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So I thought it would be nice if we shared pictures of the bicycles in our lives, and I wanted to propose we use the hashtag #bikesofmastodon to do it.

I don't have a name for her (it's definitely a she in my mind) but you are welcome to suggest one, preferably in Spanish or French as those are my primary languages.
I've had her for a year, she was designed to be a daily commuter but she has become much more than that, we have shared many adventures through the mean streets of Buenos Aires and I now regularly do 80 to 100 km with her on my weekends just for fun.

More pictures and details in comments. 🧵

I finally received the last parts for prepping this bike for a bike vacation! I'm amazed that after bolting on both fenders and racks, the bike is barely noticeably heavier, and still doesn't rattle at all. I really don't like it when my bikes rattle when going down the road.

I bought a pair of red panniers to go on the rear rack too, and they are *almost* the same shade of red as the bike frame itself.

I'm also amazed that I still end up finding news roads I've never rode before around here. I thought I had discovered everything already.

I finally got the fenders installed! It wasn't easy, and I modified the mounting points a lot to make them sit the way I want. The finishing detail was stuffing in a cut off piece of an old bike tube between the arch of the fork and the top of the front fender, to reduce noise and vibrations. Cut up tubes are useful for a lot of things!

This weekend I rode from Canberra to the coast - 182km with 2472m of climbing. I've done it in one go only once before but I am stronger and fitter than I was in 2022 and I found that I enjoyed the ride more this time.

We took a slightly different route, though it had a similar ratio of dirt and tarmac (50/50). Coffee and pastries in Braidwood and a pub lunch in Araluen was very pleasant but I missed the feeling of being far from civilisation of the first trip.

Although it is coming into winter, it was unseasonably cold and, at one point in the trip, at Hoskinstown, it was -7 degrees with a thick fog.

Loads of wildlife on this trip - kangaroos and wallabies, crimson rosellas and whip birds to name a few.

A great ride with some lovely people that was largely without incident and traversed some lovely backroads and changing bushland as we approached the coast.