Sam On The Bike

He/Him - Cars shouldn't be the ONLY way to get around my city.
(if I blocked you it's probably BlueBlocker, not personal)

[Sam On The Bike @SamOnTheBike]

A thought experiment

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@wheelreinvent if it gets housing crisis back into the spotlight instead of impossible social media ban then it's almost a welcome sacrifice.

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@FreeCyclists 70,000+ hospitalisations from slip and fall incidents every year in Australia. We could kill two birds with one stone by mandating Brimmed Helmets for anyone not in a wheelchair.

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@Michelle_Rent I don't remember the exact quote but @chaslicc has a rule like "4% of poll respondents will tell you they're a lizard person if asked" and you just kinda gotta add that margin of error to everything

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@disco___cat I volunteer with several people on medical marijuana.

All but one went back to ordering dry herb because the regulation changes made it too hard to keep consistent stock of the vaporisers even through legal pharmacies.

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@wheelreinvent That said, I would also expect the causality to go both ways. Once fuel prices are out of the equation, that's one less incentive for me to choose to travel by bus or bike.

[Sam On The Bike @SamOnTheBike]

@wheelreinvent Alternate take: this would be expected from selection bias?

People who drive the most also benefit the most from a vehicle that is drastically cheaper per km and are more likely to upgrade to an EV.

People like me who drive once a week can't justify dropping $40k+ on a new EV.

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@thenewshireboy @sydney_ev We're certainly not short on land but we are often short on fresh water.

Shading water reservoirs drastically reduces evaporation and if you can make power from the sun you're shading, all the better :)

Still probably not cost effective, though.

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@lumbjackwharfie Start wearing a big spiky punk wrist band and see if drivers suddenly start caring about getting within paint-slapping distance.

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@john__qld check out what they want for a block of cadbury's while you're at it

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@Lost1nSpace LPT for queenslanders:
1) you can legally ride on the footpath
2) once you dismount you're just a pedestrian pushing a bike
3) pedestrians are only jaywalking if they're within 20m of a crossing

https://t.co/c0eKhpfcwO

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Found a neat trick to help (legally) stave off heatstroke on my daily commute.

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@Lost1nSpace yep - spend up to like a quarter of my daily commute just baking on the asphalt waiting for inefficient cars depending on timing of the lights.

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@CompletedStreet Forget mandatory helmet laws, we need mandatory HGH for cyclists

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@wheelreinvent Clearly we should treat libraries like medicare. Itemise a separate "Libraries" fee on your council rates and offer a refund if you can prove you bought books from a private vendor. Amazon offers to send you 2 random paperbacks for $49 per year because it's cheaper than the fee.

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Good observation from @build_beaut in Turramurra

-66 houses for +700 apartments

Bulldozing merely half a street can increase a suburbs housing 13%. Councils simply permitting it solves the housing crisis

[Sam On The Bike @SamOnTheBike]

@aukusfan2023 @Michelle_Rent that's what the💧 is for, obviously :P

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@JJ_MKE @TammyThomp98032 @SarahIronside6 @Dave_Mirsky scale seems to have shifted noticeably (maxing out around 30% instead of 40%) but if there's some notable change of states relative to each other I'd need it pointed out to me as an outsider.

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@JJ_MKE @TammyThomp98032 @SarahIronside6 @Dave_Mirsky looks about the same?

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@tony_eh @carlafrancome buying a cargo bike with a big bucket at the front so I can figure out how to do this with a double bass

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@bikelaneuprise Shout out to the Urbanism+ feed!
https://t.co/ex5dXeqFCM

If anyone else has good bike related bluesky feeds or starterpacks I'd be keen to add them to my collection :)

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@suburban_melb guy on my street has one of these in his garage and I want to befriend him just so I can cut some branches off my trees without balancing on a ladder