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@f09fa681 Interesting. The opposite of the experience I've had with a variety of cycles - the more I ride them, the more they seem to hang onto pressure. It's when they're idle that they really seem to lose pressure quickly. #BikeNite

@f09fa681 Do you check more often with the small tires because you feel like they have less storage and thus even smaller losses are a bigger problem? #BikeNite

@TimWardCam That's been my approach heretofore... #BikeNite

Got a question, but I suspect tonight's #BikeNite queue is full and I need an answer quicker than next week:

If you ride your cycle ~ every other day, how often should you be checking your tire pressure?

#Cycling #CargoBike #BikeTooter #Recumbent

#bikeNite #bikeTooter Q8 We've had extreme rains here, so mushrooms too... a "faery circle" on my college campus. (I think it got mowed down later that day :( I hope the fairies got some good danceing in first!)

It's Wednesday; If you have any cycling related questions for this Friday's #BikeNite, please see below.
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@ascentale @Derek_DIY @bikenite

A3. My left foot is slightly shorter and has had some numbness if I keep it in the same position too long.

As others posted, try different socks, shoes, and if those don't help a bike fit might.

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A8. Caught this by chance at the Aroma Pie Shoppe in Whalan, Minnesota.

The "N" on the open sign not visible makes it into a very Midwestern expression.

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@ascentale @esnyder @bikenite

A7. This is the biggest barrier to me considering an ebike.

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@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite

A6. Not the stickers, but when I was commuting to work, my visible front handlebar camera made a big difference how some motorists treated me.

After someone started to do a dangerous close pass, whole car laughing, one of the passengers said, "Oh shit, he's got a camera!" and they turned left in the first side street and disappeared.

What the hell were they planning? Murder?

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@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite

A1a. Cambria, Wisconsin

A1b. Nope, never.

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@bikenite A8. First #BikeBus of the school year. Bittersweet because my kid graduated out of elementary school, and would rather walk than bike to school now. I’m really glad a couple of other parents are keeping this amazing thing going and hopefully making it even better. Each bike bus was really the highlight of my day, and though I can still ride as a chaperone, I will miss it as a school commute dearly.
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#bikenite A5: Changing tyres tips? Change 'em for Schwalbe Marathon Plus.

I mean, the other thing is, always partly inflate the tube inside the tyre so it doesn't get caught under the bead.

Also I always inflate the tube until the bead seats, check the bead all 'round and make sure there's no pinches, then let the tube down to 5psi or so and bounce it a few times to let it 'relax' any stretched bits and then reinflate to pressure. I have no idea if this is just a superstition or not :-)

As for kit, I just have two flat plastic levers which are nice and slippery for sliding sideways and a hook-shaped steel one which is good for getting that last bit flipped over on really stubborn tyres. I've seen a few people recommend a spring clamp as well to push the beads in on the opposite side, I might add that to the kit and try it next time.

@pete @ascentale @wtrmt @bikenite Obligatory #bikenite "i don't see the point of tubeless tyres" response which dithers off into an anecdote about how we used to make coffee with a spoke tool.

@ascentale @bikenite: Wow, what a set of great questions this weekend. Had to boost most of them and don't have an answer for any of them (except Q1 and Q8). Some questions and hence its answers are also interesting for me, too. So thanks to all the questions, answers. And thanks to Phil for hosting #BikeNite once again and for years!

@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8: Discovered this bench while cycling criss-cross on forest paths this week (to stay within comfortable temperatures).

The writings say in German:

Left side:

4000km (2485mi) from Italy to North Cape

Thanks to all the sponsors

Sign (in English):

2023 Ride For Trees 4000

Right side:

4000 trees planted in Rümlang and surrounding area

A project by bike2help.ch / TH Forst GmbH
(→ https://web.archive.org/web/20250123150112/bike2help.ch/)

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A1a: Tucson, AZ, USA. A1b: when my son was under about age 5, my husband and I had two bikes we swapped all the time. One had the child seat on the back and was a women's bike (can get leg onto the bike without running into the kid's face). The other had no child seat, had better pannier bags for shopping, and was a men's bike. Whoever was taking our son to daycare or picking him up took the kid bike. This meant that if one of us had to hand our son off to the other somewhere outside the home to make childcare work, we switched bikes too. My husband and I are roughly the same height, so it worked fine. Originally, before we had a kid, the women's bike had been mine and the men's bike his. #bikenite #cycling

@v_perjorative

A very spectacular photo!

I wonder if your camera software made some "enhancements" to the image, resulting in the large corona.

"My camera, for one, has welcomed the AI overlords."

@ascentale @bikenite

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@ascentale @bikenite A8. Tirana may be the capital of Albania, but there is still livestock around. I've seen a cow and now a horse. To be fair, the cow has never been near the cycle lane and left dookie on it the owner never cleared.... #BikeNite