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Alex

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Probably on my bike.

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Are they playing hot potato with my package what is happening here

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Woo hoo!

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Remember when you looked forward to the All Star game? The players wore their team's jersey, no home run derby, no online voting. Trying to make it an "event" again. Stop by the glove shop. The usual D&J hospitality. Hope to see many of our customers and friends there.

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Ok but I seriously need a good name for this. My RadWagon was obviously the DadWagon… the Spicy Curry is?? Taking all ideas.

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Thank you to Perennial for being awesome to work with!

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You can really tell who hasn’t cleared their storm drains in weather like this.

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What the hell is up with this weather you guys.

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It’s only Tuesday, and I’m thinking of switching to an all-bourbon diet for the rest of the week.

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Yes-ish. My bike is at the shop waiting to be assembled! So if it’s going to be 1-2 months wait, I won’t be able to use it. If it was like another week, would be fine.

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I mean, if you count the time before and after this rainstorm, it will be.

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People I know are already getting approvals and denials for the ebike thing so I’m over here nonstop refreshing my email.

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The City Climate & Infrastructure Committee is receiving a presentation in the Minneapolis traffic camera pilot info Thursday; says earliest possible launch date would be Aug 1, 2025 with 5 cameras to start. Really good implementation info to read through here: lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCA...

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As an FYI to anyone tomorrow who may not (or may!) get the ebike credit - you can also get a bicycle loan from at least one local credit union! It’s an easy, online application! www.affinityplus.org/personal/bor...

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I don’t recall seeing it before, but don’t know if it’s new or not! Agree it is exciting!

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I had no idea I could sign up to just automatically get mail ballots, rather than asking for them each year. Would make my life as an election judge a lot easier!

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I mean I know I’m not getting it but I would like to know officially.

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Got an email trying to sell me NFTs recently and wow, talk about getting in on the scam late man.

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Just incredible that the preferred solution to numerous people is to just pile garbage on the sidewalk rather than lose parking.

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I will never stop finding this stuff hilarious.

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Heartbreaking: having to return a book to the library I was on hold for months to get, because too many other books became available at the same time.

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There are, no joke, 40-50 kids all crammed into the Matthews Park pool right now. Pretty chaotic!

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I do love that if I try to move them they scream at me. Really fun design.

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You have to take a photo showing it parked to end your trip, and is Lime just like - blocking the whole-ass sidewalk, seems fine. End trip.

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I definitely see people using them to close gaps in transit; there’s one person on my block who clearly takes one to the LRT and then home again after work. So I am glad they exist! But they keep getting dumped on my lawn or parked on my sidewalk and it’s annoying.

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I dug a single hole and am dying; I cannot for the life of me understand how I manually dug all the post holes for the fence at our last house. What the hell was I thinking.

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I have a second, and I’m contemplating putting it on my boulevard. But I’m a bit nervous it’s gonna fill up with Lime bikes that seem to constantly float into our yard.

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I put it off for 13 years, but I finally installed the bike rack I bought for our house. Actual install took like 30 min.

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Looks like they’ve upgraded some components, and changed the cockpit a bit, but I can’t find a good side by side comparison otherwise. Looks like it’s compatible with old accessories. yubabikes.com/cargobikesto...

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Both have Bosch, yeah. I think the new one has a different display, I guess I’m not sure if it’s also a new motor. Yuba website just says both have the Cargo Line motors.

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I’m getting the electric version; the new one seems to use a newer Bosch system but it doesn’t seem worth an extra grand (to me).

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Probably not worth throwing a wrench in my bike order and paying an extra grand for the newest Spicy Curry?

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Only one of these vehicles should be allowed in cities.

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Wasn’t paying attention at a Saints game - something I’m always warning my kids about - and got hit by a foul ball. Good work, me.

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And people complain about winter in Minnesota.

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