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  • in reply to: The US / Canadian border #1156331
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    ktache wrote:
    I must ask andy, what drinking laws?

    If you’re on the US side, anyone on the boat over 21 years old can be drinking, but your captain can’t be over 0.08% BAC. Michigan is actually more strict on this than a lot of US states.

    On the Canadian side, you can’t even have alcohol on the boat unless it has a permanent stove and toilet (and hence is a houseboat) and the boat is stopped and anchored. Nobody on the boat can be over 0.08% BAC.

    in reply to: The US / Canadian border #1156249
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    Oh, and my brother has a
    Oh, and my brother has a cottage on an island near here. You can see Canada from the east side of his island.

    https://maps.app.goo.gl/JKwk2s7noKqZL12r8

    We’ve spent all day on the water crossing back and forth. It only matters if you land. Canadians like to take their party boats to the American side because the alcohol laws (other than the drinking age) are less strict in the US.

    in reply to: The US / Canadian border #1156229
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    andystow

    There are definitely places
    There are definitely places you could walk across with a low chance of being caught, and I’ve heard stories of farmers who repeatedly drive their equipment back and forth across fields which bridge the border.

    Everywhere that I’ve ever crossed, there has been border control, and it’s taken seriously, but I’ve always been on a main road.

    Earlier this year, it made the news when they changed the rules and stopped allowing people to walk across the border on the Pacific Crest Trail.

    https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/news/canada-pacific-crest-trail-border-ban-united-states

    andystow

    True, I’m just estimating a

    True, I’m just estimating a lower bound.

    andystow

    It goes about three car

    It goes about three car lengths in 20 frames.

    3 * 4.5 m / 20 frames * 30 frames/s = 20 m/s = 72 km/h = 44 MPH

    in reply to: The Reform Party and the UK’s lurch towards fascism #1156111
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    I’d prefer this.

    I’d prefer this.

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/peace.png

    in reply to: Frame break – dropout detached from chainstay #1156085
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    “Farewell my summer love,

    “Farewell my summer love, farewell – nuts…”

    I thought you’d hit yourself on the top tube when it failed. Anyhow, sorry for your loss.

    in reply to: road.cc doesn’t remember my login #1156083
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    andystow

    It used to be a few days for

    It used to be a few days for me, now it’s a week exactly on my phone or my PC.

    I suspect it’s regional. I’m in the US, but when I was in the UK for three weeks last year, my phone never got logged out.

    andystow

    I wonder how often they would

    I wonder how often they would accept the excuse, when a driver rear-ends another car or a motorcycle on a dual carriageway, “oh, he was in the left lane and I was safely passing him on the right when he suddenly jumped into the right lane in front of me.”

    in reply to: RAGBRAI done! #1155603
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    Shades wrote:
    I’ve got the Great American Rail Trail on my Instagram feed; makes me want to cycle across the USA.  I get the WTF look from my wife.  Have to settle for a bit of bike-packing around the Elan Valley instead.

    https://www.railstotrails.org/site/greatamericanrailtrail/

    I’ve ridden the bits of it in Illinois: about half of the Hennepin Canal trail, and most of the I&M Canal trail. I look forward to riding the whole thing when it’s completed for my 150th birthday.

    in reply to: RAGBRAI done! #1155527
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    andystow

    Day 0, we did a bonus 56 mile

    Day 0, we did a bonus 56 mile round trip for a tire dip on the western edge of the state. Mostly unloaded, our camp was already set up at this point.

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/PXL_20250719_221317783.PORTRAIT.jpg

    in reply to: RAGBRAI done! #1155525
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    Day 7
    Day 7

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    in reply to: RAGBRAI done! #1155523
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    Day 6
    Day 6

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/PXL_20250725_143314916.jpg

    in reply to: RAGBRAI done! #1155521
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    Day 5
    Day 5

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/PXL_20250724_115833988.jpg

    in reply to: RAGBRAI done! #1155519
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    Day 4
    Day 4

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/PXL_20250723_172657432.jpg

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