Bicycling

The agency said Rapp and a fellow bicyclist were riding on a local road when Medina passed them in his car, stopped, and drove his vehicle in reverse. Medina then hit Rapp, and she was pronounced dead after emergency responders brought her to a hospital.

any cycling deaths a tragedy, seems this was intentional though ? what a cnut :(

20 miles like it's nothing

This is the best bike I've ever owned.

edit: after doing some renewed research, it might be a Mario Confente frame. I guess he partnered with major brands and produced limited edition models. If that is the case, it was a partnership with Bianchi and Campagnolo

Today while patching a leak, I noticed my tube is for 25-32 tyres, and my tyre is a 35. Is that really an issue? I wasn't aware of my mismatch, and I have driven quite a lot on these wheels with no noticeable problems. Now i'm just wondering if I should keep using this tube (it has two patches now).

Edit: also, the reason I was patching it because it lost maybe half of the air in ~48 hours, so not a massive hole but still a hole. I suspect it was from a piece of glass, which I thought i saw on my tyre but now seems to have come out (I had to get to work so I had no time to patch it immediately when i noticed the leak, it kept air in well enough for my commute).

I just measured my chain stretch for the first time and it exceeded my tools max measurement. So I bought a new SRAM PC830 chain and upon opening the box, discovered the sticky nature of factory grease. Which would be catastrophic for my dusty desert commute! So obviously, that has to come off. I consulted the web and found a brilliant website with charts for various chain lubes. https://zerofrictioncycling.com.au/

I ended up following KMC's advice and cleaning the grease off with a light oil (WD-40 was handy). Then a wet lube (I forget the brand; whatever my LBS stocks).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/71252573

Frannie is a 2019 Salsa Vaya.

Steel frame with a Shimano 105 drivetrain. We roll tubeless. She typically hauls between 20 and 40 pounds of gear depending on the season. I used to ride carbon, but once I hit my 40s every ride started to hurt a little more, so I moved to steel. Unloaded, the frame weighs about 19 lbs, but it handles smooth as silk.

I would spend 8 hours a day on this thing if I didn't have a job.

Dat azzzz

I was to a bike rally today (in Germany) for better road infrastructure.

A few different people there had put flowers on their bikes, attached to the handlebars. I think it looks quite nice, and thinking about it I have seen it in photos from the Netherlands. And maybe in the 80ies in my hometown Cologne, which is not that far from The Netherlands.

Now I am curious... Where does this tradition come from? Did it have a specific cause? Did it appear at a specific point in Dutch history? Just a kind of ornament, or something with deeper meaning?

Anybody knows more?

I wondering whether my Ritchey WCS Evo handlebars on my pretty old Scott Addict R2 are carbon or alloy - is there a way to distinguish the two? It's probably alloy I guess.

Evening,

I got myself a new e-bike that has Kenda 42-622 (700x42C) hybrid tires that indicate Min 50 PSI, Max 80 PSI. What would you recommend to set the PSI to?

I’m 240-250 pounds and ride the bike on either street, paved rail trails, or light gravel.

Reason I’m asking is that my previous e-bike had fat tires that weight up to 70 pounds (total bike wgt) and the PSI range was much lower, so inflating these even to 50 PSI makes me a bit nervous as the bike is only 40 pounds. I assume it’s due to the difference of the diameter of the wheels but I rather check!

Thanks!

It seems like if I create a route using the Lezyne app on my phone, then I can't add waypoints (e.g.: the canned "three route options" are all busy streets, but I want to include a pleasant bike trail in the route).

I can add waypoints if I build the route using the web (Lezyne GPS Root), but that's not much help on the road.

Does anyone else have this issue? Do you build using a different app, export, then import to Lezyne?

I was riding to a train station, so I had a bit of time pressure making it harder to pace myself, however I ended up arriving ~10min earlier than I had planned. I feel pretty good, I think I could ride another 20km slightly slower

Edit: here's an elevation-chart as well.