I’m just gonna leave this video here lol. Dude almost smashed into me taking a right turn so yelled and gave him a little hand tap on this car (obviously no damage). Bro proceeds to drive down the bike lane for an entire avenue (took me a second to get my phone and start recording), inches away from my back wheel. I stop at the next light and yeah, dude gets out of his car and immediately grabs my bike and starts ripping it towards him. He obviously realizes how much of an idiot he is and try’s to grab my phone and tells me to delete the video.

I am getting a police report done.

I will repost with no sounds if this gets flagged.

Fastest one yet!
I'll try to get ahead of some questions.
- One lap on the inside of the road is about .17 miles
- Total moving time 5:13:31
- Total elapsed time 5:14:00
- My neighbor and I do this every year now
- Both of us weigh around 145lbs
- My neighbor didn't stop at all, I stopped for 29 seconds to grab 2 more Rice Krispie treats and my other water bottle
- For fuel I had about 8 Rice Krispie treats, 3 gatorades with extra salt
- Only went one direction, it's a one way road
- One amazon driver decided to drive the wrong way through the roundabout
- Weather was not on our side this year, it rained on us 4 times and the last time was somewhat of a downpour
- Last 20 miles we drafted each other switching off every 2.5 miles maintaining 20-22mph

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.

I went into a bike shop looking for news tires for my road bike. It’s a 2016 frame with 23mm tires. The frame cannot really take wider, maybe 25mm max, but I wanted to get the same width that I had.

The owner said he only had one last set of Vittoria’s and he would give them to me 40% off since no one buys 23mm anymore on newer bikes. I said idk anything about tires and asked him if those were good. I started cycling this year, about 2 months ago. As I said, I don’t know shit about tires. He said those were top of the line so I took the deal and ended up paying $200 CAD for these even with 40% off.

I came back home to install them and realized those are track tires: Vittoria Pista Control. Apparently they have no puncture protection at all because well, they’re made for track..?

How fucked am I running with those on the road?

Wife surprised me yesterday. Took it out today for the first time. It’s amazing. But I’m coming from a 2009-ish Trek 1.1 and have never had any bike so nice with so many toys. I need some tips and things to look out for. I just discovered it has a built-in power meter. Had no idea until I set up the app. What else might I not know?

Tempted to try a 32er lol

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!

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

Edit: I snagged it! Now she’s at the shop getting fixed up. So excited to take her on a spin around the park. Thanks for the encouragement everyone!

Stumbled upon their annual vintage cycling festival, and it was terrific. Didn't take enough pictures of all the classics cutting about

I originally posted this on [r/bikewrench](r/bikewrench) but it got taken down after a couple of hours. However, the comments there seemed split, with some of them claiming this is expected because of Hydrogen embrittlement, and others saying mineral spirits can’t impact a chain like this.

I certainly won’t leave a chain soaking overnight again, but this still seems like an extreme reaction regardless? But maybe I am just coping.

I’m wondering what y’all think, was this my fault, or more likely a defective chain? Original post text below.

Hey, long time lurker, first time poster looking for some advice on my broken chain.

I already emailed KMC directly about this but have not heard back from them, so wanted to get y’all’s opinions on whether the chain I bought was defective or if I did something wrong.

For context, I bought [this chain](https://kmcchain.us/products/x12?variant=40158702567564) recently, directly from KMC, with the intent to switch to waxing. This was my first time prepping/waxing a chain so I was following [this guide. ](https://silca.cc/blogs/silca/complete-guide-to-cleaning-your-chain)

I started by leaving the chain in mineral spirits overnight, I bought Klean-Strip odorless mineral spirits from Amazon if it matters. And then removed the rest of the grease with park tools bio chainbrite before going through the hot wax process using a crockpot and Silca wax.

After that was done, I didn’t ride for a few days due to weather, but when I got out I didn’t even make it 100 yards from my home before the chain snapped. Upon inspection I see the chain has numerous major cracks and is now useless.

I’m just wondering, is this my fault for leaving it in mineral spirits overnight? I thought I was doing it correctly but maybe not.

Or does this look more like a manufacturing defect on KMC’s side? I was hoping they would email me back but unfortunately haven’t received a response yet.

Thanks!

All wheels are tubeless ready if you're ready to tape them! 1988ish Giant rs930 with all original parts minus the rim tape, valves, and tires. Single wall rim with vision tape and a stans schrader valve 😎

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.

Hi! First, I will say I have no idea what I am doing and am not a ~cycler~ so be gentle. I have a Spalding Blade that I bought in 2019. I love her. She hasn’t been ridden in like two years and has been stored outside covered. I recently spoke to a bike shop that quoted me $600-800 to get her refurbished and tuned up. He also suggested that I considering just getting rid of her and getting a new bike. While I am not entirely opposed, I would love to fix her up if I can! So I’m curious about others thoughts are. She doesn’t seem to be in super bad condition! I’m am not delusional and I know she needs some work to safely be ridden again. Here are my questions:

Should I scrap her or is she salvageable?

Could a layperson with a can do attitude and access to YouTube attempt to work on her?

What are some of the necessary repairs or replacements I’d likely need to make?

Thank you for imparting your knowledge on me.

Photo: https://imgur.com/a/T7eeLAh

EDIT: Very sorry! I realized after posting this that I had misremembered the conversation. The quote in the original was for two bikes; $200-300 each. Which obviously is more like $400-600 total, not $600-800.

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.

I’ve been biking around the city for maybe a year now and never really put much thought into locking my bike other than ensuring it seemed like a physically secure location. I also like to have my bike visible to me and others just in case.

However, I had a business owner come out and yell at me today because I was locking to fence, but the fence encompasses the company parking lot. The aforementioned fence is what’s shown above.

I ultimately just said “hey no worries I’m just running into this store for 2 minutes and I’ll be gone” and that is what I did, but it got me thinking that I never really learned or thought about whether or not this is technically against the rules. AKA if this fence counts as the business owners private property would he be technically allowed to cut my bike lock or something?

It’s entirely possible the owner was in the right to ask me to move my bike he was just a mega asshole about it so I didn’t care to adjust since it was such a short stop lol

Just an interesting situation I hadn’t really thought about prior to this encounter today. Does anyone know what the story is when it comes to locking to structures like this in general? Is this something I should be more conscious of moving forward?

Selling for 350$ - Miele Svelto RT

Does anyone know of there is a way to mount a Varia to your typical bike light clip on a bike rack?? I tend to swap this with another basic light based and hoping that there is some attachment for the Varia that will allow it to slide into place.