kids, I'm doing Ride London again this year, raising money for the brilliant Bike Project, who do up bikes and give them, along with training and support, to refugees and asylum seekers. I'm WAY out of shape, having had my slowest start to the year cycling since before COVID. Here's the link to sponsor me, if you'd like to help support them and motivate me :) xxx
Would've been a good time to test how far I can ride Grey ⚫🚲⚡. The plan was to ride to #BarasoainChurch and back, which would've been ~45km each way.
But the people I was going to ride back with decided they'd take the bus back. The wiser choice would be to join them. Especially with the scorching heat that day.
@evelyn@bikes I made a similar choice last week: orchestra was 24km from home, and finished at 9:30pm. I took my ebike on the train part way home. It still took 90 minutes, but I didn't feel like doing a long ride at the end of the day.
On Grey ⚫🚲 I got a bottle holder, a front light with horn, an old cellphone (for music, navigating, recording video as witness), a powerbank to charge the old cellphone. All on the handlebar and stem. 😁 Looks rather cluttered but I feel like I need* them.
@evelyn
In the front i have the garmin mount, front light and the bell, on the frame 2 bottles and a bag under the saddle for food or clothes if i commute. Phone, money and keys stay in the back of the cycling shirt
@kudra@bikes@mastobikes
I'm kinda paranoid when/where I leave my #bike. I hardly ever leave my bike since I don't go out 🚴♀️ that much, unlike some who regularly #BikeToWork or to school.
Just really upsetting that the police mentioned in the article didn't care much to help or were limited by the law to do anything even though they already knew who had the stolen #bicycle. ☹️
My bike was stolen in front of a supermarket in the city center, in a place with a lot of pedestrian traffic. When I went to report the incident, I was shocked by the superficiality with which the police treated my situation, in the series let it go, "it happens!"
While a friend of mine had his PC, tablet stolen and presented to the police with all the geolocation coordinates of his devices, they almost reported him for stalking.