Cycling fatality risk as deaths per billion trips itf-oecd.org/monitoring-pro… (I added Amsterdam to the dataset)

“Don’t wait for permission.” I got to lead a fun conversation with pro bike racer & entrepreneur Justin Williams at the PeopleForBikes / pfbpolicy Shift Conference in Bentonville:

There are still a bunch of folks in bike culture who fundamentally think e-bikes are cheating. They mistakenly view e-bikes as replacing bicycle trips rather than car trips. They constantly wonder why folks just won't ride regular bikes. It's tiring how they still don't get it.

Wrapping up my week in Bentonville tomorrow w/ Life Time Grand Prix Big Sugar Gravel. Shakeout ride today and seeing old & new friends Lex Albrecht laurenstendam Alexey Vermeulen

The Big Sugar Gravel race in Bentonville was one of the hardest days I’ve had on the bike: punishing technical gravel, up and down all day, 2 flats, nearly got taken out by a deer and 30 mph headwinds. But I still love bikes.

I contribute to The Outer Line, a newsletter about pro cycling. Lots to discuss this week: doping news, sportwashing, the rise of #gravel and more: mailchi.mp/014940e5f76a/a…

The adidas non-action on Ye will go down as a case study in how not to run a brand. Complete and total failure of leadership.

If you are in your 50s and not mentoring younger folks, what are you even doing? TBH the most rewarding part of my day.

Here's a timelapse video of last night's #crescentmoon setting behind Space Needle in #Seattle. The still I posted yesterday is one from this sequence. Planned with PhotoPills and shot with Sony A7R4, Sony 200-600mm lens at 600mm, f/6.3, ISO 1250, 1/8 sec.

Skechers has an important announcement

Polaroid shot of me (on left) at 24 yrs old working as a Hollywood production assistant with my lifelong friend and now production designer Michael Manson. My Verne Miller shirt is from a bad gangster movie I'd worked on starring Scott Glenn.

I've been on social media since the beginning (MySpace), and it was so different before say 2012: entertaining and fun back then. The entire digital landscape has shifted with paid ads, political toxicity, bots & hostility. Do I need to stay here? I'm not sure.

Between new Twitter owner posting hate speech and huge Saudi investment, I've seen enough. People I respect like @jason & Kara Swisher are like, "Try sticking around." Nope...taking a break. See you on Instagram & LinkedIn for now.

My last tweet for awhile peterabraham.medium.com/why-i-opted-ou…

Mostly I spend my time on Blueskey these days: bsky.app/profile/petera…