New bike day for me!

crossposted from: https://social.tchncs.de/users/lgsp/statuses/117524547187063532

After so much elbow oil grease (thank you @Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ), this is the result I'm proud of: A working Graziella, ready to take me around Salento (area in Pulia, south of Italy)(maybe that's too much... maybe I'll move just in the town 😅)

There is still quite some rust, but the pedals flow and the brakes work well (enough).

Do you know this old folding-bike style? The original one was called Graziella, in the '60s, and then all the Italian manufacturers produced their version. But I think it's not known outside of Italy. Cheap, sturdy, practical... The old ones sell for a good price, if in good state (not this one 🙃 )

Also a picture while I was restoring it:

crosspostated from: https://social.tchncs.de/users/lgsp/statuses/117150575857916610

crossposted from: https://feddit.it/post/29954054

Source and additional pics:

https://beige.party/@Lana/116684403003398772

Also from the same thread:

For people who aren't intimately knowledgeable about the Seattle rail system, the Mt Baker station is an elevated platform. Meaning she had to have driven the WRONG WAY on a railroad about 40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES to end up here.

Edit: it looks like it was not "several miles" but less then one mile; a notable feat anyway:

https://piefed.social/comment/11604144

Source and additional pics:

https://beige.party/@Lana/116684403003398772

Also from the same thread:

For people who aren't intimately knowledgeable about the Seattle rail system, the Mt Baker station is an elevated platform. Meaning she had to have driven the WRONG WAY on a railroad about 40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES to end up here.

Edit: it looks like it was not "several miles" but less then one mile; a notable feat anyway:

https://piefed.social/comment/11604144

This is one of the most important commercial streets in Milan, and the cyclepath I'm using has been the topic of harsh discussions since the beginning, with right wing politicians wanting to take it out. The main metro line of the city runs right below this street.

crossposted from: https://social.tchncs.de/users/lgsp/statuses/116617737712316275

Those who use the bike know this very well: in the city, speeding motorists overtaking other cars, only get one thing: they arrive first to the next red.

With a simple model, the author estimated the probability that one car that overtakes another, will then be reached again at a later red light. Then he estimated the probability that the same thing will happen when there are multiple successive traffic lights, as usual in the cities.

The result is that as fast as an aggressive driver goes, the presence of multiple traffic lights makes it virtually certain that a slower driver will catch up

So, if someone aggressively overcomes you, when you reach him at the next traffic light, you can tell him that it is mathematically proven that he/she is an idiot.

In addition, this study has implications for the 30 km/h city, demonstrating how in urban areas the traffic lights determine the travel times, not the maximum speed reachable between one traffic light and the next.

The original scientific article is here: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/13/4/260310/481212/The-Voorhees-law-of-traffic-a-stochastic-model

crossposted from: https://poliversity.it/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/116419204210303856

This must be one of the funniest event in the utility bike area

I re-watched the movie recently and noticed how may intro scenes are full of car traffic.

For example the Seine banks, full of cars in the movie, are now pedestrian only.

It would be nice to have a 1-to-1 comparisons, wouldn't it?

Source: https://yehudamoon.com/comic/2008-05-08/](https://yehudamoon.com/comic/2008-05-08/

crossposted from: https://poliversity.it/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/116159715112186636

Nowadays there are several models that are able to consume the blades of angle grinders, increasing the fatigue and time that the thieves take to open them, so much so that it often becomes easier to cut the structure of the rack.

The Kryptonite looks unbeatable, but other models also reach good levels, too.

Finally, a reminder that a good lock is not enough, but you also have to lock the bike in the right way

cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/FIABSegrateCiclabile/statuses/116122085862164698

Interesting article from a generalist magazine. According to it:

• Best Preinstalled Phone: Fairphone 6 With /e/OS
• Best for Pixel Phones: GrapheneOS
• Best for Non-Pixel Phones: /e/OS
• For the DIY Tinkerer: LineageOS

Somehow this car was able to break through the railway fence, hit the rails and jump on the platform.

And car brains say bicycles are dangerous...

Article (in Italian): https://www.milanotoday.it/cronaca/auto-stazione-cesano-boscone-binari.html

cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/25146908

For context: a father teaching his 12 yo kid to drive. The kid pushed the gas pedal, couldn't stop, went through the railway fence, hit the rails and jumped on the platform. On Christmas day. Train traffic was interrupted for 4 hours

Article (in Italian): https://www.milanotoday.it/cronaca/auto-stazione-cesano-boscone-binari.html

This is the message of an old campaign for the #securityRoadway in #UK. It sounds ridiculous, if only the same message (maybe a bit watered down), was not used for road safety campaigns nowadays.

Pure victim blaming

crossposted from: https://poliversity.it/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/115705207235775690

Munich has some issues dealing with too many cars and illegal parking on the sidewalk is common.

The SPD mayor has the solution: change the law so that this rude habit becomes legal.

And what about pedestrians, people with wheelchair, strollers? I guess they'll have to adapt.

Fuck cars!

I find this idea very innovative and exciting. It is being developed by Fedilab, and separates data from relay (a bit like AtProto does) to allow everyone to keep their data, even on a phone

Holos - a mobile ActivityPub server that runs on your phone. A relay server maintains your stable identity when you're offline. Switch between text, photos, videos, and articles from a single account. Currently in private development, sharing progress with the community.

The account following the development has just 3 posts (with some light technical details) at the time of writing, but the stuff should be published on Codeberg soon.

Pictured above: a bike locked badly to a good quality rack. Just a wrench, and a thief takes the wheel and bike away.

In the photo below: my solution to properly lock a bike to bad, low rack made wrong (to “dish rack”, outside Decathlon 🤦). Instead of inserting the wheel, I put the bike across the structure, so I can easily lock wheel and frame.

cross-posted from: https://social.tchncs.de/users/lgsp/statuses/115587191253235659

While looking for posts with the #degoogle hastag with my mastodon account, I realized that mixed in the hastag timeline there were posts to the !degoogle@lemmy.ml community, but not containing the hastag itself in the text.

I tried to look around, but In wasn't able to find an explanation of how this is supposed to work: is it because of the name of the community that is the same of the hastag? Or is or because the hastag is "embedded" in the community itself?

Edit: for those interested, the explanation is in this comment -> https://lemmy.world/post/39083486/20606028

Found this article, I think it's am interesting comparison

My source: https://mastodon.nz/@leighelse/115572223821306554

This was epic.

Yesterday, World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, Fratelli d’Italia (far right party at government, the party of Giorgia Meloni), had organized for Sunday afternoon a protest in the car against the policies on the mobility of Rome mayor. in particular against the cycle paths that “proliferate, remove parking, reduce the roadways and create much more pollution”.

The idea was to leave with cars in procession. The procession, however, was never held: the cars ready to participate were too many:

300 cars in the motorcade would mean paralyzing the entire city

So in wanting to protest against the albeit timid mobility policies to improve mobility, those of FdI managed in one fell swoop to:

• collect 300 cars, too many because they would "paralyze the city", so no procession

• have little support: 300 cars carry very few people. The procession became a garrison, the few people were all in front of a bus

• show how "the freedom to choose" the car is not a freedom, but arrogance: a minority using cars is enough to live no room for everyone else

• "the collapsing mobility" they talk about is actually caused by cars, considering that just 300 cars can "paralyze the entire city"

• a subway train (but also a modern tram) would bring more people than those at the demonstration, without causing collapses

And there was no need for any cross-examination, they did everything themselves.

I think this will go down in the annals.

(Part of the post is a translation from this toot, part is translated from the linked article, in Italian)