I’ve been running 38mm Panaracer GravelKing tires tubeless on my Soma Stanyan for years, but the front tire I just put on has enough wobble to rub in one spot on every rotation. (The wheel itself is true.)
Two shops told me that the tire wasn’t seated right, but I checked and remounted multiple times and it’s seating fine. Even used some rubbing alcohol to lubricate the tire where it seated, but it always mounts up perfectly fine. The tire is the problem.
The second shop gave the real answer after chatting with the folks there for a bit: I should go down a size. It’s a real bummer, but even the Soma website says it can do up to 35mm. :blobfoxsad:
The only other realistic alternative is a new frameset, or at least a new fork, but that will have to wait for a while. :blobfoxgooglycry:
'However, figures published this week show injuries on the roads fell by a third in the final quarter of last year compared to the same period a year earlier. After a review, the Welsh government agreed to more 30mph exemptions but insisted that most roads should remain at 20mph.’
The hysteria about 20mph was just that - rabble rousing based on no attention to the details. That included Times reporting.
I should add that for 5 months of the year we live in the Scottish Borders (migrate north during the winter for reasons). We have had 20mph limits on most roads in towns and village for some years - actually a Conservative policy, supported by most - and it has made a noticeable difference to traffic and pedestrians during that time.
Checked off "bought cheapest beer possible before 130pm and bicycled it home" on the bike tooter achivement list. #BikeTooter (Edit: just for clarity, these are for my slugs, I do have a driver's license and no DUI arrest, I do own a car, and I don't drink beer.)
** this could also be "the Everyday Life Of Florida Man Who Lost His Driver's License To Drunk Driving And Is Day Drinking Himself To Oblivion" (but no, these are for my slugs).
ps. Apparently "Old Milwaukee" is WAY cheaper, but it's completely sold out at that grocery store. And they have someone manning the extra door there, which is normally locked, but he'll ring you up and let you out the side door to save you the embarrassment of being seen by your neighbors buying very, very, very awful cheap beer before noon 😂
While finishing up my ride this evening, I watched a driver in front of me drive right through a blatantly red light. Not changing from yellow to red as they went under it, solid red as they entered the intersection. I’m probably hyper aware as a cyclist, but even while driving it seems like I see more people running red lights everywhere. Does anyone else?
"..I expected to see a bunch of groggy children. Instead, the atmosphere was more like a festival. Kids sported fluorescent bike helmets with mohawks. Girls zoomed around their parents in princess costumes. One mom distributed doughnut holes to waiting children. Every few minutes, more cargo bikes arrived ferrying very young children while older siblings cruised alongside.
Then the music turned on. Someone started a bubble machine. Finally, a cry went up, and our impromptu caravan began rolling down one of San Francisco’s leafy residential streets." #BikeTooter#BikeBus#education#school#cycling
"...This is a “bike bus”: a convoy of parents and children who ride to school, picking up kids along the way. While the concept has existed for years, a “bicibus” in Barcelona popularized the idea where it spread like wildfire through videos on social media in 2021. Thousands of parents (and kids) eager to step away from their vehicles have jumped on board. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again...." #bicycling#cycling#BikeTooter#school#kids#climate
Wednesday:
102 seconds of plank
23.3 KM of #Cycling (24°C, Humidex of 30°C)
11 minutes of yoga for runners
30 minutes of HIIT
20 minutes of strength training
Another day of doing the outside portion of my workout first to try and avoid the heat.
Getting home hot and sweaty then having to workout more is not very appealing. 🤔
Need to start building an underground city covered in parkland. Anyone have a spare billion sitting around?
I get all the toots and then I just need to parse out the seconds and add them up to see if there's been enough "Plank: The Movie". I figure about 4500s, or 75 minutes, would be enough.
@ai6yr In #Atlanta we have a yearly group ride during the Atlanta Cycling Festival called the donut ride! TL;DR they go to 3 or 4 different donut places around the city. The hardcore people get a donut at each of them (I do not do that part lest I vomit)!
I'd like to push to install these ground anchors in any repaved or new parking spaces, and make those parking spaces usable by bikes. Why not? You're devoting public space to vehicle storage, make it work for our vehicles, too. Cars can roll right over them if they're not in use. Put 3-5 of them in each space and you make far more efficient use of the space, too. #BikeTooter
Wypad w obornickie rewiry, którymi rządzą . Patrząc na ostatnie deszczowe i burzowe dni, sporo ryzykowałem ale opłaciło się. Kawałek Wielkopolski zaliczony, kwadraty zebrane. Na zamek nie dostałem się, bo raz płatna skórka a dwa widoki lasem zasłonięte
I oczywiście ⛈️ mnie dopadła - prawie że pod domem.
I am in a little corner of France that is almost Switzerland and almost Germany. This evening the street I’m staying on was closed off for some local time trial action. ‘Tis the season. #BikeTooter#TourDeFrance#TouringFrance
Sport Explainers - Paris 2024: All You Need to Know about Para Cycling
(Yes, even the Paralympics Committee can be ableist. This video lacks audio description. I only have space to say it is very stylized animation in pastel pink.)
Today's delivery run by bike. All the parcels that I send begin their journey by bike, and are taken for a short journey on the cycling infrastructure which exists between my home and the post office.
In this example there's a single direction cycle-path which becomes bidirectional at the junction just ahead of my bike. The reason why this happens is to allow visitors to the shops behind the hedge on the right to make their journey without having to cross the road twice. Bidirectional cycle-paths substantially improve cyclist safety and convenience when they prevent road crossing in this way.
Pedalling for change — How cycling became a tool of liberation for Karachi’s women
"A local vendor reached out to me - “If you get girls onboard, I’ll take care of the cycles”. The proposition seemed like a dream come true. Excited, I floated the message in our WhatsApp group and got my first signup forming That Crazy Cyclist, our beloved girl’s cycling group. What started with two cycles quickly grew into 12 cycles within a month."
I am slowly getting aware of the powerful concept of multi-mode bicycling with the #Brompton. I can just hop on any local bus wherever there is a bus stop. This extends the range which I can reach within a weekend tour tremendously. I started my recent three-day tour in Stockholm, took a bus to Norrtälje (2.30 €), then took another bus out to the island of Björkö, which cost me another 2.30 €. After 3 hours I was in the middle of the beauty of the Archipelago. (1/2)
