#biketooter

@RedRobyn@mastodon.nz · 2d ago

Help me Hivemind I've been asked to come up with some bicycle themed snacks for an album release party Ideally appealing to people from mid teens to twenties who go to loud bands and enjoy a mosh pit. Not too time consuming or expensive please, I'm a poor and tired person. Vegan would be good (especially with the price of eggs and butter) Best I can come up with is round cookies with spokes, rim and hub piped on #BikeTooter #FoodGloriousFood

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Cathy Tuttle

@CathyTuttle@social.ridetrans.it · 3d ago

I've only been in Rimini a few hours but color me impressed with its bike infrastructure! I look forward to learning more at #Velocity2026 #Rimini about how local leaders came to embrace a robust transportation network for people outside of cars. What's that you say? Of course small flat seaside towns w narrow streets are naturally suited for bikes & scooters! But #velocitizens, how many tourist towns do you know that teem w cars? Clearly Rimini takes micromobility seriously! #bikeTooter

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Miha

@olokolo@pixelfed.social · 4d ago

Relaxing train+bicycle trip to #Kolpa river in #Podzemelj, #Slovenia. The water has pleasant 23 degrees, and the atmosphere is very calm - the summer season has not really started yet! #BikeTooter #river

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@Two9A@hachyderm.io · Jun 03, 2026

It's #WorldBicycleDay and a good time to mention this graph from Scientific American, first published in 1973, and updated 2025. A person on a bike is the world's most energy-efficient mode of transport, and it's not even close. Salmon use three times as many joules/g/km to get around, and then it's jet aircraft at 5x. #BikeTooter #Climate

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@xz@ebadf.port0.org · May 21, 2026

One annoyance with my small #snac instance - or any small Fediverse island regardless of the software - is the missing visibility of the rest of the network. For followed hashtags, I am missing out on most posts as I am not federating with most instances. The usual solution is to use an ActivityPub relay. This, however, resulted in receiving looots of posts, hitting file size and inode limits on this small VM. Thus, I gave up this experiment a while ago. Now, I just stumbled about https://relay.fedi.buzz/ from @astro@c3d2.social, which allows to only follow certain hashtags, which is kinda exactly what I wanted ❤️ After following the Subscribing to Fediverse Relays section from snac(8), I came up with the following jq(1) command to subscribe each hashtag I am already following on my #snac instance. And yes, this would be way faster to do by hand for those six hashtags in total. $ # Create multiple snac follow commands for each hashtag the "xz" $ # user follows. The "data" directory is the $SNAC_BASEDIR. $ jq -j \ '.followed_hashtags.[] | "snac follow data relay https://relay.fedi.buzz/tag/",.[1:],"; "' \ < data/user/xz/user.json snac follow data relay https://relay.fedi.buzz/tag/openbsd snac follow data relay https://relay.fedi.buzz/tag/snac [ . . . ] If the generated commands are looking not suspicious enough, rerun the command within $() or execute the output manually. Finally, I am able to doomscroll #biketooter for weird and ridiculously expensive bikes from my instance; yay!

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Phil (ascentale)

@ascentale@sfba.social · May 08, 2026

And our last question this week: Q8. What did you see this week? Share a photo if you'd like. Cycling related or not is fine. Tell us about it! #BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite@fedigroups.social

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markn🚲

@markn@mastodonapp.uk · May 08, 2026

#audax RRtY 7 of a possible 12 (it's not over til it's over). Instead of trying to go somewhere specific and back yesterday I rode a meandering route that joins up some of the best (& quietist) bits of NW Norfolk. For such a small area the variation in the terrain is surprising. And obvs there's a mandatory trip to the seaside (which won't be quiet in another month or so!) Need to re enable my Warmshowers account as open for guests. Happy to act as a tour guide to any #BikeTooter types who want to camp in the garden.

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Solarbird

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · May 07, 2026

just filled up the car at coscto for the month ebikes are everything #biking #BikeTooter

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Phil (ascentale)

@ascentale@sfba.social · Mar 07, 2026

Welcome to #BikeNite on Friday, March 6th! Thanks for joining our cycle-chat. Answer whenever at your convenience. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility. Our intro, and Q from @uxmark@mstdn.ca: Q1. Where are you posting from today? What are some encounters w/non-human animals you’ve had while cycling? One-offs? Regular interactions? Funny? Alarming? Awe-inspiring? Share photos if you have them 😀🚴‍♀️❤️ #BikeNiteQ #BikeTooter cc @bikenite@fedigroups.social

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@blogdiva@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026

🗣THIS IS #NYC, THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF #MAMDANISTAN ganked from the Xitterlite site. hat tip to Andrés: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/116530914573235322 #BikeTooter #NYCMayor #Mamdani #BikeNYC

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Cathy Tuttle

@CathyTuttle@social.ridetrans.it · May 06, 2026

Thinking about getting around without a car? More importantly, do you vote for people who fund transit & biking in cities? What our streets prioritize is up to us, not car lobbyists. According to AAA annual cost to own and maintain a car is $11,577 (calculated before fuel prices started to skyrocket). #bikeTooter #transit #urbanism

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szakib

@szakib@freeradical.zone · May 06, 2026

Hey Fedi Friends! There is this gap between the lowest silver part and the top of the grayish part that shouldn't be there. I can see bearing balls in the lower part, and the top part is a bit conical. How do I close this gap? I tried mild force: loosening everything and tightening the bolt on top to pull everything down resulted in a snapped bolt. Hammering the loosened stem downwards did nothing. #AskFedi #cycling #bike #BikeTooter #maintenance

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Solarbird

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · May 06, 2026

5300 #biking #BikeTooter

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AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org · May 05, 2026

Park Within Fence Post #BikeTooter

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AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org · May 04, 2026

Interesting, someone custom built this thing with a belt drive. (fixie... those are pretty much impossible for me to ride on the hills here, lol) Appears to not have brakes, either. #BikeTooter

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Phil (ascentale)

@ascentale@sfba.social · May 01, 2026

And our last question this week: Q8. It's already May! What did you see this week? Share a photo if you'd like. Cycling related or not is fine. Tell us about it! #BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite@fedigroups.social

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Phil (ascentale)

@ascentale@sfba.social · May 01, 2026

@plactagonic@f.cz asks:

I just “sent order” for custom made full frame bag. *

Q7. Has anyone had any experience with custom made bike bags? Are they what you wanted or you would buy something off the shelf?

It is more a friend of a friend who does sawing for fun and reclames material from all over the place and it is first time she will do something like this.

#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite@fedigroups.social

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Phil (ascentale)

@ascentale@sfba.social · May 01, 2026

@Amgine@mamot.fr asks about rolling resistance:

Q6.

Any lay-person resources to learn more?
Is larger diameter generally better?
Why is the standard #bicycle #wheel 700c / 26” ?
W/gyroscopic forces, the turning CoE moves forward of the wheel centre, even > r (e.g. the demise of delta motor trike.) Is this greater w/larger diameter?
Is this a factor in drive wheel vs steering wheel? I.e. if they must be different, which should be larger?

#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter cc @bikenite@fedigroups.social