And our last question this week:

[overunderlay@bsd.network]

@ascentale @bikenite

[xtaran@chaos.social]

@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8: While cycling I saw a billboard advertisement for a new EV model emphasizing that it uses steer-by-wire technology. Didn't know that this is legal now. And for me, such a "feature" is rather scary and it would be a reason to _not_ buy that car. (Albeit modern cars have already way to many "features" which are a no-go for me anyways, so this just adds up.)

[kimu@wandering.shop]

@ascentale @bikenite A8. My spouse finished a master’s degree this year & graduation was today, so we biked to the ceremony in style this morning. #BikeNite

[saltbaygull@friendsofdesoto.social]

@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8: not from this week, but I took this picture of a nice rainy bike commute on the dry leg of it, the water shuttle

[fgbjr@indieweb.social]

@ascentale @bikenite A8: Southwest coast of Sado Island.

[ascentale@sfba.social]

@bikenite A8-2. I also saw this on the way home this week. A parent, riding with kid on the back of an Xtracycle long-tail, with an electric conversion. The kid is carrying a cello(?) as a backpack.

https://youtube.com/shorts/BIkPQl39V8w?feature=share

#BikeNite

[gcvsa@mstdn.plus]

@xtaran @ascentale @bikenite Steer-by-wire has already been used in motor vehicles for a very long time. It's nothing new.

Steer-by-wire - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[gcvsa@mstdn.plus]

@moz @ascentale @bikenite I have had people do this to me, I think people visiting neighbors on my block. It's unbelieveably rude.

It also happens frequently at my mother's house in New Jersey, because she has a horseshoe driveway and a corner lot where the local schoolbus picks up and drops off. People brazenly park in her driveway to save their precious larvae made of sugar from being forced to ensure the weather while waiting for the school buss.

[rand@sfba.social]

@ascentale @bikenite A8. I “finished” rebuilding my old bike, so a bike photo this week. I’m mostly happy with the results, I need a procure a new stem to bring the handlebars up and back a little. The shifting is not quite right, so I need to figure that out. And short pull bar shifters with long pull brakes, so kinda mushy braking, so I still need to figure that out. I knew this would be an issue, but the Microshift Sword brakes claim to have a 1.5 pull ratio, so I was hoping it would be better. Oh and the steering is a little twitchy, which I think will be better with the handle bars higher and closer. #BikeNite

[enobacon@urbanists.social]

@rand was that the stem from the stock riser / flat handlebar? You might get more pull with the levers slightly farther up the curve, if the extra reach from the drops is tolerable. There is also the Problem Solvers pulley thing that goes on the caliper and doubles the cable pull problemsolversbike.com/products/travel-agent

[lovestha@floss.social]

@rand @ascentale @bikenite Wouldn't moving the bars in that direction make the steering more twitchy?

[pete@masto.hypertelia.com]

@ascentale @bikenite A8 #BikeNite Here's a snap of some of our motley crew, shortly before the bloke on the left came off and broke his collarbone. Devine retribution for riding a 'cheeky' route we shouldn't have been on, perhaps? 🤫️

[pete@masto.hypertelia.com]

@FourT4 @ascentale @bikenite My first thought too, Jon!

[meganl@mas.to]

@pete @ascentale @bikenite Definitely has that "album cover" vibe. #BikeNite

[jfparis@rouge.eu.org]

@markn
You never know. Sometimes you get surprises
@ascentale @bikenite

[cmgrowell@m.ai6yr.org]

@ascentale @bikenite A8. #bikenite Ended last week at our final youth xc #mtb race of the season in Tehachapi, CA. Held on a hill (foreground) owned by the cement plant in the distance. A local organization has done a great job building trails and maintaining the race course. I could watch the race and do some train watching at the same time. The second photo is from a bike practice this week. One of our varsity riders carried two bikes in her Mitsubishi 3000. One on the roof using one of those suction cup racks. Another inside the hatch. She is not a big person and it was a heavier bike so she had to climb in to get it out. Now in NJ visiting my elderly father. Side trip to Great Falls in Paterson, which somehow I had never visited when growing up in the state. They harnessed the falls for industrial power. Also never realized the area is known as Little Lima with a big Peruvian population. Walked to a yummy Peruvian lunch.

[wlukewindsor@c.im]

@ascentale @bikenite A8 the valleys and hills of Calderfornia seen from the Rochdale canal and cobbles betwixt Littleborough and Manchester…

Too much pressure in my tyres so I am feeling it today (left my rear tyre over-pumped overnight to seat the bead and forgot to let some air out before I set off).

#bikenite #calderfornia

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@rand @ascentale @bikenite That's really nice! #BikeNite

[rand@sfba.social]

@enobacon The stem is from my other bike, which was the wrong size (was too long and on that bike it was angled down), but I figured it was a good starting point.

I think I can tighten up the brakes a little bit, but the return springs are not working well, I don't really understand why, the brakes are only about 5 years old. One arm in particular just has almost no tension. I'll also look into moving the bars up some. I have big enough hands, so reach is not a problem. Unfortunately problem solvers doesn't sell their pulley thing anymore, so I need to find some pre-owned ones (I did run across a single one once). #BikeNite

[rand@sfba.social]

@LovesTha @ascentale @bikenite Idk, but my often wrong intuition thinks that if your hands are closer to the perpendicular of the steering tube that it would be less. But I suppose I'll find out (the old flat bars were a but closer). #BikeNite