The truck was empty and the guys were nowhere to be found. I had to walk my bakfiets backwards half a block to a spot where I could roll the bike up onto the sidewalk.
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at least they fixed the deathtrap trench they cut in the lane here! not holding my breath that those curbs are ever going to be reinstalled
Oh yeah that’s never gonna happen
Am I the only one who calls the “How’s my driving” numbers?
I’d be pushing that ramp back into the truck for sure
I was gonna push it in but it was heavy and didn’t fit sidewise in the truck so I would have had to do a bunch of work and my back hurts.
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you should have put it in your basket and scrapped it
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god damn. trying to be very “water off a duck’s back” about it all but the last few rides around town I’ve been hassled/cut off/nearly hit and it sucks. feels like it’s getting worse and people are getting angrier
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ATMO.
I saw the aftermaths of three car on car crashes yesterday. The reason I had to walk backwards to go around the ramp instead of dipping into the traffic lane was that there were two fire trucks that were dealing with a crash right there.
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Movers: “who care?”
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today the jackass was on a bike. my son and i were mountain biking. we were coming down a downhill left-hand turn that immediately goes up the other side.
naturally another rider was coming the other way, down HIS side of the hill, and neither of us could see one another until we collided. the “crash” was so minor, like bump handlebars kind of thing.
he was on an e-bike. i don’t think this really had anything to do with it but please note e-bikes are not allowed at these trails.
the other guy: “DUDE. WHAT THE FUCKKKK.” looks at his fork, for some reason? “YOU RUINED MY FORK” rubs fork (it’s just dirt and rubs right off)
me: “it’s going to be ok. you’re ok. everything is fine. it’s no one’s fault.”
he stands there for a while collecting his nerves. his off-leash dog (also not allowed) is chillin.
he says “i spent a lot of money on this fork.”
i say “i hear you. let’s just get back to what we were doing”
and all was fine. honestly kind of glad it happened because my son got to see what good de-escalation looked like. and i gotta say i am not typically the best DE-escalator.
just wild behavior to immediately blame me for “ruining his fork” which was not damaged at all. i didn’t even have to ask if he was ok because he went immediately to rubbing his stanchion.
yes i know “rubbing his stanchion” sounds funny, that’s why i wrote it that way.
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At that point I would have considered dumping the ramp on the sidewalk and going straight through.
I lifted the ramp to try to push it back in the truck, but it was pretty heavy and I decided not to potentially hurt my back moving the thing and also decided not to potentially start a fight with an entire moving crew.
Me walking my bike backwards a little bit wasn’t the worst thing that could have happened that afternoon, better part of valor and all that.
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Need a lever activated hydraulic jack under the pivot point of the bakfiets so you can just pop the front up and pivot it over a curb. Would also be useful for bikespins
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air jack off a frame mounted bottle under the box
Cheese said ‘jack off’!
Some jackass cop got shot the other day so the rest of the jackass cops decided to shut down the entire Northside for a giant funeral procession up DLSD at morning rush on a Friday.
Gotta admit that it was pretty glorious riding next to a silent and empty lakeshore drive.
I just wish it wasn’t for such a stupid reason. By the time I got to Lincoln Park it was full of cars again.
Definitely not a fan of this tho:
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i wish that they’d rename the highway whenever a cyclist died. every time a cop dies they get the Trooper Jimbo H. H. Racist Memorial Bridge. what do we get? nothing.
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