Originally Posted by canklecat

I mostly take screencaps from my videos. Occasionally I'll stop and snap proper photos. But photography has been my hobby and sometime job for so long, I try to get away from that on bike rides.


Friends fixing a flat during our big summer 3-week long group ride to coincide with the Tour de France. Probably close to 200 cyclists this ride, a few summers ago. We were way off the back.

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Pokemon hotspot, 2016.

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Homeless district. Sometimes the shelters are full. Other times folks can't deal with the noisy, aggressive vibe inside the shelters but want to be close to the available resources for food, mental and physical health clinics, etc.

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Homeless district. My usual transportation too, but although my bikes are closer to my size.

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Me (l) and local busker Russ (r) during one of his impromptu streetside concerts. Alas, the police finally banned buskers here. Sanitizing this gentrifying old neighborhood hasn't been a good thing for everyone.

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Me, about to tackle a KOM attempt on a 6 mile time trial segment. I had to settle for 2nd. That was a couple of years ago. I've since been bumped way down the top ten list.

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Aodhan O'Farrell, a former paramedic who was badly injured and disabled when a car struck him while he was attending victims of an earlier collision. Despite a badly damaged neck, after a yearlong recovery he decided to tackle a cross-USA ride from east to west coasts. He wanted to finish the ride before his neck condition worsened. He rode as much he could, as many days as he could handle. Sometimes 5-10 miles, sometimes 50 or so. His girlfriend drove their RV ahead to meet him each ride.

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Turnaround point of a favorite nearby training loop, a fast roller coaster access road with little traffic.

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I was ticketed for slow rolling a right turn. Nobody else around... except the police officer. Turned out from my rear facing video he'd been shadowing me for almost a mile, waiting for me to make a mistake. I did full stops at three previous intersections, which he saw, but gigged me for this one.

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Amazon driver nearly clobbered me a couple of weeks ago, rolled through a stop sign, never looked up from his phone or navigation device. I caught up with him and ... actually had a quite civil and constructive chat. Didn't turn out too badly.