#bikenite — Public Fediverse posts

@thePluff

You gave a profile picture and a hashtag, great start!

One of the neater* things here is you can follow hashtags. My main ones are #BikeNite and #Monsterdon , though I follow many more.

#Comics #Cartoon and others like that might be good ones to add to some of your posts if you link to ir share those.

*you also can edit post.

@thePluff

You gave a profile picture and a hashtag, great start!

One of the neater* things here is you can follow hashtags. My main ones are #BikeNite and #Monsterdon , though I follow many more.

#Comics #Cartoon and others like that might be good ones to add to some of your posts if you link to ir share those.

*you also can edit post.

@thePluff

You gave a profile picture and a hashtag, great start!

One of the neater* things here is you can follow hashtags. My main ones are #BikeNite and #Monsterdon , though I follow many more.

#Comics #Cartoon and others like that might be good ones to add to some of your posts if you link to ir share those.

*you also can edit post.

@thePluff

You gave a profile picture and a hashtag, great start!

One of the neater* things here is you can follow hashtags. My main ones are #BikeNite and #Monsterdon , though I follow many more.

#Comics #Cartoon and others like that might be good ones to add to some of your posts if you link to ir share those.

*you also can edit post.

@thePluff

You gave a profile picture and a hashtag, great start!

One of the neater* things here is you can follow hashtags. My main ones are #BikeNite and #Monsterdon , though I follow many more.

#Comics #Cartoon and others like that might be good ones to add to some of your posts if you link to ir share those.

*you also can edit post.

@ascentale @rasterweb @bikenite This post inspired me to replace my discs and pads and realign everything, brake response was more than okay before but it's back to completely mental now :-) I'll bleed the calipers later, probably when I change the tyres.

And I guess that's my answer for #bikenite A3: I love that talking about this stuff with like minded individuals reminds us all to go do the things we've been putting off!

[also new grips (the old ones got DEET on them and kinda melted, oops) and tightened up the rear wheel bearings a smidge although I'll have to strip and repack them soon. Oh for through-axles and sealed bearings!]

@ascentale @rasterweb @bikenite This post inspired me to replace my discs and pads and realign everything, brake response was more than okay before but it's back to completely mental now :-) I'll bleed the calipers later, probably when I change the tyres.

And I guess that's my answer for #bikenite A3: I love that talking about this stuff with like minded individuals reminds us all to go do the things we've been putting off!

[also new grips (the old ones got DEET on them and kinda melted, oops) and tightened up the rear wheel bearings a smidge although I'll have to strip and repack them soon. Oh for through-axles and sealed bearings!]

@ascentale @rasterweb @bikenite This post inspired me to replace my discs and pads and realign everything, brake response was more than okay before but it's back to completely mental now :-) I'll bleed the calipers later, probably when I change the tyres.

And I guess that's my answer for #bikenite A3: I love that talking about this stuff with like minded individuals reminds us all to go do the things we've been putting off!

[also new grips (the old ones got DEET on them and kinda melted, oops) and tightened up the rear wheel bearings a smidge although I'll have to strip and repack them soon. Oh for through-axles and sealed bearings!]

@ascentale @rasterweb @bikenite This post inspired me to replace my discs and pads and realign everything, brake response was more than okay before but it's back to completely mental now :-) I'll bleed the calipers later, probably when I change the tyres.

And I guess that's my answer for #bikenite A3: I love that talking about this stuff with like minded individuals reminds us all to go do the things we've been putting off!

[also new grips (the old ones got DEET on them and kinda melted, oops) and tightened up the rear wheel bearings a smidge although I'll have to strip and repack them soon. Oh for through-axles and sealed bearings!]

@ascentale @rasterweb @bikenite This post inspired me to replace my discs and pads and realign everything, brake response was more than okay before but it's back to completely mental now :-) I'll bleed the calipers later, probably when I change the tyres.

And I guess that's my answer for #bikenite A3: I love that talking about this stuff with like minded individuals reminds us all to go do the things we've been putting off!

[also new grips (the old ones got DEET on them and kinda melted, oops) and tightened up the rear wheel bearings a smidge although I'll have to strip and repack them soon. Oh for through-axles and sealed bearings!]

Call for questions! Room for one or two more.
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Next #BikeNite is this Friday at 4pm Pacific standard time (UTC-8)!

This is our weekly call for questions. Reply with any you'd like me to add to the discussion on Friday. Please add the BikeNitePQ hashtag so it's easier to find a Proposed Question. There is room for more!

(BikeNite is a Q&A type discussion on the Fediverse.) #BikeTooter cc @bikenite

Call for questions! Room for one or two more.
—-

Next #BikeNite is this Friday at 4pm Pacific standard time (UTC-8)!

This is our weekly call for questions. Reply with any you'd like me to add to the discussion on Friday. Please add the BikeNitePQ hashtag so it's easier to find a Proposed Question. There is room for more!

(BikeNite is a Q&A type discussion on the Fediverse.) #BikeTooter cc @bikenite

Call for questions! Room for one or two more.
—-

Next #BikeNite is this Friday at 4pm Pacific standard time (UTC-8)!

This is our weekly call for questions. Reply with any you'd like me to add to the discussion on Friday. Please add the BikeNitePQ hashtag so it's easier to find a Proposed Question. There is room for more!

(BikeNite is a Q&A type discussion on the Fediverse.) #BikeTooter cc @bikenite

Call for questions! Room for one or two more.
—-

Next #BikeNite is this Friday at 4pm Pacific standard time (UTC-8)!

This is our weekly call for questions. Reply with any you'd like me to add to the discussion on Friday. Please add the BikeNitePQ hashtag so it's easier to find a Proposed Question. There is room for more!

(BikeNite is a Q&A type discussion on the Fediverse.) #BikeTooter cc @bikenite

Call for questions! Room for one or two more.
—-

Next #BikeNite is this Friday at 4pm Pacific standard time (UTC-8)!

This is our weekly call for questions. Reply with any you'd like me to add to the discussion on Friday. Please add the BikeNitePQ hashtag so it's easier to find a Proposed Question. There is room for more!

(BikeNite is a Q&A type discussion on the Fediverse.) #BikeTooter cc @bikenite

@ascentale @bikenite A7: we build a "road train" once to get these 6m long steel tubes home.
#Roadtrain #SteelTransport #bikenite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib3vxlEd_IY

@ascentale @bikenite A7: we build a "road train" once to get these 6m long steel tubes home.
#Roadtrain #SteelTransport #bikenite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib3vxlEd_IY

@ascentale @bikenite A7: we build a "road train" once to get these 6m long steel tubes home.
#Roadtrain #SteelTransport #bikenite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib3vxlEd_IY

@ascentale @bikenite A7: we build a "road train" once to get these 6m long steel tubes home.
#Roadtrain #SteelTransport #bikenite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib3vxlEd_IY

@ascentale @bikenite A7: we build a "road train" once to get these 6m long steel tubes home.
#Roadtrain #SteelTransport #bikenite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib3vxlEd_IY

@LovesTha

Techically, each LED is a fixed different colour, but the R, G, and B LEDs are clustered so close together they look like pulsing, full colour spectrum lights. And they're not on a rope or wire, but on a skinny flexible ribbon with circuit traces. Looks pretty industrial, close-up.

So, not fairy lights. Perhaps orcs-toiling-in-the-mines lights.

@moira @marywordymary

#BikeNite

@ascentale @grammasaurus @bikenite

A1a Manchester UK, the central bit… but often spotted crossing the Pennines to work.

A1b Cospoo radar light at the rear (solid in the dark, blinking after dawn and before dusk), Magene rechargeable front light (which has a proper cut-off beam pattern to avoid blinding folk), some red retroreflective tape on the rear stay and an apidura hi vis vest which is big enough to go over my backpack (which also has a big reflective strip). My shoes and overshoes have a little bit of reflective detail and so do my shorts, jerseys, jackets etc.

On a longer ride I’ll have a AA battery rear light, and often an exposure race as an extra front light.

I still have people claiming not to see me LOL.

#bikenite

@dr2chase

OK, now I need to know the difference between a dynamo and a magneto.

@fullywoolly @ascentale @grammasaurus @bikenite

#BikeNite

@bobjonkman @marywordymary Fairy lights are just lights on a string:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=fairy+lights&ia=images&iax=images

I wouldn't consider an LED strip to be fairy lights (because of the strip part, not because of the LED part) but I'm not the boss of you

#BikeNite

@moira

$SPOUSE gave me four sets of USB powered LED strip lights that flash in primary colours. Are those fairy lights?

They work nicely off my power bank and a 4x USB extender. I intend to tie-wrap them to the top- and down-tubes and go on the Lumenfest night ride.

Need to find the remote that controls the colours and blinking for maximum effect.

@marywordymary

#BikeNite

#BikeNite A1: I'm back in #WaterlooRegion now, but was in #Burlington, Ontario on BikeNite.

I've got one bright blinky white light on the handlebars (that, thanks to the advice on BikeNite, only blinks in daytime) and a blinky red light on the seatpost. There's reflective tape on all the forks and the rear fender, and I wear a reflective vest and ankle band. There are mounts on the handlebars for two more lights that I rarely use.

@ascentale
@grammasaurus @bikenite

@arestelle @ascentale @geonz @bikenite

To walk on. They're not bikewalks.

I mean you can walk your bike on them, but sidewalks are usually far more dangerous to bicycle on at higher speeds than kids usually do. Especially with driveways being intersections.

#BikeNite

#BikeNite A8: I'm cheating: I took these pictures Saturday. BikeNite+1 so to speak.

It's nice to see some curb protected bike lanes in front of the school, but that, and two small islands about 100 metres to either side of the school, is all the protected bike lane there is. The cars don't stop being dangerous after 100 metres past the school, though.

@ascentale
@bikenite

@meganL @ascentale @rand @bikenite

There was someone before Phil who started it here, but much thanks to him for keeping it going!

#BikeNite

@rasterweb @ascentale @bikenite

Neat picture of lightning.

#BikeNite

@ascentale @bikenite

A8. This is the Root River. I love bicycling near it for most of the Root River Trail.

#BikeNite #RootRiver

@ascentale @pete @bikenite

A7. I never notice things soon enough. Took a bike shop employee and my Spouse to point out the green parts coming through my rear tire. I could not see it until they pointed it out.

#BikeNite

@ascentale @geonz @bikenite

A5. Bikeman! For a couple of years before a lot of other people started commuting by bicycle.

#BikeNite

@ascentale @rand @bikenite

A3. The consistency of when the questions are asked, even if I'm unable to answer them at that time. That it reaches beyond the United States. That it came originally from BikeSchool on the old bird place before it was destroyed. I like the hashtag.

#BikeNite

@ascentale #Q? #bikeNite how to I bikeNite? I thought you'd never ask!!!
I do have a #bikenite or #bikeTooter hashtag column setup in mathstodon, but a bit ago I figured out I could go to @ascentale and scroll down to Q1 ... especially since I"m so often coming in lage. Clik on THAT QUESTION, see the stuff, reply... then scroll back over and click "back." Scroll up to next question...

First ride after tube replacement went well. I checked all the tire pressures. I knew some would need it because I checked the good front tire yesterday and it was down. And then my mini-compressor needed charging again before I could get to the desired pressure. But the one installed yesterday and pumped by hand by the mech was a bit low as well, and the rear one needed more.

Hard as rocks ride (I wish I could have afforded full suspension), but no flats!

#BikeNite #BikeTooter #CargoBike #Recumbent #Cycling #Regel17

@JillsJoy Thanks. If you can see my reply to my toot, I made an update from Schwalbe, who made that very suggestion!

So if I can source it where I am, I'll be getting that put in. #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #CargoBike #Recumbent

@ascentale From the answer, it sounded to me like speed/acceleration is a factor. That is, motorization makes it so the rim can go faster than the tube is going unless you create more friction that grabs the tube. #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #CargoBike #Recumbent

@rasterweb It's weird that the 'bent manufacturer went immediately to implying I was running tires low when I've ridden MANY different types of cycle, including e-cycles, and never had a problem like this once, much less twice in a couple weeks.

I really feel like there's a tendency from the person who answers me there to discount my experience and look for fault because I'm a woman (possibly also because I'm fat...they've met me).

But the fact that people have so many different answers, experiences, and approaches tells me I'm not far out of the average on this one. Even Schwalbe didn't blame it on pressure, but on e-cycles in general (speed...since they also refer to it being a motorcycle problem). #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Recumbent

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

@ascentale @pete @bikenite

A5. Nothing currently out of action, but a few years ago, my cyclo-cross bike was out of action for around six weeks in the midst of the season. I tore off the rear mech in a race, trashing it and the mech hanger in the process. It's an unfortunately typical cyclo-cross occurrence.

The delay was caused by a shop's inability to order the correct replacement hanger. This was the shop that sold me the bike, so no excuse for ordering the wrong one more than once.

After that, I bought a second cyclo-cross bike to cover such eventualities in the future. And typically, since then I have never needed that bike as a back-up!

#BikeNite #Cycling #CycloCross

#BikeNite A1: Posting from #WaterlooRegion, a nice mix of an urban core (the cities of #Kitchener, #Waterloo, and #Cambridge), surrounded by four rural townships, #Woolwich, #Wellesley, #Wilmot, and #NorthDumfries.

Some of the best cycle paths (the #TransCanadaTrail f'rinstance) pass right by, or through, farmland.

@ascentale
@uxmark @bikenite

#BikeNite A1: Posting from #WaterlooRegion, a nice mix of an urban core (the cities of #Kitchener, #Waterloo, and #Cambridge), surrounded by four rural townships, #Woolwich, #Wellesley, #Wilmot, and #NorthDumfries.

Some of the best cycle paths (the #TransCanadaTrail f'rinstance) pass right by, or through, farmland.

@ascentale
@uxmark @bikenite

#BikeNite A1: Posting from #WaterlooRegion, a nice mix of an urban core (the cities of #Kitchener, #Waterloo, and #Cambridge), surrounded by four rural townships, #Woolwich, #Wellesley, #Wilmot, and #NorthDumfries.

Some of the best cycle paths (the #TransCanadaTrail f'rinstance) pass right by, or through, farmland.

@ascentale
@uxmark @bikenite

#BikeNite A1: Posting from #WaterlooRegion, a nice mix of an urban core (the cities of #Kitchener, #Waterloo, and #Cambridge), surrounded by four rural townships, #Woolwich, #Wellesley, #Wilmot, and #NorthDumfries.

Some of the best cycle paths (the #TransCanadaTrail f'rinstance) pass right by, or through, farmland.

@ascentale
@uxmark @bikenite

#BikeNite A1: Posting from #WaterlooRegion, a nice mix of an urban core (the cities of #Kitchener, #Waterloo, and #Cambridge), surrounded by four rural townships, #Woolwich, #Wellesley, #Wilmot, and #NorthDumfries.

Some of the best cycle paths (the #TransCanadaTrail f'rinstance) pass right by, or through, farmland.

@ascentale
@uxmark @bikenite

@MatthewNewell @ascentale @bikenite This was taken from my spot on Sunday.

#BikeNite #Cycling #CX #Veldrijden #CXWorlds #Hulst2026 #WKVeldrijden #CycloCross

@ascentale @bikenite I’m in Telford this weekend in a YHA. Spending the weekend having #christmasfun with the extended family. In the old days this would have included a grotto with Santa but these days it’s Christmas Markets and lights! #bikenite

@ascentale @bikenite #bikenite A8 had a #warmshowers guest stay for two nights on his way around Aus., dodging rain and a little exploration around town myself

@ascentale @MartyCormack @bikenite #BikeNite A3: I have switched 2 of my bikes and I intend to switch all in the long run. Both of them had flats shortly afterwards. 1st case was though unrelated as I it was a metal filing which punctured the tube after I raised the pressure from 3 to 4 bar shortly after switching to #ClikValve. 2nd case still needs to be investigated.

But the usage when mounting a pump is so much easier. Pop off the cap, pop on the pump, pop off the pump, pop on the cap. 🧵 1/2