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Thought I lost my $1700 telephoto lens on a recent trip, but it was just in a plastic grocery bag…for some reason???

#photography #photog





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Neil E. Hodges
Just one total. :P



I sometimes refer to Japanese vans (both kei cars and the larger ones, JDM or otherwise) as "loaves of bread." :3


Who remembers back when you could get a new car for under $15k? 0_0

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"Davidson (Name TBD)"


I think I'm sold on the whole low-trail thing for my typical kind of riding these days, with a moderate front load. Starting a turn is more intuitive, and I don't feel like I'm going to fall over when banking heavily on a tight turn. However, maintaing a straight line also takes less effort on my part. Pedaling out of the saddle with a lot of weight is easy, too.

Whenever I ride a mid–high trail bike (55-70mm of trail) without a front load, I feel uneasy and that I have to babysit it when going straight, and I avoid taking tight turns because I feel like I'm going to fall over. Adding some load up front takes care of the first problem, but not the second. Pedaling out of the saddle with a lot of weight isn't particularly difficult, but isn't as easy as above.

#bicycle #biking #cycling #ivorypass #mywork #photog #photography

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I commute on a low-trail Elephant NFE with a decently heavy load on the front. It really is the best way to carry a load over longish distances. I'm also a fan of big saddle bags (ala Carradice) on high-trail bikes, but not for bigger loads.




The #Python standard library sure is something. :P #programming

(This is in the types module.)

try:
    raise TypeError
except TypeError as exc:
    TracebackType = type(exc.__traceback__)
    FrameType = type(exc.__traceback__.tb_frame)

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Today in tk's #seabikes adventures: descending from Phinney Ridge without a functioning front brake. 😱

(The bike has TRP Hylex hydraulic disc brakes. I took it to my LBS after and they said that it looks like the caliper might've sprung a leak and has been contaminating the rotor. I've had the brakes for several years now, so I'm not too bothered.)

#cycling #bicycle #mastobikes #biketooter




My wife: "the bus just isn’t reliable when you need it"

That's 100% because of all of the car traffic. :/

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if more people took the bus more people would want to take the bus





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@Thomas Bensler
Infrastructure sharing works wonderfully in Taiwan. Many streets here have neither bicycle lanes nor sidewalks. Drivers are more or less considerate of other road users. So do the many scooter riders. Usually, when cars or scooters overtake other road users from behind, the safety distance to the overtaken road user is often more than 20 cm. It hardly ever happens that a rearview mirror causes injuries.

And more and more newly planned and built roads even have footpaths and cycle paths. Which are actually not allowed to be parked on.

Well and then, should the cars are getting less, there will be no more need for dedicated food paths and bicycle lanes.

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Here in #Ottawa we have many separate bike paths all over the city, but we also have a lot on on-road dedicated bike lanes. Of course you can also bike directly on the roads as well.





When you mistakenly buy fender washers with a slightly too small ID, but you can't be arsed to get the right ones, so you just drill them out a little. :3



Any fans of the #VFR series out there? :3

#motorcycle #Honda

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I can now properly say yes 😄 loving mine

(I was searching #vfr to see what came up)

#vfr

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When someone says "low-key", they're really referring to Loki. :P


I kind of wonder if part of why kids made fun of me was my low-key tic disorder. :(





Just saw Wicked: Part 1 (the film adaptation) with @clover. It was fun! :)