Post Ay79y4oCUgZgLCjJGS by jericevans@mastodon.online
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(DIR) Post #Ay2xZeM5DgjTGTKBBw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-10T00:45:44Z
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Kids these days always on the ebike with the disc breaks. In my day we had but ONE gear. And we LIKED it. We felt lucky. Sometimes if you were going to get really fancy you could install a break.
(DIR) Post #Ay2xl0CWL1O6CgGU1g by snosrapkungfu@mastodon.social
2025-09-10T00:47:44Z
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@futurebird you wouldn't actually USE that fancy shmancy add on tho. Just put your feet on the ground and grind to a halt :)
(DIR) Post #Ay2xnha21gQHJxY7MG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-10T00:48:16Z
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But most of us? We use the shoe! Kids talking about "new shoes for their bike" and they are buying pads for their breaks. It's all gone too far. I haven't seen a good red light trackstand in YEARS.
(DIR) Post #Ay2xwzFNi69aiiJl8i by raganwald@social.bau-ha.us
2025-09-10T00:49:54Z
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@futurebird Trackstanding a tandem on the group ride is how to set the standard for the next generation.Toronto Bicycling Network regulars from the 90s will concur!
(DIR) Post #Ay2y1Vfd6RWMRCkfvU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-10T00:50:46Z
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Can even bunny hop. What is to become of these youth.
(DIR) Post #Ay2yDQ4ziQJiZaILvE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-10T00:52:52Z
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@snosrapkungfu I have memories of cutting down the lever on my breaks and weigh it over and over to save ounces and now they just put a whole five pound battery on the bike.
(DIR) Post #Ay2yJgxfrUbAfWrV1E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-10T00:54:03Z
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Not that I'm doing any bunny hops ow ow my back, please help grandma to her balance chair.
(DIR) Post #Ay2yUCZnAotzcGhdJY by snosrapkungfu@mastodon.social
2025-09-10T00:55:56Z
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@futurebird i moved here from the uk, where the front and rear levers are on the opposite bars. First time stopping on a US bike straight over the front. Near lethal muscle memory
(DIR) Post #Ay2yqp7cXh0PXBJRgm by raganwald@social.bau-ha.us
2025-09-10T00:59:53Z
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@futurebird Putting powerful disc brakes on a 26er MTB might be playing bicycle on "easy mode." But the first green bike is easily my favourite personal bike of this century. It's about 20.5 lbs with shocks, 17 lbs (not pictured) in "cruiser" mode with carbon rigid forks.Single speeding really does develop a LOT of skills. Single speed off road forces you to embrace flow or give up the sport.p.s. Third bike is for trials. Hydraulic rim brakes, a rarity. Oh, the places we go with one speed!
(DIR) Post #Ay2yu5HAwEfoVJKvcu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-10T01:00:37Z
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@raganwald I did ragbrai on a fixie!
(DIR) Post #Ay2z5kM8XnEh64DbEm by raganwald@social.bau-ha.us
2025-09-10T01:02:41Z
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@futurebird Crossing the Great State of Iowa on a fixie‽
(DIR) Post #Ay30Ywidl2kDnAEPHk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-10T01:19:13Z
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Back in my day if you could get down to work without letting your pretty little toes touch the dirty street once you could feel good about that. 34th st was impossible, but if you found the flow it was possible. There was a legend about a biker with white souls on his shoes because he never touched the street. Saw him do a track stand for 80 seconds while a whole bus full of tourists unloaded. Didn't even flinch. Those were the days.
(DIR) Post #Ay31GY9iRdTgLsghG4 by jstatepost@mstdn.social
2025-09-10T01:27:02Z
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@futurebird When Eye was a kid, @Futurebird if Eye was really lucky, a kid who had a bike would let me watch him ride it.
(DIR) Post #Ay32lGbnplJ0rW2I3k by geonz@mathstodon.xyz
2025-09-10T01:43:48Z
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@futurebird I had my guy put a hand brake on my Schwinn Racer (1-spead coaster). OK I am in the flatlands but I LOVE pouding up the hills in THAT ONE BIG GEAR.
(DIR) Post #Ay333jJHrTpl5fBAfI by minmi@sfba.social
2025-09-10T01:47:10Z
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@futurebird and bike lanes??? Please. You gotta weave through traffic at top speed like a bat out of hell. Thank god for bike lanes though. Good lord I can’t believe the nonsense I used to pull.
(DIR) Post #Ay335EsFzc47H3FuaG by autolycos@med-mastodon.com
2025-09-10T01:47:27Z
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@futurebird if I could bunny hop with my 70lb ebike, I'd be impressed with myself
(DIR) Post #Ay33EcOxt4Rsqk1jjE by exchgr@mastodon.world
2025-09-10T01:49:07Z
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@futurebird hey, with only one gear, you don’t even need a chain to weigh you down
(DIR) Post #Ay33ICFl34zauTQWCO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-10T01:49:48Z
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@exchgr wouldn't that be only one cog?
(DIR) Post #Ay33Wehk41lTCjPWDI by exchgr@mastodon.world
2025-09-10T01:52:23Z
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@futurebird (just bein’ silly, nothing to see here)
(DIR) Post #Ay33boW70cbH5KQkVs by smellsofbikes@mastodon.social
2025-09-10T01:53:18Z
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@futurebird I'm particularly good at trackstands and get a lot of verbal interaction about it at stoplights. It's not a particularly useful skill but it's flashy.
(DIR) Post #Ay34JyoC6dw5kHwqpM by quokka1@mastodon.au
2025-09-10T02:01:17Z
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@futurebird Kids don't know how lucky they are with pneumatic tyres and the like
(DIR) Post #Ay37ZnCbKFs2FFb0yG by acm_redfox@jawns.club
2025-09-10T02:37:45Z
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@futurebird "brake"?
(DIR) Post #Ay3EJfEVt1TqZhkMsq by lePetomaneAncien@fosstodon.org
2025-09-10T03:53:17Z
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@futurebird True story. Friend of mine was really good at track stands. Got ticketed for running a stop sign 'cause he "didn't put his foot down." He took the ticket and his bike to court. Judge tore up the ticket after he did a 1 minute track stand.
(DIR) Post #Ay3jHgGcAWExmVGQgy by MrBerard@mastodon.acm.org
2025-09-10T09:40:14Z
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@futurebird Pics or it didn't happen.
(DIR) Post #Ay3jY3jQh9NvBnYH1U by arratoon@beige.party
2025-09-10T09:43:13Z
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@futurebird Londoner here. I ride my single-speed around town. You’re always starting and stopping so this way you’re never in the wrong gear. My Brompton has an extravagant two gears.
(DIR) Post #Ay3lSujCwUjpj37eFc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-10T10:04:44Z
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@ainmosni @IanAMartin I know Americans can be uniquely annoying but I kind of think ALL people do this. It's like the defining trait of people in a way.
(DIR) Post #Ay3mGMh5kqoEeLiFcW by oheso@ieji.de
2025-09-10T10:13:39Z
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@futurebird I’ll still do one occasionally, but am more mindful of the longer recovery time required in case of failure.
(DIR) Post #Ay3mmlJTkydMGt7GEa by oheso@ieji.de
2025-09-10T10:19:29Z
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@futurebird @ainmosni @IanAMartin My colleague and I are always Oh Shimano 1X Apex Di2 Campagnolo tubeless blah blah blah and meanwhile another colleague spent last summer doing the longest climb in Taiwan and then the all Tour de France climbs tour, and when we ask him about his gear he says Oh I got it a couple of years ago. It’s white I think.#BikeTooter
(DIR) Post #Ay3oZw5eZoH5q6f3Am by steve@discuss.systems
2025-09-10T10:39:33Z
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@futurebird saw one last week here and I was delighted. Hadn’t seen one before then for a few years.
(DIR) Post #Ay3qQOZo0giFCVLKLI by deboraha@aus.social
2025-09-10T10:59:30Z
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@futurebird @IanAMartin oooh this has given me the start of a limerick…A grumpy old man from Vancouver Decided he needed to HooverThe whizz-bang machineHad its own magazineBut proved dauntingly hard to manoeuvre.
(DIR) Post #Ay3qQPbyA82OPVMZM0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-10T11:00:15Z
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@deboraha @IanAMartin 🤣
(DIR) Post #Ay4A0Xz6PIDvvv7xL6 by wendinoakland@beige.party
2025-09-10T14:39:42Z
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@futurebird 😹 In my day.
(DIR) Post #Ay5XIpVGVHLlaCom9Y by oheso@ieji.de
2025-09-11T06:35:29Z
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@futurebird One of my mates has done a couple of rides of 50km or more nonstop recently. He can't track stand but if he comes to a light he'll cross to the other side, circle back, as needed until he can make the light green. On one of the rides he was waiting for someone to meet at a convenience store and just rode circles in the parking lot until they showed. Helps that he lives on the edge of town and is soon in the mountains, but I told him he's being crazy AF.
(DIR) Post #Ay704XtyEy58ldsIca by FolksVelo@mas.to
2025-09-11T23:32:31Z
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@futurebird in my day, if we were lucky, we had a rear deck where our friends would stand while holding on to our shoulders. They had both hands free tò hold on because no One had tò hold a cellphone and we didn't need to call our friend because they were already standing on the bick of our bike and were already chatting with us
(DIR) Post #Ay70GH90N14wGnV4UK by FolksVelo@mas.to
2025-09-11T23:34:38Z
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@futurebird in my day some of us not only had gears, we had stickshifts!
(DIR) Post #Ay70aI02toICiNqwJk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-11T23:38:19Z
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@FolksVelo Bronx kids ride three on a citibike to this day, much to the consternation of the local constabulary.
(DIR) Post #Ay70xIyzPWLWQLKkHw by FolksVelo@mas.to
2025-09-11T23:42:27Z
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@futurebird i miss the Bronx... But it's changed a lot since i lived there
(DIR) Post #Ay72eYJUO4miNS6kdc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-12T00:01:29Z
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@FolksVelo I think it's mostly become nicer without really ever gentrifying since I've been here for the past 18 years or so. It's still very poor, but there are more people than ever, but it's also very friendly and safe all things considered. Like most of NYC everyone is very ambitious and always up to something "big"
(DIR) Post #Ay74XJ250D96rkdZ1k by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-09-12T00:22:33Z
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@futurebird If it's any consolation, no gear but "high" is of any use on an ebike.Also, no ebike ships with high enough stock gearing to allow a human to usefully assist while traveling at 25mph.
(DIR) Post #Ay79y4oCUgZgLCjJGS by jericevans@mastodon.online
2025-09-12T01:23:23Z
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I'm all for disc brakes (safety), but this whole ebike nonesense has gotten way out of hand. At this point, a good many of them are just straight up motorcycles. Motorcycles that get away with not being licensed on the technicality that they require you to turn over the pedals to make them go. 🙄