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@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-21 16:14:44

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 21: Took part in the mass bicycle tour #slowUp #Ticino (

A red-white Brompton with a black front bag leaning on a camping table, ready for riding.
A fenced garden full of parked bicycles.
Shop window of a bicycle shop named "Cicli Rivolta" with two guitars made out of bicycle parts, mostly chainrings.
Many cyclists on a residential main street using up all the width of the street in on direction. One person on inline skates and a dog on a leash between them.

slowUp Ticino
Il più meridionale slowUp e il primo della stagione combina due perle turistiche. Fra la Piazza Grande di Locarno e il centro storico di Bellinzona il percorso si snoda lungo il lago Maggiore fino a Tenero per poi proseguire lungo il piano di Magadino, caratterizzato in parte dalla natura e in parte dall'agricoltura.

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-19 19:58:40

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 19: I'm on holidays with the camper van in Ticino now. Did a short round with the Brompton alongside the local array of camping sites after dinner. About 2.75km.
Found this nice set of bicycle path signs: The official bicycle route no. 31 has two variants: One for fast riders alongside the main street and one for slow riders (and pedestrians) on the lakeside. (…

Two bicycle signs showing basically the same thi.g: A white on green and blue local one showing the idea between the two variants with many pictograms of pedestrians, playing children, a bicycle with a kids seat on the back, a kid on a bicycle, etc. on the green ground and a road bike on the blue ground. Unfortunately this sign has been vandalized with a black graffiti tag in the bottom half. A white on dark red national one with just simple mentions of fast and slow riders and a single picto…
@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-18 23:47:29

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 18: Didn't have much time today for cycling due to holiday preparations. So I rode with the acoustic Mr. #Winterbrompton and its new Continental Urban Contact summer tires once around the block. And it had to happen: As soon as I put on the summer tires, we get some …

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-16 21:14:46

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 16: In the morning a normal and dry commute, on the way back home I did a deviation via the center of Oerlikon (nowadays a quarter of Zurich) to run an errand. Slight rain on the way from Oerlikon to my home. 10.6km overall (instead of 8.15km for a standard commute).

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-14 20:36:06

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 14: Met with @… at the #Schluchsee concrete dam. After having a drink there, he walked and I cycled slowly (5km/h) beside him half around …

Multiple cairns on a tree stump. A lake and a hill with a forest in the background.
View through a forest alongside a creek ending in a lake.
A calm creek flowing through a flat valley with fresh meadows on both side. Still a lots of brown ground visible.
A forest way with a long shadow of a cyclist on its ground.
@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-15 17:10:42

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 15: Weather was rainy and dim most of the day, but around 17:00, the sun came out. So I decided to run a pending errand by bicycle before dinner. I once again oversaw some stairs on the Garmin GPS and so the ride took a bit longer than expected and included a few hundred meters of a main street with a lot of car traffic. In the end I rode 12.5km in 44 minutes.

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-13 20:04:25

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 13: Did a 20km after-dinner-ride with the #Brompton, starting from my parents' home. Mostly rode through the countryside along the (lower) Wutach valley. Saw a nice #sunset from m…

Red, orange, yellow and pale blue sunset over landscape silhouette
A tree full of white flowers
A green hill with a forest on top. A countryside street is leading towards the base of the hill.
Red, orange, yellow and medium blue sunset over a different landscape silhouette
@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-12 18:35:30

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 11 and 12:
Yesterday (#11) was just a normal commute, with a bit of deviation on the way back just for fun. (~9km)
Today (#12) I did a follow-up doctors visit at some specialist and some groceries on the way back. (~12km).
The specialist suspects that I have a typewriter's cramp in my left thumb from actuating the

Me (jeans, yellow hi-viz jacket and bicycle helmet) on my red-white Brompton (battery lights on) with a red frontbag reflecting myself in a shop window coated with golden foil.
Me (jeans, yellow hi-viz jacket and bicycle helmet) standing in front of my folded red-white Brompton with a red frontbag still mounted; reflecting myself in a foil coated shop window with quite some scratches. (Picture before doing groceries.)
Me (jeans, yellow hi-viz jacket and bicycle helmet) standing in front of my unfolded red-white Brompton with a red frontbag and a rather full red-white rear rack top bag; reflecting myself in a foil coated shop window. (Picture after doing groceries.)
@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-10 18:57:32

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 10: Took Mr. #Winterbrompton (my #Brompton with studded winter tires) and rode to my bicycle mechanic to fetch my daily driver Brompton from the service: New rear tire, new ri…

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-01 21:33:19

Trying to take part in #30DaysOfBiking. Discovered it only today after dinner. Thanks to @… for making me aware of it and @…

30 Days of Biking
30 Days of Biking is a global initiative to ride your bike every day in April and share your adventures online! Join our joyful community.

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-07 18:44:30

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 7: Started during the (rather gray and cloudy than) golden hour similar to the tour on day 4/5 but farther and partially a different way back. Stopped in a restaurant I didn't know so far. 10km until there. A few more kilometers to come.
#BikeTooter

A castle-like house with a round tower at one corner in garden with a lots of bushes.
View on Uetliberg in the background, grapvines in the foreground and the Hardau tower blocks and a bit of Zurich inbetween.
A lighted restaurant sign in form of a thumbs up gesture with the words "rucola" and "Pizza" in it. A dim amber streetlight in the dark blue evening sky.
Spaghetti Carbonara with huge bacon stripes and glass of Parmesan hard cheese.
@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-05 00:08:14

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 4 (and maybe also already 5): The initial plan was to #BikeToWork, but I didn't feel well in the morning and decide to work from home instead. After a longer after-lunch nap I felt much better again and worked far into the evening. It was nearly midnight when I mounted t…

My red-white Brompton folding bicycle leaning on a low wall in the night with rather bright "be seen" lights on the handlebar stem, under the saddle and on the rear end of the rack.
A suspension bridge with blue railings and dusty wooden ground. The night sky is cloudy in sepia tone. Some lights behind trees in the background.
A modern, artsy bridge with red-brown-ish guarding walls with round holes (and quite some graffiti) and neon lights on top shining downwards. Close to the viewpoint the walls are several meters high. But they get much lower towards the end of the bridge. The sky is pitch black.
View from a hillslope down into a rather flat valley. Two lighted streets with meadows around them in the front, city lights in the background. In between a dark river which mirrors some of the city lights.
@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-03 17:17:44

#30DaysOfBiking, Day Three: Woke up surprisingly early, so I ran some errands with the Brompton in the morning before starting to work from home. Probably 4 or 5 kilometers.
Had one idiot of craftsmen van driver who overtook me and another cyclist very close (50cm I guess) despite there was traffic in the opposite direction. 🖕

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-02 20:32:31

#30DaysOfBiking, Day Two: A Triangle
Normal morning commute.
In the early evening cycling over #Bucheggplatz and Kornhausbrücke towards Josefstrasse for the #Debian Switzerland

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-17 16:49:15

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 17: Fetched Mr. #Winterbrompton from the bicycle mechanic with my #pedelec #Brompton

A half folded red-white Brompton folding bicycle with a a black front bag and a still connected bicycle trailer with an orange, brown and grey coloured canvas. The handlebar hinge and the saddle of a folded orange Brompton are peeking out under the partially open canvas of the trailer. (Profile view)
A half folded red-white Brompton folding bicycle with a a black front bag and a still connected bicycle trailer with an orange, brown and grey coloured canvas. The handlebar hinge and the saddle of a folded orange Brompton are peeking out under the partially open canvas of the trailer. (Front quarter view)
A half folded red-white Brompton folding bicycle with a a black front bag and a still connected bicycle trailer with an orange, brown and grey coloured canvas. The handlebar hinge and the saddle of a folded orange Brompton are peeking out under the partially open canvas of the trailer. (Rear side view)
A half folded red-white Brompton folding bicycle with a a black front bag and a still connected bicycle trailer with an orange, brown and grey coloured canvas. The handlebar hinge and the saddle of a folded orange Brompton are peeking out under the partially open canvas of the trailer. (Rear view)
@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-30 19:55:29

I'm finishing my #30DaysOfBiking with a normal commute, but with a stop at my favourite Döner Kebab restaurant on the way back home. Got myself a Falafel Dürüm and some Ayran.
In a rough estimate I rode more than 300km this month, of which 130km happened during my holidays in Ticino last week (with 2 days ~50km alone each). Another 70km happened during a Friday evening tour which e…

One end of a garden restaurant table with a Falafel Dürüm wrapped in aluminum foil. Besides the table, there's a half-folded Brompton standing with a yellow helmet hanging on the handlebar.
@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-29 19:44:26

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 29: Ran some errand in the next village with the #Velospeeder based pedelec #Brompton. Usually 8 minutes and 2.7km each way. But since the times of the 1862 built railway girder …

The old steel girder bridge over the Wutach as of today. Not or only partially seen are the two stone arches like short tunnels through the bridge headers. A blue fence with red-white "do not cross" band woven into it can be seen on one side of the river from the riverside up to the street.
An illustration of the future bridge at this place, planned to be installed this August.
@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-28 23:41:09

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 28 = #SPEZI24, Day 2: Rode my KMX recumbent trike to #SPEZI (2x 4km) and rode each of the following bikes at least once through the 750m test course: A

"Big Brompty", a black Brompton with enlarged frame, forh and chainstay to accommodate very narrow 24" road wheels. Was for sale from private.
"Sofie" a red, front wheel driven short wheelbase recumbent with an aerodynamic wooden box in the back which also provides the seat. It has lettering on the box that says "Sofie made by holzwurm 2024". A visitor's bicycle.
Zarabike, an Italian delta layout recumbent trike which can tilt when riding through curves. Shown tilted to the left. A product shown at the fair.
"Ride your Bed" (RyB, campcycle.ch), an oval-ish 50kg folding caravan with a canvas top for use with e-bikes. A product shown at the fair.

Home - 3X3
FREE YOUR BIKE. Für 3X3 bedeutet das, eine wartungsfreie Nabenschaltung zu bauen, die bei jeder Witterung immer perfekt funktioniert.

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-25 19:21:23

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 25: A bit over 9km before dinner. Rode through #Tenero (mostly around the railway tracks), alongside the #Verzasca river, and the northern part of the wildlife sanctuary

A box-girder bridge reflecting itself in a river. Lots of green in the foreground, a village on a hillside in the background. Dark green mountains in the distance.
A meadow and some trees. One tree has two thick trunks and the sun shines through their V. On the left there are multiple mushrooms growing, on the right trunk, a second, much thinner tree seems to grow along.
A traffic mirror with red-white frame showing a cyclist in a yellow hi-viz jacket.
Screenshot (literally) of my Garmin GPS after the tour: The track looks like a very bend old key. The height profile shows two bigger bumps and two sharp peaks: One on the raise of the first bump, one between the two bumps. Statistics shown: 14.71 km/h (average) 9.27km 37:49.3 (riding duration in minutes and seconds) 17℃ up 59m down 56m (actually should be identical values, but oh well)
@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-24 18:31:43

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 24: Did a late afternoon ride without much a plan. Just wanted to see how much is left from the old railway track between #Tenero and #Minusio where they built the

View from the top of a tunnel portal (with a green meadow on top of it): A modern railway track with concrete railway ties runs towards the tunnel in slight curve. There's though a triangular plain left of it, clearly showing that there formerly was another track running in a more tight curve.
A small mountain road doing a hairpin turn while crossing a creek with a stone arch bridge. Lots of trees and bushes and a few buildings around.
View from Orselina on Locarno, the Maggia delta and the Lago Maggiore in the distance and the monastry Madonna del Sasso in the foreground.
A blue funicular wagon in deep, green cut in the shadow.

Locarno–Madonna del Sasso funicular - Wikipedia

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-22 14:58:44

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 22: Originally I planned to ride to the southern lakeside border to Italy, but the bicycle path situation was so bad (1st pic) that I nearly turned around. I then noticed a path into a wildlife sanctuary, the #BolleDiMagadino (

A suddenly ending pedestrian and bicycle path. A traffic jam and road construction site in the distance.
Everglade-like nature reserve. A steep hillside covered with forest in the distance on the right side.
A pedestrian and bicycle path made out of concrete passing through a park with some trees on both sides.
Brompton leaning on a guarding rail at Magadino grass "beach". On the other side of the lake dark green mountains with their tops in clouds and many villages on their lower hillsides. (What's visible is the region between Locarno and Tenero with the one valley cut being the Val Verzasca.)

Bolle di Magadino | ticino.ch
Discover things to do during your unforgettable holiday in Ticino. All the details here

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-09 19:53:43

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 7 8: Yesterday (#7) I was doing a ride for a doctor's appointment and groceries. (5km ⇆)
Today (#8) a dry 4km commute to the office in the morning. In the late afternoon I rode to my bicycle mechanic to leave my daily driver #Brompton there for maintenance work (ch…

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-26 21:30:22

#30DaysOfBiking, Day26: Rode from my parents to the center of #Lauchringen (where #SPEZI, an #HPV fair, will st…

A lot of recumbent bicycles parked on Lauchringen's market place.

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@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-26 21:30:22

#30DaysOfBiking, Day26: Rode from my parents to the center of #Lauchringen (where #SPEZI, an #HPV fair, will st…

A lot of recumbent bicycles parked on Lauchringen's market place.

Velomobil-Forum
Im Velomobil-, Liegerad und Trike-Forum finden Sie Informationen zu Velomobilen, Liegerädern und Trikes und Gleichgesinnte zum Erfahrungsaustausch.

@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-27 20:10:07

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 27 = Day 1of #SPEZI: Rode there (2x 4km) with my yellow #RadiusHornet SWB #recumbent

Thre velomobiles, an orange one with green belt lines and the for velomobiles very seldom delta layout, one with German police livery (said to have belonged to a policeman) and (just half in the picture, a red one with a white belt.
A hal folded Brompton with a blue on white flower pattern on most parts of the frame.
A DIY pivot steering FWD recumbent in the style of a Flevobike made out of carbon frame parts and a rather thick and wide rear wheel.
A cargobike which can be stored inside its own cargobox. It has written "verpacksti" on its box.
@xtaran@chaos.social
2024-04-23 19:20:37

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 23: Did an afternoon tour with the #Brompton through the #MagadinoPlain (= #Ticino…

A ramp and a street bridge in the foreground, mountains with snowcaps in the background, and white and grey clouds in the sky.
A small creek coming down a steep and green hill, later inside a channel. Pink flowers on a fence on the right side. A lantern post inbetween.
A red-white Brompton leaning on a guarding rail in front of a bicycle path directions sign with 311 and 31 both leading to Bellinzona. This crossing of the two bicycle paths in Arbedo was my target and turning point.
View on the Monte Ceneri with a snowcap on the left side and another mountain with snowcap in the distance over the Lago Maggiore on the ride side.