[RBW] Re: Bike Culture - Where you Live

2025-07-26 Thread Joseph Burge
There are a couple "alternative cycling" slow moving no drop "party pace" group rides here in Milwaukee that have been popping up in recent years. The Scrappy Hour ride meets monthly for a short roll always to a predetermined destination and then stops and busts out their little butane stoves t

[RBW] Re: Bike Culture - Where you Live

2025-07-10 Thread Andrew Vergara
I'm in Chicago - we have Mack's bike shop in evanston who sells Rivs, and the marygold cyclery thing happening. I'm a little older and usually just ride solo but I follow the IGs. I saw a sick Riv at the post office the other day and gave the guy a "nice bike" so I'm doing my part :) :) I'd

[RBW] Re: Bike Culture - Where you Live

2025-07-08 Thread Marc Irwin
Here in Kalamazoo Mi there is a very active bike culture. The local authorities are self consciously developing a large network of bike infrastructure. There is a bike club which is primarily a popular group of spandex hamsters, but the practical use is growing largely from e-bike sales. The

[RBW] Re: Bike Culture - Where you Live

2025-07-07 Thread Brady Smith
I occasionally see fellow Riv riders here in Salt Lake City, and there's a good number of local randonneurs with 650b rando frames, or other alt-cycling type bikes. Outside of brevets, though, I rarely see them. Up the canyons and on the trails, people mostly ride carbon road bikes or standard

[RBW] Re: Bike Culture - Where you Live

2025-07-06 Thread Stephen A
Portland OR and Seattle WA have a lot of these folks. We got a lot of bike shops with mechanics who value vintage parts, multiple shops with parts bins for digging, and group rides like "26in or die" or "Road Holes 200" that are explicitly catered to vintage MTB or cheaper builds. I got into cy

[RBW] Re: Bike Culture - Where you Live

2025-07-05 Thread Jason Fuller
Here in Vancouver BC, cycling culture is really at an all-time high. 'North Shore' mountain biking was quite literally invented here in the 1990s, and mountain biking culture here is still very prolific. I grew up riding mountain bikes thoughout the 90s, and I followed the trends into the 00's

[RBW] Re: Bike culture

2014-02-02 Thread dougP
Definitely #7. I know a German who fits #9 (and has the scars to prove it). Thanks, Curtis. dougP On Sunday, February 2, 2014 7:54:09 AM UTC-8, Curtis wrote: > > I like #13 and #17. > > > http://www.copenhagenize.com/2007/11/18-ways-to-know-that-you-have-bicycle.html > -- You received th