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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Does anyone know the story on these bike racks in downtown Nashville TN? I see what they're going for but does anyone actually like or use these?

A bike rack with an unusual design mounted in the sidewalk on an urban street. The rack is two vertical steel posts spaced very closely together about four feet tall, with a horizontal element attaching the top ends in a shape reminiscent of moustache style bicycle handlebars.

Detail of the landscapeforms bicycle rack showing a use diagram. A traditional "road" style bike hangs from the horizontal moustache element from inside the front triangle where the top tube meets the seat tube. The front wheel is detached from the front fork and hangs ... somewhere? Apparently everybody carries a u lock with attached cable, because this diagram assumes both.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I spy Dutch style bicycle infrastructure in Contra Costa County California.

Bicycle wheels in the muddy bottom of a creek as seen from a pedestrian bridge.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My son (pictured) spent his summer hiking and camping in the great outdoors, traveling to Wyoming, Colorado, Oregon, Northern California, Spokane, Reno, and Big Sur.

A US Forest Service firefighter with the Tallac Hotshots crew hikes through the burned over remnants of a forest fire somewhere in the Western U.S.

A US Forest Service firefighter with the Tallac Hotshots crew holds his Pulaski in one hand, and a flaming drip torch in the other, as he marches through an active forest fire.

US Forest Service firefighters pitch their tents for the night as a wildfire blazes on a nearby ridge.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

More storage space archeology: PCI Developer Guide for Silicon Graphics systems.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Cleaning out out my storage space and I found the 3 CD set for Slackware Professional Linux 2.2.0.1. "A comprehensive ready to run Unix™ clone for 386 and 486 PCs."

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Lots of bikes on Capitol Corridor east bound to Sacramento from Santa Clara.

Several bicycles leaned against a table on the lower level of a California Car Amtrak train. A conductor can be seen nearby checking tickets

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

ACE Train at Santa Clara to Pleasanton, Livermore, Tracy, Stockton.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Somebody left their size 8 bikini bottom at my camp site. It's like Cinderella's slipper and I need to find who it fits

California State Parks signpost with a bike camping symbol and "Bicycle Camping Only" sign. A pink size 8 bikini bottom hangs atop the sign post. In the background we see a bicycle leaning on a picnic table, a tent, and a food locker in a clearing surrounded by ferns and poison oak in the woods

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"Satellite" in Romaji, but office is the proper English spelling.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Shwarma in Japan. Reviews for the locals all say this tastes amazing, but it does not.

A cartoonish illustration for "Moses's Kebabs" in Tokyo depicts a samurai looking dude and a geisha looking woman eating shwarmas and drinking a soda from a paper cup. A red crowned crane flies in the background towards Mount Fuji and a hinomaru looking red sun.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

They like their lifted trucks in Japan. This is snow country, after all.

A small SUV-style vehicle at a Daihatsu dealership in northern Japan. The truck is required with (I think) 15 inch Maxxis Mudder Buckshot tires, and the suspension is lifted to provide the truck with several inches of ground clearance.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

There's something like a thousand years of continuous cultivation in this part of Japan and you can smell the reason the soil remains so highly productive on a warm summer day, and it's not because my chamois needs a wash.

Selfie of me riding a bicycle past a lushly verdant farm field of vegetables stretching into the distance.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This page says cyclists must use the blue backed bike lanes, which is a joke because they're all about four inches wide and universally covered in debris. They're even more useless than US bike lanes.

Illustration shows a 4 lane road plus 2 lanes on either side colored blue with bicycle symbols on them. This is Japan so direction of travel is on the left side of the road

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Here's another fun one: it's a ticketable offense if you splash a bystander when biking through a puddle.

Cartoon shows a helmeted spandex clad cyclist on a road bicycle riding through a puddle and splashing a nearby woman. Explanatory text in Japanese says this is illegal and can result in a 5000 yen (about US$30) fine.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I'm reading this Japanese cycling rules book. This page says liability insurance is required of cyclists in 34 of 47 prefectures! Yes, that adult in the cartoon is telling the child he's supposed to have bicycle insurance.

Cover of a small paperback book in Japanese. The title in Japanese says "Bicycle Traffic Rules Made Simple"

An open part of the bicycle rules book with a cartoon of an adult woman explaining to a child on a bicycle that he is required to have insurance. The text in Japanese explains that 34 prefectures require liability insurance for cyclists, and another 10 "recommend" insurance, whatever that means. Although no prefectures currently impose no penalties for lack of compliance, some prefectures make an insurance purchase a mandatory part of buying the bicycle.

A yellow box of text describes a case of a child traveling at 20 km/hour who knocked an old woman down. He had to pay 90 million yen in compensation, which is about equivalent to half a million US dollars.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Your tap-to-pay card doesn't work on this rural railroad. Cash only.

A sign on board a commuter train has a rectangle with the letters "IC" with a large red X next to it. The "IC" rectangle represents the Japanese stored value card used to ride public transit, and the "X" represents "nope."

The text in Japanese under these symbols says:

IC cards like Suica cannot be used on Aoimori Railway and IGR Iwate Galaxy Railway.

If you access the train platform by tapping your IC card, you still need a ticket paid with cash, lest Masi Oka demands a ticket.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Fun game with water reflections. This is at the outer garden moat of the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

They like aggressive grills in Japan too. This is a minivan.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Seen at the Tokyo Station Koban (police box -- a mini police station). This sign tells people not to park in the blue bike lanes in Tokyo.

A video display showing a bicycle rider in a blue bike lane with Japanese writing on the lane marking it as a bicycle lane, and smaller text next to the rider that says, in Japanese, that the lane is for biking, not parking trucks. A large truck blocks the cyclist's path because it's stopped in the bike lane. Small text at the bottom of the display invites people to use the QR code for more information about where they can park there vehicles in the vicinity of Tokyo Station.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

And a magnitude 4.7 aftershock hit at about 9 pm while I walked past this building that lost its facade and picture windows in this morning's quake.

A 4 story commercial building in Japan with all of the upper story windows missing. The first floor remains lit and apparently open for business?

A four story commercial building in Japan at night. A significant chunk of the concrete(?) siding fell off of the building and sits in the adjacent empty lot. Orange cones of awareness and yellow tape mark off the area for people to stay away from

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Well that was exciting way to wake up. 6.9 earthquake here.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

One thing I learned today about this part of coastal Japan, which was devastated by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami: they plant these forested areas on purpose as a buffer between the ocean and the village that's just inland of here as a buffer against storm surges and tsunamis.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's almost my bedtime so I'll leave you with this brief audiovisual narrative of today's unmapped and unplanned off road bicycle adventure near Oirase, Aomori, Japan.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This ten centimeter wide strip of blue is a bike lane in Japan. Ha ha ha ha ha. Japan requires use of a marked lane.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

They even wrap their bananas in Japan. Almost all of this plastic waste is incinerated, which they euphemistically call "thermal recycling."

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Thanks to the Iran War, Japan has a severe plastic shortage, and yet they still individually wrap all of their produce in plastic.

A grocery store shelf of various hot and sweet peppers: green, red, and orange.

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