Notices by Velocipede Rider (ruari@velocipederider.com)

My colleague @thomasp has the most amazing clock and I have to say, I'm jealous. #Clock

@leeloo I definitely have one. Look here it is.

@sotolf @anon_opin

@tk @anon_opin @sotolf Standard High Wheels: https://www.standardhighwheels.se/

@sotolf @anon_opin Awesome, I get to buy some new vinyl!

It’s a story as old as time. You are out with your friends cycling around in -10°C (14°F) and you feel like you need for a nice smoothie to cool down a bit, then you accidentally become part of the marketing material for the social media page of your local smoothie bar. No doubt it has happened to everyone here at some point. 🤷

#SmoothieZoneHasle #UnicycleLife #WinterUnicycling

@MediaActivist Nice to hear and thank you. 🙇

P.S. If it was not clear, I work for @Vivaldi

Yeah I should probably get out of bed now.

Happy New year to all the unicyclists and non unicyclists out there. :unicycle: 🎊

A present from my brother.

As a actual international #PennyFarthing racer and long term #StarWars fan, yes… this works!

So have any non-Norwegians here watched "The Snow Sister" (Snøsøsteren) on Netflix? Did you like it? The book was a favourite with my children.

We watched it on the weekend and I think it was pretty good. I have also heard that it has had some success abroad. I'm curious because it is quite different than a typical Christmas movie in say the US.

P.S. If you are looking for that title/final song it is "Siste dans" (Last Dance) by Delara. 😉

#Snøsøsteren #TheSnowSister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekgJs0D0RYQ

Americans why are you still using the mag stripe on your debit and credit cards? What is wrong with you?

https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/is-this-end-of-credit-card-magnetic-strips.html

Many banks in Europe will have stopped issuing Mastercards with mag stripes before the year is out and I suspect the only reason they have lasted this long is that some of us still travel to the US, where we might have need them.

https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/magnetic-stripe/

So there is an article here in Norway about watches with an analogue style interface (non digital watches).

Apparently there is a growing trend driven by TikTok for more classic looking watches amongst young people

But… many of the people buying them cannot actually read a watch like this.

How do I feel about this? 🤔

https://www.nrk.no/ostfold/analoge-klokker-trender-pa-tiktok-1.17005560

@linnefaulk A sundial is just like a single handed watch (hour hand only) with the shadow being the hand.

The first clocks were basically emulating this. They were effectively mechanical sundials. They also had the advantage of being able to show the hours at night.

Later the minute had was added to clocks for more precision and later the second hand for even further precision.

@linnefaulk This is also why a clock goes "clockwise" or more perhaps more correctly we should call this rotation as it was known previously in English… "sunwise".

It also shows you that clocks were first invented in the northern hemisphere, since they mimic sundials in that part of the world.

Had clocks first been invented in somewhere like Austrialia then the normal rotation would have been the other way.

A little evening cruise around, giving the local teens something to laugh about. 😂

#Unicycle #UnicycleLife #Enhjulssykkel

I'm just trying out my little baby cranks again after a couple of years. These things are only 75mm long. On my penny farthing I use 150mm cranks. Normal bike cranks are usually in the 165-170mm range.

Ok today I shall lend this unicycle to someone who has decided to learn this crazy sport, so I am reconfiguring this to be a bit more newbie friendly. Switching to a 150mm crank length, i.e twice the length.

Note also that I have to drop the seat post height to account for the difference. 😉

#Unicycle #UnicycleLife #Enhjulssykkel

If anyone out there is thinking of learning to #unicycle themselves this is a great video to help you get going. Keep in mind it takes a while

https://youtu.be/LUNv6B6JBJ8

Today I shall attempt to ride 100km (62 miles) on this. Wish me luck!🤞

#unicycle #UnicycleLife #unicyclist #Enhjulssykkel