might have gone differently without a camera aimed at the window :( :( :(

@benroyce@mastodon.social @ceartas@mastodon.world @GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai who is the smug one here?

@ascentale@sfba.social @nwarner@tenforward.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social Central ILlinois where it is cool and clear-aired!!!! More heat and storms Monday but that will pass. I check my air and ... I can tell the difference between 'basketball hard" and "pedal hard" pressure :P Sometimes I'll just pedal hard ;) I figured out when I started Riding With The Fast People that if I thought I must be coming down with something because I just didn't have the oomph, my tyres were probly just a tad underinflated.

@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social Today I took this and other pics of the intersection in our Gold Level Bike Friendly town that's *right by the city offices* and the saturday farmer's market and... and... ... and the light does not detect bicycles. I was told some years ago: "press the walk button1!!" Yea, hop the curb, dodge right turning traffic, find the ramp.... Tuesday a.m. I invoked the "dead red" law and squeezed across between cars. GRANTED it's busy enough usually there are cars that trigger the light. At that night's Bike/Pedestrian Advisory Commission meeting we were told that intersection is beig totally re-designed... goal for construction in 2029. I spoke of my issues and was told to send info b/c it's a different person responding. (This is also a "so dangerous it's safer!" intersection because nobody knows what they are supposed to do.)

@jessta@aus.social @ajft@aus.social @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social People who ride that much are gong to have healthier hormone balances and are going to make good decisions.... I hope :P Unless they're adrenaline addicts...

@ascentale@sfba.social @edd@freeradical.zone @bikenite@fedigroups.social First century? FInd people to do it with ou :) Tho' my first was not like that :P I did it on my hybrid on my terms and Sean who rode by and encouraged... I had to find out who he was bcause he listened so well. (I started at earliest and fast people went by: you're doing what???)

@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social #bikenite A1 soggy (lots of drizzle) central Illinois USA. SUmmer school at the college ended this week and everything is in "OH NO TEH U PEOPLE ARE COMING BACK IN 3 WEEKS!!!" And we had a moonlight ride where somebody told me they just had Tim who just opened up a bike shop work on their bike. Tim's ktten had escaped and ... found my housemage :P pictures posted, identification happened, and kitten back at La Casa.

@ascentale@sfba.social @MarkBrigham@universeodon.com @bikenite@fedigroups.social #bikeni Oh, I"m remembering BikeJournal which was pre-Strava and all that, jsut an online spreadsheet, and when Howard and I challenged each other.... I have been mildly obsessed w/ getting to 5000 miles on the year. 500 per month would get me there at one pont... HOO BOY I got over 600 in May !!! THen 493 in June -- because also I have a vow NOT to let the numbers rule me. This week I did The MOonlight Ride and the Wednesday Ride and ... yea, didn't ride in the rainyday much today but I got 562 in July. I have to make myself stop doing mental arightmetic with thenumbers :P BUT a fond memory of my 3rd bike club ride ever was when Rickey said "Oh, I've got 169,000 lifetime miles! But that's not a significant number," and .... I said "Well, it's 130 squared times ten!!" and then waited for the look ... but Rickey said "You're right!!! I need to go tell Clyde!!! And I need to write a letter to Rickey :)

@ascentale@sfba.social @pete@masto.hypertelia.com @bikenite@fedigroups.social A5 #bikenite I *did*. OK I have 2 very old Schwinns that ... I haven't touched in years that I bought from somebody who had hoarded hundreds of them and was selling them for $25. Then there's the one that really belongs to my friend (another Racer from 1969 but with 3 speeds). When the handlebar moustachioed Clay wafted the Bianchi Osprey to the back of my bike and balanced and bungeed like a superhero....it inspired me. Baby Bianchi (it's a tiny frame) had been abandoned in the bike shop since the previous century. So! The Dahon got donated to the bike project. The Gazelle ... welp, I am still trying to figure out how to get it apart but I THINK I FOUND A VIDEO. I just tried to put a shim around the 26.4 mm seatpost for Baby Bianchi (should be 26.6 mm) but ... couldn't get it on easily. Oh, then there is the huge tricycle that's the housemate's that doesn't work either.

@ascentale@sfba.social @grammasaurus@mastodon.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social I might put something to be a boot on the spot. A friend once kept getting flats and couldn't figure out why. It turns out the tire had a horizontal slit in it that did not show with normal inspection but when riding the slit would separate and suck in the tube and then squeeze it flat. So it wouldn't happen fast..

@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social I had my coworker 3D print a shim for the seatpost. SHould I blast it with a hair dryer and try to mash it in? Trim some of it off?

@Su_G@aus.social @augieray@mastodon.social Right. In the past 3 years, at least half a dozen people in my direct sphere have just had sudden heart attacks and died, or had to do some minor thing in hospital but ... died. Oh, they all had had COVID.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @ascentale@sfba.social @uxMark@cosocial.ca @cainmark@mstdn.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social OK I finally looked up the song "Smoke gets in your eyes," which my mother would sort of sing. And now it makes sense she'd sing the finale ;) https://youtu.be/H2di83WAOhU?si=RzodCmD7zBAH-W5d

@oheso@ieji.de @ascentale@sfba.social @edd@freeradical.zone @bikenite@fedigroups.social That's what I thought this stuff was -- not as sugary. It really tasted like ... water. (OK when asked what it was it was "water with extra plastic particles" so I thought it might just be water.) I shall bring a banana and drink water :P mebbe fig newtons too

@futurebird@sauropods.win I try to find a way to answer that same question with something that's connected to the person asking. When I'm teaching math, that same question is the step in the progress. "Yes!!! This is the qeustion you should be asking, and the answer is important so make sure it makes sense :)) "

@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social That reminds me of some gardening structures made from old wheels. Most of our gardening efforts are ... not goin' well but one tomato plant is doin' full VINE OUT EVERYWHERE and I'd be all about propogating that on a bicycle.

@Blort@social.tchncs.de @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io oh, for years ... the Disney villain was the Greedy Businessman.

@RandamuMaki@mstdn.social @newsguyusa@flipboard.social It's also .... the way our cops have operated throughout our history. The stuff the Nazis learned from.

@sellathechemist@mastodon.social So this obnoxious professor had a weekly quiz and one time the bonus question was "what's the second law of thermodynamics?" NO IDEA but ... hey, entropy is a physics word. SO ... next week I get back "+2" for my answer: "entropy wins." I had to look it up to see how right I was.

@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it good thing you could see over it :P

@ascentale@sfba.social q8 we got hot but honestly not *that* hot. TODAY I got the Gazelle out of the back of the garage. THe frame is too rusty to trust so I want to make yard ornament.

@sellathechemist@mastodon.social My lifestyle is random acts of maintenance, which means an awful lot doesn't get done.

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world and ... on my FB page somebody posted their "If" thinking it was really out there... but it was written shortly after David Gates' father had passed away, about him. We can still fight this fight.

@NorcalGma2@sfba.social Hoping thigns are goin' reasonably of this day.

@oheso@ieji.de @ascentale@sfba.social @edd@freeradical.zone @bikenite@fedigroups.social I don't even know what those things are ;P

@avilewis@mstdn.ca get out of the cars.

@Nonilex@masto.ai Of COURSE they are denying it. Lying is what they do.

@inkican@mastodon.social well, i f the page would load, I would!!!

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I think I might have bought the filters last time central Illinois got the Canadian smoke ... or just thought about it :P I know I considered best way of getting the fan on the Xtracycle (take crate off the deck and put it on the deck)...

@Maker_of_Things@cupoftea.social @GreenRoc@mastodon.social yea, I commented to coworker referring to a comment yesterday only it wasn't the same coworker...

@majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com (yea, suicide about as likely as all these people weaponizing their vehicles when they get killed.)

@Brit_In_Moldova@toot.community Oh, if only!!!!!

#bikeNite #bikeTooter Not working today but we just had a cloudburst. So I have a question for whenever: has anybody turned an old bike into a lawn ornament? I saw one that has the house number on it prominently and others with assorted flowers. I have limited craft abilities/ resources but sometimes that means I think of things others wouldn't :P I can't remember what I did w/ front wheel w/ dynamo hub (need to make sure it's not just Put SOmewhere but I hope I donated it to Bike Project or something). At a restaurant, bike buddy said I HAD TO COME OUT AND SEE .... a Gazelle parked outside!!! ALL THE FEATURES!!! I googled (this would bave been 2009ish?) ... NOPE not this side of pond. November day, I have impulse to drop in bike shop as I ride by, say hi, buy a tube. Fritz asks me, "have you eer heard of a Gazelle?" I stop. "I have heard of a Gazelle. I have seen a Gazelle. I have LUSTED AFTER A GAZELLE." Fritz indicates behind me, where a young man stands with a Gazelle. (Not the same one.) He's graduating & goin' back to the Netherlands. Fritz had just told him his asking price ($450) was good, he just "needed to find the right person" and that's literally when I walked in. SELF: when youget the urge to go into a place, go! I wonder if I had perceived the outline... Now to the evening visit which usually means I"m not back in time for bikenite proper.

@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social So how can nasty old bike shorts be upcycled? It's not quilt material :P What have you found on the road recently? There was this ... cylindrical thing that said "subsurface instrumenets" and .. it was emitting assorted high tones....

OK #monsterdon, when do you actually start? BEcause it *seems* it will start in a few minutes so I'd have time to find it and figue it out but looking at the hashtag it looks like people are watching already.

Do I blame #monsterdon for the whole mess of short dreams that *all* had me missing busses and connections?

@ascentale@sfba.social #bikeNite Pedals !!! I've never done the things you unclip from that are called clipless, what? I am takin' apart my Gazelle and oh, yea!!! For some reason the bike shop put glow in the dark ones on ;) Teh old fashioned "glow in the dark" that holds the light for a while (I had a rosary and two cute tiny "lamps" that would do it too). I don't know how long they'd last, though. I LUV LUV LUV my redshift pedals, though. They do not eat my shoes, *and* to my delight they don't get slimy when they get wet. Oh, and they have USB port lights, front and back for each pedal, either solid or blinky.... and they adapt so front facing they're white and rear is red. I pop out the light cells on weekends to recharge but you can still ride without them. Since the pedals are blinking, it's obvious you are a moving thign, not a mailbox.

@fullywoolly@mastodon.social @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social Impressive :) :)

@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza Sigh, the most obvious one on my campus is on a much bigger pole with other stuff. I was watching it thinking my puny self could not wield a saw effectively, but then imagined designing a cargo bicycle mount with swivel locking in and pushing the bicycle forward (e-bike even???) to take out thingts in that 20 secods or so. IT wouldn't have that 'same MO" advantage, though.

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @Blort@social.tchncs.de Oh, I get what you mean! Especially since -- from what I saw jumping in halfway through -- there were more parallels to tobacco and junk food than to The Addictive Drugs We LEarned About In Health/PE. (Snork, I may have to sneak back and watch the first parts oh, while 'm cleaning something...)

@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social @DeltaWye@tiggi.es @trouble@masto.ai #bikenite #biketooter a5 I'm sure this is an "It depends." I am a masher of mashers because I"m all slow twitch and ... inherited the quads to do it. HOwever, in less than a mile on the Baby Bianchi with the only 26.6 mm seat tube Bernabe had, my knees -- and I have good knees, in swimming breastroke was the only thing I could catch up to anybody in because it was so kick dependent.... were beggging for mercy. Or at least were hurting and my knees don't hurt. I *do* throw that seat up high. I like power :)

@isol@mastodon.au @clhenrick@indieweb.social @grammasaurus@mastodon.social @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social that has always been my thinking.

@BrianJopek@mastodon.world a FIGHT SONG.

@jonafato@mastodon.social I was just glad Meijer had spiral notebooks for 35 cents and markers for a dollar. PROBABLY crayolas for cheap too. THe one time I bought a ton, the cashier just ... stopped scanning and dumped them all in the basket and we nodded at each other. She didn't say, "you're a teacher, right?"