Welcome to the May 3rd BikeNite! Thanks for joining, and I hope we all enjoy chatting about cycle stuff! Feel free to answer whenever at your convenience. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility.
We'll start out with our introduction:
Q1. Where are you posting from today? Did anyone or anything motivate you to ride more this week? Or were you not able to ride as much as you had wanted to?
Q2. Has anyone seen brake pads like this before? This is my second time coming across pads that look just like this (the plastic and brake material shapes) on a road bike. Look closely; those shiny silver bits? chunks of rim! I yanked these off and replaced them on my bike with Koolstops, but only after the metal bits wore grooves into my rim, ugh #BikeCommuterCabal
Has anyone else seen alarming brake/rim/rotor conditions?
Welcome to the April 26th BikeNite! Thanks for joining, and I hope we all enjoy chatting about cycle stuff! Feel free to answer whenever at your convenience. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility.
We'll start out with our introduction:
Q1. Where are you posting from today? Have you experienced or thought about any cycle-related milestones lately? Past, present, or future. Number of trips, distance, location, type of ride, etc?
Q8. I’m considering buying an e-bike (instead of a car, so think one-person Costco hauls) and wonder if anyone has insights/advice/tips on living the e-bike + no elevator top floor apartment dweller life 😅
I can move but I want to stay in the suburbs so an elevator is a tough ask. Should I try to secure a storage/garage? Is regular bike parking secure enough? Do I start powerlifting now so I can take on a 50lb bike?
Q6. What is the consensus on listening to podcasts/music while biking? Earbuds seem a safety risk, while open air speakers may be annoying to fellow riders. Do different standards apply to a separated trail versus mixed use street?
@xtaran wonders about campaigns designed to boost cycling:
Q4. Given campaigns like #Frostpendeln, #30DaysOfBiking (this is happening right now!) or #Bike2Work: Which type of campaign motivates you most? Are you more looking for "as often as possible" (e.g. at least once per day, outbrave any weather) or more at the distance ("see how "much you cycle get within some period")? Maybe regular group rides similar to a #CriticalMass? Or something completely different?
We got two separate questions about cycle trailers this week and I will try to combine questions from @Iragersh and @scottsthoughts into one:
Q2. What do you recommend for utility trailers? What's best for light-duty?
What's best for heavy-duty (>150lb, for carrying @scottsthoughts's bartending gear (coolers, ice, folding tables, etc)?
How do they attach to your cycle?
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Also, some details that were missing due to character limits:
There are some compatibility issues with seatpost/hub/axle hitches and cycle types, such as e-bikes
The Bikes at Work trailers are nice but very expensive
It's April 19th and welcome to BikeNite! Thanks for joining, and I hope we all enjoy chatting about cycle stuff! Feel free to answer whenever at your convenience. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility.
We'll start out with our introduction:
Q1. Where are you posting from today? What's going on in your cycle-world? #BikeNite#BikeNiteQ
@younata@ascentale That’s super interesting and I need to watch the whole thing when I have more time! You’ve also generated a new question from me for #BikeNiteQ : how can a person with extremely minimal bike mechanic skills (i.e can fix a flat) level up for an e-bike? Are there good videos, books? Do bike shops still do classes? #BikeNite
I encountered this situation last week and wondered how others would proceed if cycling.
On a one-way street with 2 auto lanes and 1 painted cycle lane, I saw a UPS delivery truck park in the rightmost auto lane, leaving the cycle lane free. But the cycle lane is obstructed by a car a bit further ahead and is lined with parked cars on the right side.
Q7. Given the photo and the arrangement of cars/lanes, which path would you take if you were planning to continue forward?
Q6. Do you know of any Threads accounts related to cycling and/or safe streets that have cross-posting to the Fediverse enabled? Can you please share them with me?
@jfparis has a technical question, and I have a follow up:
Q5. I run a SRAM rival 22 (2x 1 with 11-32 at the back and 50-34 at the front). I want to get easier gearing without spending too much ££
What's the best option? A new crankset or a bigger cassette? (I would need a wolftooth roadlink or something)
(And in general, it seems that many older bikes have harder gearing. What are easy / low-cost ways to make the gearing easier on your cycle?)
@moira asks a question about inner tubes that I've also been thinking about as I deal with so many flat tires:
Q4. How long do replacement tubes hold up in storage? And should tubes be changed out occasionally before they fail, and is it a time thing or a distance ridden thing?
Asking because I've had a replacement tube in my road repair kit for a while and I have no idea when or if I should swap it out.
Welcome to the April 12th BikeNite! Thanks for joining, and I hope we all enjoy chatting about cycle stuff! Feel free to answer whenever at your convenience. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility.
We'll start out with our introduction, inspired by comment from @rodbotic:
Q1. Where are you posting from today? What does a typical ride for you look like? Share a photo if you'd like. #BikeNite#BikeNiteQ
@meganL would like add fenders to their cycle. Can we help brainstorm?
Q8. This is a bit specific, but how can I attach fat fenders to my Cargo Quad? (Either storebought or making some.) In front all I could attach to are the "arm" handlebars and the rear I suppose I could attach it to the wooden cargo payload.