The Bicycle Thread - May 2021

May 1, 2021 | The Bicycle Thread

[Berlin_Freeper]

Welcome to The Bicycle Thread. A monthly PING List for bicycle enthusiasts to share experiences, information and ideas.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Bicycle Thread PING! 🚴‍♂️👍

It's May so let the adventures begin...
Kenny Smith Hunts Big Mountain Lines in the Chilean Andes // The Good, The Bad & The Foolhardy

[Berlin_Freeper]

This morning as I was going out the door my wife said something and I heard "graffiti" so I went back in and asked what's up. She told me that a construction site at a bridge invited the public to do graffiti on the perimeter fence they have up. So I went there but it wasn't much nor impressive. I then went to the famous Berlin Wall. Which is actually considered a museum.

I arrived at the most busy place of Brezhnev and Honecker kissing. Even though it was early there was already a crowd taking pictures. So I took a picture of the wall no one was at but then I saw the crowd was done so I moved to take another picture of the kissing guys because it is the most famous mural there.

As soon as I turned from placing my bike a man with a camera and in a slightly panicked voice asks: Excuse me sir are you going to leave your bicycle there. I said no I'm just taking a picture and he said That's great.

That's it end of story.

[Flick Lives]

"A Dog's Tail" is a great video by Shimano about mountain bike trail dogs.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Thanks Flick Lives for the really cute video.
In Berlin I see a lot of people riding with their dogs in a basket or carrier.
Mostly basket. Sometimes even a doggie trailer.

[daniel1212]

Good buy on Bondhus 12587 GorillaGrip Set of 7 Hex Fold-up Keys, sizes 2-8mm $5.77, though though I do not like helping Bezo's Amazon.

[Wuli]

When we lived in Manhattan in the 1970s we had a dog (until about a year before we left the city). He was a standard poodle. Not a giant and not tiny.

When we went out on the bike he was always excited, asking to go with us.

We got a large sturdy basket that I mounted securely in front of the handle bars. He loved it. He rode well, and never posed an issue of him maybe falling or jumping out of the basket - he just went along trusting me as long as we were upright.

We only had one incident when a cab came quickly around from out right, pulling right, making a turn right in front of us. I had to brake hard and I hit the cab and fell. Randy just jumped out and sat there watching everything until I called him over to me and put him back in the basket.

[daniel1212]

Gross.

[Disambiguator]

Boise Bike Week/Month starts today.

I haven’t participated in any events for years.

They either don’t interest me, and/or they’re all downtown which is not my part of town.

Plus this year they’re promoting a book written by an Ess Jay Dubya that somehow ties bicycles to race (as in -ism). No thanks!

https://www.biketreasurevalley.org/boisebikeweek

[DUMBGRUNT]

In many many years riding on the road, ~6-8k miles a year.

Never a minute not in physical contact with the bike.

For pit stops, the bike went into the washroom with me.

For stops on century rides, I’d sit next to the bike.

In bad weather, it is rollers inside my house or spinning.

Most of my bikes used eggbeater pedals, my friends’ claim are theft-proof?

[golux]

This looks like a Townie! I bought my Townie in Tel Aviv and enjoyed riding it just about everywhere.

At one point I would at times have a child on the front bars in a front bar seat, a child in the back in the back bar seat, and groceries hanging all over. I had to replace the hubs at one point - I simply wore that bike out.

Locked as always with my Kryptonite “New York Lock,” it took me just about everywhere.

With that and my speed-demon Lemond Alpe d’Huez-105 and steel Bottecchis-DuraAce, the world was my oyster.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Kryptonite “New York Lock”

One of the few the LockPickingLawyer, also a cyclist likes!
Some he opens in 30 seconds or less!

https://youtu.be/2_9x9iiJ_Z0

[fatboy]

Thursday is my birthday, will be 63. I’ve been riding bikes for almost 3 years. My plan is to take the day off from work and do a birthday ride. Hopefully I will have enough time to ride a century. I think i will ride a rail trail for the 100 miles using my Trek mountain hybrid (aka “The Tank”). Fingers crossed.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Have a Great Ride and Happy 63rd Birthday fatboy!

[Berlin_Freeper]

How Does Caffeine Affect Cycling Performance?

[Berlin_Freeper]

Germany vows to boost cycling as part of climate effort

[Berlin_Freeper]

Unfortunately the STRAVA app resizes the photo and doesn't do it well. Plus I don't want to post a large picture here,
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51165886544_657d56f5d4_k.jpg

[Berlin_Freeper]

I dusted off the Go Pro 8 BLACK for the ride,
Berlin Bicycle Ride May 8, 2021

[Tijeras_Slim]

Don’t get me started about Shimano. (Unrepentant 70’s -80’s Campy dude)

[Berlin_Freeper]

Seismic Shifts - Are These The Biggest Bike Innovations In Shimano’s 100 Year History?