Phil (ascentale)Jul 18, 2025

@bobjonkman asks:

Q7. Forest fires across the world have blown smoke to places hundreds of (miles|km) from the fires. Air quality has gone down, some days to dangerous levels. Have you adjusted your biking because of low air quality? Changed your route? Worn an N95 mask? Stopped biking?

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Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Jul 19, 2025
@ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite #BikeNite A7. This Summer, my area hasn't been impacted by air quality problems, yet, but last Summer was pretty terrible. There were definitely nights when I ceased my fitness rides because of poor air quality, and there were definitely days when it was necessary to wear a mask while riding my ebike for errands. Changing my route is not really possible. I don't ride for pleasure, I ride for transportation or fitness, and my fitness rides are a fixed circuit.
Show threadGemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐
@ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite For my fitness rides, I ride a fixed circuit of my neighborhood, because I have a permanently wrecked knee, I ride a singlespeed bicycle, and that is the longest loop I could make without significant elevation changes, to spare putting too much pressure on my bad knee. Any longer ride would force me to traverse hills, and I don't want to use my ebike for fitness rides, it weighs more than twice as much.
Jul 20, 2025 at 9:35pmWeb