Welcome to #BikeNite on Friday, March 13th!

[gcvsa@mstdn.plus]

@ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite #BikeNite A1. Home in rapidly melting New England, watching a live stream about Fukushima, 15 years later, by Thomas Bass.

I am a year-round cyclist, except for my fitness cycling. I don't like to do my fitness rides much below 50°F (10°F), and I ride mostly at night, so that means my fitness rides will probably not start up again until late May-early June. Our last frost date is around May 15.

[matthewnewell@mastodon.social]

@moz @ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite

And seeing moz's post above from the land down under - it definitely doesn't get too hot to cycle here either. I was in France for 2025 heatwave and cycling in middle of the day was unadvisable and very unpleasant .

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite A1) Today might have been OK if it weren't for the wind! #BikeNite

[muel@hachyderm.io]

@yantor3d @ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite If it helps I always hate the idea of riding in the rain way more than the actually riding in the rain part.

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@moz @ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite You're so lucky! #BikeNite

[yantor3d@mas.to]

@muel @ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite Fair, but how long is your ride? Mine is 12 miles - about an hour in the rain at e-bike speeds. That's a lot of getting rained on to endure...

[muel@hachyderm.io]

@yantor3d @ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite only 5 miles but can be 45 minutes on the way home due to the 600 feet of elevation gain. But by that point I don't have a lot of other options for getting home...

[yantor3d@mas.to]

@muel @ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite 600 feet of elevation on an acoustic bike!? I'm sorry, I'm so sorry...

[muel@hachyderm.io]

@yantor3d @ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite haha, it's good for keeping fitness for mountain biking.

[amgine@mamot.fr]

@ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite

A1. Posting from #fabulous, if a tad nippy at the moment, #VancouverIsland.

A1.a. I am, generically, a #FairWeatherCyclist; the term refers more strongly to **weather**. During active weather I am likely sitting inside (e.g. scrolling caturday pics.)

I am fine riding in freezing weather when it's dry, hopefully sunny, and little wind. Precipitation, adverse breezes, and fog are my nemises.

On the #LeftCoast / #WetCoast. <sigh>

#BikeNite

[theantlady@arthropod.social]

@ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite

A1. Albany, New York, as usual. I commute year-round and occasionally do longer rides in the midst of winter, and my bike and gear display clear evidence of all the time spent out in the "slop" season, sigh.

#BikeNite

[w8emv@a2mi.social]

@ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite

A1. Posting from Ann Arbor, MI. I'm a cold weather bicyclist (maybe 40F is my low temp) but not an ice and snow bicyclist - even though my winter bike has studded tires, I just have a real hard time wanting to go sideways on the ice.

this year the first tentative outing was on 2026-02-15 and by 2026-02-27 I was able to start covering some ground.

#bikenite #biketooter

[wanderinghermit@mindly.social]

@ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite

A1) I'm posting from deep in the Coconino National Forest, at about 7000 ft elevation.

I'm a #FairWeatherCyclist, but also a wanderer so year-round I tend to go to places where the weather is nice. If it's too cold I go south and lower elevation, if it's too hot I go north and higher.

#BikeNite