Welcome to #BikeNite on Friday, February 6th.

dr2chase

@ascentale @bikenite A1 #BikeNite posting from Glyfada, a suburb of Athens (Greece, not Georgia, no not that Georgia). Been off the bike since MLK day, here helping family member with medical emergency (now at "paperwork for travel-insurance-arranged return flight, so mostly mended, no longer an emergency"). Of my three usual bikes, really-newest parts are snow tires, but beyond that, e-assist on the green bike, bar mitts on pink bike, not quite sure on the cute bike.

Mark Chick

@xtaran @ascentale @bikenite Love that and in a great colour #BikeNite

rand

@ascentale @bikenite A1. Santa Clara, CA where the craziness of American football will climax on Sunday (after numerous military flybys.

Today, I ordered new wheels for the rebuild of my old bike. Should be a fun project, but it would be cheaper to just get a new bike. However for nostalgia reasons I’m keeping this one around. #BikeNite

Sam H (he/him)

@ascentale @bikenite
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A1. Tucked up in bed in the currently damp and windy hills to the east of Manchester, England.
I currently have no coffee. I'm in a war of attrition with my partner over who's going to crack first. I fear I'm going to lose.
I have a new inline brake sensor for my ebike that's awaiting fitting after the cable disintegrated on the old one.

Megan Lynch (she/her)

@ascentale @bikenite A1. Tirana, Albania.

I am a little closer to having a cycle again, thanks to some generous folks who donated via buying my music! #BikeNite #BikeTooter https://mas.to/@meganL/116028126571949534

Matthew Newell

@yantor3d @ascentale @bikenite

Lovely satisfying sound tick tick tick of a clean chain on clean cassette and well adjusted gears - especially in the relative peace of a workshop

I love tuning / indexing gears - I have to restrain my self from asking strangers at traffic lights (whose gear slipping and rattling has been annoying me) if they would mind stepping off the bike for 10 mins so I can fix it

Asphalt and Earth

@ascentale @bikenite A1 - still in sunny (not) Cheshire. Mostly been indoors on Zwift this week due to the horrendous weather but this weekend looks better. Ordered one of the new Garmin rear radars to try out which should be here on Monday.

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Matthew Newell

@ascentale @bikenite

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A1. Back in London. Feels like end of Winter here. Wet but not that cold. In my personal metric not quite Gabba/Equiv weather, w-proof long fingered gloves but no need for too much warmth.

Dead chuffed with 2nd hand water-proof luggage set I picked up in vinted and eBay. Succeeded in keeping my kit bone dry over 8 days / 500km of very damp riding

Sam H (he/him)

@ascentale @bikenite
I lost.
On the plus side, I now have coffee.

Pete

@ascentale @bikenite A1 Cumbria UK, another splash of sealant in a tyre that stubbornly refuses to stop sweating is all that's new this week.

Jon Roach, ♻️ Duke of York

@bikenite @ascentale A1 hi from Highcliffe-on-Sea where the rain has been quite depressing but when the sun has been out, it's been actually warming.

What's new on my bike is a long drop rear brake calliper. The old Shimano R7000 has always been a marginal fit, and after last week's roaring success with the mudguards, everything had shifted so the pads were rubbing on the tyre. This is acknowledged by experts as being a Bad Thing. I shopped around for a long drop calliper, and then saved myself £££ by salvaging a Textro R539 from the hangar queen, and also saved myself a wasted nearly-new rear brake cable by clipping the existing one right at the crimp so there was still some spare. Be prepared to shout "<name of offspring of deity of choice>!" when the crimp flies past your ear. A bit of fettling and presto, a safe and cheap rear brake.

Bonus, when I went to remove the _front_ calliper from the hangar queen, it had corroded in place. So I felt even better with my salvage! #BikeNite

Jon Roach, ♻️ Duke of York

@ascentale @bikenite @yantor3d I was well chuffed that I could sort out the rear shifter on my Mum's bike a few months back, she was impressed! A good skill to share! #BikeNite

Jon Roach, ♻️ Duke of York

@yantor3d @ascentale @bikenite @MatthewNewell we all need a cycling fairy-godmother #BikeNite

Jon Roach, ♻️ Duke of York

@bikenite @ascentale @josh hoping it's temporary because my only experience is of worn out pawls a long walk from home, and I wouldn't fancy it in that weather! #BikeNite

Jon Roach, ♻️ Duke of York

@ascentale @bikenite @LovesTha eek #bikenite

Jon Roach, ♻️ Duke of York

@ascentale @bikenite @genex adventure scootering! #BikeNite

Daniel

@ascentale @bikenite London UK, where I live. Nothing yet but I have new rear brake pads waiting to go on my muddy-rides bike. Will get around to that sooner or later

Luke

@ascentale @bikenite A1 have a cold so my daughter and I walked to swimming…THE HORROR!

Also I’ve been away on compassionate leave and have been walking a lot between locations in Derby, the home of Mercian Cycles.

#bikenite

Siegfried.

@bikenite @ascentale City near Frankfurt, Germany, as usual. Still waiting for spring to arrive.
Last week temperatures still were around freezing point and some snow flakes showed up again. My tyres on my bike are not best for such conditions and it easily gets slippery on cold wet streets, so I used my bicycle only once to help my old father in law switch from Windows to Linux.

Siegfried.

@ascentale @bikenite @moira I really feel you. These bad infrastructure you will find all over here, and I still wear some scratches on my knee because of them.