Phil (ascentale)Mar 20

Welcome to #BikeNite on Friday, March 20th!

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Our intro and Q from @bikemonterey

Q1. Where are you posting from today? Do you ride with fluorescent leg coverings or ankle lights, reflectors or similar? What is your experience with them, and do you have any recommendations?

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Show threadJ. Nathan Matias 🦣

@ascentale @bikemonterey @bikenite Fluorescent ankle bands, and I also recently got the Redshift pedals with integrated lights last year. They are heavy but what’s a hundred grams when safety is on the line?

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Mar 20 at 11:17pmWeb
Show threadgene xMar 20
@natematias @ascentale @bikemonterey @bikenite who that looks cool - haven't seen those before, will have to check them out!
Show threadJ. Nathan Matias 🦣Mar 20

@ascentale @bikemonterey @bikenite

Oh also, greetings from Ithaca New York, where it's the best weekend of the year - 🍁 weekend, and I am going on a 200k tomorrow to visit a maple shack, fueled by maple syrup in my bottles and maple candy in my bag. #bikenite

Show threadKimMar 20
@natematias @ascentale @bikemonterey @bikenite Ooh, those are shiny...
Show threadcognitively accessible mathMar 21
@natematias @ascentale @bikemonterey @bikenite
I got these a couple of years ago.
I pop them out once a week or so to stick them into USB ports and recharge. My commute's about 45 minutes each way so that's a lot of hours. They are motion sensitive so I don't have to turn them on or off. (They do shut off if it's in the garage for a few days.)
I can **still ride the pedals** if they're in the charger though. So having a bad memory is not an issue.
About two years out, I sprang for a set for my other cargo bike and ... two of the litte cartridges stopped charging, and I expect others will two. I'm thinking 2 years of daily use ... is purty good. (Also, I dropped one early on and the switch broke and they just sent me a replacement, no questions asked.)
I have sold a few -- 2 of the 3 were 'what can I get my biker person for Christmas?" And I said "THIS --> they won't want to spend that much but they will LOVE THEM." (The third was a neighbor who went down to Itty Bitty Bike SHop and said their neighbor had them so Geoff said, "Oh, you live on Anderson Street?" which kinda freaked him :P )
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