BirdmanStevens

@birdmanstevens

I enjoy getting around by bike, mountain biking, native plants, fruit and vegetable gardening, dogs, snakes, alt-rock (especially from the '90s), and anything else that is good! Columbus, GA

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BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· 17h

Went over the new Gordie Howe bridge today. Even saw people walking and biking on the pedestrian path. Pretty impressive!

A picture of the Gordie Howe bridge showing the towers, cables, and road surface. The sun is shining from the left and the sky has a few clouds in it. (I am in the passenger seat)

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· 10d

Does this seem like a good vehicle for a teenager (or anyone for that matter) to be driving?

A heinous black GMC Yukon lifted sky high with wheels sticking well outside the wheel wells. Why do we allow this?

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· 20d

I guess it's okay to just go around mail vehicles now if the oncoming person is on a bike...

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Jul 21

Why is this legal?!

Jacked up white F-250 with the wheels and tires sticking well outside of the wheel wells. The tires have less sidewall than some cars. The wheels are large, shiny, and devoid of taste. This is a vehicle that's unsafe at any speed.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Jul 20

Sweet rig out at the trailhead yesterday.

White Suzuki Carry kei truck with a bike rack on the back in a gravel parking lot.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Jul 2

Happy 13th birthday to my boy, Jimi. Time sure does fly by...

A picture of my dog, Jimi, in a gray dog bed that's not exactly big enough for him. He's a red-brown Pitbull/Coonhound mix.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Jun 21

Saving turtles is easier on a bike.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Jun 20

cityratings.peopleforbikes.org/cities/colum... 🙃

An overview of Columbus, GA's bicycling ranking:
2537th Overall City Ranking
2316th in the U.S.
623rd in the South
77th in GA
19 Network Score

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Jun 17

My Halberd-Leaved Rosemallow (Hibiscus laevis) is a-bloomin'. #nativeplants #georgianativeplants

The large pink blooms of our native Halberd-Leaved Rosemallow with droplets of rain resting on them. I grew these from seed I gathered off the bank of the Chattahoochee River.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Jun 16

Now that's a great band name!

The album cover of "drag explosive" by the post-hardcore band Cars Get Crushed. The cover has a gray background with an explosive device in the middle.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· May 25

Ugh, he is too cute. Happy Birthday, Jack! He's just about a month older than my dog (Jimi). Where does the time go?!

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· May 19

#votebybike

Me holding an "I'm a Georgia Voter" sticker with my bike in the background.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· May 14

Here's what you need to do. 😛

A black Toyota Prius modified with a long tail to improve aerodynamics.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· May 3

Not sure why the picture came out black...

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· May 3

I know HAWK signals can be confusing to people, but when it's a solid red light it should be pretty easy to understand.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· May 3

We had our first Porchfest here in our downtown historic district yesterday. Lots of great music, and the streets were mostly closed off to cars which made things so much better!

Roscoe, a 1.5 year old mixed breed dog who is 33% Chihuahua, is enjoying the music of a local band (The Velvet Cab) playing on the porch of a blue and white house.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Apr 17

Jimi, a red-brown Pit Bull/Coonhound mix, in 2015 a little under 2 years old.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Apr 13

What will they think of next?!

A GODOGGO! Mobile Dog Gym van parked on the side of the road. Picture taken by my brother while in Seattle.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Apr 11

My dog Jimi (a nearly 13-year-old Pit Bull/Coonhound mix) hanging out at the tennis courts in front of the bleachers.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Apr 8

Me standing next to a sign that says "PLEASE BRAKE FOR SNAKES" on the Leslie Spit in Toronto, Ontario.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Mar 28

The talk about horsepower was frankly very misguided. 250w may be okay in places that are dense and have complete separated and safe networks, but that isn't most of the U.S.

"In 1993, R. D. Stevenson and R. J. Wassersug published correspondence in Nature summarizing measurements and calculations of peak and sustained work rates of a horse.[10] Citing measurements made at the 1925 Iowa State Fair, they reported that the peak power over a few seconds has been measured to be as high as 14.88 hp (11.10 kW)[11] and also observed that for sustained activity, a work rate of about 1 hp (0.75 kW) per horse is consistent with agricultural advice from both the 19th and 20th centuries and also consistent with a work rate of about four times the basal rate expended by other vertebrates for sustained activity.[10]

When considering human-powered equipment, a healthy human can produce about 1.2 hp (0.89 kW) briefly (see orders of magnitude) and sustain about 0.1 hp (0.075 kW) indefinitely; trained athletes can manage up to about 2.5 hp (1.9 kW) briefly[12] and 0.35 hp (0.26 kW) for a period of several hours.[13] The Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt produced a maximum of 3.5 hp (2.6 kW) 0.89 seconds into his 9.58 second 100-metre (109.4 yd) sprint world record in 2009.[14][failed verification]

In 2023 a group of engineers modified a dynamometer to be able to measure how much power a horse can produce. This horse was measured to 5.7 hp (4.3 kW).[15]"

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Mar 9

Is it wrong I was excited to be able to report my first bike lane blocker to @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social today while in Atlanta? 😛

While eating lunch today this jabroni parked his Tesla Model 3 in the bike lane while dropping something off instead of parking 30 feet away. While this wasn't the most consequential bike lane blocking ever (no bikes came by and it's on a low-traffic street) it's still bad practice and shows where one's priorities are. In the foreground is my dog, Jimi. In the background is a MARTA station.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Mar 3

This is the response I got from the assistant director of engineering here after I asked about a new bike lane that is unprotected. Also, this road didn't have street parking before and they added it. The only good thing is there was a travel lane reduction.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Mar 1

Few things are as depressing as looking at roads before and after they were widened and reading about how much it cost to make them worse. (Read ALTs for details)

Whittlesey Rd. in Columbus, GA in 2007 as a two lane road.

Whittlesey Rd. after widening to 4/5 lanes sometime around 2012. Naturally a car dealership sprang up eventually as well on the right and now there's a sea of non-native turfgrass. This was 9 million dollars for approximately a 0.7 mile segment that only saw 7200 cars daily at the time and is still well under the limit of a two lane road at 12500 cars daily.

Warm Springs Rd. in Columbus, GA before widening in 2012. There are two travel lanes with a sidewalk on the right that is separated from the road by a buffer that contains a few trees.

Warms Springs Rd. after widening with 4 lanes and further up it has 5 lanes. The sidewalk is now right up against the road. Trees have been removed. This section only sees around 8300 cars a day. The most trafficked section sees around 16,000 a day, which is surprisingly a similar amount of cars compared to before it was widened. The whole project cost 65 million dollars and took over 4 years to complete.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Feb 22

I got to test out my rain jacket for the last 5 minutes of my ride today. Turns out it works! 😎

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Feb 11

Ours turned into a classic local restaurant. And yes, you can sit and eat inside the bus.

Country's Barbecue located on Broadway in downtown Columbus, GA. The building was originally a Greyhound station and repurposed into a barbecue restaurant. An old Greyhound bus remains that was converted into a seating area and is accessed from inside the building. Ironically the barbecue isn't very good, but the chicken is as well as many of the sides and the sweet tea.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Jan 24

I had to pick up something in town today and I decided it would also be a good opportunity to liberate some trees from invasive English Ivy in one of our parks.

This English Ivy vine has been here for a while to get this big.

English Ivy smothering the tree (vine from previous picture).

This tree was absolutely taken over by English Ivy, and it's already suffered a lot of damage from it. I was going to free it...

But someone else already did! Glad to see there's someone else out there who cares.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Jan 18

We got our once every few years snow today (although it also snowed last year :P). This time it rained beforehand so when it snowed it stuck to the trees which is always kinda cool.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Jan 10

Atlanta's sidewalks would make for a great urban mountain bike course. That's probably not a good thing, but I like to think positively. 😛

A section of sidewalk is missing and in its place is dirt and roots.

A section of sidewalk that looks more like a path through the woods.

BirdmanStevens@birdmanstevens· Jan 7

How the average American would answer this question: