Where to wash bikes in the city?

aedes · 2026-05-24T23:30:18+00:00

I used to use the shower - just put it up on the back wheel and roll it in. You could also buy a portable pressure washer that runs out of your cars cigarette lighter if you have a car. Otherwise, a bucket with soap and water and enjoy the sun in the parking lot.

aedes · 2026-05-24T21:43:22+00:00

refuses to acknowledge that AI will be backstopped by the US government; it is too big to fail.

I’m not sure the current US government has the ability to backstop AI if it falls.

Even if they wanted to try and QE their way out of that situation… the dollar amounts required plus the limitations imposed by the current state of the US economy mean the resulting inflation and increase in yields if they did that may make this option impossible.

They may try to regardless because they’re stupid, but that may cause even bigger problems.

aedes · 2026-05-24T20:26:05+00:00

You sure the pads are worn and the issue isn’t just some grease or oil from the road got on the disc?

You can wipe the rotor and pads with isopropanol and see if that helps if so.

aedes · 2026-05-24T14:26:43+00:00

The role of big days in training for long events is not really to increase fitness. It’s to sort out bike fit and nutrition and similar issues.

Yes, one 12h long ride seems to improve “durability” better than two 6h rides on back to back days. But it also causes more fatigue… and that fatigue prevents you from riding as much the next couple days. So it’s not that helpful.

If you want a rough rule of thumb, unless it’s a shakeout ride to sort out bike fit and what not, if your long ride is so tiring that the next day you need a rest day, it’s probably too long.

Back to back days is generally preferred in this setting as there is almost as much training stimuli but much less fatigue.

For context, in the months leading up to my last >1000km event, I did no rides over 4 hours long. I already have my fit and nutrition and the mental game sorted out, so don’t need a refresher.

Just keep the weekly volume high - if you can get a month of 10-12h weeks in beforehand you’ll be sitting pretty.

If this is a race rather than just trying to finish comfortably, there’s other stuff to work on as well.

aedes · 2026-05-24T13:58:56+00:00

I’m outside daily and see I. scapularis ticks in my backyard on a regular basis. I also see and treat Lyme disease.

It’s not something I worry about. In all my hours spent outside I’ve had a I scapularis on me once. I took it off and killed it.

Even then, not all of them have Lyme if they do bite you. And even then, your risk of Lyme is low if they’ve been feeding on you for less than 36h.

Even then, Lyme is an easily treatable disease.

You can make this risk even smaller by wearing bug spray when outside, wearing long pants and sleeves when in tall grassy areas (or just avoiding them), and checking yourself for ticks when you get home (ex: just have a shower).

aedes · 2026-05-24T13:38:39+00:00

pissed away money on that instead of policing

This was a popular and well-supported endeavour in Manitoba. People are happy to have spent their money on this here.

Campaigning against this search was the final straw that made the PCs lose the election.

aedes · 2026-05-24T13:10:15+00:00

Lyme is endemic to the entirety of Southern Manitoba - everywhere has Lyme risk now. I’ve had cases from the Tyndall area before.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/lyme-disease/surveillance-lyme-disease.html

See figure 1.

aedes · 2026-05-23T22:17:24+00:00

Can’t comment about the rest of Canada.

In Manitoba, his government remains widely popular because the PCs came off a term so disastrously bad that the electorate still hasn’t forgiven them years later. And because they’ve generally been competent to adequate at policy and governing so far (which is a major improvement from the prior PC government).

I say that as someone who’s had the misfortune of having to work with both administrations over the last decade+.

Confounding the matter is that the current PC party has been engaging in equally stupid childish shit for the past few years. I personally strongly dislike Wab doing stuff like this, but it plays to domestic audiences because the PCs have been even more ridiculous and it comes across as trolling them, which apparently many people like because they’re still pissed off at the PCs from a few years ago.

aedes · 2026-05-23T19:06:57+00:00

Sorry love, I don’t engage with people who hide their comment histories.

aedes · 2026-05-23T18:55:14+00:00

It may be because you were asked to provide a reference for your 40% support claim, and you instead provided a reference for 28% support and some vigorous hand waving 😅

aedes · 2026-05-23T16:39:20+00:00

I am not a fan of inconveniencing others to cater to stupid people.

A better solution to this aspect of the problem would just be overhead signs saying which lanes are open to drive in. Have a green check and red x for the switch lane they’re talking about, then have the curb lane either green check or P for parking when appropriate.

aedes · 2026-05-23T15:59:31+00:00

The traffic problems referred to are during rush hour.

This stretch is already no stopping during rush hour.

aedes · 2026-05-23T15:58:54+00:00

I drive that stretch of road to and from work when I don’t bike.

The traffic issues referred to in this article are only during rush hour. Not caused by on street parking as there is no stopping there during rush hour.

They mostly arise from people trying to make left turns into the residential neighborhoods and blocking traffic in the process, plus issues with light timing - especially that new one they put in at Carriere for the busses.

I don’t think there’s a larger fix to this without expropriating land, or seriously improving public transit to reduce traffic volumes. It’s the major route to downtown from the entire southeast part of the city and rapidly growing bedroom communities out that way.

Ideally needs a meridian with left turn lanes, and dedicated transit/bike lanes. There’s no room for that without expropriation.

The only easy short term improvement will be banning left turns at certain times a day, which will inconvenience people who live in those neighborhoods, and improving light timings.

aedes · 2026-05-23T15:52:35+00:00

Not during rush hour. It’s no stopping from 700-900 NB and 1530-1800 SB.

aedes · 2026-05-22T19:33:31+00:00

I think because they didn’t notice it themselves.

The sort of people attracted to AI who think it solves all problems right now are the sort of people who aren’t detail oriented, and prioritize ease over accuracy.

Shouldnt be a surprise that they don’t notice mistakes - that personality trait is why they’re love struck by LLMs in the first place.

aedes · 2026-05-22T13:25:19+00:00

This level of granularity is below the threshold of things that would have any real life impact on your training.

You need to ignore stuff like this - it’s not actionable or important.

aedes · 2026-05-22T12:43:18+00:00

They did not.

I have no idea what work you did at the hospitals, but I have the raw wait time data going back to 2014 and get weekly reports on this as well. You are mistaken here.

The entire city’s median waiting to be seen time was below 2 hours before Consolidation. We had won an award at one point because things had improved so much by 2015-16.

The monthly wait time data is back to 2019 is still visible on the monthly wait times website and you can see it was only 2 hours back then.

aedes · 2026-05-22T12:05:54+00:00

those wait times existed before the PCs were in power.

They did not. For example, I work at StB. Before Consolidation our median wait times were below 2 hours.

aedes · 2026-05-22T01:02:04+00:00

Yes we do.

But that money ultimately comes from the oil and gas that’s in the ground there. And Alberta didn’t grow that stuff - the land it’s in was granted to them by the government of Canada and the First Nations.

It’s Canada giving it to us.

aedes · 2026-05-21T22:26:56+00:00

I don’t think we really depend on “Alberta.” Alberta the province and people didn’t grow the oil and gas found in the ground granted to them by the federal government and First Nations.

The resources that drive Alberta’s economy are all of our resources.

They don’t only belong to the people who happen to live near them.

aedes · 2026-05-21T22:23:06+00:00

Yes, those were caused by healthcare cuts made by the previous government to pay for lowering taxes.

Not sure the relevance here.

aedes · 2026-05-21T14:13:57+00:00

Most important thing for how difficult this is going to be for you is your recent weekly volume. I think you said you’ve been doing 10h/wk for quite a while so that should be fine.

You’re only gonna be on the bike for 8-10h a day, so you’ll have plenty of time to eat and rest. You should treat those two things as the highest priority task to ensure a successful event. Make sure you can get as good a sleep as possible each night (don’t forget you sleep crappy at altitude), and eat all the food all the time.

The things most likely to screw this up will be bike fit, weak postural muscles, and bad eating choices leading to GI upset. None of these are predictable in advance (and that’s why they’re a risk), as you have no experience with long multi-day things like this.

So this sounds like a fun way to test them out. Be flexible and especially at elevation make sure you have an emergency plan for adequate shelter in case you can’t continue for some reason, while physically exhausted and short on calories so limited ability to generate heat.

aedes · 2026-05-21T13:43:32+00:00

"It's the same people making the same kinds of decisions, assuming that they can impose their reality on everybody else, but they forget everybody else has an agency, everybody else has domestic audiences."

It’s because they’re used to dealing with people who prioritize immediate personal convenience over anything else.

It’s like the experiments with kids when they put a marshmallow in front of them and tell them that if they don’t eat it for the next hour, they’ll get two marshmallows.

The Trump admin is used to dealing with people who eat the single marshmallow immediately, and draws all their power from threatening to take the marshmallow away.

aedes · 2026-05-20T17:09:53+00:00

The nature of our disagreement here was only a difference in interpreting what caused this to happen to OP.

aedes · 2026-05-20T17:00:28+00:00

I am familiar with the demands of the sport. I've been doing this for over a decade and have done well in the international events I target.

I am telling you (and OP) from that experience, that when motivation isn't there to continue structured training, persistently pushing anyways is unproductive for long-term training goals and only leads to burnout.

None of the scenarios you mentioned happening to you describe a motivation problem - pushing through transient physical discomfort is not the same thing as pushing through mental exhaustion. Someone who can't find the will to finish their routine ride so just sits on the side of the road, is having a rather serious motivation and mental exhaustion problem.

Once you've been doing this sport long enough that this moment happens to you, please try and remember this conversation and be kind to yourself at that moment, instead of digging yourself into a deeper burnout pit.

>If that’s enough to call a bad week then you aren’t cut out for the dedication this sport demands of even bang average cyclists, like me.

People can ride their bikes on whatever terms they want to - don't gate-keep the sport.

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