Personally, with a 15km trip each way and a full clothes change at the office I wear as little as possible. Typically in a Dutch summer I wear my cycling pants and an Under Armour singlet, that’s it.
If everything is soaked on the way to the office , usually all clothes have dried over the day apart from my cycling shoes.

I'm a commuter in the PNW with 5+years experience on a 13 mile round trip commute. I've sort of invented a dock for my pannier at my desk to keep the area more tidy because my cubicle workspace is a little tight. I taught myself how to weld and bend stainless steel for this project and am pretty happy with it. I made a few more with the extra material I ordered and put them on etsy to see if anyone else has a similar desire to organize their work area. (I would make no money at this point with the tools and materials I've already put into this project) FYI.

Since this thing doesn't really exist in the world I'm just reaching out to see if I'm alone in finding this thing useful as well as asking for permission to share a 15 second demo video I made if there are others like me out there.

If I'm crossing the line here between promotion and discussion, I'm happy to take a hike. I'm a crafter not a salesperson.

Hello, I just got a bike and started biking around my neighborhood to start. I'm still not very comfortable on a bike, but can move and speed up and come to a stop when I want. My struggles are mainly that I can't remove a hand to signal for example, or turn to check behind me yet, as well as difficulty making a u-turn as it feels too sharp. But my biggest fear are intersections when I'm turnin left or going straight while cars can go right on me. Is there a way for a beginner to deal with this safely? Do I just stop and wait for things to clear somewhat? But what if bikes are behind me? Also I saw people recommended a two part left turn when you cross the street twice, but having to cross straight and then turn and go backwards with your bike to reposition for next cross seems like a lot of work and hard to manoeuvre for a beginner. Any thoughts?

Built this custom titanium mini velo this past summer. Primary job is as a travel bike, but given it's got rack mounts it does a great job as a good weather commuter as well. 😊

So I recently found a great deal on a commuter bike, priority continuum onyx for $75 with panniers. This brings my total number of bikes to three, an urban arrow, Brompton c line, and the priority. I have vaguely started trying to classify my trips into three categories: am I hauling kids or a lot of stuff (UA), am I traveling locally and not carrying much (priority), and do i plan on using public transit (Brompton). I feel like I have kinda over complicated my trips by getting another bike. I know it's a HUGE first world problem but I gotta ask for people with multiple bikes how do you decide what to ride

I’ve been thinking about how small setup checks can make night rides a lot less stressful.

For me, the obvious ones are checking the front and rear lights, making sure they’re charged, and checking that the mounts haven’t shifted.

What’s the one thing you always check before riding home after dark?

I just bought a 2026 Cannondale Quick 3 step thru bike and it’s my first commuter bike! I want to get a cargo rack on the back but I am not sure how to find one that will fit. Any suggestions?

I just want to bungee cord a backpack on it initially (I am currently job hunting and don’t want to invest yet since I am not truly commuting until I get a job lol)

I have an existing rear rack for my bike that was used for a child seat when my kids were smaller. Recently I’ve been thinking about getting a rear basket or bag to use to haul water bottles and other things like snacks if we bike to a playground.

Can I more or less buy a bolt on basket from Amazon and see how it fits, or would I be better off going with a matching brand bike rack and bag/basket system?

The more researching I’ve been doing the more I’ve been thinking “should I just bolt a basket on and call it a day?”

I have a Specialized brand bike if that matters.

Appreciate any insight/advice

I'm planning on purchasing a commuter bike for riding back and forth to University 5 days a week, once or twice each day. The ride is about 1-1.5 miles depending on the part of campus, and walking has been rough because I live in a hot climate. My city has good bike lanes for the majority of the commute. My complex has a bike room and the only other place I would park my bike regularly would be at the University, so theft isn't a high concern. What type of bike am I looking for here? Is a $200 Walmart bike enough to do the trick? Should I be looking for entry level BMX, city bike, etc.? I don't have an $8000 budget for a high-end bike... I just need something beginner-friendly that does the job with consistency. I don't really know anything about bikes, but I really believe it's the right choice for commuting for me, so I'd appreciate any advice I can get. Thanks!

after riding regularly, you start noticing little things that make a surprisingly big difference.

choosing a different route, avoiding certain intersections, using lights even during the day, taking the lane when necessary or simply slowing down around parked cars.

what’s one habit you picked up that changed the way you commute?

I have this existing racktime basket that has a clip that's very easy to use. I bought a new rack for my other bike thinking it was compatible but it doesn't appear to be. Any suggestions on if I can get this basket configured to this rack with the racktime system?

I'll be visiting Loveland CO for about a month. My company has an office out there and the hotel I'm looking at is a 20 min bike ride but an hour long bus ride. I have my own bikes at home, but I figured it would be cheaper to rent/borrow a bike while I'm out there.

Anyways I wanted to check what the community suggests for these longer term situations. Are there good rental options? Is there a cheep way to transport my own bike?

If it maters, I'm flighting on frontier.

Curious what people think. I think so for the convenience of being able to leave your bike locked out side and not getting it stolen, but often a $200+ lock can be worth a significant amount (or more) compared to the commuter bike itself! I wrote more on my thoughts on it in a post along with a Litelok X1 Mini review and comparisons to other angle grinder resistant locks.

I have been bike commuting for a few years and wonder how you guys see it when it becomes part of your routines.

I definitely still enjoy it, but I've gotten way less serious about it. Early on I biked every single day, same route, tracked everything. These days I just go with whatever makes sense.

Case in point, overslept badly a while back and grabbed the EX11 instead of my regular bike purely because it was closer to the door. Bought that thing for weekend trails, never once thought great commuter bike, and there I was riding a full-suspension fat-tire machine to the office at half speed because I was still waking up, lol. Absolutely absurd amount of bike for a flat 2-mile ride. Also got me there faster than I've ever managed running late.

That's basically where I'm at now, using whatever gets me there with the least friction that day. Learned to stop overthinking which bike makes sense and just grab what's closest.

I've seen people on here who've been doing this 5-7+ years. Makes me wonder of it still something you look forward to, or has it has become autopilot at this point?

I've just started a physical job and I have to ride 11km work 12 hours on my feet then ride back home 11km. I have limited cash. My Trek is worn . Worn cassette, worn tires etc. I'm thinking I can get a used bike for the price of repairs. What should I look for?

I tried on the largest helmet as my local Sports Equipment Store and it just sat on top of my 4c afro (even after pushing it down). Even if I find larger helmets online, (which I've been looking for), I'm not sure I'll find anything that will actually fit on my head instead of sitting on top of my hair.

Please help.

There was a recent article about a section of Market Street in San Francisco where a lot of cyclists have crashed trying to cross the rail tracks and different ideas to fix it.

I personally know how to ride a bike safely on streets with embedded rail tracks, even if I have to cross them at a slight angle, even if the tracks are wet and slippery. The thing about it is that you can't keep both feet on the pedals with your butt on the seat and your center of gravity up high like usual.

You have to get off the seat, put all your weight on one pedal, and let your other foot skim the pavement. You go from 2 points of contact with the ground (the wheels) and a high center of gravity, to 3 points of contact with the ground (2 wheels and a foot), with a lower center of gravity. You basically can't crash.

Not everyone knows this though so they should obviously still fix it.

Edit 1: obviously cross the tracks at a perpendicular when you can. But in cases when you can't this guarantees you're still good.

Edit 2: This is for anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about, thinks it's silly or weird, and would like a clarification about what I mean.

First, think about how most bicyclists come to a stop. Do you:

• Stay perched up high on your seat, reaching down with the tip of one toe to barely make contact with the ground in a way that's totally awkward and uncomfortable and precarious?
• Always leave your seat set very low so pedaling is awkward but at least you can easily get your feet onto the ground, even both feet at once while you remain seated?
• Or do you do essentially what I was describing except you go one step further and plant your foot onto the ground? You end up straddling the top tube, one foot on a pedal, the other on the ground.

The first two are for newbies who might eventually learn better. Set them aside. The third is WHAT EVERY NORMAL BICYCLIST DOES, C'MON! You can't tell me it's silly unless you're also a clueless newbie.

Okay, now... also very normal, sometimes you get ready to stop but hold off on the very last step of planting your foot on the ground. Instead you continue coasting along slowly with one foot ready to touch down on the ground. You can coast like that for a little while as you decide where exactly (or if) to stop.

While doing this you can easily traverse whatever temporary hazards you need to get across, like embedded rail tracks, or a slippery mass of wet leaves, or maybe a patch of gravel or sand.

If a wheel gets caught in the tracks, or the wet leaves slip out from under you, or anything else, you can easily just plant your foot down and stop. But otherwise you can coast through the hazard and then hop back up on the seat and keep going. And if you need a boost to keep going since you can't pedal in this position, you can just push off with your dangling foot as needed (like you're riding a skateboard). But usually this is just for a brief time and that's not needed.

Now, again, obviously, for crossing embedded rail tracks, 97% of the time there's no issue and you just cross them perpendicular to the tracks while staying on the seat and not doing anything I described. But occasionally you can't do that because there's a ton of different tracks going all different directions, or the street is jammed with cars and you need to change lanes and it's hard to navigate perpendicularly across them because cars are in the way. In those cases this is an easy, straightforward, and NATURAL way to proceed. I've been riding in urban locations with embedded tracks for many decades and have never even had a close call.

Hey but if this is a "pearls before swine" situation, that's fine too. Enjoy!

Plan is to slowly make this into my do it all rig: commuting, bar hopping, bikepacking, & grocery getting!