Ryan Mott

@mo.tt

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Last-minute grocery shopper 🚲 Bicycle makes car noises, I make bad puns. Was @omnay on the old site. Kansas City, MO

We're in a church basement for a funeral meal. There's a commercial coffee pot and dispensers for lemonade, water, and tea. Behind them on the wall hang two frames: a graphic reading "One nation, under God" next to a 48-star United States flag.
A list of "Local Street Improvements" that include "reclaiming vehicular capacity" on stroads we've worked hard to calm
A feral calico naps on a stone stoop in the summer heat under the street light. He is startled awake by The Feeder and takes his leave.
neighbors queue in a stairwell outside a locked door at the smallest meeting venue in the metro
Question from Scottish TV programme Bullseye: "In UK film classification what comes between 12 and 18?"
a CVS store front where the windows are blacked out because crime probably but in those days the toothpaste wasn't in a locked cabinet...wait where are you going?
A white electric share bike with an orange saddle parked in front of a soon-to-be discarded car. This is the day I was bike-pilled.
Technical diagrams from the CCU paper highlighting construction and droplet travel
Image from kc1940 tax assessment 11-300-8, a house built over a business signed "Brown Bobby Do-Nuts"
on the left: two way vehicular traffic. on the right: a two way cycle track. in between: a poured concrete curb topped with a "bollard" which is actually hollow plastic and has been toppled over revealing the scrawny bolt straining to keep it from blowing away in the breeze
On the left: a car lane ~closed to traffic~ since before the snow storm has been cleared to pavement before the well-traffiked multi-use ped/bike path on the right, which is crusted in ice
Electric cargo bike loaded with a big bag of cat food and other groceries parked in front of a Costco
Rummaging through basement storage. A stack of 5.25" floppy discs in sleeves. The one on top is labeled "The World's Finest Software Disk #452 Solar Winds (1 of 2) Insert disk in drive and type WOW to start". Further back in the stack is another disc labeled "Stare-EO Workshop V1.21" because I was 💯 making my own stereograms in middle school
what seems to be a hookah hose (?) lies in the sidewalk at an intersection
sun rises over a polling place. pink clouds over orange horizon. a sign in the foreground reads "Vote Here"
A two-way cycle track nearing completion with continuously poured curbs on the straights and full concrete jersey barriers on the curves with crash attenuators for the drivists
Just outside the front door of a bicycle shop, a Clydesdale titanium frame gravel bike leans against a bollard. It's wearing new tires labeled "Maxxis Aspen 32x2.40". Not a typo: these are 32" wheels! Just behind the bike is a sandwich board that reads "Put the Fun Between Your Legs! @cyclecitykc"
Caption "USA Today: Electric bikes are driving me crazy. Make them follow the same rules as cars. | Opinion" on an image of three teens riding an ebike and not endangering anyone with 2 tons of metal and speed
"filled with canine ass miasma" in the form of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo, because https://xkcd.com/1412/
View from a rooftop deck of fireworks exploding at eye level maybe 30 feet away, totally safe, no danger at all, no metaphor here💀
Rounding the corner on a hard-packed gravel road, a large bicycle rolls ahead of two normal-sized ones
Zorak with caption "Tengo que ir a la tienda a comprar mantequilla y queso"
South elevation of a decaying Central Ave bridge. The river is calm and the graffiti plentiful.
A coach from Boulder to the Denver airport with a complimentary luggage compartment. $10 for a day pass versus $130+ for an Uber
Excerpt from linked article: "Dirt biking is no different from skateboarding, extreme skiing, parkour, or even the subculture of gaming, says Malcolm Drewery, a sociology professor at the department of applied social and political sciences at Coppin State University"
Riding a bicycle down the center two lanes of Main street which is closed to cars for restriping
A section of city street. Three car lanes are freshly repaved and striped. The former fourth lane was converted to a curb-protected two-way cycle track and did not require resurfacing.
Bicycle on a stand in front of a projector screen and whiteboard in an elementary classroom
Screenshot of RideKC Bike app showing a hub outline around Ottawa University
Same barricade gently thrown to the ground
A large traffic barricade blocking a bike lane, but at an angle to become invisible to someone coming down the hill
Wide angle view of Delta seat 10F on a newer plane where there is no bulkhead between first class and steerage. Legroom for days!
A traffic sign in Downtown Atlanta that reads "Turning vehicles stop for pedestrians" having been visibly revised by reflective decals from the former (and weaker) "yield to" message
A too-excited middle age man in glasses takes a selfie in front of a MARTA system map while riding a train
The part of the rendering where they have obliterated the streetcar platform. Also the rails aren't rendered so I assume they've converted it to an articulated bus?
Google Street View on Main St near the site of the renderings showing the current 3 lane configuration
A woman in a winter coat crosses the street in a crosswalk. She is walking a small black and white dog wearing red and black booties. They stop to meet a girl wearing a pink helmet on the back of a cargo bike stopped at the intersection.
Helmet cam video. A person wearing a neon green hi-vis vest rides an electric cargo bike in a parking protected lane. As they approach an intersection, the driver of an illegally parked pickup pulls in front of the bike, occupying the painted lane. Cyclist sounds a horn which the driver ignores as they proceed through a red light.
Left: an oversized bicycle pedal with gouges and scratches in the anodized finish. Right: the boot spikes that caused it (worth it)
Bike covered in icy slush, feet covered in diamond grip YakTrax
A parade of workers in hi-vis escort KC Streetcar #807 on its first powered test of the Main street extension
Me, grinning furiously next to the first streetcar to roll past the plaza in almost 70 years
A child sits facing rearward on the back of a cargo bike, holding a poster board for drivers to see. Her sister pedals alongside us. The bike lanes are covered in snow and ice while the car lane we occupy is nearly bone dry. At the end of the clip we briefly navigate the wrong way into a one-way street because the plowed sidewalk does not connect directly to the street
Twin girls writing on poster board. So far it reads: "Please shovel"
Bird scooters and snow pushed into the bike lane in front of Green Lady Lounge, an establishment you should not give money to.
A car double-parked in the [faded paint-only] bike lane with completely empty legal parking for several blocks
GPS track spelling "366" across nine square miles of Kansas City, Missouri
White pickup with tinted windows driving recklessly around a corner, not *quite?* taking aim at a cyclist wearing fluorescent green top and shoe covers
Red and green lights on the rim of a moving bicycle animated in a counter-rotating pattern. A reflecting pond and art museum are visible in the background
On a football field, a golf cart ambulance with the logo of the Kansas City Fire Department
A pair of elementary school kids in winter clothes and reflective vests on a residential street pedalling bicycles towards a pink and orange sunrise filtering through leafless trees
A family of three on bicycles coming home from school forced out of the bike lane in front of a problematic self storage facility by a dumpster truck labeled "Outlaw Roll-Off" with the slogan "Always on the run"
Excerpt from the Wikipedia page: "On February 27, 2007, a month after the incident, the Boston police bomb squad detonated another suspected bomb, which turned out to be a city-owned traffic counter."
Chevy Spark with flat rear wheel and broken front wheel from collision with bike lane curb stop, plus extensive damage to the door panels from a previous crash
Skid marks lead away from a curb-protected bike lane, ending at a disabled car with a freshly mangled wheel. The driver, waiting for a tow, sits on the curb away from traffic in the comfort of the protected lane
5th grader in a winter coat and safety vest cycling in a parking-protected lane littered with leaves, sticks, snow, and ice
Street scene. Rear: city skyline. Left: cleanly plowed car lanes. Right: cleanly shoveled sidewalks. Center: bike lane blocked by a pile of snow embedded with several Bird scooters which were almost certainly deposited here by the landscaping company contracted to clean the sidewalk in front of a private business
On a blue background, a red octagon with a white hand bounces forward then slides left to reveal the words "Stop Requested"
Onboard a modern streetcar, a wide ceiling mounted display animates the vehicle's progress along the route. A passenger off camera requests a stop which triggers a chime and the display plays an animation of a stop symbol revealing the words "Stop Requested"
Wide angle photo, composite from a 360 action cam. Top of frame: grassland, what looks like nice habitat for a medium sized mammal. Mid-frame: paved river trail with the long shadow of a large bicycle cast upon it. Bottom frame: top-down view of a bicycle wheel, with a medium sized mammal mid-stride beneath and slightly in front of it 😵