What can I say, I idolized Nelson Vails!
The owners admonished me to get a bike with gears before I destroyed my knees. I did not listen, and perhaps that—or twenty years of Ultimate, or twenty-five years of rock climbing—did them in for me.
When I was riding most of the couriers I met were chain-smokers, often cruising the streets with a cigarette hanging from their mouths. Very insular counter-culture, very opinionated about bikes. And in my limited experience, very little overlap with the rest of cycling culture.
Yes. [1][2] Most studies are on electronic cigarettes and gum but they show the effects are dose/absorption dependent with pure nicotine, so pills are extremely unlikely to behave differently.
[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40138-020-00219-0
[2] https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1038/clpt.1...
Many people don't get enough fiber in their diet anyway. Just be sure to start drinking more water to overcome the, err, digestive difficulties of higher fiber consumption.
For the broader public, Bike R a v e and Bike P a r t y are the Toronto events that usually happen over summer. Usually starts a bit earlier (9PM?) with various stops in parks and blocking of intersections to keep the group together. obviously there’s zero chance of getting a permit. Fun times!
There’s also some alley cat events that are races.
Wait, what? You had a sprocket on each side of your rear wheel and you flipped the wheel around to change gears?
Or did you exchange front/rear wheel, each having a different sprocket?
https://cyclistzone.com/what-is-a-flip-flop-hub/
In my case (scroll back 35 years), I would ride a fixed gear around the city, but change to the single-speed freewheel for Toronto's legendary "Doughnut Ride" that left Laird & Eglinton every weekend rain or shine, snow, sleet, or hail.
In very olden times, riders would dismount and flip their wheels around in the middle of a Grand Tour before climbing the big mountain. But in contemporary riding, flip-flop hubs are just a convenience of sorts that make it easy to decide what gear you want to use for each ride, I have never flipped the wheel in the middle of a ride.
p.s. I still have one bike with a flip-flop hub: It's a 24" trials bike, and while I run an 18t freewheel on the cranks, the flip-flop lets me choose between a 15t for pure trials work or a 12t for goofing around and having a tall enough gear to ride places, like on my local double black-diamond MTB trails.