What's your best piece of advice, aside from "at least you're not dead", for someone experiencing birthday depression?

This hits hard. I too experienced an "event" many years ago which turned out to be, what my doctor described as a mini heart attack, due to undiagnosed super high blood pressure enlarging part of my heart. Scary is an understatement. 1/ www.bikeradar.com/advice/healt...

What I now realize is at that moment, right then and there, I was given a gift. The gift was a new perspective on life, health, and what cycling meant to me. The old "racer guy" was dead. A fresh new casual biker had been born, someone who could find gratitude in the most mundane of pedal strokes 5/

When she wanted to bike to dinner, but you lazily insisted on driving.

Customer parking is customer parking.

Zeedijk, Amsterdam in 1980 and today

The gutter doesn’t count as bike lane If a car wouldn’t drive on it, it’s not fit for anyone else.

Given how hostile it can be to walk in American cities, this is quite impressive.

Cargo bike front rack max weight capacity achieved! ⭐️ This box of ice melter weighs 20kg. Getting it home by #TernHSD bicycle was certainly easier than carrying it through the store to the cashier.

One year ago today, the day before my birthday, I didn't know it would be the last birthday I would have with her in my life. It's been nearly 3 weeks since we said goodbye and I miss you so much.

Just like Paris. 🗼

If the bike lane is too narrow to fit the bike symbol, it's too narrow to be safe for the majority of people.

If you could easily lose your life riding in a painted bike gutter, always and unapologetically ride your bike on the sidewalk.

*Chevy Tahoe blasts through conference room exterior wall

No one living in a city should become helplessly stranded just by going to the grocery store... Mrs. American Fietser just rode her bike to the store. When she came out to load groceries on her bike, (at 7 months pregnant, mind you), she was approached by this lady, clearly needing help.

Voorstraat in Utrecht: a true fietsstraat where bikes come first and cars are guests. It’s not just safer and more relaxed to cycle - the whole street benefits. Outdoor cafés, quieter homes, and a vibrant public space. When you design for people, cities flourish.

​A message from Mrs. American Fietser: ​Yes, you can be 7 months pregnant. Yes, you can get dressed up for dinner. And yes, you can ride your bike to get there.

Less of a threat than the truck/SUV cult.

This is what happens when "bike parking" is just a checkbox item for developers, not a real amenity.

The Mrs and I are both doing some work on the laptops in the living room with Bob Ross playing on the tv in the background. That man was a gift to the world! Amazing talent and seemingly such a kind soul. I remember watching his show as a small child.

​A message from Mrs. American Fietser: ​Yes, you can be 7 months pregnant. Yes, you can get dressed up for dinner. And yes, you can ride your bike to get there.

My folks (in their early 70s) ride their e-bikes all the time. They've clocked hundreds of kilometers every year since they got them in 2022... WAY more distance than they did with their bicycles. It keeps them active and social - their friends all go riding together - and fitter than ever.

My 87 and 88 year old parents live in a suburban independent living retirement community in Oregon. People who have never biked before (or not for decades) are now buying e-trikes which are a mobility game changer for the growing number of elderly too old to safely drive.

I recall one of my first exposures to ebikes was on the coast in Flanders. We'd paused to do some navigation and a group of about eight retirees rolled past on a mix of mechanical and ebikes, happily chatting away, a moving social group. It sold me on them and proper infrastructure.

I can only imagine how the invention of the e-bike must feel like a little bit of time travelling, for a lot of seniors, who thought that cycling was going to have to exist only as a memory. If only more politicians would support infrastructure to make it safe for them! #HamOnt

So much wrong in such a short story: 1. Pedestrian crash makes it sound like 2 people walked into each other. 2. Driverless BMW? 3. It shouldn't matter if they were in a crosswalk

I have some questions. Not a lot. But, some

Some city centers become deserted once it gets dark. That's when Utrecht really starts to shine!

I have observed so much wild car user behavior since I started commuting on the bike

This thread is a perfect illustration of why e-bikes are an absolutely mobility gamechanger for so many people. (NB: We need to forever bury the idea that e-bikes are "cheating")

Look at this chicane! Designed to help slow floods.

Ready to fight back against car-centric streets? This book is your battle plan! IF YOU WANT TO WIN, YOU'VE GOT TO FIGHT by transportation activist @carterlavin.bsky.social is out now and available wherever books are sold! islandpress.org/fight

I was approached by a lady outside the gym today while parking my bike. She was likely in her 70s. She had such great questions about the bike and then proceeded to tell me about her ebike. She told me that she rode over 600 miles on it last year and was so proud of herself. She was so happy.

"but if you ban cars from my street how will I get a sofa delivered?" Get the delivery guys to park in the loading bay at the end of the street and bring it the short distance from there.

Look at that chicane! 😍

Every year, my city has the landscaping swapped in our planter protected bike lane to reflect the current season. We just switched from autumn mums to a festive holiday theme, and it adds so much enjoyment to my commute. Infrastructure can be beautiful at the human scale.

Unplug the fucking internet. We've gone too far.

Even in the Netherlands...

Seeing bike lanes expand:

When family is visiting from out of town and insists on driving to dinner rather than walking, biking, or taking transit.

If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy 's first AC Transit bus ride! Looking forward to seeing more book in transit pics from folks!

Absolutely insane shit happening in one of the most wealthy countries on earth. Wealth for the few. Hardship for everyone else.

Who needs northern lights when we’ve got city lights like this every night in Chicago

Infrastructure should be designed so that motorists face the consequences of their actions, not the people outside of their cars.

E-bike dads is my tribe. All this: “Convenience, more than, say, environmentalism, is driving the boom … What e-bikes are replacing is generally not the family car but the second runaround.” @dlknowles.bsky.social @americanfietser.bsky.social

So the crib is already popular. 🐈

The president will be drawn and quartered in an Olive Garden parking lot by angry Americans.

I love Chicago more than any other American city, but they will not be fully respectable until they start getting rid of this urban highway insanity. *Also, let's do congestion charging.

We're finishing up our daughter's room and all I'll say is that we bought an e-cargo bike's worth of furniture and decor.

Not all delivery trucks are justifiable in cities. We can create jobs, boost sustainable transportation, and create safer streets with better infrastructure through cargo bike logistics. The solutions, designs, and tools already exist. All we seem to lack is the political will to implement them.