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Around the World on a Bicycle by Fred A. Birchmore, 2020
This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endurance and determination, Around the World on a Bicycle tells of a young cyclist's ever-changing and maturing worldview as he ventures through forty countries on the eve of World War II.
Have you read this?
A Bike Ride 12,000 miles around the world by Anne Mustoe, 2011
Her epic solo journey took her around the world, through Europe, India, the Far East and the United States. From Thessaloniki to Uttar Pradesh, from Chumphon to Singapore, she faced downpours, blizzards and blistering deserts, political turmoil and amorous waiters - alternated with great kindness from strangers along the way.
Anyone going to the #Philly #Bike Expo? I'm planning on attending today and tomorrow, although I haven't actually left my house yet.
I've found it very helpful in the past. Last time we attended, we discovered helmets with microphones and speakers that network together with Bluetooth, to make it easier to carry on conversations without biking side-by-side. Also fashionable reflective clothing.
Shifter posts excellent videos all about cycling including bikes, cycling tips, city cycling, bike accessories, maintenance, culture, preventing bike theft etc. You can follow at:
They've already posted over 270 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://video.canadiancivil.com/a/shifter/videos
I went out to Flemington Rd with a tape measure last night to measure the bike lane.
Bike lane: 132cm
Traffic lane: 265cm
My bicycle handlebars: 66cm
A Ford Ranger: 196cm
132 + 265 - 66 - 196 = 135cm
From this we can see that it is *physically* possible for a Ford Ranger to over take my bicycle in the bike lane while giving a 1m gap if my handlebars are within 35cm of the parked cars and the Ford Ranger is within 35cm from the car beside it.
As a cyclist I'd be very concerned about riding 35cm away from a parked car, dooring is impossible to avoid at that distance and has a significantly larger sideways force (pushing you into the traffic lanes).
I think I'd also be really concerned about driving 35cm away from another car traveling at 60km/h.
It would also be hard to communicate to the driver of the car in the next lane to move over further when you move to legally overtake a cyclist.
Well, this is a disaster waiting to happen...
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
I did the Bicycle Network bicycle commuters count today from 7am to 9am.
I counted 489 people on bicycles.
40% of the riders looked like women.
60% of the riders looked like men.
There were lots of e-bikes but not as many as I expected. 3 bucket cargo bikes, a few long tails with children on the back. A few children riding to school.
The count stopped at 9am but the flow of bicycles didn't.
Hovenring in Eindhoven, Netherlands
A first-of-its-kind circular bridge for cyclists.#bicycles #bridges #section-Atlas
Hovenring
golden gate bridge by flrent
The western end of the Arden St protected bike lanes is coming along nicely.
They've almost completed the southern side up to Fogarty St which is half way to meeting up with the Laurens St protected bike lane.
Worst bicycle racks ever. At least if you have a U lock. I think these go in the "destroy your front tire" category.
(Update: @woelfisch informs me that this is called a "Felgenbieger" (rim bender) rack, in Germany and I'm going with it! LOL)
#breakfast time 
Pretending I'm being good going out for a ride. 
But really I just wanted a proper breakfast. 
#CriticalMass ride tonight in #Morristown #NJ . Bring #bicycles bring lights, bring friends. Meet near the fountain on the Green at 6:30. Always a good fun ride.
Critical Mass Footscray was good.
The ride down Dynon Rd was a bit somber as we let the cars use one lane. But the ride to the rainbow bridge was nice
Lots of fun bicycles. I got a photo of a side-by-side tandem.
We want to government to open to Dynon Rd cycle bridge that replaces the Dynon Rd footpath that has been removed and turned in to a car lane.
The bridge ('Rainbow Bridge') has been largely complete for years but is fenced off.
We also want to Dynon Rd bike path extended west up to Barkley St so people can use it to get to the Footscray shops.
We had 3 councilors from the Maribyrnong council along for the ride which was really great as well as the Green's candidate for Fraser.
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