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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · 6d ago
@ascentale@sfba.social And thank you as always for hosting ^_^ #BikeNite
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@Cameleopard@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 08, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social @uxmark@mstdn.ca @bikenite@fedigroups.social A1: I'm home in Sheffield, England. Animals - one day in Germany I encountered a racoon, which scared the sh*t out of me; I'd never seen one before and I didn't know they were native to Europe. It was standing on its rear legs on the track I was riding along. That same day I saw a fire salamander and a duck's head - just the head. #bikenite
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@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social a8 #BikeNite I saw my longest ride of the year so far on Tuesday, 33 miles from South Minneapolis to my home in Anoka County. Had to stop on the Henn
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@MarkBrigham@universeodon.com · Mar 07, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social #bikenite a8 Also biked Minnesota’s newest bike path, completed late last fall, between Rock Creek (pronounced “crick”) and Pine City. It’s only 3 miles long, but one more segment from the Twin Cities to Duluth is done. I was a good boy and picked up a number of beer bottles that had been tossed from the adjacent highway 61. Including two bottles that were broken on the paved trail. I hate that, and try to remove them when I can.
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@MarkBrigham@universeodon.com · Mar 07, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social a8 #BikeNite I saw my longest ride of the year so far on Tuesday, 33 miles from South Minneapolis to my home in Anoka County. Had to stop on the Hennepin Ave Bridge for the photo opp.
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@MarkBrigham@universeodon.com · Mar 07, 2026
@bikenite@fedigroups.social @ascentale@sfba.social @uxmark@mstdn.ca a1 #BikeNite Pine City, Minnesota, an hour’s drive from home. Gray squirrels & wild turkeys are my most familiar run-ins. Pics from May 2023 bicycle tour along the Mississippi on which I carried along a birding camera & lens. The birdwatching during spring migration & nesting was fabulous. The bison were a surprise. Dakota County had restored some prairie & returned some bison to a portion of it, next to bike trail.
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Mar 07, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social and thank you as always for hosting ^_^ #BikeNite
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Mar 07, 2026
@theantlady@arthropod.social @ascentale@sfba.social @cainmark@mstdn.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social Mind you, if the towns are actually close and around Seattle, we already have those sorts of transitions. But once you get further away, it gets worse. I can and do bike between a _lot_ of towns right now. "Greater Northshore" covers a lot of territory and a lot of jurisdictions and all those are pretty seamless. _But._ #BikeNite
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Mar 07, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social @meganL@mas.to @bikenite@fedigroups.social A4: My aluminium frame has been decidedly low-maintenance, and 5000 miles/8000 km into it it's not showing any signs of unhappiness yet. Of course, that sort of thing is always, always dependant upon whatever particular alloy you have, but I haven't seen any downsides or bad behaviours yet. #BikeNite
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Mar 07, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social @SamUpstate@hachyderm.io @bikenite@fedigroups.social A2: I've had to think about this for trailers, and I've come up with solutions but they don't apply to a regular bike. But! I think that if you have a back wheel basket or rack that you could run posts up along the back attachment arms from your wheel, either let them splay out on either side with separate banners or signs, or have a sign between them. (Or if you get more ambitious, bend them so they go back to centre, and then up from there, giving you a centred pole to hang a sign from.) #BikeNite
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Mar 07, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social @uxmark@mstdn.ca @bikenite@fedigroups.social A1: HIIII just the usual place, north of Seattle, in Cascadia I can't think of any interesting animal encounters, really. I mean, I've seen plenty of animals, particularly the beavers in Bothell and the quails in Kenmore, but nothing I'd call a real _encounter_. #BikeNite
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@MarkBrigham@universeodon.com · Feb 28, 2026
@bikenite@fedigroups.social @ascentale@sfba.social @cainmark@mstdn.social @uxmark@mstdn.ca i use this exact strategy 👆 Daughter #1 used to be embarrassed when i rang bell. Then she lived in Salzburg for 3 years. Everyone there uses bells. So she decided I wasn’t evil. Nonetheless, I have mixed luck here with the bell. One woman seemed offended, retorting: “On your left works too.” To which I thought: A bell works too, and unlike “on your left,” it speaks a universal language. #BikeNite A7
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Feb 28, 2026
@xtaran@chaos.social @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social The spring in the trailer arm? Not really. Mostly it gives you more flexibility to make the stupid holes line up, which is what's difficult about it. #BikeNite
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Feb 28, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social @BongoTwisty@social.vivaldi.net @bikenite@fedigroups.social A4: I like road names that are variations on "old 99" and such because they show where Route 99 used to be before Interstate 5 happened. Much of the time, it's the same roadbed, but often - particularly north of Seattle - it's not. There's also a little stub of a road, dead-ending, like half a block long, that used to be called Railroad Ave and it's where a rail stop used to be on the Burke-Gilman Trail back when it was a railroad. In both cases, it's less that the names are interesting and more that the history is interesting. Cat's Whiskers in Kenmore isn't bad either, again for history - it's named for one of the dozens of prohibition speakeasies they used to have. #BikeNite
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@ascentale@sfba.social @xtaran@chaos.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A3: Mine are Schwinn side-of-axle attachment system, but only because the two trailer frames I salvaged to build new trailers us
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Feb 28, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social @xtaran@chaos.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A3 continuance: Of course, I did built a custom hitch _attachment_ for my bike, so there's a lot more heft to it than it would have were it actually attached to the axle. https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/112662783416337162 Still working a year and... eight months later ^_^ #BikeNite
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Feb 28, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A8: Iiiiii... why was I there? OH RIGHT I was going to pick up a RADIO from a guy on the Cascadia Radio discord in Lake Forest Park when I saw _this_ WTFery parked at town hall: https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/116127634180999829 It's art. I hate it, but it's art. xD #BikeNite
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Thanks, I hate it! I’m hoping it’s an art piece in which case I still hate it, but less. #biking #bicycle #No #LakeForestPark
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Feb 28, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social @wolfinpdx@pdx.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A1: Usual north of Seattle, never been to a swap meet at all that I can remember. #BikeNite
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Feb 28, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social @scottsthoughts@better.boston @bikenite@fedigroups.social A2: never by bike. By foot+transit, or just by foot - yes, several times. Once when Community Transit fucked off on me one day, I walked the whole way home with a stupid amount of cargo and I'm glad I did it but wouldn't want to do it again. (It was several miles.) #BikeNite
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Feb 28, 2026
@ascentale@sfba.social @xtaran@chaos.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A3: Mine are Schwinn side-of-axle attachment system, but only because the two trailer frames I salvaged to build new trailers used it. I'd kind of like something less difficult, to be honest, but it's what I've got and it works well enough. #BikeNite
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@ClintonAnderson@universeodon.com · Feb 26, 2026
@uxmark@mstdn.ca @ascentale@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social #BikeNite #BikeTooter A bell.... And or a "On Your Left" delivered in enough time for people to realize that 1) yes I mean your left 2)No do not move to your left. My voice is louder and clearer than my bell, thanks to decades of theatre performance
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Feb 21, 2026
@LovesTha@floss.social @ascentale@sfba.social @EverydayMoggie@sfba.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social Some of us like it cold, that's why. ^_^ (Some of us come with what I call "the complete cold weather package" which means we'll shovel snow in shorts but literally pass out in temperatures Southerners consider "comfy." We have a ... definitely more northern habitable band. xD ) #BikeNite
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