I suggest using a service such as blurb, they have their own free simple software called BookWright, and you can order proper books in various formats when you’re done at a fairly reasonable price print on demand.

https://www.blurb.co.uk

These are all less sport orientated…

Currently working through Two Years on a Bike, you can watch the guy talking through the book with some video here, great house build videos on that channel too.

Also reading curbing traffic

Can I plug a book I wrote/photographed last year about bike lanes?

or too much traffic parked in the bike lane to bike to school…

Not aimed at kids but…

https://whywecycle.eu

https://lifesizedcity.com

take it out of the frame

are gravel inserts a thing?

Worth it! Great socks!

or hold on the spacebar for a sec

Guessing I’m just too old and crap at video games to be able to last more than 5 seconds without dying in this. Looks fun, but my brain isn’t coordinating with the perspectives and steering.

Luma Fusion is great and works on the M1 too. Watch a couple of YouTube vids to understand your way around it.

bootcamp won’t work on the M1’s initially at least.

I have, just recently actually, might as well jump on the bandwagon. But actually I have some pretty cool bike projects coming into construction and wanted a way to share them through twitter and LinkedIn, as well as capture examples of a bunch of other good bike infrastructure that may be interesting to others in my field of work… so it’s to help promote my work and best practice rather than be rad. If you like watching a virtual ride along some protected bike lanes with some chill music in the background knock yourself out. Here’s one example of one I worked on…

Like… subscribe… etc…

Try selecting Disable GPU acceleration in settings. I read that helps with slow down, seems counter intuitive but I read it on the internet…

Have a search XR Carbon, I love it, makes me want to go out and explore, never owned a road bike but it feels fast on the road to me when linking up fun bits. Did my first 100k last week, never had the urge to do that before I bought it. Don’t feel the need for a dropper.

Still on my 2013 11″ macbook air, its been a great little machine and still is actually for what the OP needs, having a hard time justifying a replacement, but an apple silicon air, hopefully later this year, might push me to upgrade. If you don’t need it right now, I’d hold off until these new macs are announced.

There’s a distinct lack of chainstay pivot on that thing.

If you have to wear this just to ride a bike, many won’t

If you can just do it in normal clothes, many more will

funnily enough when I google searched images, these came from another post on stw. https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/why-do-runners-wear-hi-viz/

Its a bit chicken and egg, we need more people to be riding to justify the need for better facilities to get more people riding.

As for drivers being dicks, well most are ok, but even those ones pass too closely, or can get distracted, if we get more people riding, maybe we can justify building separated lanes, so per Phil, lets do our best not to screw this opportunity up.

Of course many won’t stick it out, but many will, and cities are already reallocating road space for cycling or wider spaces for pedestrians. There’s a chance some of that might stick around in a permanent way, especially if this covid situation lasts, or people are unwilling to get back on a bus or train.

well said, despite not being a roadie, I started watching his strava KOM videos recently, he’s just honest and for some reason interesting to watch.

zwift has been a bit of a revelation for me, despite not really stopping riding. I did have a year with an ebike and lost some fitness and gained some weight, partly ebike, partly too much work.

The structured training in zwift has been super interesting. Spinning the legs constantly for around an hour even at easier power was a new experience compared to riding in the real world, doing it at higher powers is tough. In just 6 weeks with zwift, my strava climbing times on the mountain bike are coming down despite being about 15lbs heavier than when I set previous PB’s. Have lost a few lbs despite not eating the best too. Need to work on that.

My bikes coming up 4 this year and the suspension has never been serviced :embarrassed emoji:

Still working decent though.

It’s a fair point, I had an ebike for commuting for a year, and in that year lost a lot of fitness compared to when I commuted by regular bike fewer days per week.

I was initially just looking at it on a calories burned basis, 2 days on the regular bike was about 5 days on the ebike, but my commute had steep hills that would really get my heart rate up.

On the ebike I didn’t break a sweat, my legs were never strained, so when I came to ride at the weekend on my regular mtb, I just didn’t have the strength I once did. Use it or lose it.

Grew up there, been away for a while now. As above access to Pentlands was good, and Peebles not too far, house prices have been pretty stagnant I think for last decade as my old place was still recently priced lower than I sold it for, might be the same in many places. They killed the High Street when they pedestrianized it, forward thinking at the time, but not the demand to keep it busy, then Tesco opened the other end of town. Got tired of the pub culture, getting pissed all the time, but that could have just been me getting older. If I was WFH, there must be nicer places.

I’ve played with sketching on an iPad as someone with little artistic ability. Might not work for your needs but tracing photos produces reasonable results, but then I struggle with anything more than linework.

Before anyone says thats not drawing, i’m ok being a tracer…

https://www.kamloopsmatters.com/local-news/traveling-containers-heads-yvr-photos-2054624

Even if the actual risk is low, the discomfort from being close passed is enough to stop many cycling on the road. I tend to stick to quieter local streets when commuting, and even then there’s always one or two aggressive drivers per week that seem to have no regard for my safety that makes me question even that route.

The discomfort is what’s stopping more people riding and why most cities are starting to build protected bike infrastructure.

I think you’ve answered your own question there tbh, electricity will need to be taxed to replace the income from fuel duty.

GPS based mobility pricing, pay by the km to use the roads, variable pricing subject to time of day, etc.

The problem of polluting motor vehicles, is most concentrated within major urban areas cars and vans sat idling or running inefficiently in lower gears, chucking more crap out of the exhaust.

The problem is concentrated within urban areas, but how many of those vehicles come from rural areas? On a per capita basis, people generally create far less emissions living in a city than in rural areas.

Discussing sprawl… “They take up more space per person, and are more expensive to build and operate than any urban form ever constructed. They require more roads for every resident, and more water pipes, more sewers – more power cables, utility wiring, sidewalks, signposts, and landscaping. They cost more for municipalities to maintain. They cost more to protect with emergency services. They pollute more and pour more carbon into the atmosphere. In short the dispersed city is the most expensive, resource intense, land gobbling, polluting way of living ever built.” The Happy City

Don’t worry your bikes will offset all the bad stuff :)

Thanks for clarifying, I’ll be sticking with my original pro for a while then, which to be fair still works great.

I always wonder how well face ID works if you’re taking notes on a desk, and have to wake it up, does it recognise from an angle, or do you have to make a forward motion to position your face over it?

brake jack means a 200m single picot downhill bikes is harsher over braking bumps than a 140mm trail bike. I’ll never ride another single pivot again. Maybe i’m just getting soft/old.

I haven’t read all this, but sounds like there’s valid points on both sides. However, I received the following email a few days ago. We live by the University.

A disturbing incident took place yesterday evening, July 14, near our Burnaby campus. At approximately 8:30 pm, a female SFU community member was walking in the Burnaby Mountain trails near the corner of University Dr. West and West Campus Road when an unknown male suspect approached her and attempted to pull her into the bushes. The individual was able to escape and the attacker fled. Burnaby RCMP responded and are investigating.

It takes just one incident, and then no matter how low the risk, the fact it happens means there is a risk, and for many activities, its just not worth it.

I was thinking about it relative to cycling. Many years ago I would happily cycle on any roads but there’s too many stories of collisions and fatalities. Today, I normally choose quieter bike routes or those with protected infrastructure which we are safer. The risk of a driver being distracted and hitting me might be low, but its a risk i’d rather not take, or at least reduce. FYI, a cyclist was killed nearby a few weeks ago in a hit and run, the driver was caught and suspected to be drunk. some times its just not worth the risk.

IME you see lots of people cycling in London, oxford and Cambridge because

#1. Driving is slow.
#2. Slow driving makes cycling feel less scary.
#3. Parking is expensive and hard to find in the centre.
#4. The centre is a desirable part of the city to be.

I think those were always the case, for London at least, the difference was and always is safe separate bike infrastructure.

huh, when you paste a url, it previews the site now.

https://www.ryderseyewear.com/

I simply cannot see bikes being used by many more people.

I suggest you google “interested but concerned cyclist” You’ll find many surveys where people have said they would be interested in cycling but are concerned for their safety. All we need is a connected network of fully protected cycling facilities… Some cities are getting on-board… some less so.

For those that say they’ll never cycle that’s fine, let them drive, they’re a smaller part of the population than you think.

most mortals don’t even notice my ebike is an ebike.

If it helps https://www.transportation-planning.com/blog/a-tale-of-two-bicycles

spacing didn’t quite work out in my example above :( $%&#@ represent the five scenarios that would be plotted in one row for each thing.