Plants! And topsoil. #carryshitolympics #bikesky

There's 330 million people in this country. I don't understand how one of them hasn't turned this thing into a campfire yet. Billionaires only exist because we continue to allow them to.

They were headed my way, so I hitched a ride home with critical mass.

Happy Friday! @chicritmass.bsky.social

We should build car parking with this same level of respect.

Ok, so I wanted to show this here in Nederland ... This street is a 'fietsstraat' or a 'cycle street'. Cars are allowed here, but at lower speed and they are very much told that they are guests and not the priority (in fact cycles are): see the 'auto te gast' part of the sign, or "cars are guests".

What makes a city a great cycling city? It’s simple: cycling feels safe, natural and fun. Graz, which proudly calls itself Austria’s cycling capital, is exactly that kind of place. People of all ages ride because the bike feels like the obvious choice not the brave one.

Getting sticker shock at a car repair? Mandalyn from Offbeat Bikes breaks down how much cheaper it is to maintain and insure a cargo ebike, even a very nice one! (full video below 👇)

Heads up Minneapolis, autonomous kid in training. Just rode 1.5 miles to donuts and back.

Want to see what it's like for a small family to ride cargo bikes to the local farmer's market? Then come along in the thread. We'll be using my wife's @bunchbike.com and my Urban Arrow.

This just popped in my inbox. Hoping the next reminder will be that cars are not allowed on elementary or middle school campuses. You know, the machines that are the leading cause of death for children.

All the evidence you need to see that Chicago must end car dominance and reallocate the street spaces to people and sustainable transit. The urban highways must die with history.

Old, but still/again relevant: "Driving lessons temporarily on bicycles due to high petrol prices" Source: @speld.nl (Dutch @theonion.com) speld.nl/2022/03/11/r...

Dropping off the kid at 4:30am for his class trip

You could ask me how things are going with our new @bunchbike.com, but nothing I could say would tell the story any better than the photo my wife sent me last night. 📸👇

Going home from the office Friday I went to the fishmonger’s (fresh salmon) and two grocery stores to get stuff for dinner plus a few other items. I didn’t go out of my way, just picked stores on my commute route, and I spent a total of 1 minute parking the bike. Efficiency of bikes can’t be beat.

Just hit a pothole with my car and had to fork over $600 for two new tires. Miss me with the “cars are freedom” bit

I had all my belongings, including two bikes, delivered by cargo bike when I moved here. Merci [email protected] !

I'm not saying every parent needs a cargo trike by @bunchbike.com, but I'm also definitely not not saying it either.

Snuck off for some dirt bags and an afternoon ice cream. #bikesky #bikemonth #31daysofbiking #bullitt #cargodad

GOP chair into 5 cars, basketball hoop, garage, concrete stairs, and a telephone pole Riverhead, New York #CarIntoBuilding

I love parking cargo bikes in the empty space that a 2nd car doesn't occupy in our garage.

Wow gas line are starting to form in Chicago. Look how long this line for gas is on Ashland

we are brothers in cat tree donation by bike!

E-Motos & E-scooters ARE not BICYCLES. Too heavy, fast, dangerous. Govs. EVERYWHERE must rein in ILLEGAL E-Motos & E-scooters. Yesterday NYC, Francis Delball, 39, on illegal e-scooter top speed 50 Mph / 80 Kph struck & killed cyclist Dmytro, 35. MAKE CYCLING SAFE. StreetsBlog: bit.ly/4nXltZS

Late night urgent care run like....

I genuinely started eating better food after I got rid of my car and replaced it with an e-bike. I used to love going to far flung grocery stores hunting dealz. I still think it's fun sometimes but I use the car-free savings just going to the pricey-but-convenient co-op!

Love this! At London’s famous Columbia Rd flower market, cargo bike delivery service @pedalme.bsky.social just made their 100th delivery of plants by bike, including banana plants, olive trees, bamboo, and fab florals customers couldn't carry home. 🪴

I've not been to NYC yet, but JFC what a traffic sewer. This should be trams, buses, bike lanes, and walking.

Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of my cargo bike

Groceries by bike.

Alfresco in America 🇺🇲

The most popular car in the US is the F150. According to Edmunds, the cost of ownership over 5 years for a 2022 4 door F150 is basically $49k. You can buy a brand new Urban Arrow every year and still come out ahead by $9k, and Urban Arrows are expensive even for cargo bikes.

genuinely unbelievable how long the buckingham fountain plaza has been totally empty! such a waste of one of the city's great monuments!

Anytown, USA 🇺🇲

New dream job just dropped.

Cruisin' through neighborhoods making people drop their coffees and exclaim "what the hell is that thing?" as we ride past. 😎

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I'm not saying every parent needs a cargo trike by @bunchbike.com, but I'm also definitely not not saying it either.

It's really amazing how car-independent our Berkeley life is. My wife's car has been in the shop for three days and we've gone about our business, taking the kids to daycare, shopping, going to the park, and seeing friends. This is all made possible with a cargo e-bike and a bikeable, dense city.

Donating a cat tree to a cat cafe by bike just to flex on pickup drivers during the ride so they hate me.

never done a toilet but did pick up a free dresser once that was too big to actually fit inside the carrier

We literally have buses that terminate at BEACH. No one has the right to bring their living room on wheels and park it on the beach.

Car culture is normalizing massive, depreciating debt and pretending the people who opt out are the weirdos.

"But what if you need to haul..."

Today I reached peak South Minneapolitan levels. I rode a rental cargo bike (thanks @mcbl.bike) to Costco to buy donations which I then dropped off at Joyce Uptown Foodshelf. You can do all that too!

This is the biggest risk right now to the expansion of e-bikes. People are mashing together e-bikes and all other manner of high-speed electric motos and scooters into one bucket. I've had someone ask me if my e-bike is one of those "e-motos the kids ride."

Cool, now you can sit there, baking in the sun, and wishing there were places to easily grab a drink of something to eat around the fountain.

The companies selling legal and safe e-bikes need to be much more vocal about this, otherwise pedal-assist bikes that top out at, say, 18 mph are either going get swept up in a broad ban of all e-thingies or find themselves subject to licensing and registration, which would be a de facto ban.

Rode the new e-bike from the Jade District of South Tabor through Southeast Portland and Oaks Bottom to Sellwood Riverfront Beach and back with a friend on a Biketown e-bike. Quite the sunny day adventure! #dogs #dogsofbluesky #PNWdogs #Portland