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American Fietser

@americanfietser.bsky.social

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"Fietser" (Dutch) 'feet-ser' Meaning: A Person Who Bikes For Transportation; Infrastructure, City Design, E-Cargo Bike Ambassador, Brasil 🇧🇷🔗, Train & Aviation Enjoyer

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · Oct 22

My wife and I, in our early 40s, going to dinner on one bike, because adding spice to life has become a priority.

She's reviewing the menu ahead of time. 🤳😉

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 2m

Our @bunchbike.com got a new accessory/passenger today.

💀

A small toy skeleton is zip tied to the back of Laura’s Bunch bike

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 27m

Arguing with a brick wall about how personal responsibility is not a replacement for controlling design.

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 32m

Bike Chicago, you know what to do.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 33m

Please please please have footage on your cargo bike with this.

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International Cargo Bike Festival @cargobikefest.bsky.social · 44m

👕📚 𝗜𝗖𝗕𝗙 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗵!

We're selling 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳 Magazine, ICBF Logo T-shirts and a couple of other interesting bits and bobs at ICBF 2025. Come over to stand 1.16, take a look and support our work!

(Yes, yes. We know. We need to work on our modelling skills.)

Two ICBF t-shirts inexpertly modelled against a red background.

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 34m

I wear my old ICBF sparingly in order to keep it for longer. Some day I'll get over for a new one.

American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 36m

I recall them from shopping malls when I was a teenager.

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BicycleDutch @bicycledutch.bsky.social · 1h

People chaos any time!

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 1h

Ok, but what if Eddie Bauer designed bicycles with fenders, racks, and swept back bars?

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 1h

1. Curb-back walkways are poor design.
2. Design details matter.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 1h

It's interesting they put the trash collection on the no-parking and no-sidewalk side, for easier automated collection and no blocking of the sidewalk.

There are even little paved squares for the trash cans to sit on.

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 1h

People don't hate cities, they hate the chaos of cars in cities.

Steven @stevevance.net · 2h

It’s so beautiful like this

No cars on LaSalle Street because it’s marathon Sunday in Chicago

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tigard-stripes.bsky.social @tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 2h

Taking another load to storage by cargo bike! No truck required! It's fun to hear people's reactions when they see how capable a bicycle is to move large loads. Carla Cargo trailer FTW! #Micromobility #LastMile #CarlaCargo #CargoBike #CargoTrailer #Freight #Bicycle #Moving #Storage #truck #Cargo

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 2h

Time to start planning your bike lights for the darker months. Have fun with it. You'd be amazed at how much joy it brings to your ride.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3h

part of the conditions for reopening the govt should be clawing back these slush funds

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

Even as FBI is being downsized, it must allocate more of its resources to the only part of the govt that is growing: immigration enforcement.
The scale of this growth is hard to comprehend. DHS has a slushfund of $10B - bigger than the old ICE budget - to pay other agencies and state & local cops.

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 3h

a black and white photo of a person using a film camera .

ALT: a black and white photo of a person using a film camera .

media.tenor.com

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International Cargo Bike Festival @cargobikefest.bsky.social · 8h

🚲⚡📡 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗕𝘂𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 – 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝘽𝙞𝙠𝙚

It does what is says on the tin; it's a fully-kitted-out broadcast studio on a bike ➡️ cargobikefestival.com/exhibitor/br...

🎬 Bart will be at ICBF 2025 filming every session for our YouTube channel. 2024 sessions 👀➡️ www.youtube.com/@cargobikefest

Bart Buerman and his Broadcast Bike, indoor setting.

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Breck @breckw.bsky.social · 7h

à la plage! @chrisunits.bsky.social

Man on a green cargo bike with a big bag in front and two kids on the back with a beach umbrella

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 7h

Siège non homologué ;)

Une femme assise sur le dessus de la caisse fermée d'un tricycle roulant dans Paris

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 4h

Amazing how some people are convinced that basic societal decency, getting tangible benefits with your taxes, and properly taxing the grotesquely rich is somehow "dirty communism".

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 4h

Anyone yelling "communist" at someone who believes socialist policies can coexist in a capitalist world shouldn't be taken seriously as a person.

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Wyatt Gordon @yitgordon.bsky.social · 5h

Bread delivery bike ride through the heart of Berlin. 🥖🚴🏼‍♂️💨

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 6h

If he gets elected mayor, Mamdani’s support for banning parking near intersections citywide could undo a bureaucratic knot at the Department of Transportation, whose leaders have vigorously pushed back against the movement fighting for the safety measure.

Likely Mayor Mamdani Supports Daylighting as DOT Digs In Heels - Streetsblog New York City

The next mayor will have to overcome a deeply entrenched bureaucracy opposed to the common-sense policy.

buff.ly

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Sara F.L. Kirk @sflkirk.bsky.social · 6h

3 years #CarFree & no regrets. A short 🧵. Still saving $250/m - $9k in 3 years! Still have a car parked on our drive to use when we need via @communauto.bsky.social. It's just shared with neighbours. Still carrying same amount of stuff on my @ternbicycles.com as I did by car #NoBrainer #BikeJoy 1/

A tern utility vehicle (TUV, also known as a cargo bike) parked next to a over-sized SUV in a grocery store parking lot. Both can carry the same amount of groceries. There are buildings in the background and a blue sky.

A tern utility vehicle (TUV, als known as a cargo bike) with a large bag of dog food strapped to the back. The red bike is chained to a lollipop bike stand on a concrete sidewalk.

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

#carryshitoltmpics

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