Okay, thanks to several suggestions and an excellent local specialty bike shop, we're going to try these for a little while. Required shifting the brakes and shifters inboard by about 5mm on each side, but that should be okay. I may still play with the rake angle on the new barinds.
#biketooter
Anyone on #BikeTooter wanna help me help you by buying my Serfas E-Lume 1200 for $40 plus shipping? MicroUSB cable not included.
Specs here https://rocknroadcyclery.com/products/serfas-e-lume-1200
riding bikes every day until I can’t for some reason, day 1705
Sure, a man does occasionally bite a dog. And yeah, when that happens he needs to be punished in accordance with his crime. But don't try and suggest it's anything other than an unlikely occurrence that is noteworthy purely by its unlikeliness. This is a toot about cycling.
Guardian today: "Cyclists who kill pedestrians could be jailed for life under new law in England and Wales"
"The offence of causing death by dangerous cycling would be brought into line with driving laws..."
Meanwhile... drivers get 14 months for killing cyclists. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm24r3lgjr9o
Ride to an appointment this morning and then to the office afterwards was a bit disgusting. It's not full-on raining, but my jeans are still soaked. #mdRzA #eBike #BikeTooter
Getting reacquainted with old friends – tracks I avoid in the winter as they turn to slop but are now gloriously dry. #biketooter #cycling
If you want to kill someone in the UK make sure you use a car.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/24/death-by-dangerous-cycling-crime-policing-bill?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#BikeTooter
Meanwhile, drivers who kill cyclists can continue to expect nothing worse than a jolly good ticking off by the judge and maybe a few points on their licence.
Checked off "bicycled to a food truck in the dark and got dinner" (on a technicality) on the #BikeTooter achievement badge list.
(Technicality... on a college campus, so no dodging drivers in the dark)
Does anyone have experience adding additional hand positions to flat #mountainbike bars? I find that my hands start to go numb after a few hours of easy riding (dirt roads or pavement) and it would be nice to have other options.
Apparently people are putting bar ends in-board of their grips now? Seems like a reasonable solution.
Going to need some more and bigger bike lanes in Cambridge, haven't even gotten close to peak bike season yet and I was probably the 20th person stopped, with half a dozen more behind me.
My hobby is to count bike vs car clearance rates in situations like this, assuming my #20 count was right, that was 20 people on bikes getting thru the intersection in the same time as 4 cars, in half the space, so roughly 10 times more efficient use of space.
#BikeTooter #FediBikes #BikeBoston
ATTN: #Boston cyclists
#CriticalMass Boston rides again FRIDAY, 25 April! Meet at Copley Square 6:30 PM, ride at 7 PM (bring your lights!)
Join a mass of cyclists in letting the other road users that "We aren't blocking traffic, we ARE traffic!"
The route this month is a throwback to 2003, a bridges tour of the greater metro area. Perfect for the bike-loving graph theorist in your life, and sure to be a blast to ride.
Route and other links here: https://linktr.ee/criticalmassboston
View of the SR-99 Bridge from Fremont Bridge.
#BikeTooter #SEABikes #Seattle
Over 70K people attended the 4-day Celebration of Cycling in Monterey County this month, Sea Otter Classic.
Our Bike Buzz, Special Edition shares the viewpoints of some of those people, in four posts — including youth, women, first-time and long-time attendees, people speaking languages other than English, and people visiting from other countries:
https://bikemonterey.org/reports-from-sea-otter-classic-2025.html
I am in #Bordeaux and I am blown away. Other than in the Netherlands and Copenhagen, I have not seen so many #bikes in a city. I counted on average 10 cyclists a minute for a while when sitting on a bench along the Garonne. All racks are full, there appear to be at least 3 bike share systems. The shared bus/bike lane makes me nervous as do the very fast motorized bikes. Also, virtually no spandex/lycra.
New 3L water bladder arrived from #Apidura. Gearing up for a few bikepacking trips this year, including making my next generation of frame bags. This is designed to sit at the low point in the frame where the seat tube and down tube meet.
Quick review of #BikeShare in Pittsburgh, which is called POGOH & uses PBSC (owned by Lyft, sigh), docked system with mix of ebikes & non. The ebikes are ok: 3 speeds, one constantly-on level of pedal assist, mostly upright posture, easy to adjust seat height, awkward front basket. Locating, checking out, & returning bikes was easy. $6 per 30min for ebikes. I paid $30 for a month acct that incl 30min rides & then $3 for each addl 30min, maybe could have skipped that. #BikeTooter
#Salento, uno spettacolo in questa stagione
Salento, really beautiful in this time of the year
#mastobici #biketoeverywhere #cycling #bicycle #bicicletta #biketooter #bikecommuting #bici #fedibikes
Finally in Czech Republic, Brussels 16:30 - Domažlice 8:00
15,5 hours of travel, too long transfer time in Munich - nearly 4 hours. But it was without a problem.
Still didn't got much sleep, but I have to say that the ICE trains are really nice and comfortable.
