Of all the levers you have available to pull on for #ClimateAction, the big long one labeled "ride your #bike instead of driving" requires a moderate effort and you might need to wear a hat when it rains, but the rest of the levers are too short for you to move them.
@pleaseclap@robgalanakis@UncensoredNews "... our transportation system is completely stupid" article?) but you'll also be reducing your own reliance on cars, saving money, withholding money from those 100 companies, and possibly inspiring your friends and neighbors to take the orange pill. Like if you were going to buy an e-car but bought 10 e-bikes and gave them to your friends, you see the VMT reduction there right? Also #eBikes displace ~3x car miles so it's not like eating vegan at all.
There's another round of "they knew" articles about large oil companies and climate change, this time about Shell in the 1970s.
I guess that these articles help people motivate themselves in some way, but of course they knew. Large oil companies use geophysical science and can't be completely out of touch with science in general. The apparent confusion and controversy in popular media was something that oil companies produced as propaganda, not something that they ever themselves took to be scientific knowledge.
They certainly know now, and they don't behave any differently.
It's really pouring now. 🌧️ Not riding my #bike today. It's fine. I love rain. Can't have everything, right? 🤪
I'm thinking I'll use Big Bike ⚪🚲 for the out of town ride on Monday -- ±40km each way. Battery power can do about 60km in ideal-ish conditions. I intend to ride on #PAS zero as much as possible.
If I take Grey ⚫🚲 it can supposedly do 100km but... I dunno. Should be enough. But it's no good for me on PAS zero.
Me thinks ⚪🚲 is still a better ride for long trips. 🤔 #eBikes#bikes
Finally got the #superCargo and @ShawneMartinez's #BullittX in the same place at the same time to compare. Conclusion: without his rear rack extension, they're the same length. The BullittX carries more of that in the floor, with more vertical front and back angles. Random dog's butt for scale. #CargoBikes#CargoPalooza#eBikes#TwoLessCars
Looking for #ebike recommendations by for my short wife. She’s 4’10” (on a tall day she says), and is looking for something to get her around the city.
A lot of e-bikes tend to be big, heavy clunkers with big batteries. I’ve been looking at the #tern vectron, #BromptonBike c series, #pedego boomerang, and a few other folding and micro bikes.
After a couple of rides and a recent visit to have Grey checked (where I asked the vendor to ride it with #PAS at zero to see if he too has a hard time pedaling)...
Grey ⚫🚲 is no good without 🔋 power, unlike Big Bike ⚪🚲 that rides like any regular non-powered #MTB.
Grey ⚫🚲 doesn't have the power recovery feature (forgot the proper name for it) that some #eBikes have which, without battery power, makes it difficult to pedal, due to the resistance of the magnets. So I didn't think that purely human-powered pedaling would be an issue.
I did test ride it before buying. But the place for test riding is no good for riding in pure pedal power for wimpy me -- it's mostly inclines.
Despite Grey ⚫🚲 not letting me pedal at #PAS zero, I still get a good workout with it -- comparable to my efforts riding Big Bike ⚪🚲. That is based on the numbers reported by my #Garmin ⌚.
With ⚫🚲, I can throttle while* doing PAS. Like doing a kick & punch 🥋 combo. 😄 So, while pedaling on PAS 1, I can simply throttle to get a boost instead of switching up to a higher PAS. The throttle power is not dependent on the current PAS setting. Meaning on PAS 1, I can throttle up to the max* 37kph. But I won't, of course. 🤪
What seatpost sorcery is this? I don't do too much mountain biking, so I did a double take today when I saw this #ebike seatpost rising after a guy passed me. Are these common on #ebikes? #cycling
It’s not cheating using #ebikes (although it is using Strava but that’s just for visual representation), if it wasn’t for electric-assist bikes we would be driving. Averaging 20km/hr isn’t that much slower than a car. Two hours in the saddle.
We should be building for #cargobikes more than EVs. Cheaper for everyone, much better for the environment, better all round.
Starting June 1, the Province of British Columbia will offer residents a rebate for purchasing a new ebike. The lower your income, the higher your rebate. This is good policy. E-bikes are amazing! https://bcebikerebates.ca/#ebike#ebikes#mobility#climate
The City of #Boulder, #Colorado‘s e-bike rebate program begins in July. Residents will be able to get $300 back off the price an e-bike or $500 off an e-cargo bike sold by local retailers. Low-income residents get even more back, $1200/$1400 respectively.
“I support safe biking not because I’m a person who rides a bike, but because I’m someone who understands how important it is for cities to function better.” My comments to @SactownMagazine in #Sacramento on e-bikes, safe bike infrastructure, and more.
daughter keeps asking how many bikes I have now and I try to count but we lose track somewhere in the debate about how to count scooters or trikes or the pedalflow, trailer bike, unicycle... 😂
Please help me find more content for my feed. It's currently too depressing, and full of #abpoli and #uspolitics and global disaster doom and gloom. I like local content, and #bikes, #urbanism (less so the doom and gloom stuff), #travel, #families, #animals & #nature, and fun random stuff. Most of the podcasts etc that I followed on bird site haven't migrated. 😢