Phil (ascentale)And our last question of the week:
Q8. It's weekly photo time. What did you see this week? Share a photo if you'd like. Cycling related or not is fine. Tell us about it!
#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
gene x@ascentale @bikenite A8: I discovered a really short contra flow protected bike "lane" today when I was riding to the library to pick up a book! It was neat to see a new lane even though it might be the shortest protected bike lane of all time (not that great a photo of it but I had to snap it since it was kinda novel): #BikeNite
Inky says "What the hell?!"@genex @ascentale @bikenite How short is short?
@InkySchwartz @ascentale @bikenite maybe like 8 ft? here's a screen grab showing where it is and a link to the map location: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7789598,-122.4164337,616m/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMyNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Siegfried.@genex @InkySchwartz @ascentale @bikenite 🤷🏻♂️ You have to start somewhere. Hopefully there will be a long extension soon!
LovesTha🥧@genex @realSiegfried @InkySchwartz @ascentale @bikenite that is short, but I assume it makes an important bike shortcut legal?
Trouble@LovesTha @genex @realSiegfried @InkySchwartz @ascentale @bikenite ah, I see, because of the one way streets. What a great find!
Yes, bike shortcuts / cut throughs are all amazing as they make biking and walking so much faster than trying to circle around the enormously large block (obstacle). The trick is that the intersection is high traffic, and therefore hard to traverse, though being next to the light helps.
Yes, bike shortcuts / cut throughs are all amazing as they make biking and walking so much faster than trying to circle around the enormously large block (obstacle). The trick is that the intersection is high traffic, and therefore hard to traverse, though being next to the light helps.
f*cking b*tch club@ascentale @bikenite A8: here’s part of the group from our bike party last night. We posed at City Hall because we wanted to send a photo-postcard to the new Mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, a cyclist who has pledged to continue Anne Hidalgo’s efforts to make Paris less car-centric.
And another postcard to NYC’s Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who moved to de-criminalize cyclist traffic tickets. He also announced more improvements for cyclists at the Brooklyn Bridge.
We love these role models!
@grammasaurus @ascentale @bikenite Thank You! Yes, we need to encourage our representitives to make "brave" decisions!
Captain ButtonDeer lurking near the bike trail a few days ago.
Haven't seen any groundhogs yet this year, may still be hibernating.
Solarbird 
@ascentale @bikenite A8: it's not a great photo but here are the deer i scared off biking down a road right before scaring them off
AI6YR Ben@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8. Saw an Egret while bicycling around last weekend... this is in someone's front yard!!
DemonHusky@ascentale @bikenite went to DC for the national bike summit this week. I found the phrasing of this bike lane sign to be funny.
Also, we protested the removal of a really nice bike lane by the feds
https://mas.to/@DemonHusky/116298626733136828
@DemonHusky @bikenite thanks for being there to protest!
@ascentale @bikenite not why I came, but you gotta show solidarity when you can, right?
isolA8: a while back I went to a council event asking for feedback from cyclists.
One thing I suggested was putting some clear unique identifier on the furniture along the many km of shared pathways, in case of accidents, medical emergencies, etc.
If you were a tourist, asked your location, what would you say? "I'm on that 10km pathway beside the lake"? There are no nearest cross streets, no naming of shelters, drinking stations, or play equipment.
If they identified pathway furniture, you could say "I'm collapsed on bench #5", and they could know exactly where that's located, and the nearest access point for emergency vehicles.
The other day I noticed a couple of these, so maybe it's happening?
ajft [SEC=yferc ooxie]@isol @ascentale @bikenite around melbourne there's posts with a letter/number code, I think about 1km apart, eg on the (Main) Yarra Trail, "MYT003". Thankfully I've not had to use one, but I try to make a habit of noticing the ones I go past in case I need it
Matthew Newell@ajft @isol @ascentale @bikenite
England just doesn't have Wilderness anymore but I think every rail bridge of which we have a ridiculous number has a unique identifier . On canal and river trails one tends to pass under a lot of these
Yorkie 🚴@MatthewNewell @ajft @isol @ascentale @bikenite
Every railway bridge in the UK does have a unique identification number.
In the mid-1990s I supervised a British Rail team which was tasked with entering data into the Telephone Operators Directory System (TODS) for the Eastern Region of BR. Every bridge, tunnel, station, signal post and overhead electrification structure! 10 digit grid reference, access route and direct dial numbers for police, fire, ambulance and coastguard for each location!
@yorkie @ajft @isol @ascentale @bikenite
Thanks Yorkie - for confirming my vague idea, and for completing that Herculean Task!
@MatthewNewell @ajft @isol @ascentale @bikenite
No worries! I did very little of the actual data entry, just confirmed grid references, which county the structure was in (important to get the correct emergency services!) and borrowed maps for weekend cycle tours!! 😂🤣😂
@MatthewNewell @ajft @isol @ascentale @bikenite
Took a fair bit of time, but we got there in the end!
The grid reference was the hardest part, as we were cross referencing the engineers' line diagrams (in miles and chains!) with the 1:25,000 scale OS maps (in km and m!) to get the full grid reference (2 letters and 8 numbers).
The best part though was that we had access to all the Ordnance Survey maps for the East of England, which made planning cycle tours a lot easier (and cheaper!) 😁
kimu@ascentale @bikenite A8. A view of the Cumberland River on a bike ride the other night. I had a Vision Zero committee working meeting and it was around sunset when we wrapped up. #BikeNite
@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8 out for a bit of an explore last Sunday and found some dirt roads and single track in the "Police Paddocks" near Dandenong, in all the years I've ridden the creek trail near here I've never ventured in. Even found a commemorative cairn off in a paddock. Can thoroughly recommend it, and I suspect can make it most of the way through to the Lysterfield mtb tracks
Raccoons@ascentale @bikenite #bikenite #biketooter A8 I am spending a couple of weeks in Brooklyn with my kids and riding around on citibikes and taking pictures of cool street bicycles that I see. Mayor Mamdani has made noticeable improvements for city cyclists already and it feels like the momentum is going to build. In addition to having cool street bikes Brooklyn does a nice sunset.
famousringo@RayKuntz @ascentale @bikenite actually angry at that reflection because the picture would have been *so perfect* without it, lol
Weldon BradstreetA8. This is cheating a bit because the photo is a couple of weeks old, but this is a set of bike racks at the Berkeley Marina, right in front of the Cal Sailing Club, glowing with the sunrise.
Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹@ascentale @bikenite A8. #BikeNite
self-explanatory 🌸
https://pixelfed.social/p/Anibyl/940741177364259552
self-explanatory 🌸
https://pixelfed.social/p/Anibyl/940741177364259552
Sieva never stops 📸 (@[email protected])
the spring has come #spring #blossom #bicycle #suburbia #Burnaby #FediBikes #pink
MarkI discovered Bernese Mountain Dog Street in an adjacent town. I’m Granddad to a Bernadoodle, whom I babysat this past week. Got a pic of him shaking off water after he took a dip in the Rum River.
#BikeNite a8
Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲I let this on the Root River Trail in SouthEast Minnesota stop my planned bicycling a few days ago.
AmgineI find trees down on the trails here somewhat regularly. If I cannot clear the trail (usual case) I usually take a picture and write a note with the geocoordinates to send to whoever is in charge of the trail as soon as I get phone signal.
I usually get notes of thanks later, because they have no other way to know of the problem.
rand ⛵️🥾🚴♂️🧗♂️ ❌👑@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
markn🚲@ascentale @bikenite A8. Big horizons in the Fens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fens.
No hills, let's not talk about the wind. Lots of skylarks.
Jon RoachA8. I did a bit of Spamcan-admiring at Corfe Castle (wasn't organised enough to Q4 my SLR!)
https://mastodonapp.uk/@FourT4/116283224439226045
https://mastodonapp.uk/@FourT4/116288464778726525
and this chain had reached its wear limit. #BikeNite
Daniele Verducci 🧉@ascentale @bikenite A8: unfortunately lately my bike excursions are very... mundane. Took this while shopping for groceries, the cycle path was empty, silent and I could hear, but not see, the river below on the left. The air was unusually cold and there was an eery atmosphere, so I decided to stop and take a photo.
MJ Ray@ascentale @bikenite A8. Two donkeys at East Walton
NorfolkGreg@mjr @ascentale @bikenite
Small world! Small #village! #EastWalton (Pop:87) #Norfolk
Between 1999-2009 I used to live there.
In those days, before everyone was used to buy things online, some dwellings had neither a number or name, and those clustered around the common, at the end of Common Lane, didn't even have a road name. So their official address was
[Surname]
The Common
East Walton
KINGS LYNN
PE32 1PX
Now, it seems, some of the cottages don't even have official postal addresses and just two are numbered - 7 and 8.
There's a good reason for the expression #NormalForNorfolk
On the only day I got out of my hovel.
Rather distressing sight in central London
Megan Lynch (she/her)@MatthewNewell TImes like that, I'm glad it's my verified daily habit to still be wearing a pandemic mask... #BikeNite #CovidIsNotOver
A8: On last Thursday's ride, I stopped off at the monument to the Battle of Marston Moor - one of the major battles of the English Civil War - fought on 2nd July 1644 between Cromwell's Parliamentarians (aka Roundheads) and forces loyal to King Charles I (aka. Cavaliers)
Spoiler alert: final result Roundheads 1 - 0 Cavaliers. 😉
Luke@ascentale @bikenite A8 ascending to the highest point of my commute last week in the Pennines #bikenite
Mario Angst@wlukewindsor @ascentale @bikenite oh, where is this? I was in the Peak District on my Brompton last year and had a lot of fun, but I guess this is further North?
@mario_angst_sci @ascentale @bikenite in between Manchester and Leeds just before Huddersfield so a little further North
It’s the infamous Standedge cutting: the trains go under the big hill and we go over!
Sam H (he/him)@wlukewindsor @mario_angst_sci @ascentale @bikenite I thought it looked familiar.
I was confused by the presence of the sun.
I was confused by the presence of the sun.
@ascentale @bikenite A8. On my hike between the drifts of invasive garlic mustard I spotted these lovelys. Bloodroot, called such because of their red roots.
While something pollinators like, thier seeds are spread by ants who grab them and bring them home.
Akkana Peck@InkySchwartz @ascentale @bikenite Pretty!
Around here those are called pasqueflowers, because they bloom around Easter. I've never pulled one to look at the root, though I assume it's a bulb since we're even seeing them this year when there's been almost no rain.
@akkana @ascentale @bikenite Neat though Bloodroot doesn't live out there but this neat plant does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsatilla_nuttalliana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsatilla_nuttalliana
@ascentale @bikenite A8. Since you shared some winter photos with snow last week, I want to encourage you: Spring is on its way! I took this photo of the bush near our house just before sunset. You should have seen it glowing in the full sunlight!
Pete@ascentale @bikenite A8 #BikeNite A photo doesn't really do it justice, but I stopped on today's ride to capture a #rainbow over a heart-shaped wood. And the M6 Motorway too, but that rather spoils the moment.
Will@pete @ascentale @bikenite thanks for sharing, in my area, we never see a rainbow of that low arch, always a much higher bow. I think it must be because I am at 36 degrees north, and the M6 is what… high 40s or low 50s?
I love our planet.
A8. This was a moment of dejection, actually, and also two weeks ago. I was riding a not-very-remote forest service road, and getting more depressed the further I went, as it was obviously being thrashed by dirt bikers and side-by-sides, when it opened up on a gorgeous panorama viewpoint.
Covered with strewn trash, remnants of campfires. sigh. I will return this week to clean up more.
@ascentale @bikenite A8.There are fewer cyclists in València than you'd think, given the good infrastructure. Or maybe it's that there's a surprising amount of drivers.
But lots of folks ride. They've got micromobility bike rentals as well as bike rental shops. I spotted this on the way somewhere and thought it might be for food delivery, but despite the rustic look of the crate, it's for a bike rental and touring business.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g187529-d12108262-Reviews-Verrassend_Valencia-Valencia_Province_of_Valencia_Valencian_Community.html #BikeNite #Espana #Spain #BikeTooter
Connie Szabo Schmucker
@Bikevisionary @bikenite wow, looks fun to ride and beautifully painted!
@ascentale @bikenite
It's a custom paint job and custom frame - 5-color fade (purple, blue, green, yellow/orange). Co-Motion did a great job with the paint scheme we gave them.
It's a custom paint job and custom frame - 5-color fade (purple, blue, green, yellow/orange). Co-Motion did a great job with the paint scheme we gave them.
JF 
