Post by @himysyed

swachter
@swachter @toot.boston
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A bright orange mixte bicycle locked into a bike parking frame. The handlebars have pretty pink-blue-silver streamers coming out (they light up too!) and the wheels have both rainbow wheelbrites (not turned on) and pink-white-blue-green glow in the dark stars and plinkers.
A bright orange mixte bicycle locked into a bike parking frame. The handlebars have pretty pink-blue-silver streamers coming out (they light up too!) and the wheels have both rainbow wheelbrites (not turned on) and pink-white-blue-green glow in the dark stars and plinkers.

I am so 100% serious about this: putting little streamers on my bike handlebars has made drivers approximately a million times less asshole. They wait behind me when I’m going up a hill. They let me turn left. They give me space when passing. It’s genuinely bonkers how much nicer it’s made my experience of urban cycling.

#bikeTooter

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HiMY SYeD - littleFedi
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@swachter@toot.boston This is now tied with the best bicycling advice I was ever given :

No matter how silly you think you will look or how embarrassing you might feel, Add a Basket to the front of your bike; it will improve the quality of your cycling life.

As the Aussies say, 'Struth.