Welcome to #BikeNite on Friday, February 13th.

[bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org]

#BikeNite A1: I'm BikeNiting from #WaterlooRegion, where the temperature was above 0C today. There's snow on the ground (and in the bike lanes), that horrible mixture of icy, salty slush that's miserable to bike or walk through, and passing cars throw up a rooster tail of the stuff. And now that it's dipped below freezing again the roads, sidewalks, and bike lanes will be an unpassable, uneven, unrideable ribbon of snowcrete.

So no, I didn't commute by bike today.

@ascentale
@xtaran @bikenite

[atrombone@mindly.social]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A1. I'm posting from Los Angeles CA USA. I almost didn't ride a bike at all today. I end my work day on Fridays heading to a high school campus right at the end of school. There's really nowhere to ride in the pick up area and the sidewalk is overflowing with students going the other way so I walked and took the metro today. However on the way home, the park I ordinarily cut through was taken over for a basketball tournament, and they rather rudely fenced off the middle of a public park. So I pulled a Lime Bike out of the field and rode it the quarter mile around the park in frustration. #bikenite

[charlessites@hoosier.social]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite Retired and did not know. Rode a few miles yesterday in Indy, into Speedway - P&E trail not cleared, but only a thin layer of snow (that not yet melted) covered them. Only thing: where driveways crossed trail there would be little piles of snow, only some of which covered speed bumps of ice (surprise!).

[saltbaygull@friendsofdesoto.social]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite #BikeNite A1: Posting from Alameda, CA, I didn't know today was winter bike to work day! I biked to work Tuesday and Wednesday, but I was WFH today, and didn't manage to squeeze a ride in. I took a nice mellow ride to get lunch yesterday though, it was beautiful out.

[andyw350@mindly.social]

@kimu @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite I was thinking the same thing. Also felt like Cassandra/Debbie Downer when everyone I met talks about how great the weather is.

#winterbiketoworkday #bikenite

Posting from suburban Minneapolis

[andyw350@mindly.social]

@NNN @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite were you at Theo Wirth? I love your multimodal ambition!

[matthewnewell@mastodon.social]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite Toot from SE London

Always commute by bike but WFH on Fridays. Was feeling very under the weather yesterday do one shortend turbo session was my limit.

Didn't know the day - but in any case no longer feels like winter in London.

[asphaltandearth@mastodon.me.uk]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A1 - Rainy Cheshire and I commuted today (although I didn’t know it was a special commute day! Journey back wasn’t so bad but very wet going!

[pionir@masto.bike]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite I did not know this. Seems silly to make it a Friday when no one goes to the office.

[v_perjorative@mastodon.org.uk]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite
#bikeNite #bikeNiteA
A1. Lying in bed with a cup of coffee, looking out the window on a crisp sunny morning, in the hills to the east of Manchester, Englandshire.
I did not know that the 13th was Winter Bike To Work Day. I cycle in to work twice a week year round anyway, and Fridays are very much a day I don't go into the office.

[etp@indieweb.social]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite

A1 Home in Rome. I did not, and I would have to cycle around at home if I were freelancing, which I am not much these days.

#bikenite

[pete@masto.hypertelia.com]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A1 #BikeNite A frosty (which makes a nice change from damp) Cumbria, UK and no. Never heard of it, but then I work from home.

[lovestha@floss.social]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite #bikeNite a1

Naarm, and no. Because it's Saturday in the middle of summer

[inkyschwartz@mastodon.social]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A1. Eastern Pa.

And no I did not know that. Not sure I could have biked to work due to the structural problems thst make biking to work hazardous in good weather.

#BikeNite

[uxmark@mstdn.ca]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A1.1 BTW, the reason I knew about Winter Bike To Work Day is that the City of Kitchener had a special morning event for it.

#BikeNite

CycleWR (@CycleWR@mstdn.ca)

Attached: 1 image Reminder: City of Kitchener has a cool winter event happening this Friday Check it out! “The celebration begins at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, February 13, 2026 at the Kitchener Cenotaph (corner of Frederick and Duke Streets). The a group bike ride will follow the newly opened separated bike lanes in the Downtown Cycling Grid, including the recent transformation of East Avenue. Everyone who participates will receive a free coffee or hot chocolate, and there will be special prizes for first-time winter cyclists. winter cyclists. Kitchener now maintains more than 300 km of separated bike lanes and trails, designed to keep people active year-round. With prizes, warm drinks and a supportive community ride, it’s the perfect moment to try winter biking and see how enjoyable it can be.” 😀🚴🏼‍♀️🚴🏼🚴🏿‍♂️☃️❤️ #Kitchener #WaterlooRegion #BikeTooter #WinterCycling https://www.kitchener.ca/news/posts/bundle-up-for-winter-bike-to-work-day/

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[trouble@masto.ai]

@geonz @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A1 reply: my gloves have clips or Velcro allowing me to attach them to each other when I take them off. I lose them a lot less when they are bigger and bulkier, plus they can actually hang over rails or handlebars. Try something; Convention lanyard, shoe laces, anything. Doesn't work? Try something else. Good luck!

[trouble@masto.ai]

@ascentale @xtaran @bikenite A1 posting from home, Santa Clara, CA. Around here, bike to work day was renamed "wherever" during the pandemic. While I didn't know it was an encouragement day, I happened to bike to work because it was not raining, then came home early, dropped off the laptop, then biked to Costco to get 4 things as is my routine every 2-3 weeks. The square crate was not full! I love my rock star parking, right up front! Getting out of the parking lot is annoyingly crowded.

[xtaran@chaos.social]

@oheso @genex: Get well soon, both.

[nnn@bettercities.top]

@andyw350 @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite

Yes! My method:

- wrap seatpost with thin card stock (Toblerone tube) & tape.. so skis can bounce up and down without chafing on seatpost
- put bubblewrap on top of rear rack
- remove rear "ski bones" from tail of skis and put skis around seatpost, tail forwards
- put "ski bones" back on tail of skis so they pinch the seatpost
- lay poles on top of skis
- wrap pole handstraps around stem
- wrap a bungee cord around skis at rear of rack to hold them down

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@trouble @ascentale @xtaran @bikenite
I'm pretty good with gloves (don't know why ) but was dog walking to fill in b/c dog's mom busted up her ankle badly enough to still be in ortho rehab now. BUT I am pretty sure they have clips that ... LOL, I can use