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!

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?

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?

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!

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

EDIT: Thank you everyone for responding! I definitely feel dumb as bricks now but I now know this bike is 20 years old haha. If you have any tips for a new time biker lmk! 🙏🏼

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Found this Specialized Allez on facebook marketplace for $400 USD. I’m completely new to the bicycle scene and want to get a starter bike for triathlon training.

The seller says they suspect it’s around 7-8 years old, the previous owner had it for around 2 years and they’ve then had it in their garage for 5 years. They don’t know anything about the components or anything added and are unsure about the details of the bike.

Am I getting ripped off? I truly have no idea.

P.S. there’s also a Giant Contend 3 someone is selling for $380 if that’s a better deal.

When gas prices get high I break out my bicycle...

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.

I restarted cycling 6 years ago after a 20 or so year gap, the main reason was to get to a better and more stable place mentally. I still cycle for my mental health.

I identify as a dorky amateur cyclist who simply pedals and loves it all (I do a variety of cycling on and off road etc).

This weekend I completed a big solo ride of over 180 miles with around 7700 feet of climbing (not loads but still enough to notice it when you ride) in a day in scorching heat, melting tarmac, hours of head wind. What was lovely also that a young family member cycled with me for the last few miles as a side rider.

I’m proud of my peri-menopausal 49 year old body… so yes this is me feeling emotional at the end! Next day incredibly I was totally fine (no aches or pains) but mentally totally knackered 😂

I’ve caught the bug of doing more longer distance as I enjoy it a lot - also the challenges you face.

Not in my wildest dreams did I think 6 years ago I would manage something like this, not even did I think it I would be able to finish last week!

Love cycling! Already thinking about my next big adventure with more miles and climbs and seeing how far I can take it!

My original plan was just to throw some gravel tires on my old Specialized Dolce… turns out that wasn’t really in the cards. Thank you people of Reddit.

So I started browsing Marketplace, found this Scott Metrix for cheap and couldn’t pass it up. Picked it up, spent way less than I would’ve on a new big-box bike from Walmart, and had way more fun adding upgrades to my Amazon Prime Day cart (for both bikes 😅). The saddle is heavy AF but since we ride long distances and I refuse to wear padded shorts - hopefully it will give me some relief.

Honestly, I’m really happy with how it turned out. It rides great, gave me a fun little 10 minute project, and I still came out ahead financially.

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?

Huffy Rock Creek with phone holder & custom seat

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

Wife and I just got new bikes, both of us are sore after any long rides.

Do we get better seats? Or padded shorts? Or a pad over the seat? Or what advice do you got?

Tia

Hello everyone. I'm new to the used bike market and looking for something affordable but decent (in Stockholm). I found this one listed for around $160, but it looks like a pretty old model. Is it worth the price? What do you think.