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  • Can you convert a quickrelease to Thruaxle?

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  • Adapters do exist that convert through-axle hubs to quick release. They will work if there's a particular wheelset you're looking at or, as I used them in my case, have a strange franken wheel project.

    That said, it's generally not worth the squeeze. There are a great many wheels and hubs in different spacing, spoke count, colors, brake types, etc that are designed for quick release. Trying to adapt one not designed for your frame should be reserved for unusual circumstances. Consider these adapters only if you're ready to build a wheel from the ground up (a hub, a box of spokes, and a rim).

    Also, don't fret too much about hub bearings. Cup and cone bearings are very efficient and are easily serviced. Case in point, Shimano didn't produce cartridge bearing hubs until 2023.

  • Georgia bicyclists are in mourning after well-known bicycle attorney Ken Rosskopf was killed when he was struck by a driver

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  • Rear Tire Blew Out on a 25-30km Trip😭

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  • That blows. I recently had a pinch-flat on clean asphalt (!!!) that wouldn't take a patch in the field and was forced to walk the last 5 km.

    Two things I'd check into besides the tube: the tire casing and the tube install. Sometimes a puncture through the tire's fabric breaks too many strands or cuts through both biases. In that case the tire is toast as any tube will push through the puncture the moment you start riding on it. It's this kind of tire failure for why I keep a tire boot in my repair bag.

    I've also seen tubes get damaged when using tire levers. Those usually fail with tears and little bubbles of weakness. If at all possible, do not use a tire lever for anything but removing a tire. I've had very good tubes be fatally damaged in this way.

  • Photo radar is becoming increasingly common. That doesn’t make it any less infuriating

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  • Any ticket that is a flat cost is a regressive tax. I think we both know that income based tickets would never fly in the US.

    Income based tickets can fly in the US, but it hasn't been normalized everywhere yet. CA AB 645 doesn't slide upwards, even though it should, but it does slide downward. The law even requires analysis of the local population before authorizing a speed camera installation.

    "a designated jurisdiction shall reduce the applicable fines and penalties by 80 percent for indigent persons, and by 50 percent for individuals up to 250 percent above the federal poverty level."

    "A speed enforcement program developed pursuant to paragraph (1) shall place the speed safety systems in locations that are geographically and socioeconomically diverse. The designated jurisdiction shall describe how it has complied with this provision in the Speed Safety System Impact Report described in subdivision (h)"

    "A racial and economic equity impact analysis, developed in collaboration with local racial justice and economic equity stakeholder groups. The analysis shall include the number of notices of violations issued to indigent individuals, the number of notices of violations issued to individuals of up to 250 percent above the poverty line, and the number of violations issued to each ZIP Code."

    The issues you raise are real, but they're not because of speed cameras. They're issues of selective speeding enforcement and flat-rate tickets being regressive in a car dependent society. Police officers regularly issue speeding tickets against the impoverished and minority populations without checks and balance. At least speeding cameras won't lie about where it sits or inspect the color of the driver before writing a ticket.

    Illinois, do better with your speeding tickets.

  • Photo radar is becoming increasingly common. That doesn’t make it any less infuriating

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  • Speeding tickets don't have to be a regressive tax, as others have pointed out. Many countries slide speeding tickets based on income.

    Revenue generator... for whom? Policy matters. E.g. California's AB 645 authorization for speeding cameras only allows for recovery of program costs and "any excess revenue shall be used for traffic-calming measures within three years of the end of the fiscal year in which the excess revenue was received." California's speeding cameras reduce speeding by improving road infrastructure and active transportation.

    Citation needed, otherwise you're just spreading carbrained misinformation.

  • Tern just launched an Airstream e-bike and it looks kind of perfect

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  • They're branded editions of the HSD and Vektron. No weight or size changes; just colorway and airstream brand badges.

  • [video] This Job Is Trash — But Everyone Loves It

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  • 900 dump trucks of garbage a year, all by bicycle. A good vibe to start the weekend with. :)

  • LA City Council narrowly votes to oppose state bill allowing more housing near public transit

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  • Disappointing but not surprising. Most Democrats are not in favor of building housing. It's too often politically suicidal at the local level to support development.

  • Mumbai has its first three-layer traffic jam. Feeling very proud /s

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  • I got curious and looked around for more info, thinking that usually it takes at least a few months for traffic patterns to settle in like this. Nope. This overpass opened yesterday.

    But wait, there are even more familiar issues! Housing? Yep, lots of people were displaced. Which was also ignored during planning, so the project landed late (22 years in the making) and way over budget.

    Furthermore, it's not like the civil planning experts in Mumbai didn't know any better.

    Transport expert Ashok Datar voiced skepticism about long-term benefits. “There is a saying that instead of trying to cover the world with leather, one should wear leather shoes. SCLR’s extension is an attempt to cover the world in leather. All that is being done is that a congestion point is being pushed further ahead of the road. How many extensions will you do while ignoring easier and cheaper solutions like having dedicated bus corridors on Mumbai’s roads? That is a far cheaper option than building such roads,” Datar said.

    Mumbai’s East–West road link realised after 2 decades with SCLR extension

  • Oklahoma Senator says he doesn’t wear seatbelt in DC ‘because of carjacking'

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  • File this one under fuck around. We'll refile under find out later.

  • The chair of UCLA's urban planning department says Los Angeles has failed to reduce traffic fatalities

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  • LA streets need fixing, which is why measure HLA passed to force the city to make progress on their vision zero infrastructure plans. Even after passing, the city has been dragging its feet.

    It's continuing to be a fight to fix the streets.

  • UFC vs NYC seats

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  • It's a comic from WokelyCorrect. I'd be surprised if they even know how to ride transit.

  • "As a cyclist, you claim to care about the environment, yet you consume food. Checkmate libs!"

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  • I'm not sure a diesel generator is much better. In the US, petrol power generation is 2.46 pounds CO2/kwh and coal is 2.31 pounds/kwh. Maybe coal is less efficient in Germany, but I doubt it's significantly worse than petrol.

    And there are other negative emissions with oil, like forced methane production (burn, bottle, or release). Though coal has similar issues too (e.g. more radioactive release than nuclear power).

    That said, there's a disconnect in our debate. Coal plants are an energy source. Cars and ebikes are an energy load. You can't really say "coal is worse than cars" because you cannot replace coal plant emissions by adding more cars. Similarly, you'll have cars even if you replaced coal with zero-emission renewables.

    The argument becomes interesting when you add bikes into the picture. You can replace a large portion of petrol-car kilometers with coal-ebike kilometers and gain far more kilometers traveled per kilo of CO2. This argument can also be extended for emissions related to calories in acoustic bike kilometers.

    The "per mile" in "ebikes produce less CO2 per mile" is critically important to the argument.

  • "As a cyclist, you claim to care about the environment, yet you consume food. Checkmate libs!"

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  • Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike and ped path closed, consideration underway for a fulltime car lane.

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  • Oh, it's even worse. Bikes and pedestrians are banned from the bridge. They claim there'll be a bus, but it'll be almost useless. It's not planned to run 27/7 and zero promises on frequency.

    I'll bet $20 they'll cite its emptyness as justification for terminating that service too.

  • Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike and ped path closed, consideration underway for a fulltime car lane.

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  • Why? They wanted a breakdown lane.

  • Chicago no longer requires new housing to include parking. It's making housing construction more affordable. For decades, developers were forced to build parking and buyers were forced to pay for it.

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  • The requirement is the problem. Why would you force someone who cannot use a parking spot to pay for one? It's a waste of money and resources that could go into many other things, like buying a bigger condo!

    Storage pods don't make up for it, and it's illegal for good reasons (fire and health hazard).

    Instead of developing a car spot only to redevelop it for another use, just build what you want at the start.

  • Chicago no longer requires new housing to include parking. It's making housing construction more affordable. For decades, developers were forced to build parking and buyers were forced to pay for it.

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  • So you'd rather force blind, epileptic, vertigo, mobility impaired and many other suffering people to pay more on essential living needs for utilities that they cannot ethically or legally use?

  • Trump administration rescinds San Rafael’s $1.9M path grant

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