cycling
23. Juli, 14:21 Uhr

I saw the bike a few days ago it was brand new. I thought to my self that won't last long in Berlin i ride a crappy bike intentionally even then I've had my basket and seat stolen a few times and tyres punctured. The guy turned up with a grinder and cut through the lock in 20 seconds. I'm on the 7th floor looking out the window and I see him. I shouted at him but don't speak German, I shouted loudly enough for everyone to look at him as well but nobody did anything and then he cycled off. The quickness he cut through that lock. Literally no bikes are safe is there any way to even stop them ? What types of locks are best ? Or will I forever be doomed riding ugly old bikes ?

Velostrom
23. Juli, 03:30 Uhr

Lesezeit etwa 2 MinutenAn vier Tagen ließen sich alle 2020er Modelle genau begutachten – ob E-Bike, MTB oder Rennmaschine. Besucher aus der ganzen Welt – aus den USA, aus Kuba, Afrika und natürlich aus Europa – nutzen die ersten Julitage, um sich in Oberaudorf im

Fahrradportal
23. Juli, 12:22 Uhr

Anwohnerklage gegen Fahrradstraße erfolgreichDie 7. Kammer des Verwaltungsgerichts Hannover hat mit Urteil vom 17.07.2019 der Klage eines Anwohners und Verkehrsteilnehmers der Kleefelder Straße in Hannover entsprochen und die verkehrsbehördliche Anordnung aufgehoben. Die Kammer hat wegen grundsätzlicher Bedeutung der Rechtssache die Berufung zum Niedersächsischen Oberverwaltungsgericht zugelassen.

European Cyclists' Federation » News
23. Juli, 10:46 Uhr

The European Commission has published in June 2019 the 2nd part of its Guidance Note on the implementation of the revised Energy Performance of Buildings (EPBD) Directive. ECF is pleased to see that it also recommends Member States to include provisions for (electric) (cargo) bicycles! What is the EPBD about?

Fahrradportal
23. Juli, 13:15 Uhr

Fahrradverleihsysteme und deren Verankerung in kommunalen PlanwerkenWelchen Anforderungen sollten Fahrradverleihsysteme genügen? Warum sollten Fahrradverleihsysteme in kommunalen Planwerken berücksichtigt werden? Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es, die Angebote in der kommunalen Mobilitätsstrategie zu verankern?

It started with a fight
22. Juli, 07:19 Uhr

Ich muss gestehen, ich liebe Pressemitteilungen des Automobilclubs Mobil in Deutschland e.V. Im Blitzermarathon sieht er eine Gängelung der Autofahrer „ohne Ende“ seitens der Politik, ein generelles Tempolimit auf deutschen Autobahnen sei „nur eine weitere Stellschraube in einem von Ideologie getriebenen System, das nur ein Ziel hat: Das Auto in Deutschland in Zukunft zu vernichten.“ Letzte...

Fahrrad
22. Juli, 18:51 Uhr

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Fahrradportal
22. Juli, 21:15 Uhr

Radverkehr in der Koalitionsvereinbarung 2019-2023Am 01.07.2019 haben die zukünftigen Koalitionspartner von SPD, Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen und DIE LINKE ihre umfangreichen Ziele zur Gestaltung des Landes Bremen vorgelegt. Dem Radverkehr, als Teil einer umweltfreundlichen Mobilität, ist in der Koalitionsvereinbarung ein eigener Abschnitt gewidmet. Nach einer erfolgreichen Mitgliederbefragung bei...

cycling
22. Juli, 18:58 Uhr

In the last year, I had some surgery, and it gave me this inspiration. As a result of the surgery, I used Vitamin E oil on the scar, and it made a huge difference in the healing of the scar. So recently, when I had a particularly annoying and long-lasting saddle sore, I tried out the vitamin E oil directly on the sore. What a difference! It started decreasing in size, and was not nearly as ouchy. Just thought I would share.

cycling
21. Juli, 14:19 Uhr

It started with a fight
21. Juli, 05:00 Uhr

Moin. Hier kommen wieder eure Links der Woche. Dieses Mal ist einiges zum E-Roller dabei. Unter anderem ein sehr guter Text von Sascha Lobo bei Spiegel Online. Die Wochendämmerung hat ein Interview zur Zukunft der Mobilität geführt, Andreas Scheuer kommt nicht aus den Schlagzeilen raus und der Postillon reagiert auf seine bekannte und beliebte Art. Darüber hinaus will Niedersachsen nun...

Fahrradportal
21. Juli, 00:00 Uhr

"Aktion Abbiegeassistent" des BMVI wächst auf 114 SicherheitspartnerBundesminister Andreas Scheuer hat 68 neue Sicherheitspartner seiner "Aktion Abbiegeassistent" ernannt. Neben Unternehmen aus ganz Deutschland beteiligen sich erstmals auch Landkreise, Städte und kommunale Betriebe. Die Sicherheitspartner haben sich verpflichtet, noch vor dem verbindlichen Einführungsdatum auf EU-Ebene ihren...

BikeBlogBerlin
21. Juli, 18:16 Uhr

[Werbung] Nachhaltigkeit ist in aller Munde. Möbelhäuser leben (verkürzt gesagt) davon, dass viel konsumiert und ebenso viel transportiert werden muss. Angeboten wird fast alles, was im Haushalt benötigt wird: vom Korkuntersetzer für einen Euro bis zur kompletten Wohnungseinrichtung. Häufig in Plastik eingepackt, meist zu schwer oder zu sperrig für das Fahrrad oder den öffentlichen...

VeloCityRuhr
20. Juli, 18:38 Uhr

Im Ratsinformationssystem der Stadt Essen ist jüngst ein neues neues Papier zur Abstimmung im Oktober aufgetaucht, dass unsere Aufmerksamkeit verdient.

cycling
20. Juli, 02:14 Uhr

All packed up and leaving for RAGBRAI, Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, tomorrow morning. The event is the last full week of July and the route always starts at the Missouri river and ends at the Mississippi river. I'm looking forward to spending the whole week on my bike with my only concern being what do I want to eat that day. I have over 1k training miles under my belt and feel confident about the route. Our current heat wave looks like it should break tomorrow. There is a day with an optional loop to make for a century and haven't decided yet if I'm up for that. The mileage that day will be 85 without the loop and the extra miles will actually total 115 for the day. Happy riding!

cycling
20. Juli, 20:11 Uhr

Thanks to y'all on this subreddit for help with picking out my first road bike! Picked up this used Specialized Allez Sport today and can't wait to get out there! Still love my hybrid too❤ http://imgur.com/gallery/lIw1BJE

It started with a fight
19. Juli, 12:24 Uhr

Der Sicherheitsabstand beim Überholen von Radfahrerinnen und Radfahrern ist und bleibt ein wichtiges Thema. Ich habe hier im Blog schon mehrfach darüber geschrieben und auch selbst ein kleines Sharepic erstellt. Und auch Bundesverkehrsminister Andreas Scheuer scheint das Problem erkannt zu haben. Schließlich findet es sich in seinen Vorschlägen für einen besseren Radverkehr wieder. Er will den...

It started with a fight
19. Juli, 05:53 Uhr

Fehlende oder mangelhafte Fahrradwege sind das größte Problem für viele Radfahrende. Dies zeigt die Auswertung einer von Greenpeace erstellten interaktiven Karte, auf der Radfahrerinnen und Radfahrer seit April knapp 10.000 Gefahrenstellen in Deutschland markiert haben.

Fahrradportal
19. Juli, 00:00 Uhr

Verkehrsressort startet Fahrradabstandskampagne in BremenVerkehrsstaatsrat Ronny Meyer hat Mitte Juli 2019 den Startschuss für die Unterstützung einer Fahrradabstandkampagne des ADFC gegeben. Symbolisch beklebt wurde ein Fahrzeug des Umweltbetriebs Bremen (UBB) mit dem Hinweis, dass PKW beim Überholen von Fahrradfahrenden einen Sicherheitsabstand von 1,5 Metern einhalten sollten.

cycling
19. Juli, 05:07 Uhr

Hello, ​ I was hit today by a car in Long Beach California. We were both on the traffic light, opposite directions. I was going straight ahead and she was turning left. Light turns green, I start pedalling and she turns her car left and hits me. I roll on her wind shield and fall on the street. She attempts to drive off and I grab the car's door handle. She keeps on driving while I'm holding the door handle. She eventually stops and starts asking if I'm OK. My elbow is dripping blood now and my left left back hurts from the collision. I took a picture of her license plate and called the police after she left. They asked if I'm ok and if I want to bring the police. I was under shock as I had never been hit by a car before and I'm not even from CA - I'm from Europe. I am planning on going to a doctor to check that nothing happened to my lower back. The bleeding on the elbow is patched, still liquid comes out. I am not sure how to prove she hit me, all I have is a picture of the rare side of her car badly parked on the street. ​ Another driver stopped and took her side, telling me I was wrong and I had to wait for her (even though I had the right of way and she was turning left without a green left arrow! she waited for the car next to me to drive away and then she turned as I was behind the other car). The other driver was a dick and kept telling me to relax and to not call the police. ​ Other pedestrians were recording it but when it was all over I realised they had left. I don't know what to do. ​ Any info will help please

cycling
19. Juli, 16:46 Uhr

For no apparent reason This little adventure started in April when cleaning out a storage unit of a person no longer.... lets say they lost their assets. So there was this old Raleigh mountain bike with flat tires and I took it. Cost zero. However after putting new tubes in the tires I discovered it had issues, shifters not working well, brakes not working well. $90 at the local bike shop got everything up and running and off I went. I started out on the sidewalk doing the same route I was jogging twice a week. Part of that route was multi use trail but part of it was pedestrian sidewalk. I noticed other bikers giving me dirty looks and a little reading I learned it's actually illegal to do that. So I got off the sidewalk and boy, it was scary and uncomfortable. That first month I rode a total of 30 miles. I took my first trail ride in May and I enjoyed some aspects of it, but not others. I seemed more interested in the idea of covering distances than hitting trails so I began my hunt for a road bike. I finished May with 91 miles covered and I was excited to finally have biked 100 miles. My search ended with the acquisition of a 2007 Giant TCR C2 off facebook market. The bike looked more or less new. I don't know it's total history but didn't appear to have had many miles on it. It came with the clip on pedals and shoes my size so then began the awkward process learning by failure. Upon putting them on I immediately face planted in the driveway. My wife watched this with great joy and was upset she didn't have her camera ready for me to embarrass myself. (empathy isn't her strong point). On June 8th I took my first over the road ride. I rode from my house to the next town and stopped for breakfast at a fancy bakery there. I pulled up in triumph only to forget to unclip my foot and fall over like a tree in front of a crowd of people. At this point I'd probably fell 5 or 6 times. :( I did finish that ride at 17.4 miles which surprised me at the length and it remained my longest ride until recently. As summer inflicted itself on us I finally got a free Saturday morning to try something a little different so I went East to the Chief Ladega trail which eventually connects to the more well known Silver Comet trail that comes out of Atlanta. I took Ladega to the Alabama Georgia Line and back finishing up with 30 miles, which is no my new distance record. Then this past Tuesday I took my first group ride with other bikers. It's not been all moonbeams and rainbows. On my ride to the bakery a delivery truck nearly clipped me, and after one particular ride I overheated and on my way home had to pull to the side of the interstate and have an unpleasant moment in the grass. Such is life during Summer the Deep South. July is the first month I exceeded 100 miles in a month and I've still got time so we shall see how far I get get. I'm also looking forward to much longer rides when fall arrives and removes the near death factor that comes with walking outside in Alabama in the summer.

Bikepacking
18. Juli, 11:50 Uhr

The New Forest, proclaimed as such by William the Conqueror in 1079 – it was his personal hunting ground – is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England. As such, you can expect wandering ponies, donkeys, and horses to be as prevalent as fellow cyclists; at […] The post New Forest Gravel Taster, UK appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

cycling
18. Juli, 01:23 Uhr

I've been in the market for a Garmin for a while and after experiencing some sticker shock, I decided to experiment with using an Android phone as a bike computer. I've been testing this setup for about a month now and feel like it absolutely checks all the boxes. I already carry a separate android phone (with service) in a jersey pocket or saddlebag. My decision to not use my main phone as a computer stems from the sheer price of new phones. After dropping a substantial amount of money on a newer flagship phone, I'm not keen to having it in the sun every day (heat has a substantial effect on long-term lithium battery degradation) or mounted to my bars where it could get damaged in a crash. ​ **Hardware:** \-I chose the Samsung Galaxy s4 for my bike computer. These can be had for $60 all day on Ebay. The s4 has GPS radios, ANT+ for a plethora of cadence, speed, heart rate and other sensors, and has a removable battery which I can replace down the road should the battery inevitably degrade (it will.) Any Android phone can be used but I recommend using a phone with Android 5.0 or newer (more on this later.) \-I slapped the phone in a $4 lifeproof case. The older phones have comically cheap cases and this does the job for waterproofing. I've ridden in 2 torrential downpours and a handful of days have had drizzle. The phone stays bone dry. ​ \-A 1/4 turn KOM Out-the front mount for the bars. Keeps the computer right where I need it and easy to see. Sleek and clean. This cost less than $10 \-1/4 turn adhesive mount for the back of the case. [Here is a pic of the adhesive mount stuck to the case.](https://imgur.com/a/JDOgFzp) This was actually the second most expensive piece of kit, at $12 ​ **Software:** \-Strava. As previously mentioned, I recommend a phone with Android 5.0 or newer if you use Strava. Strava won't upload on older versions of Android. Rides are automatically uploaded the next time you connect to wifi. ​ \-OsmAnd+ for navigation. This is an amazing piece of software. It is very intimidating to use at first but is completely offline turn-by turn and route planning. Some of my best riding days this last month have been just getting lost and relying on OsmAnd to get me home. It's based on Open Street Maps so it has some very cycle-friendly routing if you use bike mode. ~~I recommend using F-droid to get the older version of OsmAnd. You're looking for version 3.2.7 as it has a "screen-off" feature that will turn the screen on to show turns coming up. This helps immensely with battery life, as opposed to just having the screen on all the time. You can adjust how far you want to be from a turn before the screen turns on.~~ Edit: As of July 11, 2019, the newest version of OsmAnd (3.4) has restored the "turn screen on" feature. ​ [Here is a pic of the phone mounted.](https://imgur.com/a/sr9hPXb) Hope someone finds this useful.