@ascentale @bikenite A1.

Posting from the ‘burbs of Minneapolis.

Been doing biz with a mobile repair shop (JV Bike Repair, for those in the Minneapolis area), getting my bikes ready for riding. I rotate 5 bikes (4 acoustic; 1 ebike).

Latest project is a rear wheel rebuild for a Priority Current ebike. They under-engineered the wheel & it’s been shredding spokes since I bought it, so it’s mostly been confined to the stable. Hope the rebuild solves it. #bikenite

@ascentale @bikenite A1. Nashville, TN, where it sounds like everyone finally has power back after an ice storm 2 weeks ago. So my new bike thing is that today will be our first usual Saturday errands by bike in several weeks! Also finally a chance to try out some new sunglasses that I got to replace some that got run over a few weeks ago 😎 #BikeNite

@bikenite @ascentale City near Frankfurt, Germany, as usual. Still waiting for spring to arrive.
Last week temperatures still were around freezing point and some snow flakes showed up again. My tyres on my bike are not best for such conditions and it easily gets slippery on cold wet streets, so I used my bicycle only once to help my old father in law switch from Windows to Linux.

@ascentale @bikenite A1 have a cold so my daughter and I walked to swimming…THE HORROR!

Also I’ve been away on compassionate leave and have been walking a lot between locations in Derby, the home of Mercian Cycles.

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@ascentale @bikenite London UK, where I live. Nothing yet but I have new rear brake pads waiting to go on my muddy-rides bike. Will get around to that sooner or later

@bikenite @ascentale A1 hi from Highcliffe-on-Sea where the rain has been quite depressing but when the sun has been out, it's been actually warming.

What's new on my bike is a long drop rear brake calliper. The old Shimano R7000 has always been a marginal fit, and after last week's roaring success with the mudguards, everything had shifted so the pads were rubbing on the tyre. This is acknowledged by experts as being a Bad Thing. I shopped around for a long drop calliper, and then saved myself £££ by salvaging a Textro R539 from the hangar queen, and also saved myself a wasted nearly-new rear brake cable by clipping the existing one right at the crimp so there was still some spare. Be prepared to shout "<name of offspring of deity of choice>!" when the crimp flies past your ear. A bit of fettling and presto, a safe and cheap rear brake.

Bonus, when I went to remove the _front_ calliper from the hangar queen, it had corroded in place. So I felt even better with my salvage! #BikeNite

@ascentale @bikenite A1 Cumbria UK, another splash of sealant in a tyre that stubbornly refuses to stop sweating is all that's new this week.

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A1. Back in London. Feels like end of Winter here. Wet but not that cold. In my personal metric not quite Gabba/Equiv weather, w-proof long fingered gloves but no need for too much warmth.

Dead chuffed with 2nd hand water-proof luggage set I picked up in vinted and eBay. Succeeded in keeping my kit bone dry over 8 days / 500km of very damp riding

@ascentale @bikenite A1 - still in sunny (not) Cheshire. Mostly been indoors on Zwift this week due to the horrendous weather but this weekend looks better. Ordered one of the new Garmin rear radars to try out which should be here on Monday.

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@ascentale @bikenite A1. Tirana, Albania.

I am a little closer to having a cycle again, thanks to some generous folks who donated via buying my music! #BikeNite #BikeTooter https://mas.to/@meganL/116028126571949534

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A1. Tucked up in bed in the currently damp and windy hills to the east of Manchester, England.
I currently have no coffee. I'm in a war of attrition with my partner over who's going to crack first. I fear I'm going to lose.
I have a new inline brake sensor for my ebike that's awaiting fitting after the cable disintegrated on the old one.

@ascentale @bikenite A1. Santa Clara, CA where the craziness of American football will climax on Sunday (after numerous military flybys.

Today, I ordered new wheels for the rebuild of my old bike. Should be a fun project, but it would be cheaper to just get a new bike. However for nostalgia reasons I’m keeping this one around. #BikeNite

@ascentale @bikenite A1 #BikeNite posting from Glyfada, a suburb of Athens (Greece, not Georgia, no not that Georgia). Been off the bike since MLK day, here helping family member with medical emergency (now at "paperwork for travel-insurance-arranged return flight, so mostly mended, no longer an emergency"). Of my three usual bikes, really-newest parts are snow tires, but beyond that, e-assist on the green bike, bar mitts on pink bike, not quite sure on the cute bike.

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Still in South SFBA.

The newest part on my bike is the rear tire. The old developed a serious bulge, emergency stop at the LBS, which only had one tire of a useable size. It's a bit wider than I prefer, but it has kept me rolling. Which reminds me that I need to order tires of the size that I actually want.

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@ascentale @bikenite #biketooter #bikenite A1 Posting from Carbon County Montana where 60f 15c temperatures and sunny skies have turned our ice rink to mush. I have been riding the gravel bike all this week. Today I loaded it with parts from the dear departed Kona and took them to our bike center where they will find new life on a polo bike.

@ascentale A1. My bed, because bed.

None of my bikes have anything new but I am considering a new small rack bag to carry tools and things since a big/normal sized bag get kicked on my short framed Trek. The 2 under consideration are these.

https://www.swisslink.com/shop/58121-austrian-military-issue-utility-pouch-9-x-8-x-4-od-green-issued-5724?category=68&order=list_price+asc

https://www.swisslink.com/shop/58122-austrian-military-issue-utility-pouch-14-x-8-x-4-od-green-issued-5769?category=68&order=list_price+asc

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@ascentale @bikenite A1: joining late after a busy evening here in the Hudson Valley, with deep snow everywhere and Sunday morning we’re supposed to get windchills of -30˚F.

Did anyone else catch the livestream this morning by @pekkatahkola in Oulu, Finland? He was riding on a groomed bike path, using his phone to both film and communicate (how does anyone DO that?)

It was inspiring to see the wide bike paths, separate (also groomed) ski trails, easy access to main bldgs…

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@ascentale @bikenite A1. Posting from the Front Range of Northern Colorado. I feel really lucky compared to all of you who are snow bound and in frigid temperatures. I got my first 2 rides of the year in this week- sunny and 65°F/18°C. Even saw some flying insects. It does feel strangely nice, but we do need rain/ snow. #bikeNite

@ascentale @bikenite Enjoying #bikenite from south central #minnesota where a short thaw has cleared most roads of snow but there’s still too much #ICE around. Nothing new on the bicycle front this week. Maybe next month #MNastodon

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A1. Hello from Somerville, Massachusetts, where it's -6C and cloudy, and there's still a couple feet of snow just kinda hanging out.

Oh what's new... hmm... probably the layer of salt and grime! Two weekends ago, we got more snow than we've had in a decent number of years. I kept my bike parked for about a week, but I've been out 3 times within the past week, and it's been... a time!

I've also added purple fairy lights to my wheels recently, so she's looking marvelous.

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@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A1: Posting from Zurich, Switzerland. Not much news with regards to my cycles. One thing from a bit over a week ago (i.e. before the memorial ride last weekend) is that I found a rubber o-ring of appropriate length for securing the 3D printed bicycle ornament on my handlebar as its clamp tension wore out rather quickly and it started to fall off.

@ascentale @bikenite A1. #BikeNite Posting from Ventura County, California again. Every once in a while I search around to see if I can find my Pivot Shuttle MTB ebike battery for sale (darfon brand). This week I found a new one on ebay, so figured I should not pass up the opportunity. It wasn't dirt cheap and the battery is rare enough that I kind of doubt anyone would bother to make a counterfeit one, but we'll see. It arrives next week. My current battery is around 5 years old and has lost 1/5th of its capacity. It is still usable, but having a spare should increase the overall life of the bike, without having to resort to making sketchy modifications.

@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A1. Home in New England, again, waiting for more snow to arrive, followed by -30°F (-35°C) wind chills tomorrow night.

Absolutely nothing new with either of my bicycles, this week, although I'd like a new 21700 battery headlamp, so I can have my good flashlight back. No money for it, sadly. Also, I need a chain cleaner.

@ascentale @bikenite a1. From my usual Seattle. Not much new except I washed my commuter/utility cycle, and put on newly waxed chains on both my road cycles. Been enjoying the unseasonably warm weather with some nice rides around town.
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@ascentale @bikenite A1 Posting from Waterloo, ON as usual. It was a balmy -3°C today, and going down to -22°C over the weekend 🥶​. Just got a second studded tire for my rear wheel: it makes a big difference!

#BikeNite A1: I'm in #WaterlooRegion, Ontario, Canada, as usual. Where it's snowing again, as usual. I shovelled the driveway earlier today, and looking at the huge (YUUUGE!) piles of snow I was very glad I rescued my bike out from under the previous snow. It would absolutely be completely covered over by now.

And my son just came back inside from shovelling again...

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@ascentale @bikenite A1. Toots straight from the ATL area. Nothing new yet, but once I give it a good clean I'm gonna add this sticker to it somewhere!

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A1. Rushford, Minnesota

A sticker that praises diversity in books with LGBTQ colors.

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A1. Indoors in Tokyo. Snow in the forecast -- most likely just a smattering, but the worry is the possibility of streets freezing overnight.

Following a bit of tuning up and a short ride last weekend, both bikes are out of the Workshop in the Sky and back in the underground parking for the first time in a couple of months.

#BikeNite

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A1: I'm still in Scottsdale, AZ. Getting antsy to go camping, maybe next week.

This week I replaced the shifter and derailleur on my mountain bike. Somehow I had managed to completely mangle the old derailleur, the cage was all twisted. So that's new, and it shifts like new!

@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A1 Naarm/Melburn/Melbourne, "new" are the tyres sitting in the kitchen, to be installed real soon now. "old" are the brake pads that I have my suspicions should be replaced, but have great trouble in seeing into the calipers or where the wear line is

@ascentale @bikenite A1. Northern Virginia as always, where biking is off the table while the streets are lined with what they are calling “snowcrete.” #BikeNite

@ascentale @bikenite A1. Coming to you live from sunny Eugene, OR?? Yeah, weird weather. No new bikes unfortunately but I need to pull down my SOLO and give her the once over this weekend.

@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A1. Ventura County, California. Too many bicycles here, need to sell a couple so I can fix a couple of new ones, lol. But, no one buying bicycles here. 🤔

@bikenite A1. Hi all, in Oakland CA today. I tried making a chain tensioner for my bike, and it sort of works. It works better than dropping a chain a lot, but it's still not perfect. But better is good!

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@ascentale @bikenite A1 #BikeNight Naarm, and well, this is what's new with my bike

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A1.
Posting from Arden, Ontario, a tiny village on the Trans Canada Trail.
Nothing new bike-wise, it's very winter right now so the trail is snowmobile territory and the bikes are in storage. Counting down to springtime, though!
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@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A1: Posting from Alameda, CA

I rebuilt the rear wheel on my #Brompton yesterday, it had reached the end of its lifespan and it was breaking spokes one after another, so I figured I’d do them all in one go. It was full of false starts and small mistakes, but it’s done and I’m optimistic

@bikenite @ascentale Upper Peninsula of Michigan, US. Today my freewheel skipped a bit, probably because of some water (then ice) inside blocking the pawls. This weekend I'll take it apart and relube.

@ascentale @bikenite A1. Posting from the western front of Portland OR, where we are besieged by the clear blue sky and bright sunshine of a false spring.

I tuned my own derailleur for the first time recently, and not only did I do it right, I managed to get the chain to stop slipping in high gear, so I can once again use all nine gears.

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@ascentale @bikenite A1: Sydney, Australia.

I'm back from shopping and my "it's not *that* worn out" front tyre is apparently that worn out after all. So last week's purchase of spare tyres will be in use earlier than planned.

I have also bought cheap generic "M5 - 0.8 Coarse x 5mm Stainless Steel 304 Cup Point Grub Screw" rather than 5x the price Rohloff oil drain hole plugs because I couldn't find my spare one of those. It's in the garage. Somewhere. Probably.

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@ascentale @bikenite A1: North King County like usual. Nothing really new with my bike this week, but I did get tossed by that stupid F***ING curb gap that I always take perpendicular to avoid being tossed by it but NOT THIS TIME, APPARENTLY

(i am fine. i have a bandaid on my left pointer finger. It doesn't even hurt.)

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@ascentale @bikenite A1: from the tarmac at DCA. I’ve been in DC all week for work so no biking for me even if I wanted to bike share since there’s frozen ice covering everything out here! #Bikenite

@bikenite @ascentale A1a) Indoors because A1b) it's February. #BikeNite