So I commute year round in Calgary and that means cold and dark. I can't seem to find a tail light that isn't disposable garbage and will actually hold up to a few years of use.

Yes you can basically buy tail lights in bulk off Amazon - but I hate tossing dead junk in the trash. I would rather pay more for a light that lasts.

My perfect light would use replaceable 18650 (or whatever size) lithium ion cells, or at least have USB-C with pass-through charging (so that I can run it off an external battery in a pinch).

For front lights I use Outbound Lighting and they are perfect - long battery life, great performance, pass-through charging, works in the cold. Unfortunately Outbound doesn't make tail lights. I've begged.

So anyone have a tail light that they LOVE?

I've got a single speed k1 wide chain I want to put on my multispeed bike (lectric 3.0 ebike).

I'm a newbie, not sure of what info on the bike might be relevant but it's a modern, 7 speed, freewheel.

I've messed this up before. I tried this chain on a different bike when converting it but I kept skipping.

Sounds like I need better fitting cogs? Do I need "wide" ones? Crankset and rear cog? Possible better fitting chain tensioner too? Shopping around, I'm not seeing much a difference in sizing for these parts.

Any tips appreciated

This being a kickstarter makes it a non-starter for me but it looks pretty promising: Hopefully they work great and become popular.

I've been going back and forth a few apps. Apple Maps and Google Maps fail me too often suggesting me to take streets without bike lanes. With OsmAnd I'm able to mark a few roads as "Avoid", but I end up marking half my city and sometimes I do need to go one block or two on those streets.

Is there an app that allows me to to plan a route explicitly prioritizing AAA lanes that works in Vancouver?

I didn't crash, fortunately: my only physical complaint is sore shins from having to walk three miles in MTB shoes.

So the abridged version of the story is that I was up on the ridge trail on my gravel bike, and after I did a huge drop, found that my right side crank had come loose. Walked it in to the shop and my guy Ashton found that that side of the axle was welded into the crank, and the weld had failed and sheared off. He also said he'd never seen a break like that before, probably because most people who come into that shop don't ride their gravel bikes as much or as hard as I do. So while I'm still out a bike for a week while we wait for the replacement to arrive, I at least feel like I earned it.

Estoy buscando una nueva bicicleta y ví está en una tienda, buen precio pero no conozco la marca. Investigué en internet y nada encontré. ¿Alguien tiene conocimiento o experiencia con esta marca?

Looking for a new bike and found this, good price but first time i ser this brand. Looked for it in internet and found nothing. Does somebody have experience with this brand?

https://777520800.blogspot.com/2023/09/54.html

Don’t take this list too seriously - it was only a week. But it felt like a long week.

1 - Spurcycle mini bell (not an aliexpress copy) looks good also sounds nice when getting hit by branches and other foliage 2 - Aeroe bags pricey but tough 8l each. 3 - focus dry bag rack. Had to use p clips to fit to my seat stays. Was fine 4 - sea to summit straps. Better than voile for me - the 60cm straps fit round the Aerobags with plenty to spare 5 - race king tyres. Good tyres on mostly varying gravel sizes and some sand, and a little made road. 6 - wolf creek chain pliers. The little valve core cutout bit saved the day 7 - nemo tensor long wide - tiny quiet comfortable quiet and quiet. And comfortable. 8 - old timey triple chain ring. Used biggest and smallest. Grateful for the range. The winner - mont bell carry bag. See other post for updated pictures

Things to do better: The chain wax I was trying was fine for commuting but wore out too fast with day after day of mud and dust. Def using a dry lube next time and suffer the black gunk on everything. Sadly as the wax is great, clean and quiet.

Things I thought I’d love but were meh: SQLabs bar inner ends. Next time I may try the ones that sit on the outside more like riding on the hoods.

One week over the Gd St Bernard and into Italia

Just look at the speed that the RV was going! The driver was given a $500 ticket for almost killing 30 cyclists. Insane that they're even allowed to drive after that.

Yet another wheel standard. Sigh.

Absolute legend! 500 bikes recovered!

I only wish that the cops came along to recover the bikes, so they could arrest those scumbags.

Hey y'all. Im on the hunt for an app that'll automatically record the start and ends of my rides based on my location. Ive been wanting to kniw my time improvemwnts on my daily commute but rarely remember to start the time before riding.

I didn't even need to bring front panniers, or a rear basket in place of my trunk bag 🤭

The trailer is a Wike City Cargo.

Was a good time.

I cycle quite a bit (500-1000km / month), but my recreational routes have all been near areas where I know I'll have access to public toilets and clean drinking water.

I'd love to venture out onto more rural roads and areas, way outside of areas that might normally have toilet access, but that's quite literally the only thing holding me back from doing so.

What are your strategies? Piss by the side of the road and hope nobody sees you? Squat out in a heavily forested area and risk ticks?

This is not a topic that ever gets talked about with cycle tourists, endurance riders, and other long-distance cyclists, so I'd love to know how to approach this!

For flying with my touring or hardtail I have the amazing Groundeffect Tardis but I although it folds quite small it still weighs over a kilo. I am cycling over the Alps and into Italy and to return by train the bike needs to be in a bag. I am super excited to find this MontBell bag. It packs to 16x8 and weighs under 300g. It’s really nice quality (although very light so it’s not going to be robust). For my bike i need to take the seat down a bit, wheels off and handlebars loose. This is fine. I will leave the rear dry bags and tool bag on, carry the front roll and seat pack. I am so stoked to find such a small light solution. Not cheap- of course- but as it means my bike is now hand luggage I won’t need train tickets so straight away it will save its own cost. So I wanted to share this with people who will understand why I am excited.

I have posted this already in the touring and bikepacking c's, but maybe people here like this too.

This is supposed to be something like couchsurfing for multi day bicycle travellers. There is a service like that already, warmshowers. This should now hopefully become the open source, actually non profit variant, they also want to include activitypub compatibility. I don't really understand how it all works or is planned to work yet, but at least I managed to sign up there

The project started after warmshowers killed off the community developed app for it, by people from the orbit around that community app. Kind of like how I ended up here on Lemmy when reddit killed of 3rd party apps.

For now it has very few members only and functionality is bare bones, no notifications yet and apparently no e-mail forwarding of requests etc, but messaging on the site itself should work.

I used to host people on warmshowers until I deleted my account there, were always interesting people. I would love to see this one become a success and look forward to host somebody soon.

Here is some more information about it: https://pad.kanthaus.online/sleepybikeproject?view#