xtaran, 5 months ago

@ascentale #BikeNite A1: Posting from Lauchringen, Germany (of SPEZI revival fame). Favourite cycling moment of 2023 was my end-of-october cycling holidays in Ticino with going up the #Verzasca valley up and back with my Brompton. 65km and around 800m difference in altitude. I managed to empty the battery of my Velospeeder e-assist after only 22km and 400m altitude difference (including the steepest part up to the Contra Dam of James Bond Goldeneye fame) and rode the remainder just acoustically.

A red-white Brompton folding bicycle with a well-packed frontbag standing on the Verzasca dam in front of the guard railing. In the background the Lago Maggiore and some mountains behind it.
The Verzasca river flowing through quite some washed out rocks with the famous romanic two-arc bridge "Ponte dei salti" in the background.
A Brompton folding bicycle with a bright taillight beneath the saddle leaning to a bridge railing just before the city limits sign of Sonogno in the municipality (and valley) of Verzasca, Switzerland. It's already dusk and the mountain in the background is nearly black. The small part of sky visible beside the mountain nevertheless ranges from white close to to the horizon to medium blue on the top edge of the picture. At the end of the road you see the village center of Sonogno with quite some lit street lanterns.

Heyweldon, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes A1. I'm posting from a rainy (again!) Berkeley, CA today, on Jan. 2. My favorite cycling moment of 2023 was riding at night with my son for the first time. I loved night riding when I was his age, and he loved going on a quick spin around Berkeley (between raindrops) a couple of weeks ago.
#BikeNite

uxmark, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes
A1. As usual, I’m in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Several memories of rides last summer with my son to local breweries where we enjoyed a beer on a patio. 🍻🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️

#BikeNite

nickzoic, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes #bikenite A1: Posting from Melbourne, Australia. My highlights for the year were both trips up in the Yarra Valley near #healesville, one being a trip up and over Mt Donna Buang and back via O'Shannassy Aquaduct Trail, and the other one being a trip up from Yarra Junction to Starling's Gap with camping gear on board ... and then back down again because the campground was too busy for me! Very exciting to be getting out of town though, hopefully will head further afield soon ...

Touring bicycle leaning up against a marker pole on a grassy hairpin bend on a gravel road. In the background are treeferns and tall mountain ash.

oheso, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes A1: Tokyo 🗼

My son and I biked Biwaichi: one lap around Biwa lake.

Brownian_motion, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes #bikenite #BikeTooter #cycling Checking in from central #minnesota #MNastodon It’s been a great year and favorite has to have been checking into #BatteryPark at the end of riding the #ErieCanalwayTrail #empirestatetrail . Second best is it’sDecember 29th and I did 25 miles today.

Map of New York State showing the Empire state trail from Buffalo NY to NYC
Picture of the cover page of the trail guide for the Empire State Trail in New York state, USA
Screen shot of a RideWithGPS page with details of a ride from December 29 2023

epu, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes
#bikenite

A1. Reporting in from Alameda, California.

One of my favorite bike moments was realizing there was this amazing graffiti art on my commute through Oakland, Mandela and Grand.

nothingfuture, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes A1: I’m just outside Boston MA. Favorite cycling memories this year are getting out on the tandem with one of the kids. #bikenite

lopta, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes A1) When my son let me ride my #bicycle to keep with him on his scooter! #BikeNite

InkySchwartz, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes Northern VT for the Holidays and no cycling because the roads are muddy mucks.

As for the year, I would say riding on Grand Isle and South Hero over the summer was absolutely lovely.

sanae, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes

A1. Vancouver, BC for a change.

I think my favourite cycling moments were going bike camping for the first time. I went to China Camp and Haypress Valley in the SF bay area. More generally this year was my first year really biking long distances for fun (previously was primarily a commuter) and I am generally not very outdoorsy so getting to go places like the Marin Headlands was very cool.

#bikenite

MartyCormack, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes
#bikenite A1:
Posting from home in Rochester Minnesota.
I've had so many good experiences on my bikes this year it's hard to pick just one. I would have to say I have ridden my bike in so many states (and one province) including visiting two oceans on my bike.

genex, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes yay finally catching this in real time - thanks for always doing this - am in San Francisco and nothing notable aside from biking almost every day I was home (including a rainy today!) #BikeNite

ClimateJenny, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes A1. My sofa, in Northern Virginia. Nothing too notable, but it was fun discovering that I can comfortably bike unpaved trails that would have been challenging on my old skinny-tire road bike.

ai6yr, 5 months ago

@ascentale @fedibikes A1: Ventura County, California. Most significant cycling moment: actually got on the bike again (after getting it back into shape after way too many years). Took it to the local library. It was a bit of a psychological hurdle (have been avoiding the roads due to safety issues, but our city put in new bicycle lanes, which substantially mitigated things...) #BikeNite