Beautiful. White Lined Sphinx Moth. The caterpillars are beautiful!

Thanks for the ID.

I was surprised both at how big it was and that it was sitting on asphalt in the middle of the day.

Wow, they really are!

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I spotted this item in the street and figured I better go back and pick it up before somebody ran over it.
$8.99 at Target.

It is now part of my garage work bench collection.

Found a nice Craftsman 12mm ratcheting box wrench yesterday. Little bit scratched from vehicles running over it.
Over the years, picked up many small tools. It seems mechanics leave 'em inside the engine bay accidentally.
Gathered up various denominations of bills, as well, but lost some of my own occasionally to balance it out.
My favorite involved a 'bike route' and 'share the road' pair of signs. Hid them in the bushes and retrieved later in my car.
A nearby homeowner told me the signs languished there for a few months.

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I've found several wallets, a purse, multiple strewn IDs and credit cards. I found a Leatherman tool, and probably more that I can't remember. Oh, yes
I also found a corpse in a culvert

:eek: what had happened to them??

how about you commuting in something like that?

Who, me? It's overkill for me, and the expense must be pretty high. I would have no place to store it.

Yesterday, on W 35 St, I came upon a "depot" of cargo bikes and trailers. I've seen a few of these in Manhattan. These rigs hold a lot of cargo. Sorry I don't have pictures of the bigger payloads.


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I don't understand the brake lever way behind the saddle which actuates the trailer's brake.

Anyway, with online ordering still increasing, delivery (aka "logistics") is also expanding, and in NYC, a lot of companies realize that small vehicles, small radii for logistic hubs, and small motors make sense. I'm guessing they use 500-watt motors which is pretty terrific compared with the diesel engines that box trucks use.

astonishing. when we were in the city last Fall I saw all the Amazon contraptions including what looked like airport luggage carts that ppl would push or pull by hand, plus other "vehicle" types. just amazing. then we were in my Wife's Aunt's apartment lobby & there was a massive Amazon delivery. I feel so bad for the doormen, omg!

I think they're still using pushcarts, too. I get slightly annoyed when they use the bike lanes but it seems they are doing their best. These people are really trying to be good citizens as far as I've observed, and it's not just Amazon. You can lose sight of how dense the population is here. A friend of mine thought it's remarkable how there are several food vendors on every block, but then, look at how many people live or work on each block. I keep thinking of his remark as I ride through the streets and catch so many scents of food. We have a lot of other and less pleasant scents, too.

This is crazy, but we have to think back less than ten years to ask how we shopped with not nearly as many home deliveries. Did we bring stuff home ourselves? I guess so. Pandemic accelerated this trend but didn't start it.

I think that's so you can disconnect the trailer from the bike and walk it around without it rolling away from you. It must have a way to lock the brakes, too, for parking.

I looked up the website for that trailer, if anyone's interested:
https://www.carlacargo.de/products/carla

:thumb:

yes!

our kids get a kick out of how my Wife & I stayed in touch with friends w/o cell phones, answering machines & emails. we actually called ppl at home. we knew their number by heart. we knew when they were home & when we could reach them. we made plans. then we walked or rode our bike to meet them. or better still, we walked over & rang the doorbell! "can Lorraine & Eric come out to play today?"

just for fun, I'll go to several stores to look for a product w/o searching online first. recently needed to find moth traps. 2 grocery stores,1 Walmart & finally 1 hardware store later, I got them! I even talked to ppl, omg ;-)

thanks, now I want a hot dog w/ mustard & onions

I can see it in use when parking and steadying a load independent of the bicycle. It is important that we take note of the "Working Man's Bicycle" and its set up. What evolves may not be the prettiest thing to some people, but a wonder to me.

In Frankfurt long ago, I remember the first time I saw a Mixti fully loaded off on an early morning, wet delivery of beer. It was not til then that I realized that a Mixti was not a girls bike...

So there was a bit of wind out of the east today. So I elected to ride in an area I haven't been in this century. Good ride...
However, I saw something unexplained on the side of the road in a very small farm town.
When I got home I discovered site had a name and it was listed on Google Maps
Take a look at the Rainbow Toilets of Secor IL.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ra...ASAFQAw%3D%3D#

Found another Apple Smart Watch, this one is a Series 11 46mm case. Like the Series 5 Watch I found several years ago on the street, Apple will provide no help in finding the owner. If anyone has a credible solution for finding the legitimate (and careless) owner that doesn't require throwing it into a forlorn moldy lost and found bin at the Streets Dept, post your suggestion here.

Not sure what this was..
http://i.imgur.com/GVoEm0ll.jpg

Maybe it's so the rider can use his front brake with the left hand, then reach behind and use the trailer's front brake with his right hand, if a quick stop is needed without fear of jack-knifing under the weight of a heavy the trailer?

Found this on the Apple community:Elsewhere:

Found this bad boy on my ride today.

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