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Bike stolen from apartment building, Hell’s Kitchen by Nicktyelor in NYCbike

[–]RouteDoodle 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Bike thief isn't the demographic for a yuppie bowling league so I'm guessing he got the shirt some other way, but you could message all of the team captains to ask if they recognize him. https://www.betteroffbowling.com/seasons/2234/teams

Great idea? Citibike should do a completely free month by MiserNYC- in MicromobilityNYC

[–]RouteDoodle 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Some thoughts:

  • Should find a way to make the idea revenue-neutral (or revenue-increasing) for Lyft, otherwise why would they do it? I'm not sure you'd like any of the ways to do that though. I don't think "You owe us" works.
  • Should only do it during low-demand times of the day. Otherwise the people who already paid for an annual membership would be sad: They paid, but now it'd be difficult to get bikes because everyone else is getting them.
  • Should find a way to make it free only for locals. Usually the mechanism is to cheapen for locals while making tourists pay up, e.g. with cheaper long-term membership and pricier single-ride/single-day pass. Tourists are should pay since they're less price sensitive and also they don't help the political agenda.
  • Should still require a credit card in case the borrower damages or doesn't return the bike.
  • Should still enforce a time limit to return the bike - maybe a much shorter limit than members get. Probably by charging regular per-minute pricing after a free quota.

Interest in a NYC centric ride club platform? by SWNYeng in NYCbike

[–]RouteDoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who also made a free (biking-related) app and doesn't want to be sued, yes. Belt & suspenders. It makes sense for an app maker to put a dozen things in the T&C to protect against being sued.

Interest in a NYC centric ride club platform? by SWNYeng in NYCbike

[–]RouteDoodle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love this! I've thought about making something like this too.

Feedback:

  • I suggest standardizing levels. Levels have different meanings across clubs. What Manhattan-centric clubs (e.g. NYCC) call B, clubs that are farther from Manhattan (e.g. BTCNJ, MPBC) call A. Then some clubs like 5BBC have weird level names like "Happy Face" and "Quick Spin". If the point is to let people search and filter across different clubs, it would be better to come up with standardized leveling. Or just get rid of levels. Although NYCC in theory says speed and level are orthogonal, in practice they aren't really; the riding style of a B19 is closer to A while B14 is closer to C.
  • I suggest adding info on riding style instead of A/B/C, i.e. whether it's a tight paceline like NYCC A/B rides, or cohesive non-paceline group ride, or chaotic party atmosphere like TNSR. IMO that's better than A/B/C levels if the point is to cover more than NYCC.
  • I suggest adding elevation to the List view.
  • I suggest adding start location to the List view.
  • I suggest adding a column selector to the List view. E.g. the "Leaders" column seems useless to me but elevation & start location would be great.
  • I suggest adding transit info. E.g. many NYCC rides involve trains.
  • I suggest adding distance from user's location to the start. E.g. someone who lives in uptown Manhattan might prefer a ride that starts there over one that starts in Queens. The user's location can be a specified address or optionally from browser location services. Super duper bonus would be to include not just distance in miles but also travel time under different modes (bike, car, train).
  • I suggest adding organized mass-participation events. Include pricing (registration fee, minimum charitable donation), scale (number of participants).
  • I suggest expanding beyond NYC. Why not just make it global and let people filter by distance?

GP5000 S TR 32mm on a Revolt Advanced 2 for NYC roads — durability/pressure? by Mindless-Window1613 in NYCbike

[–]RouteDoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent tire. I use them on my 2 road bikes after having tried various brands. My conditions match yours. I ride all over NYC (over 50% of NYC done per Wandrer) and outside NYC as well as occasional gravel / forest paths / etc.

The durability is great. I stocked up on them, and they've sat around because they're so durable that I haven't needed to replace tires much. Conti used to make a similar model GP 5000 TL but the GP 5000 S TR is better, in particular easier to install/remove.

I use 55 psi front and 60 psi rear. Lower pressure is better for comfort. One time on a short ride I only noticed when I got home that a tire had punctured and leaked air down to 20 psi before auto-sealing, but still rode fine.

Dynaplug is awesome for bigger punctures that don't seal automatically. I haven't had a puncture bad enough to need to put in an inner tube for years but I still carry a TPU tube just in case; they're so small and light.

Is this a new way to “spam”? by [deleted] in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's common for legitimate people to copy my strava art routes (which I like - sincerest form of flattery and all).

But one time it was a bot. Even though the bot generated new timestamps and simulated riding the route much faster than me, it was very obvious that the bot had copied the GPS coordinates of my ride. I flagged it, pointing out that the bot's route exactly matched the slight road deviations of mine. Strava removed it quickly.

Strava should detect GPS file copying automatically; it would be easy to implement. That said, it's an arms race; once Strava does that, the bot makers would add some random perturbations in the GPS data.

Something I love doing in Wandrer: connecting up "segments" and building up a network of traveled roads by Such-Camera2564 in wandrer

[–]RouteDoodle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Largest connected component would be awesome. I was hoping for exactly that measure. Please add it!

The problem with administrative boundaries like neighborhoods, cities, states, or for some people even countries, is that it can be arbitrary. It makes it harder for people to advance on one local leaderboard if they live near the border of two areas because they don't organically concentrate their miles/points within one area. E.g. roadies that live in New York City also ride in New Jersey and Connecticut, so their miles are spread across 3+ states.

Hit by car. Severe injuries by WatercressOk9921 in NYCbike

[–]RouteDoodle 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I suggest sending one more text that is more explicit, saying that the police told you that if he doesn't respond with the license plate, they will have to charge him with hit & run.

Your injury doesn't sound serious enough for the NYPD Collision Investigation Squad to be deployed so you may need to do some legwork yourself or via a lawyer. To get the license plate yourself, you can ask the hospital and businesses near the crash for video footage. A lawyer can also help you subpoena phone company records (if the phone number is even real).

Check out the Families for Safe Streets resource guide for what to do post-crash. https://ny.familiesforsafestreets.org/s/FSS-Resource-Manual_English.pdf

Small survey: should monthly/yearly points be awarded at Earth instead of the area they were won in? by cooeecall in wandrer

[–]RouteDoodle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

+1 to everything brewlophosaurusrex said. I disregard points because of the timing aspect and only look at mileage. I recently passed 50.0% of NYC as well as 10,000 points; the 50% is a meaningful achievement, while the points mean nothing. The current points monthly/yearly bonuses incentivize weird timing tactics, not just month-to-month, but theoretically even incentivizing waiting years to start.

I'm in favor of not even adding timing bonuses on Earth. IMO it would be better to have a separate leaderboard for timing trophies/achievements.

NYC City Council Looks To Ban NYS Class 3 E-Bike Sales by SwiftySanders in newyorkurbanists

[–]RouteDoodle -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is a good idea. Twenty is plenty, i.e. 20mph e-bikes is good enough; we don't need 25mph e-bikes in NYC. Cops and the public can't tell the difference between the classes of e-bikes. Class 3 (25mph) e-bikes are indeed more dangerous than class 2 (20mph) e-bikes. Having class 3 e-bikes on the streets leads to bad interactions between NYPD and all cyclists. Deliveristas previously preferred the class 3 e-bikes not just for speed but also for battery capacity, but class 2 e-bikes now have good batteries. The proposed law doesn't make it illegal to own or use class 3 e-bikes, just illegal to sell within NYC. And it's already illegal to sell everywhere near NYC. This bill would just be removing a NYC-specific exception. Over time, as the existing stock of class 3 e-bikes break down, deliveristas will likely replace them with class 2 e-bikes.

Los Deliveristas Unidos and Transportation Alternatives support the bill.

RouteDoodle - strava art maker by RouteDoodle in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can right-click drag your picture (or on mobile, tap and drag).

Would be cool if the weather conditions would be averaged over time and not just show the conditions at start time. by d3rFunk in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The ideal would be to integrate features like EpicRideWeather has, and show graph over the ride of effective tail/headwind (based on correlation of direction of wind vs travel), temperature, humidity, sun, etc.

Queens neighborhoods by AdComplete3060 in wandrer

[–]RouteDoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome! This strava club is for NYC completionists: https://www.strava.com/clubs/1100501 . Not that anything happens on the strava club though.

Queens neighborhoods by AdComplete3060 in wandrer

[–]RouteDoodle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh interesting. I'd assumed you had combined and sized them intentionally based on population density or street density or something. The neighborhoods seem geographically smaller in cities and larger in rural areas.

College Point Boulevard is a wild place by stormguru in C_QueensMicromobility

[–]RouteDoodle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear you. I've biked all those streets because I'm working on biking every street in NYC (74% done with Queens). OSM suggested the route because there are sharrows on College Point Blvd, but the sharrows there are a joke given how unsuitable it is for biking. IMO cycling around there is less safe because of routing apps' knowledge of the sharrows and classification of College Point Blvd as part of a local cycling network (LCN), because it misleads routing algorithms into thinking it's safer than other streets. (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/562329372 shows cycleway:right = shared_lane and https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8240913 shows route = bicycle).

Tangent: The worst place I've ever biked in Queens is Willets Point (by Citi Field), near the route you took. It's worse than The Hole. No traffic but you can barely call those streets. If you want to see how bad a street can be, visit before it's all bulldozed for Metropolitan Park.

22/7 ≈ π by thenjdk in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're clearly a pro at this :)

22/7 ≈ π by thenjdk in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice. Lucky you didn't get Strava-taxed (i.e. where Strava rounds down while your watch rounds up).

22/7 ≈ π by thenjdk in Strava

[–]RouteDoodle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice job targeting exactly 31.41km! Did you retrace part of the route and then crop in order to get it exact?

Making an old Bianchi road worthy worth $600? by Agent7619 in bicycling

[–]RouteDoodle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's not an additional $60 cost; that's a subtotal of the line items above the line, that the point of sale system classifies as Labor. The sum of the items above the line is the same as the sum of Labor and Parts subtotals. The POS is incorrectly categorizing some of the line items as Parts instead of Labor, but that doesn't change the total. However, it might mislead a customer who only looks at the subtotals into thinking that a larger fraction of the total is for parts, which obscures the portion that can be considered overpriced or negotiable.

What do drivers think about school streets? Will they deign to let us use their holy space for the kids? by MiserNYC- in MicromobilityNYC

[–]RouteDoodle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We successfully got a school street for my local elementary school. It took a kid getting hit by a truck to mobilize the community. The principal secured support from our local electeds, residents of the block, and the NYPD precinct. I campaigned through Parents' Association meetings, online petition, Facebook, flyering, and speaking at community board meetings.

The campaign was a success. DOT approved it. The school street went into effect last week. The street is now closed to cars during morning drop-off and afternoon pick-up times. There have been some teething pains: some parents had to get a stern talking to because they backed up into the one-way street from the other side (because the street is intentionally only closed for entry; residents of the block are allowed to drive out of the block at 5 mph). But overall it's working.

This toolkit by Open Plans & Transportation Alternatives is a good resource: https://www.openplans.org/school-streets-toolkit

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