Show threadrand ❌👑14h ago

@ascentale @Cyclist @bikenite A3. I think the answer is personal, i.e. check your heart and wallet. Anything on a bike can be fixed. If a steel tube has failed, it can be replaced.

However, the intersection between cost and is it worth it is an answer only you can find (and it is probably in a fuzzy grey area).

I’m currently collecting the bits to rebuild a frame from ‘91. I will spend way moe than I paid for it, most likely more than an equivalent new bike, but sentimentally I don’t want to let it go. I’ve ridden this bike on three continents. We have a history together.

Good luck! #BikeNight

Show threadrand ❌👑23h ago
@ascentale @bikenite A8. Wildlife sighted this week, many geese and ducks, 4 egrets (on the same day), a green heron (see attached), finches, squirrels, 3 monarch chrysalis, and several monarch butterflies. Well, and all the other birds, cats, and dogs that I didn’t count. #BikeNight
Show threadrand ❌👑1d ago

@ascentale @bikenite A1. Santa Clara, CA. I don’t really need motivation, usually I’m just “I need a break” and so I’m off. This is the second week in a row I made a sandwich, stuffed it into my jersey, and rode to the park in Alviso for lunch.

I was rewarded with 4 egrets, 1 green heron, numerous Canadian geese and mallards, and some seeming very large brown fish in the “creek” along the bike path. #BikeNight

Show threadrand ❌👑6d ago

@ascentale @grammasaurus @bikenite A7. Continued, I just remembered, on my way home from the grocery store there was a guy standing in front of a gas station with a handheld sign complaining about the high California gas taxes. I think $3.85/gallon.

Something like “California gas taxes are $3.85/G, vote smarter”

I almost rode back and to say I agreed, they should be $5/G, but then I thought, is that high enough?

This is part of a campaign with plenty of signage deploring high gas taxes at Chevron stations. Really bugs me (along with the signs sticking way out from the pumps, right where the driver door often is). #BikeNight

Show threadrand ❌👑6d ago
@ascentale @grammasaurus @bikenite They should bring back the key system, back before so many cars. Hopkins would be great with a cycletrack, Gilman too! #BikeNight
Show threadrand ❌👑Mar 21
@genex @evn @ascentale @edd @bikenite Two bikes 700c x 28 and 26” x 28. The 700s have TPU tubes which I pump up to 82 psi before “every” ride, losing about 5 psi a day. The 26”s (butyl tubes, same pressure) lose about the same, but I only ride that bike once or twice a week, so again I pump them up before every ride. #BikeNight
Show threadrand ❌👑Mar 21
@silvermoon82 @ascentale I did know, but I admit to acquiring that knowledge probably in the last five years or so. Along with climbing harnesses, seatbelts. UV an ozone wreak havoc. On my boat we aspire to replacing lines before they break, but we still get surprised. Luckily the water is “soft” at least compared to pavement! #BikeNight
Show threadrand ❌👑Mar 21
@nickzoic @ascentale @pete @bikenite I run the cyclami as well, they don’t hold air well, but my only puncture (three times…) was from a tiny wire protruding through my tire. I couldn’t pull it out, so I covered it with butyl patches. #BikeNight
Show threadrand ❌👑Mar 21
@ascentale @bikenite A8. My wife “dragged” me to Hakone gardens in Saratoga, CA this week. The cherry trees are in blossom and they light them up in the evening. We got there too early to experience the full effect, but it was still beautifull. It was a very nice respite to the chaos! #BikeNight
Show threadrand ❌👑Mar 21

@ascentale @grammasaurus @bikenite A7. Around here, people probably don’t in factor fuel costs (other than moving to an EV). I have one friend that to up cycling to our climbing gym, partially because of me, partially because he had just returned from a trip home to Germany and was reminded how easy it was to get around on a bike. Three other friends who also climb in the gym, only recreate on their bikes (historically 200+ miles on a weekend, although one can’t go that far anymore), and another who overdid the recreating and has backed way off.

But I did see this recumbent trike at the grocery store yesterday on my way back from the gym. #BikeNight