Hello to all of you people of mastodon! 🤗
This is my #introduction
Here I will share stuff and links that I would like more people to know, I will also try to write some reflexions and though on my projects. I live in Normandy, France. My current topics of interests are various: #programming #bike #osm #climatechange #selfhosting #freeSoftware #linux #maps #openstreetmap #wikidata #rust #python
I speak french 🇫🇷 and english 🇬🇧 .
bike
First big group ride this year with local cycling group Charles River Wheelers (CRW).
Rode through some very wealthy suburban towns (Dover is the wealthiest town in Massachusetts with median household income of $250k+)
Very fast paced group. Started with the 2nd group (15-16mph pace) but caught the first group (17-18mph pace) shortly after. I stayed with the first group and average speed of this ride is 17.9mph!
#Cycling #BostonCycling #GroupRide #strava #bike
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Beautiful day for a ride.
Legs feel really good. Training in the winter paid off. Best 1 mins power output at 408 watt. Made a lot of PRs on the route that I’ve done so many times.
Now keep doing that power for 1 hour I’ll be a pro LOL #ICanDream
#cycling #cyclist #RoadCycling #bike #Pinarello #kask #Lexington #LexingtonMA
Barcelona Collserola loop cycling
Really nice mountain route. Some steep climbs. Cloudy so I wasn’t getting torched by the sun.
Stopped by a little restaurant for a coffee in the mountain outskirts of Barcelona.
Somehow they figured out how to pave roads smooth and not have potholes all over the place. Somehow they figured out how to design bike lanes properly in the dense urban area so people on bikes are comfortable. Somehow they figured out how to make roundabouts / rotaries (as referred to by massholes) not so scary…
The biggest pothole I ran into is smaller than my fist and I only saw three of them on this whole 40 miles route.
#cycling #cyclist #spain #barcelona #bike #UrbanPlanning #travel
Mt Wachusett on a hot day. Left Bolton around 8am. Made it to the top around 9:40am. And we decided that was not enough climb for the day, so we made the summit loop 3x 🤣 which increased about 900 feet elevation gain for the ride.
Got a flat with 0.3 miles to go at Bolton. I continued riding the flat and changed the tube when I got home. And I tried using CO2 cartridge for the first time! Gotta practice!
Stopped at Nan’s kitchen in Stow for lunch. Got a delicious Salmon bowl!
#cycling #cyclist #CyclistLife #RoadCycling #Bike #mountain #Wachusett #Massachusetts #HeatWave
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It’s a real commuter bike now!
Pros:
I don’t have to carry the backpack on my back so I don’t get as sweaty.
Cons:
Took a huge aero penalty. And it’s so fucking windy today.
Took a huge weight penalty. The rear rack + the heavier bag.
I don’t look as cool 😫.
#bicycle #bike #commute #commutebybike
South shore (Scituate) loop from Dorchester via Milton.
Stopped at Scituate harbor for coffee and a muffin. The coffee shop doesn’t make espresso??? Only drip coffee 🥹
Btw I might have peed in the woods in Wompatuck State Park. The mosquitoes definitely smelt their meat I’d say. 🦟
Overall great ride. Left early in the morning at 7am when there wasn’t too much traffic. It was cloudy and misty, especially near the coast, but it was nice and cool. I’d take that 100% over the 90+ heat wave 😂. The route is relatively flat - 2000 feet ascend over 58 miles. So I did a lot of sprinting - sprint Saturday it is…
#cycling #cyclist #cyclinglife #bike #pinarello #Boston #SouthShoreMA #ride
A little wandering and exploration in Savin Hill in Dorchester. Not the Stabbing Hill any more. Great view of downtown Boston (should’ve stopped to snap a pic)
#commute #SavinHill #Dorchester #Boston #bike
This is fascinating...
A group of black US Army soldiers biked 800 miles in 1896 to Yellowstone National Park
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Gorgeous day for my morning commute
Wandered a bit in my neighborhood Popes Hill in Dorchester
#commute #bike #BikeInBoston #Dorchester #selfie #cycling #Boston
Rainbow Swash up close!! Never been so close to it.
#BikeCommute #commute #RainbowSwash #dorchester #boston #bike #BikeTooter
Never a dull moment on Mass Ave
A monstrous semi truck blocking everything
And a moped on bike lane 😅
#BikeInBoston #commute #BikeTooter #BikeCommute #Boston #bike
My first century (imperial) in 2024
My body hurts everywhere 😅
#BikeTooter #cycling #bike #cyclist #CyclingLife
A great day to do some bike maintenance as well.
While I was wearing myself out on a 100+ miles ride, Josh decided to ride 28 miles around the beautiful country roads in Lincoln / Sudbury. But he started feeling tired and miserable after 20 miles. At 24 miles he got a flat. He was frustrated but then after walking a bit, he thought, you know what, I’m not mad that I have to walk the rest 4 miles. Good for him 🤣
So I bought some tubes from my local bike shop, replaced the tube for him this afternoon. And also refilled my commuter bike tires with sealant (yes it’s tubeless).
Bike maintenance day.
A little bit of mixed modes today:
Grabbed a blue bike at 4:43pm and rode to the Apple store in East Cambridge from Kendall.
At 4:57pm I got the iPad mini I ordered for Josh and grabbed another blue bike riding to Park St to catch the red line train.
At 5:10pm I was waiting for the train.
Literally no other mode of transportation could be this efficient and easy around the city.
hey bike enjoyers!
i made a starter pack for #bluesky that has over 100 great accounts to follow and 3 custom feeds to help you find all the bike-related posting that’s happening over there
if you’re curious about bluesky and you enjoy bikes, this is a great place to start
Seriously can you believe how beautiful my city is???
#boston #fall #foliage #cycling #city #CharlesRiver #Cambridge #bike
I just ordered some Continental Grand Prix 5000 tires
My old bike tires come with the bike and have 3000+ miles on it. I started getting flats since early September. Every other ride. Fortunately I got the flat at the end of the ride last time and I didn’t even notice before I got home 😝
I’m excited to try GP5000! I’ve been told they’re good!
Quick spin on the new tires
Someone was playing saxophone by Neponset trail. Was he the target of a recent 311 complaint about someone playing saxophone (near Adams & King playground in Dorchester)? 😅
#cycling #bike #biketoot #bikeboston #boston #dorchester
I try to #bike to work more days than most, if schedule allows. For groceries when I can. And for exercise on weekends. I’m two years into it.
This year, I’ve decided to capture photos from my trips. You see so much more on a bike. Gonna be adding them here and also on my BlueSky account.
Hello. This is the new account for the North Shore HUB committee (previously x.com/HUBnorthshore). We are dedicated to promoting cycling on the North Shore and are a group of volunteers that liaise with the local municipalities, MoTI and other external organizations.
This account will mostly post about bike infrastructure in North and West Vancouver, BC, Canada.
#Introduction #Cycling #Bike #NorthVancouver #WestVancouver #BikeYVR
Getting my bike ready for tomorrow's outdoor ride - temperature is gonna be 50s which is absolutely amazing for New England. And I'm excited to finally ride outside!
And there're so many things to charge before a bike ride now - my bike computer, batteries for front / rear derailleurs, tail light and radar, heart rate monitor...
Needed to make a quick charging stop in Eastham because I forgot to charge to 100% before leaving for Provincetown, and the extra drag from the bike rack made the efficiency worse. Obviously the bike design is not optimized for the aerodynamic when it's sideways 😜
I could charge near Ptown long enough so I can make it home, but 1) Ptown's DC charger is a Tesla supercharger, as much as I don't want give money to Musk, it is also not 800V output, meaning the Taycan only takes around 140-150kw, which is not so much different from the 120kw I can get from this ChargePoint. 2) as I don't drive much, I need to take advantage of the Electrify America free charging when I have the opportunity.
So a quick 9 mins charge from 11% to 22% and we got on the way to the Electrify America in Hyannis. Arrived with 13% SoC and got the free juice to 85%.
#Porsche #Taycan #EV #charging #ChargePoint #CapeCod #EVCharging #cyclist #bike #pinarello
