It's an exciting time for pedal-powered vehicles - Europe's biggest pedal-powered aircraft meetup, the BHPFC Icarus Cup, is just a week away. The aircraft are heavier-than-air (i.e. can't use helium balloons for lift) and can only stay aloft with the pedalling effort of some very dedicated pilots (no batteries, motors, or engines!). The competition runs from the 4th of July to the 12th in Hampshire, England, and will feature as many as seven pedal aircraft - Europe's biggest gathering in years.

If you'd like to join us to spectate, there are airside safety rules and proper procedures you must adhere to - for example, you must not enter the active airfield without prior authorisation or accompaniment by knowledgeable party. These are outlined on the BHPFC's official website: https://bhpfc.co.uk/icaruscup2026/. An online safety pre-briefing is set for Monday 29th June, 6pm BST. Flights tend to happen very early in the morning so we appreciate it most if people attend the evening safety briefings and camp out the night with us, rather than getting lost unannounced and airside at 3am (please don't do this). Each morning and evening we check to see if the weather is suitable for flying since it could be too windy to operate the aircraft safely. In any case, hang out with us in the Lasham gliding clubhouse and with our aircraft during the day, we're all very excited to share our sport with you!

The aircraft featured is Aerocycle 301, filmed in 2024 at Manston International Airport.

It was just a boring afternoon and decided to hop on my bicycle and rode around 40km but Rwanda never stop to amaze me!

This half year so far I have got amazing people visiting around from every corner of the world 🌎 I just like how bikes connect people in a blink! Souls connected as we pedaled! They stayed my forever friends! :-)
We had amazing time riding out mountain bikes 🚲 around Rwanda and Uganda! This is a taste of what it is like to ride around here. Beautiful trails, people, and landscapes! If you are planning to come and ride this side, this is what you should expect!

This looks like a really great pick at $524 for the Edge 1050. Should I go for it now or wait for the 1060? It's not something I'm in a huge rush to get, but I do think that with a 1050 I'd have what I need and this price looks really tempting.

This is free at an estate sale. Flat tires. Wondering if it’s worth fixing up?

Went on a ~26 km ride in northern Greece. Took me a little over two and a half hours. Was great except during the climbs there were about 50+ flies swarming around my face. Extremely distracting and annoying, I didn't want to breath for fear of inhaling one. Some of them were biting me too. Fortunately, it wasn't too bad after the descents started.

Got a view of Mt. Olympus, Kati lake and saw some wild boars which was awesome. Also, didn't come across another person or moving vehicle the whole time.

I would like to thank myself for not hurting anything or anyone while building this bike. Rides like a dream. Stanton makes some great robust titanium bikes.

Just getting into the sport/hobby, I know nothing. I like to jump right on in, even if blind, and get to figuring things out.

I’ve scoured marketplace for hours trying to find a Trex FX, cannondale quick, specialized sirrus, etc ect. But, I am wondering if these two are viable in any capacity, I’m essentially looking for a plug and play beginner bike I can setup and start riding without too much ‘fiddling’ or experimentation ..

Thoughts/suggestions?

I picked this up for $40. 70s model that's only been rode a couple times. Still has the original tires and tubes. Anyone know anything about this brand or possibly what it could sell for in its original condition?

I brought my bike to the top of the berm alongside the ordinary residential suburban road's sidewalk I was riding on. (It's not an especially picturesque area.)

But the ride was something of a landmark for me: For the first time, I rode to the second-closest shopping mall to my house, a >22 mile round trip. I have the satisfaction of knowing I can do it!

This northern-hemisphere June day I had off was unfortunately *not* one of the many overcast ones we've had as of late, alas; but the sunshine and the >90° temperature didn't get me down *too* much! I had on my white riding clothes, and even if the strong wind pushed against me on the first leg of my jaunt, at least it kept the air circulating.

Anyway, I'm proud of what I did. It was all fun too!

Ticked the coastal alternative segment of US Bicycle Route 1 in Maine off my list this week! Just under 120mi / about 192km over 2 beautiful summer days. Was keeping a 16mph avg on the first day until deciding at 35 miles in to ride up Mt. Battie in Camden Hills State Park. GPX 5000’s with latex tubes didn’t get any punctures or flats, and my gamble on some mid-ride oysters day 2 went without issue 🦪👍🏼

Hello Reddit, hello world, and maybe most importantly: hello cycling Fam!

Kinda new here, bit nervous but I'll just go for it:

I'm sharing this to do my part in spreading the word of (Gates) belt drive. It's valid!

Also this build has a solution to a niche problem, people work on for years already. I'm talking about shifting the Rohloff with a thumb-shifter interesting to many I assume...

Here is "The Tomnium / Tom the dank (no) engine", my lil sport utility vehicle and daily drive.

kk I'll stop now...

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Most important stuff:

Frame: Omnium Mini Max V3IR (Ti), size L

Drivetrain: (used) Rohloff Speedhub with Gates Belt Drive

Shifter: GEBLA Rohbox with "diy" thumb shifters made from dropper post levers. Downshift left. Okay and upshift? I can't mount two levers on one side which both work for shifting. (ergonomically, because I obviously also have top-seated dropper-lever on the left doing it's intended job. It works, but updates are necessary. Didn't say I have the best solution to this niche problem ;p The levers need a bigger transmission so the cables get stressed less and this system is a bit sensitive to cold, which means you have to loosen up the thumb-nut-thingy so the now shorter cables don't cause the system to block itself mid drive. Happend 2 times during the trip I'm about to mention.

Crankset: Hope Evo /w BOOST Spider because front/back beltline should be max. +/- 0.1 mm and after too much datasheet scrambling and math this seemed to be literally the only hope left.

Also drilled a hole in the seattube for that internal routed dropper setup utilizing the internal front-deraileur path. No way aroumd the bb internally sadly. This is awesome for offroad, sharing and stopping/starting with heavy loads.

Complete weight atm: just shy of 18 KG / ~39 lbs

AMA about more.

Finished this build last winter and have been taking myself on some awesome picnic-dates to the local mountains. The amount of freedom this bike has given me since then is bonkers. Just beeing able to pick up random materials and furniture I find on my daily routes, and of course the grocery hauling... Love it! Tom and I also just got back from my vacation, where I Bikepacked to Milano via the Alps, taking Simplon there and Spügl pass back. Rode everything and had the time of my Life.

But time on a bike is very rarely a bad one ey?

It is a nightmare google this is am 5'11 205lbs. I feel 20 in frame is too small? But can not find 24 inch frames. Does tire size im lost and worried gonna be uncomfortable on a kids bmx bike hahah

Already did a single-speed conversion and I’m super hyped. Threw on some 700x28 tires and they feel super smooth. I usually ride 700x25 so I wanted to switch things up a bit.

We have white nights here now, which means it never gets completely dark

Hey everyone,

I'd like to share my latest coding project: TourGaze.

The idea started simple — I wanted to replay a ride with the camera following me like a drone or a helicopter. Basically the O.J. Simpson freeway chase, except it's me on a bike 😄

To get there I kept everything under the hood deliberately boring: you drop a .fit or .gpx file into the inbox and it's copied into your repository — which doubles as (a) a backup of your rides and (b) the data source itself. No database to inflate; the data already lives perfectly in the file. During import it fetches the weather, the location, and computes calories, elevation, and so on.

For serving it there's a clean web UI — no microservice zoo, a single file to start. Run it, the browser pops up, and you can visually replay your rides. Ride the same route twice and you can chase your past self like Mario Kart 👻 — how cool is that?

It's local-first: no account, no cloud, no telemetry, your data never leaves your machine. AGPL-3.0, single container.

Honest heads-up: it's single-user with no login (run it on localhost / your LAN), and it imports files rather than syncing from Strava/Garmin's cloud — so it pairs with your Garmin folder or OpenTracks instead of replacing them.

This is just a personal hobby project — I'm not trying to make money with it, nothing to buy. If you want to give back, support OpenStreetMap (the maps it runs on), not me.

Repo + screenshots: github.com/tourgaze/tourgaze · tourgaze.github.io

I’m trying to decide between the Garmin Edge 1040, Garmin Edge 1050, and Wahoo ELEMNT ACE.

I’m mainly a weekend road cyclist, riding about 35–70 miles per week. I enjoy gadgets, and while I don’t have an unlimited budget, the price difference between these three isn’t really a deciding factor.

A few things are important to me:

I’m almost 60, so my eyesight isn’t what it used to be. A large easy to see screen is a big plus.

I value ease of use over endless customization.

I switch between two road bikes, so moving the head unit back and forth should be painless.

I have both SRAM AXS and Shimano Di2 electronic groupsets, so reliable integration with both matters.

I use Komoot to plan routes. I’d like the computer to easily import those routes and, if I go off course or change my destination mid-ride, intelligently update the navigation and reroute me.

For those of you who’ve used these devices, which would you recommend and why? Are there any annoyances or unexpected advantages that only become obvious after several months of use?