Notices by Velocipede Rider (ruari@velocipederider.com), page 4

Both of my kids are currently obsessed with #Duolingo. As I sit here I can hear German coming from one room and French from another. 😆

Every day I wait for the "proper winter" to return again, like the good old times

https://velocipederider.com/@ruari/109631402219258206

I got a second backwards running watch for one of my kids.

Sometimes when I switch between watches my mind blanks for a sec and I cannot instantly read it.

Doesn't last and shortly after I am fine again. 😄

@sotolf But … why do you want to download a "mall"!? That is just wierd.

@forteller

A nice ride into work today. Initially I did not want to cycle because it is windy and raining and also slushy on the ground.

But once I started, I really loved it and went a long way around to make the commute longer.

On the way I stopped for a donut and also chatted with a nice guy who would like to take up unicycling. In the end I agreed to lend him one to try.

All in all a really nice morning!

Ha… I have finally found a potentially valid use for AI images.

I wanted to check my alt text (on the image above) so copied it into Dall-E (via Bing chat) and asked it to generate an image based on what I had written to describe the above.

Ok that is not a unicycle… but yeah… not bad.

Not sure if I am more impressed with the AI or myself. 😜

It actually generated me a selection of four images. Here are the other three. It could not handle the uncycle in any of them but otherwise all pretty good attempts.

I couldn't resist trying a second time. Ok that is a bit of a funky, handlebar uni but I will let it slide. Close enough! 😉

A much more sensible setup for winter cycling, I'm sure you'll all agree.

If you don't have a winter tyre like me, at a push (if you are careful) you can sometimes make do without

https://velocipederider.com/@ruari/111324037857570056

In case you get caught out by snow and ice and do not have the correct cycling setup (as was the case for me today).

Some tips, having found myself in this situation numerous times.

https://ruario.flounder.online/gemlog/2021-11-24_Winter_cycling_tips_and_tricks.gmi

#VikingBiking #WinterCycling

Awesome! It looks like perfect #unicycling weather.

The first proper snow is always a highlight of winter commutes.

Yeah, pretty excited, not gonna lie.

On my way

Sadly I had to use an inappropriate setup as I had some issues with the unicycle I planned to use.

This meant no studded, winter tyre. But since there was no real ice and just light snow cover, it was fine anyway.

Still, it is always a bit of a shame when you do not have your uncycle setup just right for the winter conditions. People might think I am some kind of newb! 😜

As I was cycling in this morning there was a woman in front of me who slipped a little on some icy/wet leaves down a minor slope. She did not fall down and was not in any way hurt but I think it suprised her a little.

As I cycled past I said, "Forsiktig, det er glatt!" (Careful, it is slippery).

Mean … maybe… but I made myself smile. 😜

I didn't actually look back to see if she was amused or angry.

Shortly after that a different woman walking towards me repremanded me for not wearing a helmet.

Though I noted that she was not wearing one either and actually my pace was not a lot faster than hers at that point. 🤷

I do think that people overestimate the risk I am taking when unicycling relatively slowly in the snow.

Normally in the winter I have a wide tyre with hundreds of studs and look more stable than most of the pedestrians when cycling over icy patches. Yet they often tell me to wear a helmet, while they slip around without one.

Given we are would be falling from roughly the same height (on a small uni) and they are more likely than me to fall, who really should be wearing the helmet? 🤷

@amin Norway is currently on DST (Daylight Saving Time), which is applied in summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The gain is in the evening based on when people wake. Our version is called CEST (Central European Summer Time) and ends (switches back to CET) on 29th October.

In the US (summer) daylight savings are until 5th November.

But yeah I hate DST, it is stupid.

Oh and yes I have a decimal watch on now. 😉

@sotolf @rl_dane @theDoctor @peter @ivan @mirabilos