I got one of those surly cornerbars (offbrand) and they’re fucking great, would recommend to everyone. Easily the most comfy handlebars I’ve ever owned.
Also currently trying to piece together the perfect small size at most medium weight bicycle EDC pouch to chuck in my panniers so I can field repair my entire shit and also help other people.
Pretty sure I’ll put some bar ends in there just to slap them into random bicycles so people don’t core sample themselves. I am the velocipedal crusader, you will be saved from doctors having to extract a tubular 21mm cross section of yourself so they can figure out what the fuck you managed to lose because you didn’t think to put 50 eurodollarcents of bar ends on your stuff.
I’m at a weird in-between time of year for my setups.
My everyday and favorite bike isn’t great at braking when it’s wet (steel rims, rod brakes), but this is the time of year when it’s always wet. I have a backup that I usually ride instead, but I put my studded tires on already in case things became icy this week (it snowed last week).
So now I don’t want to ride either of my bikes, but I really want to ride a bike. It’s times like these that I’m tempted to go by the bicycle junkyard and build a new bike and somehow end up with two extras.
It really just needs to snow.
I need to start riding my bike more because my car tyres have sidewall damage. I almost got hit by a car today though, so I need to wear hi-vis and go construction worker chic.
Finally moved to a place I can bike commute and I love it. If I never drive again it’ll be too soon.
If you’re on the fence about learning to ride a unicycle you should go for it. It’s more attainable than you may think.
I was thinking lately about how people who bike for fitness and those that bike as a form of transit have very different bodies and vibes. I was the latter, with that sandy hair and wiry, dusty body. I miss having that vibe, but now that I drive I get regular sleep and can ferry my roommates around.
this always seems kind of dumb until you realize every road was cobblestone and the metallurgy to produce chains wasn’t quite mass market ready and then it makes perfect sense. The big wheel both serves as gears and also makes you just roll over most gaps in cobblestone
they master boardwalk and quagmire with aplomb
I wanna ride my bike, but i keep being consumed by something making me stop. Dumb shit like “where am i gonna go?” and “do i really want to get sweaty”
Make it stop.
I feel this. What helped me was making it an errand, even if the car was nominally faster. But time spent biking is exercise, which is good, time sitting in a car just burns money.
Or you could go for the coffee-ride. Ride somewhere, get a treat, ride back. Just to have a goal.
Alternatively you could just go for something like wandrer - there’s similar services. Some gamification here helps.
You can just ride it to get to places, like to your friends house or the bar or work or w/e. I ride a ton but basically never just “go for a bike ride”
I bought an e-bike last year and I’m 2000% bikepilled now. My family thinks I’m crazy for going get groceries by bike. Bike shit.
you get into carry shit olympics yet?
500 miles in on my ebike since early Summer. I have a 10 year old truck and I’m convinced between both vehicles I will never buy a new automobile again.
Now obviously I hate cars but gotta say bicycle / truck is a working combination. Run something similar myself, basically just for things that are actually unrealistically far to go by bicycle or if I need to haul more shit than a bicycle can feasibly carry. Allthough I gotta get a bike trailer honestly, there’s this missing middle where I feel dumb using a car but it also doesn’t really carry well on my bike and I say that as someone who regularly rides short distances one handed carrying shit like a rain barrel in one hand
Conditions as they are, I own a house. I need a truck. I hate cars but this is reality and it’s not changing any time soon.
That being said, my ebike baskets are big enough for a small haul from a grocery store. If my wife and I both go, we fill up for 2 or more weeks with room to spare.
my child learned to ride late this season after a few years of late blooming. I’m so proud.
I was harassing a driver stopped at a stop sign for honking and screaming past me and my partner on a bike route the other day. Dude was apoplectic that I had the nerve to knock on his window and turned into pure white rage. Tried to use his car to hit me when I tried to ride away.
All this was like whatever because I was going to beat the tar out of him but then he turned right in and hit my partner’s bike when he sped off.
As much as it’s deep in my constitution to use my strong and powerful male body and voice to bully back drivers who try to bully me on the road, I never really considered that I might be putting my partner in danger and I felt absolutely sick that I let my anger put her at risk
Love going downhill cause I’m fast and I hate going uphill cause I’m slow, so it’s a mixed experience living in one of the hilliest cities
How much is a decent bike and does it need to be kept inside? My bike is rusting away and I kinda want to get a new one.
Replaced my car with a $1500 priority. You definitely have to keep it inside
Replaced my old car with an ebike back in June and I just passed 1.2k km on the odometer, fuckin love this thing. Had a weird catastrophic failure recently where the screws popped off the motor faceplate, thankfully I had one left to size check some replacements when support got me nowhere, but after finding the right machine screws I’m back in business.
I got a back rack with a wire basket so I can get groceries, it’s so keener. I’ve been racking the web for a front basket/rack seeing as my frame has some pre-set screws for one, but the company I bought it off doesn’t seem to have one available, maybe not in Canada. I found a few that may but it’s a pretty expensive risk for a basket that may not fit, those things can cost a pretty penny.
I just ordered a studded tire now that it’s getting colder, I intend to try and bike to and fro as much as possible.
I got a back rack with a wire basket so I can get groceries, it’s so keener. I’ve been racking the web for a front basket/rack seeing as my frame has some pre-set screws for one, but the company I bought it off doesn’t seem to have one available, maybe not in Canada. I found a few that may but it’s a pretty expensive risk for a basket that may not fit, those things can cost a pretty penny.
Just jury rig that shit with some zip ties honestly. Maybe some metal affixings with old tube on the hang points to not scratch your shit. I got a collapsible wire basket on one side of my rack and it is so, so, fucking good man.
I just ordered a studded tire now that it’s getting colder, I intend to try and bike to and fro as much as possible.
Studded bicycle tyres are fucking hilarious to see other people witness because no one knows they exist. Car drivers look at me in awe as I pull a 15° corner lean at 30kph on my bicycle, wondering how I’m not eating shit. It takes like 5 minutes of not trusting them before you’re ready to huck yourself down a bobsled track. So much fucking grip.
Put my bike on the train from LA to Chicago then did a bikepacking trip from Chicago through Wisconsin and Minnesota. The Gravel paths were amazing. Also, the drivers were amazingly friendly, at least compared to LA. Thinking of trying the East Coast Greenway next summer.
