…Or helping the homeless, and making the streets safer.

By adding more transportation options maybe. 🤔

For me, a “normal” distance is ~8 km one way, but only because most of that is through a converted train corridor that’s completely separated from vehicle traffic. I wouldn’t like to do it if it was bicycle gutters all the way but I guess I wouldn’t mind if it was the only option. There’s also two rather substantial hills on my route which can really kick my butt if I missed some sleep or something.

Assuming 17 km total (~8.5 km one way), good infrastructure and minimal incline; totally doable. If you haven’t ridden a bicycle in a long time, let yourself have extra time to take breaks and remember to bring snacks so you still have enough energy to work. If it’s 17km one way, that is also totally doable but would require more physical preparation (and snacks). You can check incline on google maps; should show you a little graph when you set bicycle as your mode of transport.

If you’re in North America or somewhere where cycling to work is considered super cray cray progressive; I would also suggest getting a brightly coloured cycling jacket, helmet and front/rear lights; though, might not be that important in some European cities like Amsterdam.

*Also remember to pack an extra tube and tire change tools with you unless you go tubeless of course.

Why did you have to look? Now the magic that keeps it all together has been dispelled. :(

I don’t think they make them anymore… I’m fairly sure I had the same one you’re talking about (slight oval shape, button on the back), I lost it a few days ago (I didn’t put it on right) and when I went to get another one there weren’t any there, not even on the website. They only had the $60+ which serve the same purpose for 3x the cost. :(

That makes a lot of sense. The tires I have were the cheapest ones I could find.

I’ve been riding bikes for years, and I’ve only had to change a tube maybe 3 times. I only ride on paved surfaces though, so it’s nothing like trail riding or what have you… anyway, I’m very unpractised on tube changing; particularly when trying to get the tire off of the rim. It takes maybe 30 minutes to change a tube with a lot of pinched fingers and swearing.

AFAIK yes, everything is covered. I still have to talk to the adjusters to confirm though. Seems they wanted pictures, but I don’t see how that could help anyone in this case since the damage was only detectable through use.

I was just going to leave a link to proton. Nice.

Thanks!

I have martial arts training, so that took over when I started to fall. My instructor made us do probably thousands of rolls, so there wasn’t any thought to it. I was already starting to roll before I was conscious of hitting the truck.

Pretty much like this except from a bike, into a truck and onto the road. I know why my ribs hurt now lol.

Nope. They’re usually the first to respond though.

I use front and rear lights from MECs (Mountain Equipment Co-Op in Canada, similar to REI) in-store brand. They’re not super bright, but they’re bright enough so I can see where I’m going in random dark spots and generally be visible at night.

These ones. Though it doesn’t look like the rear (red) lights are available any more.

It wasn’t an intersection, rather an exit for a strip mall parking lot. Still, I think the main reason I was hurt was because of the lines of giant power poles that are in the middle of the sidewalk; a hallmark of my city. I think they’re leftovers from when the area had no need for pedestrian infrastructure, let alone bike lanes, and no one’s bothered to bury the lines.

Thanks. Yeah, tomorrow is going to be an acetaminophen day.

Fr lol. I overheard the paramedics saying they were in the same place this morning for the same kind of accident, but that guy dislocated his shoulder or something.

Good to hear, yeah it’s probably the wheels. Wasn’t that big of an impact, everything’s still banged up though (including me).

Two fire trucks, a police car and an ambulance showed up!

That’s not “wire” that’s barbed wire. Huge fucking difference.

I really like this rather positive outlook.

It’s super chill.