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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't think sharrows are supposed to work like this, fortunately my expectations are low so I was not surprised. More along the lines of "is he really going to do this? Of course he is. This is fine."

From my helmet camera, we see a curve in the road, with sharrow markings for bikes, and no visible centerline because many, many drivers taking the turn carelessly have completely scrubbed the paint off.

My bicycle is tilted and angle somewhat to the right, away from the Tesla passing me on the left, entering the curve. Approaching, in the curve, are two more cars.

Here, I am much closer to the curb, almost adjacent to the sharrow (which is well to my left, I am closer to the curb), the Tesla is on my left with its front wheel in the sharrow, and the first oncoming car is more or less in opposite the Tesla. The wheels of the second oncoming car are just visible at the top right of the photo.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Here's 74 inches wide, my dad's old home office, now repurposed for the next generation(s). It's not bad. Under 6 feet, a desk/surface will be tricky, though you could buy the same Home Despot butcher block ($$$) and screw legs on it like we did. My wife uses it for video conferencing.

A skinny office with a wooden wall-mounted bookshelves on either side.
The desk is a 6-foot-wide slab of butcher block supported by black legs near the corners, and Elfa file-folder rolling drawers underneath. The desk has a monitor, keyboard, trackpad, and laptop on a stand.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was sorting through my pile of new commuting clips just last night:

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Follow-up on 3 bikes, one of the with e-assist. I rode all three bikes on Sunday, then commuted using a different bike on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (today). Which weekday did I use the e-bike? The daily commute is 20km round trip (6.2 miles one-way).

A fitbit "energy burned" display showing 4454 calories for Sunday, 3482 for Monday, 3464 for Tuesday, and 3509 for Wednesday.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Post your getaway vehicle

A Big Dummy with e-assist, towing a Bikes-at-work trailer loaded with a couple hundred pounds of road safety cones.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There was that day I biked nowhere near that distance, but it involved 4 trips towing a trailer loaded with 200+lbs of crap each time. "You exceeded your daily goal by 3008 calories. Nice work!" Like, fuck me, do you know how much work that was? Muscles ached that I didn't know existed.

A graph of calories per hour for September 1, 2024. It averaged about 400 per hour for 10 hours straight. with 3 of those hours at about 500 per hour. "Nice work!" my ass.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An OECD report, Cycling, Health and Safety, references other studies that I don't have links to for other populations (and Denmark, from above). China (RR 0.79), and Finland (RR 0.78), w/ increased effect at "higher activity" seen in China (RR 0.6) & Finland (RR 0.79). www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Relative risk expressed as a ratio of all cause mortality of cyclists compared to non-cyclists after controlling for confounding factors (age, gender, education, etc.) – e.g. a relative risk result of 0.70 indicates that a cyclist has a 30% reduction in risk of death compared to a similar non-cyclist.

(tabular data below)
Location Relative mortality risk Confidence Study
(cycling/non-cycling) interval
Copenhagen, DK 0.72 0.57-0.91 Anderson et al, 2000
China 0.79 0.61-1.01 Matthews et al, 2007
China (high activity) 0.66 0.40-1.07 Matthews et al, 2007
Finland 0.78 0.65-0.92 Hu et al, 2004
Finland (high activity) 0.69 0.57-0.84 Hu et al, 2004

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In an attempt to persuade nobody about what actually makes us safe, here are some numbers. We don't get enough exercise in the US, even though we talk about it at lot. It turns out exercise matters, in study after study after study.

A poster, titled:

What they say and what they do: comparing physical activity across USA England, and the Netherlands.

Results are that everyone says they are active, but when actually measured with accelerometers and compared to the Dutch, they are not. The chart uses the Dutch as a reference, with activity quintiles (0-20%, 20-40%, etc) and the about 60% of USAians are as sedentary as the least-active 20% of the Dutch.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some drivers have a lot of faith in my ability to thread myself through what remains of a bike lane without bobbling into a car. Did you know that I've bounced cargo bikes off Jersey barriers, just to see what it was like? I did not even need to pause.

The front part of a car parked in most of a bike lane, leaving definitely less than a meter between car and curb. I clear their mirror by less than the width of their mirror, as one does. In the picture, my handlebars are just behind their mirror as I am about to pass.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm processing months of video backlog, continuous capture makes it easy to stuff a lot of events in a little space. For your amusement:

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I see this sharrow every day, and wonder if the designers put it here because of Anita Kurmann: "police asserted Kurmann was riding in a lane designated as a bus stop zone" www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2018/05...

A sharrow, in a bike lane, at a bus stop, just east of Inman Square in Cambridge.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Need a closer bike shop, then you can use a bike trailer:

An Urban Arrow front bucket cargo bike lashed down to a bicycle trailer, attached to a bicycle.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Boston is up in the last 10 days, wouldn't call it a "very strong increase" quite yet data.wastewaterscan.org/tracker?char...

Graph of SARS-CoV-2 levels for Boston, MA, for 2026 till today, showing levels, which have been nicely down since mid-April, but recently curved up a bit, though not in an obviously exponential way.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The Go-Pro's wide-angle lens is extra flattering, the opposite of what it does to one's stomach when it faces backwards from the handlebars.

A dad-calf, on a cargo bike, carrying long-ish lumber, and some pastry strapped to the top of the lumber in a successful attempt to protect the pastry from road vibration.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As a former VC, I only use my "training" to take the lane, extravagantly, when the bike lane is blocked, or when I am carrying/towing a load that would be inappropriately large for sharing space with ordinary bicycles. It's a long shot, but I hope it causes some drivers to think, a little.

a bicycle towing a trailer loaded with awareness cones

a longtail bicycle towing another longtail bicycle, which is itself loaded with cardboard for recycling

a longtail bicycle towing a trailer that is loaded with a sick bakfiets that needs a trip to the bicycle hospital

a bicycle towing a trailer loaded with a snowblower, that is covered in snow, all parked on the snow.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Logged in to Twitter to retrieve these worthy images from a poster session long ago: #commuting #teleportation #biking

A youngish man standing in front of a poster "Would You Rather Teleport or Spend Some Time Commuting? Investigating Individuals Teleportation Preferences"

The research was done by Prasanna Humagain (prasanna.hmg@usu.edu) and Patrick Singleton (patrick.singleton@usu.edu).

usu.edu is Utah State, Patrick Singleton (the youngish man) is the associate professor there.

A detail; from the poster showing the distribution of "I would rather teleport" versus "I would rather spend some time commuting".

More car passengers (76%) and car drivers (73%) would rather teleport than any other group.

Only walkers (72%) and bicycle users (65%) have more than half that would prefer to spend some time commuting.

A detail from the poster, showing why people prefer teleporting or not-teleporting.

"I would rather teleport":

I have other things to do (68%)
My commute is a waste of time (41%)
I like trying new technology (32%)
I dislike most aspects of my commute (29%)
I am always in a rush (25%)
Other (24%)

"I would rather spend some time commuting":

I enjoy certain aspects of my commute (76%)
I like to use my commute time productively (24%)
Teleportation is and always be impossible (17%)
I would be uneasy or afraid to teleport (9%)
Other (33%)

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I had a lovely ride from cone deploy to Cambridge Common; I came across Jeff, the owner of this Frances Mixtehaul ( www.flickr.com/photos/jmuir... ) and children Francis (?) and I think Ben. (Francis was easy because I called out "wow, that's a Frances!" and she yelled back "I'm Francis!")

A Frances Mixtehaul parked in Central Square. The back half of the bicycle is "normal", but the front is sort of a large squarish tube assembly, with handlebars at the rear top corner connected by cables to the front fork, which runs down the front leg of the square. A longish canvas basket hangs from the top bar of the square and rests on a platform that forms the bottom of the square.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My small contribution to a recent family bike ride; haul all the traffic cones, to add protection where it was missing. I am not really sure how much it weighed, but it was a lot, and I was happy to have an e-assist.

A bicycle trailer (64 inches long) loaded with 4 stacks of traffic cones and a bunch of inter-cone sticks, all well lashed down. Students of trailer loading will notice that I fucked up and put way too much weight on the tongue, but it handled okay, so all good, I guess.

After deploying, tending, retrieving the cones, I traveled to Cambridge Common, and all these bikes were parked there, plus a fair number more. It's lovely, there's dozens and dozens of bikes and trailers and cargo bikes and kid seats, all parked on the grass in front of a bunch of trees on a bright sunny day.

The bike and trailer, the next day, parked at the drop off. I learned my lesson, there's a lot more weight directly over the axle. Not shown is what happened next, unloaded everything, then continued to work.

At work, I detached the trailer and used it and the bike to make a post-and-ring-rack sandwich, with my u-lock going through both. There's security nuts on all the bicycle wheels, seat post, and stem; in theory the trailer wheels could be yanked right off.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Feel free to use this bike lane. Here, I stick to the sidewalk. I don't think you've made an adequate case for me to "fuck off"; your actual quarrel is with another person. maps.app.goo.gl/dkRDMTtGTG4c...

An aerial photo of US Highway 19 in Palm Harbor Florida. It shows 4 through lanes in each direction, plus a left turn lane northbound. There are bike lanes (indicated with bicycle picture and arrow), a wide grass separation on each side, and sidewalks.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Kinda disgusting, but I am just the messenger, Bezos runs a system that leaves bottle of urine beside the road.

A bottle of urine dropped right at the curb of a road, view from a bicycle.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

or a trailer. I may have become the designated cone-hauler for family bike ride events, because the e-bike and trailer can haul the whole load in a single (sedate and ponderous) load.

A longtail, with an aftermarket e-assist installed at the crank, attached to a trailer, loaded with safety cones.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

These three bikes together accumulated 50,000 miles of utility travel over 20 years. People grossly overestimate the necessity of their personal automobiles, of any size.

A Big Dummy cargo bike, parked in front of the Fresh Pond Reservoir in Cambridge, MA. It has a couple of bags of groceries in the rear.

An Xtracycle Edgerunner longtail cargo bike, loaded with a bunch of groceries and a box of shingles and a small-diameter PVC pipe.

A "hybrid" bicycle, with its rear extended by an Xtracycle Freeradical bolt-on device. It is on its side because it is loaded with a shrubbery so unwieldy that it took two people to load it on the bike, and this was before I discovered adequate center stands.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Car stuff, and bike stuff. Compare:

A hefty post, with a mount that is designed to break free if something smacks the base of the sign hard enough. This happens to be less than a foot from the edge of a beside-the-road cycle track, adjacent to the rotary where Concord Avenue meets the Alewife Brook Parkway in Cambridge, MA.

Even though it is very close to the bike path, the pale-gray post has no reflectors or high-viz markings on it.

Closeup of the sign's attachment to its base, showing how the bolts attach to slots that extend to the edge of the mount, not to holes, and thus it can slide free if hit hard enough.

On the Minuteman bike path in Arlington, MA, someone needed to put up a sign for cars parked on the other side of the barrier marking the edge of the path, so they put it up on the bicycle side of the barrier, about 4 inches off the edge of the path. No high-viz, either (at the time the photo was taken. "Someone" might have taken care of that).

A steel post marking the edge of the bike lane for snow plowing. The top of the post was painted orange, long, long ago.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Moved a child out of her near-Boston apt yesterday-today, biked stuff home last night after work, then drove over to pick up all the stuff that would not benefit from being rattled on our lovely roads, then returned on bike to get all the lumpy stuff that would be harder to fit into a Honda Civic.

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Moved a child out of her Boston/Brookline border apt yesterday-today, biked some stuff home last night after work, then drove over to pick up all the stuff that would not benefit from being rattled around on our lovely roads, then returned on bike to get all the large lumpy stuff that would be harder to fit into a Honda Civic.

Moved her to Boston like this two years ago (no e-assist), then moved from Boston to Brookline a year ago (with e-assist), now this year (again with e-assist).

A trailer attached to a longtail bicycle with an after-market e-assist. The trailer contains:

One ikea two-pedestal+drawers desk,
two mesh-drawer pedestal things,
a folding dolly,
a folding short step ladder,
a wooden chair,
a rolling chair,
a muddy shoe tray,
and a bicycle.
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A trailer attached to a longtail bicycle with an after-market e-assist. The trailer contains:

One ikea two-pedestal+drawers desk,
two mesh-drawer pedestal things,
a folding dolly,
a folding short step ladder,
a wooden chair,
a rolling chair,
a muddy shoe tray,
and a bicycle.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

You could spend months-to-year getting into shape like I did (20 years now, 50,000 miles, it leaves a mark). Or, you could just get an e-assist cargo bike, or add an e-assist to a bike you have. Or buy a small e-assist bike, add a trailer, easier to store.

An Orbea Katu 50 mini-velo attached to a Bikes-at-Work 64-inch "wide" trailer, said trailer loaded with a snow blower.

A Big Dummy longtail cargo bike attached to a Bikes-at-Work 64-inch "wide" trailer, said trailer loaded with a snow blower. At night, in the snow, with snow piled on the snowblower, because I biked out to a bike/ped bridge and cleared the approaches after a storm.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I am trying to figure out what stage I am at. I was already hauling serious cargo on a cargo bike and/or trailer, and then I added a decent after-market e-assist. The bike is pretty much replacing most uses of a pickup truck at this point.

A trailer attached to a cargo bike. The trailer is loaded with "awareness cones".

A trailer attached to a cargo bike. The trailer is loaded with heavy boxes, for moving someone (1 of 4 loads, staged near the apartment, for September 1 move in Boston).

A trailer attached to a cargo bike, the trailer has three heavy chunks of wood cut from a tree on it (they are not dry).

A trailer attached to a cargo bike. The trailer is carrying a snowblower. It's all parked in snow, because I was using the snowblower.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Pfft, I have a sanctimonious trailer.

A longtail cargo bike and attached trailer loaded with 2 or 3 hundred pounds of awareness cones.

A snowblower, on a bike trailer, attached a to the rear of a cargo bike, parked in snow.

A trailer attached to a longtail cargo bike parked on the sidewalk in front of where I work, loaded with quite a few heavy boxes (I estimate about 200lbs).

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

After dropping that load and on my way home, passed some recently cut tree. I was compelled to stop, firewood abhors an empty trailer.

The trailer with three cut tree sections on it, and some more irregular sections on the ground behind. Straps on the trailer keep the wood from shifting too much.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I helped out at the Family Bike Ride this morning in Cambridge/Boston. Turns out probably the most helpful think I did, was to load all the cones onto the trailer on my bike, and haul them to the organizer's home -- for him, it is two trips, for me, just one.

A big dummy bicycle with trailer attached, next to five stacks of Awareness Cones, to be loaded onto the trailer.

The bike is pointed wrong-way in the bike lane on the Washington Street Bridge over the Charles River in Boston. It got moved before loading, but the bike lane is also not busy.

A Big Dummy with trailer attached, and the trailer is loaded with Awareness Cones (and they are heavy). The cones are slightly lashed in place.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Not sure if they care about not-a-CA resident me, but I sent words anyway. I'm trying to figure out how to call out the default assumption that people on bikes are irresponsible (and thus need mechanically enforced limits) but drivers are not (and only need signs and artisanal enforcement).

I oppose reducing the assist limit on e-bikes from 20mph to 16mph.
Though it would indeed be safer, this particular issue is not a major
road safety problem, and might even be counterproductive by causing
fewer people to switch from driving cars (which are far more
dangerous to other people on the road) to e-bikes. Recent research
shows that legal, e-assist cargo bikes displace car use; safer for
neighborhoods, quieter, less polluting, lower greenhouse footprint,
less damaging to roads, and cheaper. We want people to ride bikes,
and e-assist on bicycles is a big help.

20mph is of couse more dangerous than 16mph, but for safety, it would
be far more effective to impose a 20% reduction in speed limits on
surface roads in California cities -- 20mph, instead of 25mph. And
to make the analogy complete, that 20mph speed limit for cars should
be a governed maximum, not just a recommendation, just as this law
proposes for e-bicycles. Perhaps this sounds unreasonable, and if it
does, isn't this law also unreasonable? We only contemplate such a
law for bicycles because people have anchored on the idea that
bicycle riders are not responsible and cannot be trusted to make safe
choices, and also anchor on the idea that car drivers ARE
responsible, and do not need mechanically enforced speed limits. This
is actually backwards from reality: looking at national pedestrian
crash death statistics, 99.95% of them involve a car or truck, while
only 0.05% involve a bicycle or e-bicycle (in particular, legal type
1 or 2 e-bicycles). Cars are certainly used more often, but adjusting
for trips, a car trip is still 30 times more likely to kill a
pedestrian than a bicycle trip. People on bikes are 30 times better
at pedestrian safety -- if that's not more responsible, what is?

Making this change will also disrupt the US bicycle industry; in
recent years the federal government, California, and many other
states have been standardizing on 20mph assist limit for type 1 and 2
bicycles.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Sources: US freshwater consumption in 2015. USGS, pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1894/d/pp... Data center (direct) water consumption projected for 2028, high estimate. Berkeley Lab, eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/defaul... There is of course other factors, details, etc, but the basic number is NOT LARGE.

(text)

* An estimated average of 223,594 million gallons per
day (Mgal/d; 26,179 million cubic meters per month
[Mm3/mo]) were withdrawn from freshwater sources
for human use for crop irrigation, public supply,
and thermoelectric power across the conterminous
United States (CONUS) during water years 2010–20.
Including saline water, withdrawals were
244,817 Mgal/d (28,677 Mm3/mo).

* Average withdrawals and consumptive use (1) for
CONUS crop irrigation during water years 2010–20
were 105,497 and 75,698 Mgal/d, respectively;
(2) for public supply were 35,440 and 4,219 Mgal/d,
respectively; and (3) for thermoelectric power from
fresh water were 82,656 Mgal/d and 2,904 Mgal/d,
respectively.

Two part graph showing "Total site water Usage" in billions of liters per year for "Direct water consumption by data center type" (Figure 5.9)

The left side shows history, broken down by a variety od data centers, with the only ones that really matter being "Colocation - Large Scale" (dark blue) and "Hyperscale" (light blue). This rises to about 60 (billion liters per year) in 2023.

The right hand chart shows low and high projections for 2024 and 2028. It's almost all blue.
2024 low = 60, 2024 high = 90
2028 low = 140, 2028 high = 275
(all quantities are billion liters per year)

In the 2028 high estimate, half the consumption is hyperscale.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

From a recent vacation, a battery-powered trolley recharging at stations. It does not spend much time doing this, and yes, these things exist.

Looking up at a short bit of charging rail extending out from the roof-edge of a trolley station (in Newcastle). A trolley is stopped underneath it and has its pantograph extended. There's an incidental tree above all of it, filling half the sky.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

It depends. 20 years on longtails, so a little experience. At work, street parking is no problem, there's plenty of room in front of the rack. Other times, because the bike is so heavy (also, pitlock security nuts on the wheels) I just lock it to itself, if I am not there for terribly long. but:

A longtail and a trailer behind it, both locked to a post-and-ring lock, on an ample bricked area out of the way of sidewalk travel, and not quite reaching the grass behind them both.

A longtail cargo bike, just locked to itself, parked on the edge of a sidewalk, not using the post-and-ring lock just behind it.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So, able 65-year-old here. Far too many people are just lazy or not very good at snow shoveling or just don't care. I think of myself as lazy, but obviously I have overriding feelings about snow and sidewalk access. That plowed snow can be removed with the right shovel and a determined shoveler.

A crosswalk on a road where the road edges have 3-foot tall (and deep) walls of crusty plowed snow, but at both ends of the crosswalk someone has made a cut in wall. I did the near one very recently and it is clean to the pavement. There is the tail end of a longtail cargo bike parked in front of the plowed-wall cut, with two snow shovels strapped to it. (I should have made the cut wider.)

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Width is more likely a problem, if it doesn't fit between the wheels then it has be propped on top of them somehow. The length and weight are well within what I've towed in the past. (I didn't get the 8' trailer because that would be a pain to store and harder to carry.)

An Urban Arrow box bike loaded onto a bicycle trailer, facing backwards and sticking pretty far off the end. It's held down with straps to keep it from tilting backwards accidentally.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

And of course it's a Big Dummy. I want his chain guard.

From above, looking backwards, the saddle (a well worn Brooks Flyer), stoker bar (w/ black green yellow red grip rings), snap deck, and panniers. There's a red plastic gasoline jug in the pannier, and the bike is parked at a gas station.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Don't think it's as large as yours, but this is how I helped tow a sick Urban Arrow to service.

Still from a video, showing an backwards-facing Urban Arrow lashed to and sticking off the rear of a 64-inch (163cm) trailer, towed behind a Big Dummy longtail cargo bike. The owner of the UA is experimentally riding the Big Dummy; it was a surprisingly easy tow.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I want to see how BlueSky handles vector drawing upload and display. There may be a bot in my future, if this works.

This is a vector drawing of boxes nested and rotated. It has no significance other than to see if a vector drawing can be uploaded to BlueSky, and if it is easy to scale it after it is posted.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

And more. It does get used.

A bicycle trailer loaded with office boxes (during Covid) attached to an Orbea Katu 50 ( a cute little minivelo bike). There's a yellow balloon attached to the rear, somehow I did not have any red caution anything, but I did have a balloon, and bobbing around in the wind made it plenty visible.

The ironic tandem: a bicycle trailer (bikes at work 64W) loaded with a stationary bicycle, attached to a longtai (Big Dummy) cargo bike.

A bicycle trailer loaded with two longtail cargo bikes, attached to a smaller bike.

A friend+colleague, with my trailer attached to his cargo box-bike, because he needed to move something bulky and this was easier than finding a truck (and also, in Somerville, easier to park and maneuver).

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I have my own trailer, initially bought mostly for transporting a snow blower, but it works for other things. The actual transportation requires a little exertion, but it is far cheaper than a truck, and easier to load (and I don't use it that often, just, sometimes).

A small yellow bike (Orbea Katu 50) attached to a bikes-at-work 64W trailer, loaded with six bags of mulch.

The latter half of a longtail (Big Dummy) attached to a bikes-at-work 64W trailer, loaded with an Urban Arrow box bike (that has a broken rear hub). The box bike sticks off the end, but the heaviest (rear) part is forward of the trailer axle, and the bike is very lashed down to keep it stable. There's a red ribbon tied to the front wheel of the box bike (which is at the rear of the bike+trailer combo) since it sticks out in the rear ("for safety").

The rear end of a longtail, attached to a bikes at work 64W trailer, loaded with a snow blower. The snow blower is parked facing backwards on the trailer with the heaviest part (rear wheels, transmission, and motor) a few inches forward of the rear trailer axle, and is lashed down front and rear. There's snow everywhere -- snow covering objects in the background, covering the ground, and snow on the snowblower itself.

A longtail cargo bike (Big Dummy) attached to a bikes-at-work 64W trailer. The trailer is loaded for a move into a young adult student's apartment, with random boxes of various sizes pile on it, all lashed down, and with a folding chair in the front. The bike is locked to a bike rack on Broadway Street in Kendall Square, Cambridge.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Here's a couple more from that same day. It's one company that I think was initially local, but now seems to have grander ambitions: www.dutchx.com/solutions/ I think the cargo bikes are just for first/last mile in NYC.

Red tern HSD attached to a light/sky blue Carla Cargo trailer, parked on the sidewalk in front of a Whole Foods in New York City. The trailer is empty.

White tern HSD attached to a yellow Carla Cargo trailer, parked on the sidewalk in front of a Whole Foods in New York City. The trailer is empty, but the bike has a big blue Ikea shopping bag hanging off its handlebars.

The sidewalk is locally dry, but in the background it is clearly wet from rain.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

They may be in NYC, but I'm there usually once a year at least for business, and haven't seen them (I did see a few in Paris). Much more common is Tern e-bikes pulling/leading Carla trailers, but those seemed basically okay to me, in terms of weight and speed. Bigger lanes would be nice, though.

A delivery guy ridging a Tern HSD towing a Carla trailer with a few plastic rectangular bins on it. He's ahead and to the left of a van, on a one-way street waiting at am intersection. It's rainy-ish, so he's wearing a clear plastic bag for a raincoat. There's parked blue bikes under the camera in the very-near foreground.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Remora Horse conch Gopher tortoise Roseate Spoonbill Barred Owl

A gopher tortoise, with sand still on their back from digging a burrow, traveling along a bicycle path, mostly oblivious to the bozo taking their picture.

A roseate spoonbill feeding in recently flooded grass/weeds.

A barred owl resting on a shaded interior oak limb, politely pretending the bozo with camera is Not There.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Or, just get a bicycle trailer. One person can load that snowblower, with no ramp, in just a few minutes (fewer once you know what you're doing).

A longtail cargo bicycle towing a trailer with a snowblower loaded onto it, in the snow, with snow all over the snowblower.

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dr2chase @dr2chase.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Somerville Market Basket today:

A wide-ish wave bike rack in front of a light-brick-colored concrete wall, with no-parking signs both painted on the asphalt in front of the rack and on the wall above the rack. The rack itself is completely crammed with 17 bicycles and scooters of all shapes and sizes.

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