The place’s The Hearth?

One other day, one other ravaged Citi Bike…

Truly, it kinda appears prefer it jumped.

So who’s the most important risk to our cities’ utopian livable streets future? Is it individuals who steal Citi Bikes? Is it politicians who block congestion pricing? Is it pickup drivers who steal tow vans?

Hardly. No, the actual enemy is…

…fireplace vans?

One of the vital undercover villains within the combat for safer streets is fireplace departments who insist on responding to all emergencies, not simply fires, in gigantic ladder vans as an alternative of smaller automobiles. https://t.co/0eh5c4yGxR

— Molly (@mollyfleck) September 4, 2024

The most important problem the livable streets motion faces in successful folks over is that when their critics accuse them of making an attempt to ban every thing they snort it off as a conspiracy concept, however then they flip round and say stuff like fireplace departments shouldn’t reply to emergencies with massive vans. For this reason when your metropolis proposes one thing innocuous like a brand new bike lane everybody freaks out and insists the federal government is making an attempt to herd all of them into 15-minute cities and power them to eat bugs. And the actual irony is that the hearth division wants massive vans with the intention to put out all of the fires brought on by the e-bikes which are purported to get all people out of their automobiles (yeah, proper):

And sure, I’m being considerably glib right here and deliberately glossing over the nuances, however I’m afraid I can’t carry myself to fret concerning the dimension of fireplace vans, sorry. The reality is that in relation to the pointless I’m much more involved about folks using Bromptons with clipless pedals:

Sure, practically twenty years after Peak Fixie it looks like clipless sneakers are having one other second, and the newest entry into {the marketplace} comes from former professional David Millar:

Uh, I’ll deny it. Firstly, no, I don’t keep in mind the one white sweatband. Secondly, carrying a single white sweatband doesn’t make you a mode icon. Positive, Michael Jackson famously wore a single white glove, however there was extra to it than that, and he additionally wore a cool purple jacket and excessive water pants. As for David Millar, much more memorable than his sartorial sense was his bike-throwing potential:

There was a time when clipless sneakers would have appealed to me, however through the years I’ve slowly come to appreciate that the easiest factor about using in sneakers is not being clipped in–and if I’m clipped in I’m on a highway bike, and if I’m on a highway journey I’m additionally carrying stupid-looking garments and I’ve completely no intention of strolling. Nonetheless, I suppose folks need this stuff, as a result of along with the Millar sneakers there are these:

I attempted to observe it, however I flew right into a violent rage the primary time he known as them “AH-didas.”

RUN DMC are the final phrase on how you can pronounce Adidas, sorry.

Transferring on, I do know you have got numerous questions on my new Roaduno, akin to:

“Will you ever cease speaking about it?”
“Certainly there are extra essential issues occurring on this planet, just like the upcoming presidential election, proper?
“And who’re you voting for, anyway?”

Effectively, listed below are the solutions to these questions, within the order through which they have been posed:

No
Positively not
My new Roaduno

I proceed to lavish consideration on it too, and yesterday I put in this spiffy rack:

I’ve had it for awhile, and was utilizing it on the Homer, however I feel will probably be excellent for the Roaduno:

Its complete objective shall be as a spot to place clothes layers as I shed them, or perhaps strap a lock:

When utilizing this rack within the entrance you’re additionally purported to run a strap from the rack to the handlebars to maintain it from jamming up your entrance wheel within the occasion of a failure, however I doubt the burden of my flannel shirt goes to trigger it to buckle so for now I’m residing dangerously:

Now the actual query is once I’ll unlock that inside ring by putting in a entrance derailleur:

A part of me desires to proceed having fun with it as a correct singlespeed, and but a part of me suspects that maybe a “singlespeed” with an emergency gear for the hills stands out as the excellent middle-aged dirtbag bike and may’t wait to attempt it. We’ll see how lengthy I maintain out, although the one factor I do know is that I gained’t be foot-shifting it: