Commuting through winter on unlit and lit roads. I have a small front light that is fine on a lit street and useless where there is no street lighting, and a much brighter one that gets flashed at by oncoming drivers.…
Left my bike attached to a railing while I ran errands. As I was locking up, someone locking their own bike beside mine asked me a couple of friendly questions about my lock. When I came back, their lock was through my…
Planning a few days of gravel riding with friends, sleeping in public campgrounds that will be busy with other campers. The bikes are the whole trip, losing one 150 km from home is not an inconvenience, it is the end of…
I decided to start commuting by bike. The route is about 7 km and the mapping app suggested around 25 minutes. In practice it takes me closer to 45 and I arrive genuinely exhausted, which is not what I expected from a…
I ride about 6 km each way through a busy city, and I try hard to avoid conflict quiet roads, protected lanes, defensive positioning. It still happens several times a week that a driver turns across me, pulls out, or…
I have been riding for years and only just learned what a balance bike is: no pedals, seat low enough that the rider's feet reach the ground, so they learn balance and steering without having to coordinate pedalling at…
I wipe the chain down most evenings and relube maybe once a week, and by the following weekend there's visible surface rust on the rollers and the plates. Riding about 15km a day on roads they salt heavily from…
Upright bike with panniers, about 22 minutes each way, completely flat route, ten trips a week. I never get properly out of breath and I do nothing else in the way of exercise. Part of me thinks two hundred minutes a…
Ten speed drivetrain, about 4000km on the chain and cassette. Shifting is perfect across the big half of the cassette but in the three smallest cogs it skips under pedalling load, roughly once every few pedal strokes,…
About 6000km a year, wet winters, roads get salted from December to March, and I currently pay a shop for everything including punctures. I am trying to decide whether buying tools and learning is worth it or whether I…
9km each way, and it will live locked to a rack at a train station five days a week, outdoors, in all weather. I want mudguards and a rack, and I am open to used. I keep reading that you should not buy the cheapest…
Same rear wheel, three punctures in fourteen days, all slow leaks near the valve side of the tube. I've run my fingers around the inside of the casing twice and pulled out nothing. Tyre has maybe 2500km on it. I ride…
New to commuting, about six weeks in, 40 minutes each way. Around the half hour mark my ring and little fingers on both hands go pins and needles and it takes a while to clear after I get off. Shaking them out while…
Currently using a 20 litre backpack and arriving with a completely soaked back, which is fine in December and grim in July. Panniers mean buying a rack and bags for something like 150, and my building has no lift so I'd…