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Bicycles

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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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Cycling communities were one of my favourite parts of reddit, and I've been unable to find any equivalents on here so I decided to start this community. Feel free to post and comment about anything related to cycling! I'd love for this place to continue in the spirit of /r/xbiking, not necessarily content-wise but definitely attitude-wise. We're all cyclists, and at the end of the day the only criteria for being a part of this community is riding a bicycle (and enjoying it!)

Please comment any suggestions you have for this space, or simply say hi and let us know what you like to do on your bike!

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[–] seirim@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice! What was xbiking about? I thought I had been subbed to all the cycling subreddits but had missed that one. My jam these days is bikepacking, I love the combo of biking far and camping. Glad you made this community!

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

xbiking has always been a sort of loosely defined thing, but if I had to define it in a sentence I'd say it's cycling that is done primarily for adventure, with a certain disregard for the conventional cycling ethos which can kinda fall into snobbery at times.

Here's an archive.org link of a reddit thread where the creator of /r/xbiking explains it. It was by far one of my favourite subreddits, and I hope we get some similar activity here!

[–] loz@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Excuse me, I spend most of my time on three wheels moving my kids around. This egregious discrimination from the two wheeled community will not stand :D

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm going to assume that normal bike-like electric assisted bikes like this are alright too:

A good reason for that is because I find there is a staggering lack of basic bike knowledge in /r/ebikes (frames, componentry, mechanics) and people aren't getting any of it since they're segregated into their own echo chamber.

[–] systemshock@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I hope that cannon is part of the bike

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

If you're on two wheels, and you have pedals, you're welcome on !bicycles@lemmy.ca :)

[–] exuberantlime@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

What caliber shells does your bike fire?

[–] loputozirak@lemmy.cat 0 points 1 year ago

hey! I started a community called "mtb" (!mtb@lemmy.cat) but the instance I'm using does not allow yet to upload images correctly

nice to see !bicycle community finally!