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Welcome to !bicycles@lemmy.ca

A place to share our love of all things with two wheels and pedals. This is an inclusive, non-judgemental community. All types of cyclists are accepted here; whether you're a commuter, a roadie, a MTB enthusiast, a fixie freak, a crusty xbiking hoarder, in the middle of an epic across-the-world bicycle tour, or any other type of cyclist!

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I created bikewrench on .world (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca
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Hello. I just figured I'd mention this exists and should be similar to r/bikewrench as far as repair specific help, but I am also including sharing shop repair resources if anyone wants to post informative first person noncommercial content to share with others.

Assuming bikewrench gets traction, I will need any help I can get. I am mostly a hardcore roadie and haven't worked in a shop in 6 years.

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Male female power cable keeps on coming loose while riding ebike. Help? (lemmy.perthchat.org)
submitted 2 years ago by ThePhoenixFire@lemmy.perthchat.org to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/321128

I have tried: taping them together, hot glueing them together and ziptying it right to the frame to prevent jiggle.

All have failed.

Right now, when I reconnect them and apply pressure, I can't even get the engine to turn on anymore. But the speedometer still works and that signal is sent through the engine cable too.

Recently, sometimes the engine rear wheel barely rolls when I roll the bike backwards.

There are no ebike repair stores in my city.

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Group for a couch potato wanting to get back into cycling? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by pumpkin@sh.itjust.works to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca
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About 8 years ago I got into cycling and really enjoyed riding, but I ended up moving countries and ended up gradually stopping cycling. Since then I've worked an office job and been pretty much a couch potato.

I'm wanting to get into cycling, but find I can't really stick to it on my own, I am wondering if anyone knows of online communities or groups for people who are unfit but are trying to get into cycling?

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Did my first longer bike trip last week! 115k, and about 7 hours of biking. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Adamzen@lemmy.ml to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca
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We took some scenic routes so speed was definitely not a priority, but very fun nonetheless. Also learned that between Malmö and Helsingborg there is a bike trail(with a mix of actual bikepaths and roads with cars), that has signage the whole way! Sydkustleden is the name of it.

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Bringing the "city bike" outside the city is always a treat! (rimgo.pussthecat.org)
submitted 2 years ago by Evkob@lemmy.ca to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca
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Picture from a little 50km ride I did at the start of spring 2022! This was one of my first longer rides where I tried hauling more weight in my panniers in preparation for a small bicycle tour I did at the end of summer 2022.

As always when I trust in Google Maps in my pretty rural province, I ended up on an ATV trail (note: this picture was taken after about 2km of completely muddy trail full of tire tracks).

At least my beer felt at home.