[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 6 points 11 hours ago

iirc you aren't in the US, but at least here the deer crossing signs are actually bullshit lol (in that deer will cross most anywhere, not just the 1-2 mile stretches indicated by the signs)

For a speed limiting sign to be even put up here people have to have crashed and gotten hurt like, a lot. Otherwise the first person to sue against it, which inevitably happens because my right to kill myself running into woodland creatures is attacked, would get them taken down.

Every deer crossing speed limit is quite literally written in blood. They wouldn't be there if nothing happend.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 6 points 13 hours ago

I think Death Stranding is the best bicycle touring game out there so I'd propose instead of RNG tyre pop you just go with the footwear (tyres) that go bad insanely fast

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 18 points 13 hours ago
  • Think Last of Us, 50:50 on the not-zombies, crucially, everyone didn't fucking forget bicycles existed
    -- possibly also STALKER or METRO-like setting

But honestly pick any. Anywhere there is fuel scarcity bicycles would make sense.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 14 points 13 hours ago

Yeah nearly everyone in MGS that's not a one off character is either bi- or pansexual, I think there's a very obvious answer here

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 25 points 13 hours ago

I'm into it but I'm very fucking pissed we got Horse Stranding before Bicycle Stranding

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 19 points 15 hours ago

Nearly everyone I know who hit a deer on rural roads has ignored the lowered speed limits and the warning signs about deer crossings on some notion of conspiracy that it's a government plot to get people to drive slower because the government hates cars and then they get really mad at the deer

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

If you can thread it back in and get it up to tension - just hand feel it compared to the other spoke - should be fine for a while unless you're really heavy, it has very few spokes or you huck yourself off jumps with it.

If it's borked, one of the next trip should be to getting it fixed. It's not going to fail catastrophically on you, most likely, but it probably won't be too long until the other spokes or rim get even more bent out of shape, compounding the problem. Easy fix now.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Loose as in it lost tension or loose as in it's not attached anymore / broken?

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Nah, labor does all that. It's a bunch of mechanical turks doing it.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

midnight doomer cruise - acoustic demo by Any Two Words

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

but at least it's not a terrible idea in theory.

Anything done under the auspice of combating anti-social-behaviours the way the dismal isles understand is unequivocally bad

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 31 points 6 days ago

Why would I not want an enlarged liver? I got more liver now, it works more!

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submitted 2 months ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/music@hexbear.net

man this irish folk song seems weirdly current

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Monster Energy Drink can turned human, Sam Pilgrim, is back again with a cool bicycle idea with literally 0 possible downside

Honestly love the guy. I'll excuse him being a public nuisance in any and all cases on account of how much he is the pantheonic ideal of dudes rock.

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Frame made out of bamboo, pictured here is a My Boo that touts a partnership with a fair trade social program in Ghana to make the frames.

It's supposed to be more ecological, for obvious reasons. Weight on one is about 15kg, which is pretty good for a kitted out city bike.

I can't speak to longevity of this and whether it actually pans out vs. say, a steel bike that you keep welding back together, on account of these haven't really been around too long. It's held together via a composite glue made out of hemp and resin, so at least they're following through here I suppose.

Reviews I've read is that the ride quality is really nice, being stiff yet compliant in the ride cases as to not make it a boneshaker.

Price of these is, obviously, fairly high, these'd run you around 3000€ euros, I'd argue a comparable bike made out of traditional materials would run you maybe 800€ new. But I'd argue it's more a proof of concept.

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submitted 2 months ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net

I also sell to individual customers but you're gonna either have to be a pretty good runner to keep up or rather more dexterious so you can cycle next to me. Close passing cars and bike lane parkers get a nice squirt of mustard on the roof

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Pictured here is the new spacecamper, usually a business for converting vans and such into campers, for cargo bikes.

I'm kind of undecided on this. It feels very convenient, unless you have an ultralight tent the weight of your bike, and your supplies and the tent and the bags and whatnot seems sort of the same as this stuff.

What do we think about the concept? Cool idea to incorporate your bicycle into your sleeping arrangement for trips or dumb playtoy?

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submitted 2 months ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

How hard is that shit?

I'd like a control panel of nicely haptic buttons for some of the Arma 3 side features, Lights on/off, Engine on/off, Chaff, Smokelauncher etc.

From what I gathered researching it's basically just building a box, soldering some switches to a micro controller and bob's your uncle. I feel 80% confident I can do those things - am I missing something? Anyone ever build their own "sim"-control-deck?

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Pictured here is a Van Raam, who make some other bicycles for people with disabilities, but they're hardly the only one. I think it's cool people are doing things like this. They are, sadly, rather pricey.

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You get a nice box in the back or whatever but it's not really THAT much bigger than a box you could fit on any old regular bicycle

You can plop like two children there but then you can do that with Long Johns and 3-wheelers and such, too and ALSO you have the fuckoff-big box. They don't really seem all that shorter than comparable versions either.

Anyone got one or know why someone got one?

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It's the Kenyan Kalendjin for marathons and then also the most noam-chomsky-as-of-today-looking rich white guy on a 10.000€ bicycle. Interesting split!

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A Randonneur is a long distance travel bike just for context.

The VSF stuff is usually solid, albeit entirely too heavy, but I gotta say, a randonneur in british racing green? I want one.

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submitted 3 months ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

I'm curious. I know where my life diverged and where I would've been a car guy otherwise, would be interested to see what the dealio with other people is or whether they even ever thought about it

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Been meaing to post about this, this a reconstruct of some fossil in the Rhineland-Palatinate which, for obvious reasons, made quite the rounds on the german internet for a while

I mean look at it. It's great. Reportedly the scientific artists responsible for this picture was quite pleased with it getting meme'd

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