Absolute legend! 500 bikes recovered!

I only wish that the cops came along to recover the bikes, so they could arrest those scumbags.

Hey y'all. Im on the hunt for an app that'll automatically record the start and ends of my rides based on my location. Ive been wanting to kniw my time improvemwnts on my daily commute but rarely remember to start the time before riding.

I didn't even need to bring front panniers, or a rear basket in place of my trunk bag 🤭

The trailer is a Wike City Cargo.

Was a good time.

I cycle quite a bit (500-1000km / month), but my recreational routes have all been near areas where I know I'll have access to public toilets and clean drinking water.

I'd love to venture out onto more rural roads and areas, way outside of areas that might normally have toilet access, but that's quite literally the only thing holding me back from doing so.

What are your strategies? Piss by the side of the road and hope nobody sees you? Squat out in a heavily forested area and risk ticks?

This is not a topic that ever gets talked about with cycle tourists, endurance riders, and other long-distance cyclists, so I'd love to know how to approach this!

For flying with my touring or hardtail I have the amazing Groundeffect Tardis but I although it folds quite small it still weighs over a kilo. I am cycling over the Alps and into Italy and to return by train the bike needs to be in a bag. I am super excited to find this MontBell bag. It packs to 16x8 and weighs under 300g. It’s really nice quality (although very light so it’s not going to be robust). For my bike i need to take the seat down a bit, wheels off and handlebars loose. This is fine. I will leave the rear dry bags and tool bag on, carry the front roll and seat pack. I am so stoked to find such a small light solution. Not cheap- of course- but as it means my bike is now hand luggage I won’t need train tickets so straight away it will save its own cost. So I wanted to share this with people who will understand why I am excited.

I have posted this already in the touring and bikepacking c's, but maybe people here like this too.

This is supposed to be something like couchsurfing for multi day bicycle travellers. There is a service like that already, warmshowers. This should now hopefully become the open source, actually non profit variant, they also want to include activitypub compatibility. I don't really understand how it all works or is planned to work yet, but at least I managed to sign up there

The project started after warmshowers killed off the community developed app for it, by people from the orbit around that community app. Kind of like how I ended up here on Lemmy when reddit killed of 3rd party apps.

For now it has very few members only and functionality is bare bones, no notifications yet and apparently no e-mail forwarding of requests etc, but messaging on the site itself should work.

I used to host people on warmshowers until I deleted my account there, were always interesting people. I would love to see this one become a success and look forward to host somebody soon.

Here is some more information about it: https://pad.kanthaus.online/sleepybikeproject?view#

If they can have handicap parking, wheelchair ramps, and other accessibility features (rightfully so!), what's the problem with helping businesses to make their stores accessible by bike?

Everyone wants to support “buy local”, and there's no better way to do it than by bike!

Seems like installing a simple bike rack would be a win-win-win all around. What exactly is the difficulty?

I don't believe for a second that it's a "they don't know unless you tell them" problem, because I've contacted many, MANY stores and plaza management to let them know that they are losing business. Nothing changes.

And it's not like they can't see people locking their bikes to signs, trees, fences, or cluttering up the walkways because they have no other options when visiting their business.

Backstory: Over the last two years, I've been adding cycling infrastructure to OpenStreetMap. Stuff like bike lanes, bike parking, repair stands, etc. I've spent dozens of hours checking plazas in a 30 km radius, local storefronts, malls, etc., to see what options they offer. It's SHOCKING to see how many have absolutely no bike parking. Large stores, post offices, coffee shops, or even gyms. I try to contact as many as I can, but almost never receive replies or acknowledgement. Contacting local representatives is even more futile, as they have no control over what these businesses do. This means I'm either going far out of my way to visit stores that have bike parking, or I take a car, which seems like madness either way.

I (sadly) replaced an older Norco MTB i was using this past year for another 30 year old, chromoly MTB in a larger frame.

Moved all the racks, fenders, wheels, tires, and accessory mounts over to the new bike.

Axiom rear rack (apparently 110lb capacity, but there's no way to move that much weight safely), Arkel shopper bag panniers (up to 29 liters each), a generic backet attached to the rack with straps for easy removal.

Any more weight, and the trailer comes out 😂

It's not super easy to ride with that much weight in the back, and when I've got front panniers on, it does stabilize things quite a bit.

This larger frame handles better than the smaller Norco frame, so it's an overall improvement.

Can someone recommend a good resource for getting a neglected bike back into riding condition? What tools I need, what sort of parts I should check if they need replacement, so on?

This came up in my Youtube recommendations and is a super neat look at how things used to be. I can't imagine trying to cycle like that after drinking wine or beer 😂

cross-posted from: https://beevibes.net/post/28433

The New York Times published a pair of articles this weekend highlighting the rising number of deaths of cyclists riding electric bikes. However, in one of the most impressive feats of victim-blaming I’ve seen from the publication in some time, the NYT lays the onus on e-bikes instead of on the things killing their law abiding riders: cars.

I truck pulled out in front of me today, and I side swiped it. Luckily I know how to fall, and most of the impact went into the upper right portion of my back but the truck confused my roll a bit and I ended up with some cuts and bruises on my ankle and knee and a small crack on the back of my helmet. The one day I decide not to wear jeans...

My bike is still ridable but there's some weird vibrations when braking now. I hope the frames not bent... it probably is. The rear brake handle was bent too and I can't shift into the lowest gear. I might need a new bike and I definitely need a new helmet; not a big deal really, ICBC will cover it... I just feel lucky I grew out of the "I know how to fall so I don't need a helmet" phase.

My knee is starting to swell up... tomorrow's going to be a lot of fun. Good thing the paramedics gave some of their ambulance drugs.

I'm gunna miss that bike.

Over the last few months, there has been a steady stream of photos and videos showcasing the world’s largest bicycle parking garage that opened in Amsterdam. This facility, which is completely free for daily use under 24 hours, and this massive investment by the municipal government, is not simply to benefit those who ride bicycles.

I'm hoping someone can offer some advice.

I love long distance cycling, and plan to do a 200 km brevet within the next year (with plans to do 300 km, 400 km and beyond as my schedule allows).

I've done 180 km+ and regularly ride 80 - 100 km+ at a time (multiple times a month).

My ass, hands, and legs are totally fine until around 130 km, then saddle pain creeps in.

I will admit that doing these distances on a folding bike with 20" tires isn't ideal, and perhaps that's just the limitation I have to work with. I do have a suspension seat post and wear padded shorts on those long rides, but again, everything is quite comfortable until around 130km.

Is this a bike fit issue? A padded shorts issue? A small tire issue?

White is not the only high-level cyclist to die in Colorado in recent years. In 2020, Clif Pro Team racer Ben Sonntag was killed by a driver while on a training ride outside Durango. That driver was sentenced to serve jail time in late 2021. In 2021, U.S. masters champion Gwen Inglis was killed by a driver outside Lakewood, Colorado.

Just started trying to get better at climbing a couple of weeks ago and I'm dead. After mile 15 I was done but had no option but to keep going. 6 miles towards the finish I had to stop 4 times, but I made it!

Add me on ridewithgps: ratboy

I just came past this thing after looking around the old fortress. Sadly it was out of service and most likely won't be fixed today since it's sunday and the mechanics have their day off. Would have loved to try it out.

I was talking to a local and he said most locals rather just push or ride up the hill, since using the thing is kinda hard. May make you do the splits. It's also out of function during the night due to drunks getting wrecked on it. I guess there is a reason that it is 'the first and only bicycle lift in the world' as a tourist guide pointed out at the bottom of it.

Still really cool, i will check back again later, maybe some mechanic is bored on his day off, i am taking a day off myself here in Trondheim.

The sub header of the article describes it best.

"This can only end well," said anyone who has ever ridden a bike through traffic, ever

Mostly road, a little bit of Gravel. Trying to get ready for a bike camping trip from Pittsburgh to D. C. Anyone else on Strava?

I honestly can't even imagine what kind of scumbag would take the time and effort to deliberately try to put people in harm's way by doing something like this.