I like foldables, but I won’t be getting another one until Samsung and other OEMs dramatically overhaul their design and durability. When a ribbon connector went bad, they required repair companies to replace the two screens and hinge, a $600 repair on a phone worth $400. The ribbon connector is a 20¢ component, if that. I ended up getting a Motorola on sale for $250 that can do most of what high end flagships can do.
If it were me, I’d still change it. That sounds like something is wearing out, not something you want to surprise you when you are traveling downhill at speed.
We tried Bromptons, but they are a bit too small for my buddies and I. We demoed one and shrieked with laughter as my friend kept hitting the front tire with his toes, his heel on the back rack, and was unable to make it up a steep hill next to the store. His indignation and the dorky high vis vest the store had him wear only made it even more hilarious.
But man, did that bike fold up nice and small. We were impressed by that part!
My neighborhood is nearly as big as your commute! I’d just get an ebike (or cargo ebike!), it’s completely transformed the city for me. We’ve unintentionally gone on 72km trips as the bike makes it easy to do. I fill the gaps with buses and rail using an app called Transit, which is made by a small dev team out of Montreal.
They must be mounted to poles just like traffic lights. Then, people can’t mess with them. Or just do my favorite method: narrow the shit out of roads until it is physically impossible to speed. Make the sidewalks and protected bike lanes massive, and the curbs lined with beautiful, reinforced steel poles painted to match the city they are adorning.
Throw around some steel planters that burst with flowers and trees, and also happen to weigh over a metric ton. Add BRT lanes with buses that carry cameras that automatically ticket cars in the bus and bike lanes. These problems are quite solvable and have been solved in NA and EU cities already.
The best thing is that these changes open a city up to being walkable and really pretty, especially with lots of greenery and landscaping being put in on previously busy roads. We have giant granite boulders and native plants on several of our major roads, now. It’s done wonders to control speeding. :)
I always recommend this site: https://theteahouseltd.com/
We’ve visited them in person and their tea was so fantastic that even non-tea people loved it. They ship worldwide. I tend to order in bulk these years.
Only one tea has ever come close, and it was a small Asian restaurant out of Vancouver, BC. This store has dozens of amazing varieties.
We just have an instant hot water tap. Can’t live without it, haha.
Nobody shot off fireworks here because of the grave situation in our country. Just an eerie hush over the city. We’ve lived here for 60 years and never seen anything like 2025.
One lady saw me locking my bike up with 12mm thick chain and expressed sadness that we have to go to such lengths as a society just to keep others from touching things that aren’t theirs. I sometimes think of her now when I’m locking up my bike.
Doubly sad too, since some people don’t have cars, and bikes are their primary means of transit.
If you have to hope, it probably doesn’t.
I miss the worm lights. My cousin had one, and even though I had the Advance SP, I thought the worm LED was super neat.
Er, sorry. Misspoke. Ground-based telescopes!
I don’t need a folder right now, but that’s good to know in case I need to hop on a bus with a bike for work :)
It’s great for cities that have the budget and manpower to build protected bike lanes everywhere. But even the North American cities that are at the forefront of bike infrastructure are still decades away from having a system competent enough to remove 50% or more of cars and car roads from their cities. :/
Until the time when most cities and small towns are safely bikable, I see class III speeds being the only rapid bandaid on a complex and unfortunately, quite political problem in both Canadian and American cities.
In the meantime, we will fight NIMBYS tooth and nail for every square meter of bike lane, boneheaded decisions from city governments, and federal governments complete resistance to funding major continental projects like HSR, or anything that doesn’t remotely rely on cars. I just wish we had the time, but we really don’t, with climate deadlines getting awfully close.
Damn, they have some folding bikes on sale for $419. That is shockingly affordable.
My buddy started balding at 16. He held on for a number of years, but eventually we helped him rip the bandaid off and he shaved himself bald. Instantly looked younger again just because he didn’t have a ring of hair at 27 anymore. Honestly, it can look really cool if you shave it.
Oooh, you guys are scraping the vertical paint for zippers. Our city dabbled with zippers, but immediately had to put orange cones up, as drivers just ran over them. Zippers would be much more effective if they were rotated 90° so that they were head on instead of a glancing blow to cars.
But at that point, you might as well throw in concrete crash barriers or orange construction barriers instead. Zippers don’t really do much.
Or flexposts covered in anti-slip, high grit sandpaper.
The speed, too, is a safety issue. Studies show that differences in speed between vehicles sharing a road are a statistical cause of crashes, and many of New York’s streets are shared between bikes and cars. A bike that can do the 25-mph speed limit is safer than one that can’t.
The future of personal mobility shouldn’t be autonomous EVs, it should be e-bikes. E-bikes that are lightweight, that don’t spew tire microplastics into the environment, that require little power to move a person from point A to point B.
This is the sort of safe, common-sense stuff that should be a boilerplate on every article.
Also, the triangle part is just really cool as well. I love both, but the progress pride one feels much more officially flaggy to me :)
I don’t really like it, but sometimes those types of cases are the only good ones with radiator clearance in a relatively small footprint.
I still miss this one, it was all metal and very close to an Apple G5 case, minus the compatibility issues.
Unfortunately, this case also couldn’t support radiators in any meaningful capacity, so I had to sell it. Currently using a Lian li case that I dislike, but it has damn good radiator support, and my PC is now completely silent.