Toby B


Portland, OR, USA

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  • "It's a cute 3D print, but it'd be hard to use - micro-sd cards are definitely a pain to keep track of, I'd say some kind of at least business-card-sized sleeves in a cardfile would be ideal, if you really had to manage a lot of them."
    on: Floppy Disk Organizers, Scaled Down to Hold Micro SD Cards
  • "I have another small-single-wheel trailer, a BOB, it is true that the odd tire/tube size is a little annoying, I would say for limiting the choice of tire more than anything else, so 700c would be a win there. I do think handling would suffer, already having your rig be 50% longer takes some getting used to (esp. in urban settings...) but it might be the tradeoff would still be worth it."
    on: A Bent-wood, Single-Wheel Lightweight Bicycle Touring Trailer
  • "Looks like the link to their site 404s now, but after poking around a little I see they say coins and other odds and ends are all on the Etsy shop now: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MetonBoss"
    on: Beautiful Machined Worry Coins
  • "Hmm, aside from the problem of littering the landscape with balloon bits (even if they're relatively biodegradable) is wasting a lot of helium, which we have a finite supply of (and I'd rather have living people get their MRIs cooled by helium than fly ashes around with it...)"
    on: Japanese "Balloon Funerals" Send Cremated Ashes Into the Sky
  • "Came to say the same, there are dozens of BT cassette adapters on Amazon, though none are groovy and transparent."
    on: This Audio-Cassette-Shaped Object Lets You Stream to an Analog Boombox
  • "Yes, these seem to be a 'solution' for not liking platform pedals, they might work in dry weather, I guess... otherwise most commuters who don't just ride short distances in nice weather tend to settle on clipless (if they can change shoes at their destination), or clips and straps/powertap etc. to keep their feet on the pedals."
    on: Longtime Bicycle Commuter Invents Shin-Friendly Bike Pedals with Foam Surrounds
  • "True, though it's not hard to come by scrap or re-used pieces at least (I don't think I've ever seen green before...)"
    on: Heat-Deformed PVC Tubing as Connector?
  • "I have one, but I find it somehow to be extremely tricky to aim. With a normal surgical-tubing slingshot, after a couple of shots to warm up, it's pretty easy to at least get close to your target. But the Pocket Shot is squirelly - maybe it has some rubbery equivalent to the archer's paradox going on (haven't tried the arrow-shooting version, but under the circumstances I find it scary...)"
    on: The Pocket Shot: An Innovative, Dangerous Circular Slingshot
  • "In the night-time shot we can see that the steering is cable-actuated. I tend to agree that this seems like a fairly baroque approach to something that you could do with a cargo bike designed for unfolding over load-carrying (like a flatbed boxbike). I guess it does manage to be quite narrow?"
    on: Fantastic Industrial Design Thesis Project: The Cercle Bicycle Camper
  • "It's an interesting array of bags that all look significantly less practical than panniers (I see they do make one or two of those, at least). I have used a frame pack, it was like a sail in windy conditions and didn't hold much without bulging out and clipping my knees, I will stick with the rack and panniers."
    on: Restrap's On-Bike Storage for the Bikepacking Market
  • "It has potential, but having pulled some heavy trailers, I would say that braking is much harder than moving a big load. If you remove the physical connection to the bike, you'll need some very good stopping power to avoid plowing into the rider if they stop quickly. I can also imagine some gotchas where the lidar spots a possible collision and stops the trailer while the rider dodges around it and doesn't even know the trailer isn't still following (though a the trailer could honk, or ping your phone, etc.)"
    on: The Trailerduck: A Self-Powered, Auto-Following Bike Trailer
  • "Hmm, it's nice looking, but 2A usb-a is as retro as the cloth jacket on the cord. There are plenty of single gang usb-c pd outlets they could have riffed off instead, which would have actually been useful for charging something."
    on: Shinola's Metal Power Strips
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