@puzzmo.com is there a hidden game after you finish ribbit 👀

goddamn it

On tonight’s episode of “ketchup or blood”

This Thursday, 1/22, is make or break for South Bay rail. If Metro does not certify the FEIR, the project is very likely delayed for years or lost. There is no quick switch to Hawthorne. Approve the FEIR, or Torrance likely gets no train this generation. Video: zurl.co/2iyKG Free Bus: zurl.co/CXOzS

never have I wanted anything less

I just think that maybe using cars to get all the kids to school isn't perhaps the best use of space or time

Man, feels fuckin great making an estimated federal tax payment while all this is going on.

hmmm…. something to mount on the cargo bike perhaps

bikelane ✅

I don’t know how to pick one, so I’ll do three: I did my longest ride yet at a metric century, I think I put more miles on bikes this year than my car, and my kiddo is having a blast biking on a new bike

Always carry more cargo straps than you think you need.

the bike tools have breached containment

Tree inspector is completing her contractually obligated quality assurance tasks.

bike path report: the strand continues to be snow free, although it was "cold" yesterday (45 F) and I needed a thin set of gloves at the start of my ride

We've spent a ton of time talking about teens getting injured on e-bikes (or illegal e-motos). We've heard that crash rates are skyrocketing. Marin County Dept of Health even set up a dashboard to see how many e-bike/e-moto crashes are happening. But how many kids are getting hurt *in cars*? 🧵

I got video of this during my nighttime commute, still one of the least favorite parts.

LMAO

I have a new nightmare intersection to go with my new commute. You get to either a) stop at a red light, far out of the car’s field of view, and then need to accelerate and merge into the traffic because no bike lane. b) merge with cars going 40+mph because the bike lane ends at the intersection.

I wasn’t watching the game on TV, but the fireworks are telling me the dodgers won

quiet night in the garage

I cannot emphasize enough how much sunset commute week rocks

We have entered the week where my commute becomes a race against the sun, before time change this weekend turns it into nighttime. pretty phenomenal week.

The Rivian e-bike is gonna turn me into a retrogrouch. “back in my day, the bicycles had a mechanical connection between the pedals and the wheels!”

few things can match bike joy, but carrying two dozen cupcakes on a bike does.

In a tragic accident, Mačka has misplaced her legs. We appreciate your thoughts on this #Caturday.

turns out I'm 20-25% slower on a 34 year old mountain bike than my modern road bike. who could have predicted this?

interesting bits of math on my commute emissions: driving to work is about 13,000 gCO2e (lifecycle gasoline). e-biking is about 113 gCO2e for electricity, plus ~400 kilocalories. acoustic biking is about 1,000 kilocalories.

Bike to the farmers market, dodge the parking and traffic mayhem, get some fresh air and sun in!

I have spent entirely too much on new bicycle wheels, and have surrendered to replacing perfectly butyl rubber with a new kind of bike goop. Tomorrow we’ll see if it actually makes my commute faster, but initial impressions are that I’m much more plush at least

I will never be this cool :(

It never changes. Bikes are never welcome…

I have a new contender for worst bike rack I’ve ever seen

there are worse commutes

cat

did you know if you have a good you like, you can just… cook it? and cook it in a giant batch so you have so many leftovers?

I will never be this cool :(

I will never be this cool :(

shoutout to the person I saw on my commute home who had the glow in the dark plastic skeleton on the back of their tandem bike, feet strapped to the pedals and creaking along with his pedaling

Transportation hot take: The California 85th percentile speed rule is Good actually. The correct answer to finding the actual speed is high along a section of road is to redesign the road so that you get the speed you want! Unfortunately traffic engineers just roll over and raise the speed limit.

I hope you get a chance to ride your bike today

neither of us would win in a collision, but we both could lose more than normal

I am about to swear a vow of emnity against these tires.

ugh, front tire has a leak, which is the second flat in a month. I think it’s time to submit to wheel goop.

we used to be a society

It's 2018. The LA City Council is opposing SB827 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,663 It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791 It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625

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Man, with how much of the built environment of the Los Angeles suburbs is dedicated to moving cars, you’d think that my commute would be faster and less miserable by car than by bike. And yet driving saves 13 minutes on a good day, and also rates substantially higher on misery.

why does this car intersection have a crosswalk intersection inside it.

It's 2025 and we're still using "amount of time drivers spend sitting at specific traffic lights" as a primary guide for how we judge the environmental impact of "more housing in cities."

Waxing a bike chain is worth it just to put on the freshly waxed chain and watch a perfectly dialed derailer just completely fail to shift correctly at all until you turn the crank a few dozen times.