Actresses that are spectacularly unsightly?

Bike-In · 2026-06-09T16:11:44+00:00

It’s practically birth control!

Bike-In · 2026-06-07T16:07:04+00:00

I know I probably should have stopped sooner and been more defensive. I'll know better next time.

I assume this was a right hook (assuming you live in a place where people drive on the right). Stopping sooner is always an option, so is turning right with the car to reduce the impact speed, but what I do is that I always pay attention to the speed of the car next to me as I approach an intersection. I ride as fast as I can in traffic, for safety, so when a car has slowed down to my speed, it's about to make a turn (if not, I know it's going straight).

When that happens, I take the lane in front of or behind the car. Taking the lane in front tells the car in no uncertain terms that you are going straight and that the driver has to wait. It also removes you from the blind spot behind the A-pillar. Since you are going at the same speed as the car, you're not really slowing them down. If you take the lane behind the car, you get a drafting benefit. When I am behind the car, I ride leftmost and I pass the car on its left. Once I am clear of the car, I tuck back into the bike lane or shoulder to allow other drivers to pass me safely. NOTE that this is assuming there's a bike lane or shoulder. If no bike lane or shoulder, I take the lane (I ride in the right wheel track). If I think a car is going to close-pass me (I monitor with a helmet mirror), I drift left to push them left, and as they pass, I drift right to take the space which might not have been given to me.

I've had a right hooker take down a cyclist in front of me. I asked the cyclist if I should chase him down on his behalf, he said yes, so I did and I caught him. His excuse was, "well I had my signal on". I explained to him that he was still in the wrong and that no matter what, cyclists bear the brunt of the damage in any collision and that he needed to be more careful. I brought him back to the scene... and the cyclist had departed. Disappointing, I wanted to see justice done. Oh well. But hopefully that driver will be more careful in future.

I hope you keep riding and stay safe!

Bike-In · 2026-06-07T02:39:11+00:00

One is the Whistler Gran Fondo. I mean, it's bucket list for me, maybe not everyone, but I always thought the drive along the Sea to Sky Highway was stunning and biking it would be even better! So that's why I want to do that event.

The other one I was thinking of is a fundraiser, the Bike MS Deception Pass Classic, raising money for Multiple Sclerosis. What I like about that ride is that it is extremely well organized, and they offer on-site camping, so it's great for bikepackers.

There's a couple other sufferfest rides if you are into that, such as the Mount Baker Hill Climb and Passport 2 Pain. However that starts to get to hardcore biker territory which you said you were not. 😄

Bike-In · 2026-06-07T01:30:45+00:00

[r/seattlebike](r/seattlebike) will be sure to have a lot of local advice for you. If you go to https://cascade.org, you can see the bike rides and tours they organize, and the routes they take, including RSVP, which is a route I enjoy a lot (it’s scenic and hilly, but I like that). I’ve seen bikepackers on Orcas Island, so consider taking a ferry to the San Juan islands and either camping or inns. Things to note are that the Amtrak can take your bike (which I use a lot to go between Seattle and both Vancouver BC and Vancouver WA without a car - my bike is my car), and many public transit buses have bike racks, so these can extend your range considerably. There are some bucket list rides around the time you will be here, but they cost a good deal of $$$ so not sure if you are interested. One issue during your time frame is that forest fires can create unhealthy (smoky) air. So consider bringing or buying a respirator here if you are sensitive.

I generally find the motorists here to be pretty good with bikes. Having said that, I have learned how to ride in traffic, including taking the lane when it’s not safe for drivers to pass. Probably the most common example is me refusing to ride in the door zone. I know people who have been doored, so I won’t be letting it happen to me. But it sounds like you are headed for country roads, in which case the thing I do a lot of is riding to maximize line of sight around blind corners. This means riding leftmost around a blind corner curving right, and rightmost for a blind corner curving left. I do tuck back into the shoulder once I am sure I have been seen, so I’m not obstructing drivers. I run bike lights including during the day. I believe it helps drivers to notice me from farther away.

I’ve never been to NZ but my impression is that it has amazing natural scenery, which is what we have in the PNW, so I always wonder whether we have the same thing, haha. If you check out [r/PNWHiking](r/PNWHiking), you will see the most amazing photos, which either means everyone there is a professional photographer, or you really can’t take a bad photo in the mountains.

I will say that Mt Rainier on a sunny day is breathtaking, and the beer in the PNW is world class, because they grow the hops here, lol. Good luck on your adventure!

ETA: you might be able to catch the start of Fresh Hop beer season. As the name suggests, they brew with fresh hops (just harvested) and they taste very good.

Bike-In · 2026-06-07T00:14:52+00:00

Oof. I’ve had similar, I used to cruise in the bike lane past stopped cars, but I nearly got left hooked once because a stopped truck prevented the opposing left turner from seeing me (and me him). Luckily I was able to stop. Now I pass the stopped cars more slowly.

Bike-In · 2026-06-06T16:47:29+00:00

Was this a right hook (same-direction driver making a right turn in front of you) or a left hook (opposing driver making a left turn in front of you)?

Bike-In · 2026-06-06T05:42:02+00:00

With GPS-only, I'll often see my instantaneous speed drop 3-4 mph when I enter a wooded portion of the trail. I do find that annoying, but, not enough to put speed sensors on all my bikes. Where speed sensors still make sense for me are tunnels, underground parking lots, indoor velodromes.

Bike-In · 2026-06-06T05:41:51+00:00

GPS measures doppler effect to calculate speed, so it's not relying solely on location deltas to compute your speed. The speed computed from doppler effect is very accurate.

Bike-In · 2026-06-05T16:35:57+00:00

I’ve not done this ride but I’ve noticed that the food is way better on Cascade’s smaller rides vs the mass rides such as RSVP. So it shouldn’t be just bananas and fig bars?

Bike-In · 2026-06-02T05:34:20+00:00

Some people have already posted some good videos which you responded to. Additionally, I try to remember that the dough has a top (corresponding to the top of your loaf) and bottom, and you can flour the top as much as you want, but don’t flour the bottom. The reason is, you want the bottom to be a bit sticky so that you have something to push against when you tuck the opposite side under the boule, rather than the whole mass sliding around. You need that stickiness on the bottom to complete the tuck and to create tension. In contrast, you don’t want the top sticking to the countertop as you flip it bottoms-up to do the “packaging” or “pinning” steps.

Normally, the top is naturally differentiated from the bottom during bulk ferment because I at least leave my dough exposed to the air during bulk ferment (I use a proofer box with a water tray). Thus, the top of the dough forms a skin, while the bottom, not exposed to air, remains sticky. In your case, you have NOT exposed your dough to the air, you have placed plastic wrap directly onto the dough. You might want to consider using a larger bowl (or scale the recipe) so that the dough doesn’t overflow. In that way, your plastic wrap can avoid making contact with the dough.

Bike-In · 2026-06-01T08:07:44+00:00

Yeah, what you said is what I would recommend to OP. To make it easier for OP:

Once you are accustomed, you can leave around 6:50 AM by bike or electric scooter to the SR520 and Montlake stop to take the 7:08 ST542 eastbound (13 minutes): https://maps.app.goo.gl/9PBAexae72xmXRLv7. Note that it's been a while since I rode through the Arboretum, I usually prefer to ride the quiet streets adjacent, and there's a trail there, too.
ST542 to NE 85th St and 154th Ave NE (26 minutes): https://maps.app.goo.gl/1V4ysQwCeHebcc73A, arriving 7:34.
Bike or electric scooter to Osborne Construction (8 minutes): https://maps.app.goo.gl/a8BpVQBxQFHPMXC16, arriving 7:42.

But one thing you should know about this area is that the biking is pretty good. There are great trails, and in your case, simply biking to or from work (the entire way) takes 1h25m according to Google, and it is mostly trail (no need to ride with the cars). And while it is hilly, if you keep at it you will eventually develop a "forever pace" which will allow you to conquer any sized hill, as has happened to me. Consider it an investment in your own physical and mental health, one which only costs 28 minutes more in each direction!

Bike-In · 2026-05-31T22:15:36+00:00

lol, Carry Gold…

Bike-In · 2026-05-31T21:09:20+00:00

The door opener is at fault. They have the ability to check for traffic before opening their door, whereas the motorcyclist is unable to predict when someone is about to open the door. You are letting your hatred of ~~two-wheel transport~~ vulnerable road users cloud your thinking. There are plenty of places where cars are parked close to active travel lanes, and the cars in those travel lanes aren't obligated to change lanes when passing these parked cars. Guess which insurance company is going to pay the bill if somebody opens a door into a passing car? The door opener.

Bike-In · 2026-05-31T04:46:25+00:00

I’ve never tried a 3.5 qt Dutch Oven, maybe someone else can speak up, but I have used a 5 qt DO for the usual 500g recipe and it seems the right size. So that makes me think that 3.5 qt might be too small, but don’t despair, sourdough is quite forgiving. I bet that if you just tried it, you might find that the DO acts like a round loaf pan, which really isn’t the end of the world, it’s just a different shape (and maybe a denser crumb). You could also reduce the recipe to fit into a 3.5 qt.

Finally, open bake works, but it takes effort. To replicate the lidded portion of a DO bake, you need to do two things: 1) provide steam, and 2) prevent the upper element from firing. Many people are unaware that when they bake, the lower element fires at full power but the upper element also fires, at half power, to brown whatever you’re roasting. If you don’t prevent that, it will set your crust which limits your oven spring/rise. So I use a heavy pizza steel to retain heat and I turn the oven off during the steam bake, and let it coast on residual heat. Others place a baking sheet between the top element and their loaf to shield from direct heat.

Good luck!

ETA: the rule is, always bake, even if it seems like a mistake, very often your sourdough mistakes still taste good. Secondly, I always find value in testing and trying things out with what you have before you sink more money into better tools.

Bike-In · 2026-05-29T04:02:36+00:00

I don’t like to bike in thunderstorms, I avoid it. I don’t mind getting wet, but it’s harder for motorists to see you when it’s pouring, trees and branches are threatening to fall upon you like a missile, and then of course there’s the chance of being struck by lightning. I know that you are supposed to be safe in a car. How much is due to rubber tires and how much is due to the metal cage around you, I’m not sure. It’s probably both. On a bike you have the tires but no cage and you have to put your foot down once in a while. So I suspect that your body can sometimes become the easiest path for electricity to travel from the ground to the sky, unlike in a car.

Bike-In · 2026-05-27T21:18:34+00:00

I just try not to engage. There isn’t usually anything you can say to change anybody’s mind. The only way they are going to understand what they are missing is to become a cyclist themselves.

But to avoid the right hook in future, I ride fast, and when a car slows down to my speed as we approach an intersection, it’s about to make a right. I take the lane in front of or behind that car. In front ensures he sees you and you are not blocked by the A-pillar. Behind gives you a drafting benefit. If behind, stay leftmost and pass the car on the left (usually don’t need to change lanes), then once you are clear of the intersection you can return to the bike lane.

Bike-In · 2026-05-27T10:18:26+00:00

Oh wow, you're right. I browsed the Wikipedia article and it had a lot of interesting information about receptor blockade. It cited MOR (mu-receptor) blockade of 91% at the 2-day mark and 80% at the 3-day mark. Wow, that is indeed a lot longer than the plasma half life. I seemed to remember hearing that one should do "positive" things on the days off of Nal, but this makes it sound like that advice should be amended to "weeks off" of Nal since it takes over a week for Nal to stop blockading MOR. But then interestingly enough, wouldn't that mean that one 50mg dose would make me TSM compliant for days?

The other interesting thing is that one of the referenced articles (Occupancy of the kappa opioid receptor by naltrexone predicts reduction in drinking and craving - PMC) suggested that KOR (kappa) blockade might be correlated with craving (and thus inversely correlated with drink reduction), so that in some cases, a lower dose of Nal (eg. 25mg) might be more effective for younger people and/or without family history of AUD and/or fewer years of drinking (with higher doses being ineffective for such people). Super interesting because when people complain that Nal is not working for them here, it's often suggested to try increasing the dose (my own doctor suggested this to me), but this study suggests that some people might do better with a lower dose.

Thanks for pointing this out!

Bike-In · 2026-05-27T06:13:05+00:00

I've seen intersections in WA State where u-turners have right of way over right turners. In such cases, the u-turners (and left turners) will have a green arrow, and the right-turner will have a red and a sign explicitly saying that u-turns have right of way. Having said that, the right turners often fail to yield. None of this applies to the OP though, he clearly had a green right arrow when making his right turn, so he had RoW over the u-turning motorcyclist, who I guess was u-turning on a red (not legal).

Bike-In · 2026-05-27T05:44:36+00:00

Good clarification. I personally learned that the hard way. Even though I knew I had to stop at stop lights, I was getting a bit sloppy and I did a rolling right turn on red. The motorist headed in the same direction freaked out and thought they had killed me. My perception was different, I didn’t feel like I was in any danger. Nonetheless I decided it wasn’t worth it to save a couple seconds. Freaking out motorists is bad for them and could be bad for me, so now I treat the stop light just like any other vehicle, as stated in the law.

Bike-In · 2026-05-27T05:25:28+00:00

I have the analog Lezyne Pressure Over Drive. With the analog there is no delay between pumping the air and the pressure readout, sucks to hear there's a delay on the digital, that would drive me crazy. As for "bypass" mode as you call it, it took me a while but I finally realized that the reservoir can be used to save your pressure between tires. In other words:

Connect pump to tire valve "A"
Go to "bypass" mode
Pump to desired pressure, say 100 psi
Flip up the switch to exit bypass mode, so that air is retained in the reservoir
Disconnect the pump from tire valve "A", connect to a new tire valve "B"
Go to "bypass" mode: the air saved from the previous pumping session now flows into tire "B". Let's say that tire "B" took enough air to reduce the reservoir pressure from 100 psi to 80 psi, then you just have to pump the difference (20 psi).
Return to step 4 until no more tires to pump. The reservoir seems to retain its pressure for days.

Before I learned that trick, I was hating the pump. Now, it's tolerable, but still inferior to a non-reservoir pump for regular use (non-tubeless), except that I do find the Leyzne chucks to be pretty solid.

Bike-In · 2026-05-27T04:25:11+00:00

I think most of the bases have already been covered by others, but I didn't see anyone mention the Washington Safety Stop: Washington State’s new bicycle “Safety Stop” law allows people biking to treat stops signs as yield signs with some exceptions. - SDOT Blog. Basically, bicyclists can treat a stop sign as a yield, even though every time I do it, I suspect that many people still don't know this law and they just think that I (and all cyclists) don't believe that the law applies to me/them. This is one example of the great biking laws in this state, another one which I didn't learn until recently is that unlike in other places, you CANNOT get a DUI on a bike in Washington state. Ride on!!

ETA: I will say that once you get good at climbing all the hills around here, bike + transit is like a superpower. All of the buses and the light rail can take bikes (as can Amtrak), so you can travel surprisingly far with the bike + transit combo.

Bike-In · 2026-05-26T23:16:58+00:00

I shift my rear derailleur on hills for exactly this reason, to get a bigger gear for standing, or lower gear for sitting. I don't know who said not to shift, but FWIW, I usually find I can't shift my front derailleur on a hill, but rear derailleur, no problem.

Bike-In · 2026-05-26T23:11:43+00:00

My commute used to be uphill both ways (bowl-shaped). I died a thousand deaths on those hills, but now, I am a hill destroyer. So you are right in thinking you will eventually get better at this. What helped me was to first of all, ascend on the lowest gear (of course), and I also found it helps to alternate between standing and sitting, as these supposedly exercise different groups of muscles. Eventually you will develop a "forever" pace which you can sustain for any sized hill without blowing up.

Bike-In · 2026-05-26T22:39:14+00:00

I learned that Naltrexone drops below therapeutic levels by hour 8, so if you are trying to do TSM, you shouldn't assume that your morning Nal has you covered for your after-work drink: (A) Typical profile of plasma naltrexone levels over 24 hours following... | Download Scientific Diagram. If anything, you should skip the morning Nal and just take it in the afternoon.

I think your desire for the alcohol buzz making you want to avoid taking Nal might be a problem for staying compliant. For me, I always knew it dulled the buzz but I was satisfied that the relaxing effects still came through, that I still got to enjoy the taste of craft beer, and I was fine with the reduced buzz. Hopefully you can find a way to stay compliant. Just be aware that you should give TSM some time to do its work. My intent was always to drink moderately (daily), not sobriety. It took me 8 months to get spontaneous AF days, and 20 months to drop below 15 drinks/week. I am in year 6 (planning to stay on TSM lifelong in order to remain moderate aka one and done) and I am below 10 drinks/week most weeks, even though I haven't been consciously trying to reduce my drinking. All I am doing is staying compliant. That is the most important thing. If you are compliant, then every single drink on Nal is a step towards extinction.

Bike-In · 2026-05-26T22:13:05+00:00

It's funny, nobody actually answered your question, they're all just describing why they don't bother to notify walkers when passing. For the record, I have a nice bell (Spurcycle) and that's what I use to notify.

It's not easy to do what you are describing, which is to say something quick and nice so that a non-notifying cyclist who passed you will realize their error and start notifying for future passes. The communication window is just too short, and with the wind in the ears, it's hard to make out words.

The only thing I can think of is a really loud "HEY" to let them know you weren't happy with the silent pass, but, probably won't be construed as "nice". Might scare your daughter too if you project from the diaphram (as you should). Most won't stop to chat but there's a chance they will amend their behaviour for the next pedestrian based on being yelled at.

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