Finished Rise of the Red Blade by Delilah Dawson.

Reconnect Rochester’s Advocacy Toolkit now available! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Finished Life After Cars by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon & Aaron Naparstek.

Finished The White & The Gold: The French Regime in Canada by Thomas Costain.

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. My Indiana Jones semester: 1. European History 2. History of the Holocaust 3. Indians in American Culture 4. Museum Studies 5. War in Literature

Today at 4pm! All Tolkien fans welcome. @eclasper.bsky.social #RochesterNY

Finished Life After Doom by Brian McLaren.

Check out the Top Ten Cycling Developments of 2025 in Monroe County! And if you're able, please consider a year-end donation to strengthen Reconnect Rochester's work in 2026. We could really use the support! 🙏🏼 reconnectrochester.org/2025/12/top-... #ROC #RochesterNY

Professor Tolkien, Welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social.

Finished The Bovadium Fragments by JRR Tolkien.

@thewaroncars.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @humantransit.bsky.social Has this come across your radar yet? A newly published satirical fantasy by JRR Tolkien about car culture ruining Oxford. It deserves an episode! 😉

Finished Hockey in Rochester: The Americans’ Tradition by Blaise Lamphier.

Finished Expositions & World’s Fairs: In The Beginning by Bob McGlincy.

Finished the unpublished biography of George Eastman written by Lawrence Bachmann.

Finished The Game by Ken Dryden.

2003 Miller High Life (American beer) commercial: "Alternative Fuels"

Finished Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose.

Hugh Jackman and his Brompton Happy #BicycleBirthday, Hugh! Born October 12, 1968

So annoying that the Trump administration is going after “fat” people while simultaneously clawing back funding for projects that would give people a safe place to ride a bike, walk or jog.

E-bike: 1 Goons: 0

Finished Radical Welcome by Stephanie Spellers.

Ted (Jason Sudeikis) and Keeley (Juno Temple) encounter a Brompton for the first time when Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Sarah Niles) rides up and collapses one in an episode of Ted Lasso Keeley: "That's not a bike, that's a transformer!" #BicycleBirthday Jason Sudeikis Born September 18, 1975

Ever felt like you're driving to work to make money to pay for your car to drive to work? 😩 The total annual cost of owning and operating a new vehicle this year is $11,577, or $964.78 per month. newsroom.aaa.com/2025/09/aaa-...

Five days out from our final Local History Bike Tour of the year. Get your tickets today! reconnectrochester.org/localhistory... #ROC #RochesterNY

Washington, D.C., September 6, 1980: Bicycle activists protested the rule banning bikes on the D.C. Metro by carrying a full-sized cardboard cutout of a bicycle onto a Metro car to show how easily bikes could be wheeled into the cars.

Finished The Pioneers (or The Sources of the Susquehanna) by James Fenimore Cooper.

Post your dream ride. (Finland used the Helkama Jaakari to fight Nazis)

What's wild about the 85th percentile is that lots of US states use it to set all speed limits, but the original idea (from the 1930s) was to let observed driver speeds shape speed limits on **rural roads**. It was never intended for urban areas w/pedestrians & cyclists!

Finished The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

Finished History of the Conquest of Peru by William Hickling Prescott.

Finished The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara.

Post your grocery-by-bike pics!

Me: Look at Stephen Colbert! Look at Rick Steves! Look at Fred Rogers! Others: A shame there are no positive public portrayals of progressive Christian men.

A few words about America on the 4th of July. brianzahnd.substack.com/p/weird-amer...

Finished The Letters of JRR Tolkien.

@brianzahnd.bsky.social New Dave Matthews tune will interest you. 😉 “I know you want peace on earth. But we gotta kill the monster first…” youtu.be/9jgE99anKOo?...

Finished Strike The Hammer by Laura Warren Hill.

Our first Brighton ride of the year is coming up this Friday! This ride is free but pre-registration is necessary. Hope to see you there! secure.rec1.com/NY/Town-Brig...

With Bike Week starting Friday, here is a run-down of all the resources Reconnect Rochester has to offer. Pass this link on! reconnectrochester.org/2025/05/bike... #ROC #RochesterNY

1, 2 and 8 got my vote. 🤓

Finished The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien. www.chronology.org/tolkien/

@godwelcomesall.bsky.social Have you read Sidewalks in the Kingdom by Jacobsen? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Finished The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien. 🤓 www.chronology.org/tolkien/

Share and plaster around town folks 😜 #ROC #RochesterNY

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What's the most common crash in Monroe County involving bicyclists? Click to find out. Warning: nuance required. While many assume sidewalk-riding is safer than it is, others demonize it & overstate its dangers. We take a nuanced position. 😉 reconnectrochester.org/2025/03/monr... #ROC #RochesterNY

This one's extremely important y'all. Please sign. 🙏🏼 Even if you don't bike much. Safety projects for crosswalks and bike lanes are in jeopardy. bikeleague.org/take-action/...

@brianzahnd.bsky.social Know any Icon experts who can identify these 2 in Doctor Zhivago?

Two weeks out! 🤓 #ROC #RochesterNY

Finished Bubbleball by Ben Golliver.