Is there a specific route or trail you want to hit up this summer? A distance or fitness goal of some sort? Planning a bicycle tour? Bikepacking?
Please share, I’m curious to see what all of you are getting up to for this summer!
I have a Toronto to Ottawa bikepacking trip planned. Really excited and a little worried, it will be my first bikepacking adventure!
Planning to explore the different Routes Vertes out of Montreal to the nearby parks. Gonna do a bike camping trip to Oka once mosquito season dies down, then later on do Ptit train du nord to Mont Tremblant. If time allows gonna try and bike out to some of the parks in the Eastern Townships.
Oh I’ve been looking at Ptit train du nord! Looks fun, especially all the breweries en route :)
In early July, I’m planning to bike from Vancouver, Canada to San Francisco, California. Mostly camping, with a few motel stays to freshen up. I’m hoping to do it in an ambitious timeframe of 9 days, but if it ends up taking 13 days, I’d be fine with that.
I’m going to Amsterdam for a few days this summer and I plan to cycle everywhere!
Fair warning, cycling in central Amsterdam is a total shitshow. There’s tourists everywhere who have no idea how bike paths work, so you have to be paying close attention the whole time not to hit anyone. That said, I’ve been living in the Netherlands for the past few months and it has really been fantastic cycling everywhere, once you get out of the touristy old-town areas the infrastructure is just amazing. Enjoy your trip!
I’ll be near Watergaang which is a ways out of downtown but I’ll heed your advice since I’ll be one of those tourists 😎 I’d like to think I know how bike paths work though.
The usual. Biking around the river valley when I’m in town to smoke doobies by the river and biking to the river when camping to smoke doobies.
Edmonton?
Did you just doxx me?? 😲
I saw River valley, and thought you might be a local. So i guess I’ll doxxing myself to make up for it…
All good :) See ya down there!
Touring out west to BC would be nice, but I definitely need some better camping gear. I also have an e-road bike and could use an $800 solar charger, I could probably get 150 to 200km with low power pedal assistance and there’s always just manually pedalling til my knees hurt lol
Going coast to coast through Canada is honestly my dream tour. I’m thinking of maybe doing it next summer, we’ll see how life goes!
Buying a bike. I had one before but it was stolen and couldn’t afford to buy a new one. I got a new job though that pays much more than my old job so hoping to finally get back to cycling.
Ah that blows, sorry that happened to you. I saw a super sad statistic the other day, a large number (maybe even the majority, I can’t recall) of cyclists who’ve had their bike stolen just stop cycling completely. I know I stopped for quite a while when my last bike got stolen before I could afford a new one.
It’s a great feeling to hop back on a back afterwards, I hope you get one soon and get to enjoy some summer rides! :)
No big plan, other than just increasing the longest bike trip taken in a day. Currently my best is 25km. I think more importantly I’ve been consistent as its been a part of my daily commute to and from work since October
I’ve been steadily increasing my mileage, with a goal to ride 100 km by the end of the summer. My longest ride ever is 84 km; my longest ride this year is 57 km. Slow and steady wins the race.
I bought a used road bike a few years ago (my first one) and I set myself the goal of doing a 100km in a day and at least 1000km this year.
Bike glamping Vancouver to Metchosin this summer with my 🐕. Going to do a little kayaking but mostly escaping the incessant noise and pollution of the city for a week. I’m out of shape and worried about the risks (traffic, blocked bike routes, missing the Massey Tunnel Shuttle or ferry, etc.).
Did you find different glamping spots along the route, or find something prepackaged?
I ended up reluctantly getting an AirBNB at the end point and a splurgy actual B&B closer to Schwartz Bay for the second half of the trip. So am doing the full distance on the first day. I found all the accoms prices shocking (compared to a couple of years ago).
I’d like to increase the number of times I drop off the kid by bike + bike trailer per week. It’s about 14km round trip. And honestly it doesn’t take that much longer than driving.
Wait until the sun stops trying to kill me and go biking
Get on a bike. :/ About a month and a half ago I fucked up my back while helping my sister move and finished it a week later, when I thought it will be fine. Latest news are small spine disk hernia L3L4 and very large disk hernia L4L5. Still going around hospitals to see what to do next. Starting physiotherapy tomorrow. At least I can use the time at home to fix all my bikes and help my friends to fix theirs, so I don’t stay too far from the group. ;] And luckily before the injury I managed to ride with my group for a week in Finale Ligure, so at least something this season.
I wanted to get another 1000 miles in, but between being physically exhausted from work and mentally exhausted from other things, I’ll probably not get to that this summer.
You can do it, the hardest part is getting on the bike. Once you’re pedaling it’s always easier to keep pedaling!
100%.
I often regret NOT riding because of the weather/mood/energy/<insert other excuse here>, but have never regretted getting on the bike.
