Looking for something that can haul two kids (6 and 3 currently), and is easy to handle for someone without a ton of skill/balance. Ideally two wheels, because around here sometimes sidewalks are load bearing bike infra, and getting up curb cuts seems hard on a Bunch.
Okay, bike friends, I am looking for a new cargo bike. I’ve got a Velotric Packer 1, which has been good for me, but carries the weight too high for my wife to feel comfortable riding it.
Things they don’t warn you about when you buy a longtail:
Your three year old will have chocolate on his face, and will end up sticking his face into the back of your shirt, leaving you with chocolate on the back of your shirt
A child’s carpet car scene, notable for its lack of pedestrian infrastructure aside from zebra crossings, and absolutely BONKERS road signage. There is no stop signs, just ‘stop’ in lower case written across both lanes of that two lane roads. There’s a T-junction that somehow has three crosswalks, there’s a traffic circle with one entrance that has a traffic signal and one with a stop writing.
Another image from the same carpet scene. This intersection has ‘stop’ written at three roads with marked crosswalks, two traffic signals inside the intersection, and somehow lane markers in a star pattern?
I would like to see the MUTCD for this jurisdiction
A sand colored tabby cat curled on some bedding. She’s slightly turned so her light-colored belly is exposed, and her paws are curled. She is very cute.
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Mačka, a small brown tabby cat, is curled into a vaguely circular shape, with her legs all protruding. She is fast asleep on the couch, with various household items completing the scene.
happy caturday
criminal that it just dead ends
Man, hearing the launch controllers discuss telemetry system issues was giving me flashbacks
dang, out of cookies.
unfortunately for my waistband, the bakery is only 150 feet away.
dang 15 minute city activists trying to make me support the local economy with maximum convenience.
Decision chart where all roads lead to cargo bike ownership.
It’s a confusing and complicated world.
Let me help simplify it for you.
A hand holds a KMC Missing Link 9 speed chain package, with a prominent $5 price tag on it
Still cheaper than gas
Front and rear rack for carrying stuff ✅
Step through frame and upright posture ✅
if it wasn’t for the fork, I’d give them a 10/10
Guess who forgot that he took his chains off to wax them until he hopped on the bike for his commute?
Furthermore, guess who managed to search for 15 minutes before managing to find just half a quicklink to remount the chain?
the discharge rate an ebike battery could hit…. my hair is standing on end just imagining it
The red cover of Bicycle and Motorcycle Repairing. The cover is old, and has a condensation ring from someone putting a drink on it.
Anyone know any shops that do V-cradle or overhead cradle scanning of old books in the Los Angeles area? This would just be fun to have digitized so other people could see how much (and how little!) bike repairing has changed.
A photo of a page of the book, machine transcription follows: CHAPTER VII THE FRAME Much of the work described in this and the following chapter is retained for its historical interest, rather than for its practical value. At the time this work was originally prepared a Bicycle was worth $100 at retail, and it was well worth while to attempt a difficult frame repair. Today, when the retail price ranges from $20 to $50, and at wholesale frame and fork may be bought for $8, it is plainly absurd to spend more than that sum to repair a broken frame. There may be occasions when for some special reason it is desired to save the old frame, and partly on that account, partly for its intrinsic interest, the former matter is repeated verbatim. <an engraving of a bicycle frame, where the down tube is broken just before the joint with the head tube> The accidents possible to a Bicycle frame may be divided into two classes: First, those by which one of the turned or forged steel parts may be broken at the socket, as shown in Fig. 1, or the
Frames these days are too cheap to bother repairing.
A printed page, machine transcription follows: CHAPTER I STARTING IN ON FIFTY DOLLARS While it is to be hoped that the reader will not have to start his business career with so small a sum as $50, yet the purpose of this chapter is to show how the money could be spent to best advantage and that it is feasible to compete with other Bicycle repairers without making a larger initial investment. The main reasons for the small investment required are the extent to which the supply houses are prepared to furnish parts of universal application, averting the former necessity of making or buying special parts, and the existence, especially in the large cities of shops that specialize in brazing, enameling, vulcanizing and general Bicycle machine work. So that the Bicycle repairman can to-day buy at reasonable prices the parts and the work that formerly required an extensive equipment of special tools. Eliminating, therefore, the more expensive equipment and planning for tire repairs, wheel repairs and the replacement of the parts most often required, we would recommend the purchase at the start of the following tools and stock: 1 Bench Wheel Truing Stand $4.00 1 Nipple Grip $0.30 1 Nipple Screw Driver $0.20 1 Cutting Pliers $1.80 1 Rim Drill and Countersink $0.35 1 Long Taper Reamer $0.50 1 Tire Fluid Injector $1.00 1 Plug Pliers $0.35 1 Plug Hole Cutter $0.20 1 Jiffy Tool $0.10 1 Tire Mouse $0.20 1 Rubber Band Repair Tool $0.06 1 4 in 1 Valve Tool $0.20 1 Valve Inserter $0.10 1 Valve Spanner $0.05 1 Shop Pump $1.10 1 Chain Cleaning Brush $0.17 1 Hack Saw Frame 0.50 12 Hack Saw Blades $0.65 1 Shop Wrench $0.81 1 Shop Spanner $0.12
A long list of tools and prices, totaling to $49.20 with the prior page. Machine transcription of tools and parts follows 1 Hance Spanner.. 1 Narrow Jaw Cone Wrench 1 Combination Pliers. 9 Assorted Screw Drivers. 2 Hammers set Chisels Files Total for tools $18.21 300 Spokes and Nipples, assorted $2.10 6 Wood Rims, assorted 100 Wood Rim Washers. 1 Front Hub. 1 Rear Hub. 3 Extra Sprockets. 1 Coaster Brake.. 3 Front Repair Axles 2 Rear Repair Axles. 6 Air Drying Enamel, assorted 1 Enamel Brush. 1 Inner Tube. 1 oz. Patching Rubber. 1½ pt. Patehing Cement ½ gal. Tire Fluid (or 12 tubes) 1 pt. Jilly Solution... 1 oz. Rubber Bands. 1 lb. Tire Tape..... 12 Brass Plugs, assorted 36 Rubber Plugs, assorted 3 Shoe Valves... 3 Valves and Stems. 12 Valve Insides 1 Spool Valve Wire.. 12 Shellac in 2-oz. bottles with swab. 12 Plugging Cement in 1-oz. tubes 300 Steel Balls, assorted.. 50 Nickeled Nuts, assorted... 12 Lubricating and Cleaning Oil 12 sticks Chain Graphite...... 12 Chain Repair Links, assorted 1 pair Chain Adjusters.. 1 Handle Bar Stem.. 2 pairs Handle Bar Grips 1 pair Pedals... 36 pairs Trouser Guards 4 Lava Tips.. 2 Ibs. Carbide.. 12 ft. Pump Hose 1 pair Toe Clips 12 Bells, assorted 1 Cyclometer 6 Motorevele Batteries 12 Assorted Terminals. 40 feet Primary and Secondary Wire 1 Ammeter Total for tools and supplies. $49.20
Actually, I think these prices might be a tad outdated.
The title page of “BICYCLE AND MOTORCYCLE REPAIRING”, the “SEVENTH EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED” by Charles W. Leng who was the former president of the National Cycle Trade Association. It was published by David Williams Company in 1912.
Anyone got $50 to invest in my bike shop?
A hand holding two chains, a Shimano 8 speed on the left, and a Shimano 12 speed on the right. They’re both folded over on themselves, and have traces and drips of grey wax on them.
freshly waxed 🤤
How many watts at what voltage? I’m going to be adding some addressable RGB LED wraps around the kid cage on the back of my long tail, and will have some excess 5v watts available on the converter…
I got cleared for “light exercise” and immediately took a 31 mile bike ride up the beach. I am Healed.
I have been unable to ride a bike for several days, and have been just about climbing up the walls. Counting down the days until I can ride again.
a crosswalk crosses 8 lanes of car traffic, the paint the only indication that pedestrians are crossing the street, on a stretch of road where cars are regularly going 50 miles an hour.
someone at CalTrans really looked at this intersection and thought "yes, these white stripes are sufficient pedestrian protection.
Little bike rack had a glow up
They’re my local shop and are great. Take all my bikes there
a wheel bender bike rack positioned too close to a brick wall to be of any use. beside it, a shopping cart rack, its horizontal tubes providing a welcoming target for a bike lock, and something solid to lean against
shopping cart corral is a better bike rack then the bike rack is!
opening my bank app and updating the name on my spending money account to “bike fund”
@puzzmo.com is there a hidden game after you finish ribbit 👀
my oven has a "WiFi" button, and it's one of my least favorite buttons in the house
goddamn it