Sometimes, I think my nearest town is doing pretty well at providing for active travel like cycling and walking, with a pretty good but incomplete greenway network. Other times, local government does stuff like this: keep pushing ahead with a large 236-space car park with a small 55-space bike shed apparently so they can say it's "active travel" and have an active travel budget pay for it, but with an "avoidable safety risks" crossroads between the bike shed (numbered 2) and the access to the greenway towards town (numbered 8).

This crazy plan was approved at an irregularly-timed planning committee meeting this morning, with no notification to objectors (not even ones who had registered on the very error-prone self-service website) so I missed any chance to speak during the meeting and few councillors spend much time in the lobby before the meeting any more. I'm also pretty sure that councillors were told the road layout had been approved as safe, or words like that, but I need to watch the video recording because surely I must have misunderstood that???

Help me find any good in this. I guess it might be slightly nicer to wait out a rainstorm in this building instead of the bike shed of a nearby building?

In the late 1970s, he built what is considered the first off-road bicycle with a frame that was aluminum rather than steel, one of his many inventions.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46763057

Hopefully my neighbors will rejoice as I no longer have to cut and drill steel.

My next goal is to find another junk trailer so I can get the wheels more centered and have better handling and keep the rear of the trailer from scraping when going up and down driveways.

Basic maintenance is one of the most satisfying ways of getting to know your bike – with most basic parts costing less than a tank of fuel

Looks like it also includes lockers for storage, a bolted down air-pump for filling your tires, and free bike cable locks (around the other side of the lockers). Very neat to see :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/58098619

A recent post made me want to share and see how other people are carrying and towing voluminous stuff with bicycles. Show us your #carryshitolympics, or just regular hauls.

For example, I live on an archipelago and have a kayak and a SUP that I carry around with bike trailers. Depending on my destination and what I'm carrying, I use an Aosom trailer with a flat bed, but most of the times I can get away with a lighter Burley Travoy. Here are some pictures.

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Nicola points to a 2015 study of 300-plus female twins that revealed a fascinating link: Having more powerful legs—a metric captured by sitting in a machine and pushing one foot as hard and fast as possible against a pedal—is associated with relatively better cognition 10 years later, measured by performance on tests of memory and processing speed.

The article goes on to suggest gym-equipment training exercises, but regularly pushing a heavily loaded pedal via cargo-cycling seems like a much more obvious solution that doesn't require a gym membership.

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Last day for this. If you have any link with King's Lynn and can spend ten minutes today to help cycling here, that would be great.

I'll answer any questions you have when I can. I'll also probably post more about it later on that site, introducing what's currently happening in a typical English country town.

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I had to temporarily move out. It took a few trips to move all my belongings.

No electric, so rather slow speed, but thankfully very little traffic here.

#CarryShitOlympics