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Day 7 (22) SnoopJ 🔜 San Francisco (45)

As much fun as has been, being off a bike that long in nice weather was a bit disorienting!

The Long Beach bikeshare is a very interesting one. All electronics are on the bike (and solar!), and there is a U-lock and integrated holster. Racks are just dumb metal and for a $2 you can lock to anything. $1 credit if you return a bike to the official rack.

First time using a Sturmey-Archer with a twist shifter but it worked well. Interestingly, it still has the dead zone between 2 and 3, I'd thought that was fixed in modern hubs? Not really a problem though.

Brake levers are inverted which was interesting but worked well. Very enjoyable ride

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