@ascentale
A8: I'll do anything bar competition (I find this too risky).
@MartyCormack @bikenite

@ascentale
A7: I don't have an odometer per se. I use Strava and #HomeAssistant to keep track of my miles.
Those counters and also the target reset every year
@bobjonkman @bikenite
#BikeNite

@ascentale
A1: Posting from the French Alps.

I am not participating to that 30 days (as this collides with the school holidays and I am out at my parents) but I have seen the picture here.
@bikenite
#BikeNite

@ascentale
A3: Nothing really other than my usual order of couple of spare parts. I will 3 chains / 1 cassette at time to save on shipping.

The US will have their self inflicted pain in the short term but we are going to be terribly screwed when China moves on Taiwan
@meganL @InkySchwartz @bikenite

@ascentale
A2: Yes. Last week.
I went for some laps in local park with some other parents from school (we are training for a charity ride - link pinned on my profile if you want to give).

I was following someone and hear a weird noise. I thought: is someone using an ebike? Then I realised that the quick release lever for my front wheel (usually pointing up) had moved. It had come loose and was coming of with vibration.

Skewed it back on and all good now
@PamelaSchure @bikenite

@ascentale Thanks @Phil for hosting. The false start didn't affect me, I’m glad to say.

@ascentale @MartyCormack @bikenite

A8. I never really took to mountain biking or bike camping, but all of the rest are good. Probably not pure sport any more.

@MartyCormack @ascentale @pete @bikenite

A6. I know you said your European plans might be on hold, but if you would like a companion for the Rhine (or the Danube), let me know.

@ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite

A7. I don't have a gizmo on any of my bikes, but I do roughly track distance with an app and occasionally look at the data. Number of rides is a more important metric for me than distance.

@ascentale @pete @bikenite

A6. I wouldn't mind being either up in the Veneto again, cycling some of the paths alongside rivers, which I have done before. In similar vein, I would love to cycle along both the Danube and the Rhine. Maybe this will be the year, although my calendar is filling up rapidly.

@ascentale @bikenite

A5. Where to begin? As I'm late to the party this week, I'll just assume that the other 20 or so replies have covered everything. I do have a soft spot for the demos where cyclists make a lightweight frame that takes up the same space as a car, just to make things obvious.

@ascentale @PamelaSchure @bikenite

A2. Oh yes! When I was about 14 or 15 I used to do deliveries for a local pharmacy on my bike, which had a new-fangled quick release axle on the front wheel. The shop was at the bottom of a hill. I usually coasted down the hill and then did that little manoeuvre of lifting up on the bars to jump the kerb. One day, I lifted up the bars and the front wheel fell out. Luckily the pharmacist was able to patch up my cuts and scrapes. Not much damage.

@ascentale @bikenite

A1. Posting from home in Rome after two weeks away.

I’m glad people enjoy the #30daysofbiking project and see some of their posts here, but the truth is that I could never manage such a thing as I just cannot find time to cycle every single day. It would be different if I cycled to work or something like that, but for now, I salute all those who do it.

@ascentale A4 Sorry to miss 4/11 #BikeNite. We were out at #SeaOtterClassic, Monterey County’s 4-day Celebration of Cycling. As for A4, paleteros in our county include this young entrepreneur. More are included in this cargo bike post from 2010, which has a few updates since 2010: https://bikemonterey.org/cargo-bikes-and-other-bicycle-cargo-carriers.html

@gcvsa @bikenite

@PamelaSchure @bikenite @ascentale

Like a few folks in this thread I had a crank fall off!

I was doing my cross-country ride in May 2023 and was on the outskirts of Columbus when my left crank just … fell off

no warning — it wasn’t loose or wiggling or anything

turns out a tiny pin inside had lost a crucial, millimeter-sized tooth

Here’s the broken one (bottom) next to the replacement (top)

Maybe you can spot the difference

@ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite

Been using a bike computer since mid 2012. Pretty much all my rides have been recorded since then. Automatic upload to Ride with GPS. No effort at all.

I was recently inspired by @matthewconroy to
vide code a python script to work out my Eddington number and a few other stats. https://github.com/alxtrnr/eddington_number

Bit of an outlier given previous replies. Never occurred to me I might not be normal

#BikeNite A7 #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes

My sister gave me a nice phone mount, so I've been recording some longer trips with #OSMand (offline mapping app for Android). I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all the GPS tracks I've collected. Like others in this thread, that's too much work, and I'd rather be biking.

2/2

#BikeNite A7bis

@ascentale
@bikenite

#BikeNite A7: I use a bike computer (Cateye Velo 7, shown earlier). If I remember to take it along and if I remember to mount it in the clip then I reset the trip odometer for every trip. And I reset the entire device at the start of biking season (any day now!)

1/2

@ascentale
@bikenite

@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite

A5. As someone who ONLY RECENTLY got back to bicycling after decades. (was bicycling before I was driving, but then life got in the way, and traffic got very bad, and then finally they put some bike lanes here and I decided to quit burning as much gas):

1. BICYCLING IS FASTER IN TOWN THAT DRIVING A CAR!! (in many cases, especially in traffic, and especially to/from school!)

2. LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE TURNING RIGHT AT A STOP LIGHT! So many car drivers don't even look to the right for pedestrians or bicyclists and just look left and cut hard onto the road they're going...

3. YOUR EV IS NOT MORE ECO FRIENDLY THAN PEDALING. I see so many people within bicycle range of stores driving 2000 lbs of batteries and plastic to the store for a stick of butter or whatnot. It just alleviates their guilt, without actually fixing the problem.

4. THE FIELD OF VIEW in cars is very bad. Some cars, VERY VERY BAD. Your field of view in a bicycle is VERY GOOD. I really prefer the bicycle.

5. If you bicycle a lot, riding a car is frustrating... particularly in traffic which is moving slower than you could bicycle (or walk!). It's like you're trapped in the car. On a bicycle, you're not trapped. You can get off. You can take a break. You can go to a nearby store without fighting for parking. You forget that when you are a driver.