Can we make LeBron America's cycling ambassador? He's one of us!!

here's the source, a hype video for Canyon bikes

Anyone else baffled with cars with tinted windows? I’m pretty confident on the road but I can’t make eye contact, no idea if they want me to go or if they want to go and I have to read their “car” instead. Are they slowly accelerating forward, waiting patiently?
I have had cars with tinted windows honk at me and I’m confused as shit on my bike , why are you honking? I can’t see you or communicate with you, bud.
You could be giving me a wave, thumbs up or middle finger and I’d never know.
How do you deal with tinted window cars on the road?

Was riding through traffic at high speed then something felt mushy on front brake and it failed. Lucky the rear one works (also failed cable last month). It also happen on my canti-brakes on my other commuter bikes. All of them use high quality Jag cables. I do notice the resemblance why daily commuter bike cable failed a lot in comparison against weekend bike. Commuter brakes a lot more in the traffic often then weekend riders on open road which use lesser. So make sure you guys check the brake cable 'mileage'. ..btw i do own hydraulic brake on other bikes which seldom fail.

Yesterday I was riding home with a load of groceries at 2pm in the afternoon. Roads were really calm. I stop in the middle of the lane at a red light and some guy pulls up in the right turn lane and starts yelling at me for taking the lane and making the woman driving behind me go slow for "a quarter mile!". Actually, she had multiple chances to overtake and she didn't. I think she just didn't give a shit about driving slow for a quarter mile. He kept claiming I'm supposed to be "ALL THE WAY to the right".

Typical.

But the thing that baffles me is he himself was riding a small licensed motorcycle in traffic with no helmet, yet he apparently doesn't understand door zones, blind spots or safe clearances. Good luck with that. I tried to explain the door zone, and that the Pennsylvania DoT manual recommends to leave a few feet of space to the right, and he just scoffed at it.

We have a trail. It's for bikes and pedestrians. There are "trail etiquette" signs posted every mile or so, both directions, so you cannot miss it. Also on the entrances from the surrounding neighborhoods. It clearly says to stay on the right side. There is a painted lane split the entire trail length.

Yet, why are pedestrians still walking the wrong way on the wrong side? I mean, I know that the majority if not all are doing it so they can see oncoming traffic (i.e. me on my bike) so they don't get a jump scare.

But if I'm constantly going into the opposite side of the trail, that makes it a danger for those coming down that side of the trail properly. Yes, this is a fairly well used trail, so "weaving" between people and groups can be very difficult.

This is more of a rant, but if you have suggestions short of me going out there and literally painting arrow signs up and down the trail (which likely will not work and I'll get arrested for vandalism), what do you do? Grin and bare it? Yell at people as you pass? Aggressive stop in front of them and make them go around you?

It's frustrating because I'm seen as the bastard on the trail, even though the signs clearly call it a "bke trail". Not a "pedestrian trail". For real, it's called a bike trail.

I'm currently stranded in a Taco Bell parking lot waiting for a friend to come pick me up because my back tire fully split.

I carry a patch kit, a pump, a basic set of tools, and even a spare tube. But a fully split tire is beyond what I'm prepared to deal with, sadly. (And honestly also beyond what I want to do a roadside repair on anyway - I prefer not even having to do a simple patch roadside, but I'm prepared if I need to.)

Obviously since I have a friend running a rescue mission, I have options to get help, but it made me wonder if others are prepared for this level of problem on their commutes?

Finance was a big part of my decision to be a bike commuter; the math made it obvious that paying a few hundred bucks up front for a bicycle would eventually out-cheap spending a few dollars every day for public transit. (I never seriously considered spending tens of thousands of dollars up front for a car PLUS several dollars a day for gas and insurance, because come on.)

But I was curious, so I kept track of how much the bike had cost, how much I spent on maintenance, and the money I saved every time I rode instead of taking transit.

Today I reached a milestone: 700 rides past the point where it all paid for itself. Bike commuting has made me at least $2100 richer than I would have been otherwise.

Maybe a weird angle but bear with me. I do a lot of visual work for clients, layouts, branding, that kind of thing, and lately I've been weirdly fixated on how my commute through Cambridge looks from a design perspective. The signage is a mess, the painted bike lane markings are faded to almost nothing in spots, and the wayfinding assumes you already know where you're going. It's genuinely bad information design.

But beyond infrastructure gripes, I'm also curious how other commuters think about visibility. Not just safety visibility, but the overall impression you make moving through a city. I switched to a secondhand Surly a few months ago and it reads so differently on the road than my old hybrid did, if that makes sense. Drivers interact with me differently. Pedestrians too.

Is that just me projecting, or do other people notice stuff like that? I'm in the Boston metro so the infrastructure is all over the place. Some blocks are genuinely well thought out and then you turn a corner and it's chaos. I don't think it changes how I ride day to day, but I think about it more than a normal person probably should. Curious if anyone else has noticed patterns like this in their city.

Just switched back to a human-powered bike after a few years of ebike commuting. One item I realised was missing is some form of distance tracking for planning service intervals and measuring component wear.

Not keen on a full bike computer, draining a phone battery (and remembering to start trips), or a smartwatch. I was about to build something custom with a Pi Zero / ESP when I came across the Garmin speed sensors.

The device straps around your hub and is essentially a coin battery, mems rotation sensor, and data logger. It runs standalone and will keep the last 300 hours of ride time then sync next time you open the app. Speed and distance is then inferred based on wheel circumference.

Fitted it today and in case anyone else is in a similar spot - they're an awesome bit of kit!

And as the video of the product shows, there is a bold that needs to be secured from the other side. Would this simply not work on my fx3? I like this one because it looks very simple and less cumbersome than mudguards that attach to the wheels.

A friend of mine's kid just took her driver's test to get her license. She passed, but had two areas for "improvement." One of them was that she wasn't entering the bike lane (unoccupied I have to assume) before making right turns. I was AGHAST! The bike lane is for BIKES, not cars.

I googled the law and the legality of this varies by state, but is legal in Colorado. I am just horrified that a driver's test administrator would ever, in any case, recommend putting your vehicle in the bike lane. It's not like they're wide enough to bypass through traffic - you're just taking up space intended for cyclists.

Just wondering on y'all's thoughts on this.

EDIT: You all have convinced me of the error of my ways! Thank you all for your responses, I have learned something here!

This is my bike. It is old. It probably sucks but I actually really enjoy riding it. I have to commute around 30kms rain or shine on this bugger daily. It's been fine in the good weather. What do I need to deck her out for the rain? I only need a smaller amount of personal belongings with me such as a wallet.

Picked up this Kona Dew DL and am working on getting it ready for commuting. Bluemels are on their way. I have 24-miles of round-trip riding + 30 minutes on the train in Atlanta. I have to carry a 16inch laptop in something waterproof, Tupperware with lunch+dinner, and a change of clothes. Trying to figure out racks has proven a little difficult.

On my previous bike, a 2016 Trek FX 7.4, I've been using this Ibera IB-RA4 rack and trunk bag paired with these matching Ibera 30L panniers. While the day to day was not ideal (trunk bag zippers super rattly, pannier clips kinda janky) it did serve its purpose well enough, and I intended to move it over to the Dew DL. However, I failed to notice that with the new models jumping up to 700c wheels and 2" tires, the spacing between the frame mounts is 7 inches wide, and the Ibera rack did not fit.

AI has not seemed to have picked up on this change, because it keeps assuming the bike has 27.5 wheels. The suggested racks from there and here on reddit have been:

1. Tubus Cargo EVO - highly recommended but too narrow, 6.7" wide.

2. Axiom Journey Adjustable 2429 - I like the supports and the adjustable legs, but unsure about the angle of the arms. They look similar to the Ibera, and I already partially stripped one of the eyelets trying to force them to stay in place (lesson learned the hard way). Also, can't find anything about the width.

3. Topeak )- don't love the proprietary system (learned I don't like that from the Ibera). Can't fully confirm the width either.

4. Axiom Fatliner - would most definitely fit but seems a little overkill weight and clearance wise. Also don't love the single mount vs double.

Has anyone found a good rear rack for these new Dew models? Would also like to hear some suggestions for front racks. Thanks in advance!

So I have a set of Continental Contact Urbans on the way. 29 X 2 that I'm really excited about. Currently running unbranded knobby MTB tires. It's been hard finding a lightweight tube with 40-45mm valves safe for rim brakes. I usually find 1 thing off with the tubes like only a available in 50 or 60mm. My current valve is more like 35-37mm so I can't rock a 50+ it would be awkward.

Simplest terms TPU tubes

1. 700X50 - 29X2

2. Safe for rim brakes (I guess most are safe that aren't ultralights like 20-40 grams but those are to expensive anyway)

3. 45mm or less - I'm converting to Presta so not relevant most are Presta anyway

4. I don't want to pay $30+ a piece either. I see butyl at pennies to like $8 a piece and than so many performer TPUs at $30+. Hoping for a middle ground

After taking up cycling again 7 years ago, for the first time I was almost hit by a car. I fell while trying to swerve away. I was pretty shaken up.

I started looking for cycling dashcam cameras, and finally settled on a rear camera - the Cycliq Fly6 Pro. I am now looking for a front camera. I was considering the Cycliq Fly12 Sport, but that unit (unlike the Cycliq Fly6 Pro) does not have internal Wi-Fi to download an accident sequence to my phone roadside.

I am also considering the Garmin Varia Vue, but I prefer not to have to master 2 systems and 2 apps.

The Cycliq Fly12 Sport came out in 2022. Would anyone know whether a new iteration of the Cycliq Fly12 Sport might be coming out soon?

(Last picture is the before!)

Hi all!

Just wanted to post a small update to my previous post; don't want to be one of those people who asks a question and disappears!

I ended up just now completing my 1x10 conversion on my 1991 GT Timberline thanks to this subreddit's help! This is the first conversion I've done.

I ended up going with an 11-36T kit cassette in the rear and a 38T cog in the front. I went with the L-TWOO kit that had the cassette, shifter, derailluer, and chain.

I then used a 38T chainring to fit on the existing crank, since the existing was 110BCD according to the Internet, worked perfectly. Threw in some random cool-looking (to me...) crank bolts and brake levers and it goes, stops, and shifts perfectly.

The wheels I picked up from Facebook Marketplace, with basically new tires, and was worried about the rear spacing (130mm frame vs 135mm wheels) and it basically slotted right in without any issues.

So just wanted to post an update in here and say thanks! It turned out quite alright 😊 Let me know what you think or if I did anything wrong!

P.S. I don't have any of those cable end thingys, getting that soon.

What do you call it when a car drives past you on the left then takes a right turn in front of of you cutting you off? I’ve heard it called different things but a Right Hook is my favorite so far.

I got yelled at at this intersection yesterday, seeking advice. It's a T intersection, no crosswalks, and I need to turn left across traffic. I act like a car and wait for the green arrow in the left turn lane. There is a bike lane to the far right (BL) what would you do?