I've had this for 2 weeks, put on just over 200 miles, and can now definitely say 1,000,000/10 no notes

LFG IT’S BIKE CAMPING TIME

thinking about how much my primary riding buddy & i will "kids these days" about how people can't deviate from a planned route or make their own despite being people who ride over 5k miles a year ok fair both of us used to do 60+ mile rides w/o navigation on the regular & most would not choose that

so dang excited to go bike camping this weekend at one of my favorite spots on my new bike this is gonna be the real test of how much more i like this than the bike i toured on for 13 years

So if you ride with power strava gives you a graph of your performance strength and today I saw someone with a circle and just what is that like cause mine looks like a bugle in favor of sprinting power

Honestly a shame the UCI hasn't banned ugly ass aero helmets for being crimes against aesthetics but I guess they're too busy making it harder for small people to ride bikes that fit them for "safety"

It's time to remember my upstairs neighbor is from Argentina again

look at my bike in my dirty apartment with all its things on it much less aesthetic, non-drive side, but really excited for the years of adventure ahead

Several years ago I made a custom sturgeon fender with groundkeeper. I'm doing a fresh one sized for road and gravel bikes with my fav sturgeon, the critically endangered pallid sturgeon. You can get one if you want, be a Big Fish Fan: groundkeepercustom.com/collections/...

feeling very 😎 that 3/4 of the last sprints i've done have all topped 900w love to be objectively both fitter than i've ever been and slower than my peak simultaneously

planning my birthday vacation and i just gotta say i fucking hate horses

If you or someone you know is between 4’11” and 5’3” and is looking for a cool deal on an adventure bike, buy my surly cross check! It’s a 2012 size 42 frame and fork and literally everything else on it has been upgraded.

LOOK AT MY BIKE LOOK AT MY BIKE

Also the older I get the more absolutely wild it is that I was allowed to drive on highways with a permit at 14. I think North Dakota was phasing that out but damn that’s truly insane. I shouldn’t have been trusted behind the wheel before 25

IL raising the age at which you’re required to retake a road test to renew your license but imo we should make everyone retake ever 8-12 years always cause lots of people love to yell at me about their perceived rules of the road while they drive dangerously

i am replacing one of my bikes from a company from the suburbs of minneapolis with a new bike from a different company from a different suburb of minneapolis

i am excited for my little train adventure in about 6 weeks last time i took this train it was fall, i got really cold, & my seatmate was a latina mom who shared her blanket w/me & then told me (in spanish) about her job as a past life therapist i love talking to strangers, amtrak is my olympics

This is a fantastic article and I'm glad to see this issue getting wider coverage. I am also glad the article focuses on how these giant vehicles are marketed as a way to assert your dominance over other road users.

You kan calle me "the reflectinge pool" by cause Ich am a literal and figuratyve mess on a national scale and also oddlye algae ys involved

Electric vehicles are also on average heavier which increases both road wear and the rate of tire breakdown. So yes, they are reducing air pollution but I lose my shit every time someone pitches this as the solve for car pollution; no, that's actually just driving less.

honestly so glad i've been riding so many years and had to work really hard at it because if i had this fitness and no skills i'd really be fucked

Happy Getting Mad At People For Bikes City Rankings to all who celebrate

The group ride I was on today picked up a random dude in Highland Park. Ok fine, whatever. They were really cooking today so I called it at plaza del lago

The upside to being mediocre at track cycling

US high school history classes glossing over the Articles of Confederation period pre-constitution can really be seen in the current political era.

The worst thing about new kit is the time between when you place the order and when it arrives

I think since I’ve wanted a master link tool at least 5 times now I should probably just get one

I’ve been doing a 10/10 job at wanting to do laundry only on overflow action days lately

ok this song is actually in french and spanish i seriously thought my brain was just hallucinating translation, which is a thing that def does happen sometimes when i only sort of understand something in one of my second languages

sure i have the tools to change my chain rings at the track but yolo i'm going to just go up two teeth and deal with whatever that means cause i refuse to take this seriously enough to bring extra chain rings

michigander implies the existence of michigoose

Shoutout to my current fitness for being good enough for the first time in years to REALLY notice when I’m in a bad part of my menstrual cycle for hard workouts

Nice to remember I can make myself nice food for lunch too

I probably don't listen to enough pop music in English to really say but it really feels like there are a disproportionately large number of songs about butterflies in Spanish compared to English. Given cultural associations with butterflies in both languages, it makes sense but feels notable

still think legit the best karaoke i ever saw was years ago just having tacos in logan square (didn't know it was karaoke night). i watched this lady in like her 40s-50s absolutely crush the spoken verses part of Shakira's "Loca" in addition to being able to do the chorus justice

Everyone who wasn’t here for the multiple posts about menstruation today should have thought 2x about following an account with “youterus” as the handle

Had so many meetings today I exceeded the volume of my cup 💀

Get fedex to press buzzer for admittance. Challenge level: impossible

EXTREMELY BLESSED CHICAGO BIKE MOMENT

No one has ever died because they did not have a curbside parking spot. But countless people on bicycles have been killed because we value parking more than a protected bike lane.

going to do a fun little trip to milwaukee at the end of the month and have the spotted cow directly from the udder as it is best enjoyed

This week has me sitting back in the space I was in right after I got doored. When I’d crashed other times it was possible to feel like if I’d done things differently I could have avoided it. There is nothing you could have done to anticipate a dooring.

I love my very gay bike team and am very excited about this year’s kit design

once again asking, when is santa cruz gonna come out with the "smallboy" why is it always "tallboy"

kinda not good that duolingo thinks i'm much better at portuguese than i am cause when i get flashcards and i don't know the word i just say it in spanish and 90% of the time it's like "close enough" not what i was going for here

"What is most infuriating, more than anything, is the propagation, even by elected officials, that large groups of Black and brown kids are somehow “terrifying” and unacceptable in our city..." Read more: thetriibe.com/2026/06/opin...

Mentally rewriting WAP to be about cook country forest preserve firewood

Pulling up the track start list to know how extremely I am losing tonight and it’s YIKES levels Maybe it’s best if I draw spot one in the keirin so I can just blame that for why I sucked 😂