For Minneapolis, still gotta be this abrupt drop from bike path to narrow sidewalk across a highway entrance ramp on Lyndale. There are already off-street bike paths on the west side of Franklin and the Wedge Co-op grocery store is right there, as are several other businesses around Franklin and 22nd. So close, yet so far away.

One of the legendary Twin Cities bike shops is closing its doors after more than 40 years in business. That’s a bummer; a major bummer.

https://www.twincities.com/2026/03/20/st-paul-bicycle-shop-grand-performance-will-shutter-doors-in-next-few-months-now-that-owner-is-retiring/

Did a big loop of both cities yesterday and noticed a distressing number of people with no helmet! Perhaps due to an influx of infrequent cyclists due to the weather, but that’s no excuse! I have literally turned around a half mile into a ride because I forgot one - I’d never ride without!

Hey everyone, I’m (30M) looking at moving to Minneapolis later this year (probably July/August timeframe) and I want to try something I’ve never done before, which is be car-free. I’m moving from South Carolina, so I’ve had a car my entire adult life but hate having to deal with them (and I love cars), between car payments, maintenance, insurance, etc. How is living in Minneapolis without a car, just using a bike? I’m looking at living off of Hennepin (either the 270 or 222 apartments). My job has an office in north Minneapolis about 6 miles away by bike, but I travel for work and would just get Ubers to the airport when needed. I feel I’m in a prime position to make this transition, and I guess just would like a little confidence boost by some locals to make sure I’m not crazy for jumping in headfirst like this.

Does anyone know a good resource for maps of the bike trails and routes in and around the metro area?

If you like maps and like helping people find low-stress routes to bike on, consider signing up here https://www.bikestreets.com/make-a-map

Bike Streets is free and provides turn-by-turn navigation from crowd-sourced maps. There are also other cool features like ride tracking and specifically community riding. They have a bunch of cities already onboarded with them. If you'd like to join, you can download the app right now and start playing around with it and provide suggestions. You should also sign up via the make-a-map form by 3/31 and Avi (founder) will get together the group for an orientation.

Edit: I forgot to mention but you can also add constructions and detours which as we all know would be supremely helpful this summer.

Ice is 90-ish% gone. Almost clear enough for Nana to send it.

Long time Twin Cities biker here.. Finally, after years of closure, the Kenilworth Trail the North Cedar Lake Regional Trail are open again! Yes, all the way east past the Twins Stadium and to the River. And for a while now the Cedar Lake Regional Trail thru St. Louis Park and Hopkins has also been open. What a relief and what great improvements! Now we can ride under Louisiana Ave, Wooddale Ave, and Belt line Blvd instead of playing human Frogger with traffic. Time to tip our helmets and raise our water bottles to all those who made and continue to make it happen.

Next time you ride take a closer look at our beautiful and amazing cycling trails. They're all pretty incredible, no matter which of the countless trails you take.

I discovered that my 2015 Surly Moonlander was stolen from my apartment complex storage unit on 3/14/2026. My apartment is less than 0.5 miles away from Lake Bde Ma Ska and is located along the Cedar Lake Regional Trail. The bike is light brown with black Surly lettering and has burnt orange platform pedals and a black topeak rear rack. If anyone has any information or sees this in their neighborhood please contact me! Offering a $100 reward if found and recovered. Here's some information and photos for the bike: https://www.bicyclebluebook.com/value-guide/2015%20Surly%20Moonlander/?condition=GOOD

one of my favorite things about watching MPLS news coverage is spotting the bikers in the background. the biker in this one got a shoutout by the journalists!

In case anyone was thinking of riding down to the bottom of Fort Snelling this weekend with the nice weather, I would not recommend it without a fat tire bike.

I took a detour through Fort Snelling on my way home from work today to do a couple laps around the roads in the park and ended up walking halfway up the trail on my way out because it's still covered in a several in thick sheet of ice.

The big steep hill right by the fort looked clear, but I was too far gone into walking before I realized I should have just turned around and went up that way.

I knew there would be some ice, but thought it was going to be just a few sections where I would have to get off my bike and not the entire bottom half of the trail. Learned my less, though, not going to be trying to go back down there for at least another month. 😅

Edina is considering adding bike lanes on both sides of Wooddale Avenue between W. 50th and Valley View Road. If this change would impact you, please consider filling out the survey at the link below. Public feedback matters!

https://www.bettertogetheredina.org/wooddale-avenue-bike-lanes

Last year I enjoyed some one-night (out-and-back) trips from St Paul. Luce Line to Hutchinson, Gateway State Trail to Stillwater then William O'Brien, etc.

I'm looking to build up to multi-night tours with camping this summer. Ideally two or three nights. Any routes that you'd recommend?

It seems that we have a lot of "radial" options out of the metro, but I'm looking for a large loop rather than multiple out-and-backs. I'd like to keep to gravel trails / roads as much as possible, I'm not looking for truly offroad bikepacking.

I’m totally new to bikes and I was hoping to get a few recommendations. I’m looking for a bike that I can comfortably bike on in the city to run errands, can use for bike packing, and maybe use for gravel riding. Does anyone have suggestions on bikes I should look into?

Anyone have experience with renting a road bike in Ft Myers, FL area? Any shop recommendations appreciated.

Going in couple weeks. Would like to get some riding in.

I'm fine with people dropping off supplies, provided they are respectful and pulling over/parking to the side for cyclists to pass, which was the case at first. Now it's just fuckin' anyone who doesn't want to walk a third of a mile and people are driving super recklessly.

Here's a link to the speech from Alex's memorial ride.

Today is Alex's 38th birthday.

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Are folks still running studs on the greenway/cedar lake trails? I haven‘t commuted in a few weeks and with the sunny days of late I’m hoping to leave the studs at home. many thanks!

Anyone willing to loan a bike bag thingamajig to me.. would gladly pay $ or leave collateral. Traveling to Tucson next week and looking at bringing bicycle.

Ride report: keep those studs on for a bit longer, people.

I’m moving in a few weeks and can’t take all of my stuff with me, including my bike tools. Are there any bike tool libraries or similar in the area that I could donate them to?

Hi everyone, my family is in search of bikes for all of us. We have a 10, 8, and 6 year old and two adults. Where would you go for durable, budget friendly bikes. Bonus if they offer a family discount.

Fun ride from Robbinsdale to Cedar Lake to the Mississippi. Good chance to practice my transfers from pavement, ice, slush and deep snow.

Q: When did the Cedar Lake trail reopen? I almost turned to ride in front of the Basilica just out of habit.

Hey Yall,

I'm looking to buy a Silver matching wheelset for this All City Thunderdome I'm building up. Wheelset needs to be 120 rear 100 front spacing, want to run at least a front brake, and needs 9mm axle for the front. Looking to spend $200-$350.

https://preview.redd.it/h9ow0gaxv3kg1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=489df3b9fe295ca056f64c8ce7c3fcebe270a6d7

Looking for something similar to this set on Velomine, will buy if can't find anything locally: https://velomine.com/products/h-plus-son-archetype-polished-silver-track-wheels-radial-front?variant=43270708297882

Let me know if anyone has a nice wheelset they would part with!

Thanks in advance!

Just following-up on my post from a few days ago. So tomorrow I'm hoping to roll out of the Central & Lowry area in NE around noon, and take Fillmore St. down through the Beltrami and Marcy-Holmes neighborhoods and meet up with anyone interested on the downtown end of the Stone Arch Bridge. Then I was going to meet up with a friend and anyone else who might be interested at Minnehaha Falls, before taking the parkway and MNDOT trail to the Fort Snelling area. The basic time frame would be:

• 12:00 leave Central & Lowry. If anyone wants to meet up here I can just wait outside Recovery Bike Shop for a few minutes.
• 12:25 leave downtown end of Stone Arch Bridge, in the parking lot there and make our way down Portland past the Renee Good memorial and down to E 42nd St
• 1:30 leave Minnahaha Falls overlook and make our way down to Whipple

This is going to be a pretty-slow paced ride, as you can see from the time frame. Riding conditions should be good the hole way, with the possible exception of some remaining ice/slush covering a short section of the MNDOT trail. I plan on doing the ride today so I'll update this post more precise information if anything's difference since the last time I was down there.

Just putting out feelers for anyone who'd like to join. I'll be biking down there both days this weekend regardless. I'll be coming from NE, Central & Lowry area. I think something like a downtown meetup and then a secondary meetup around Minnehaha Falls would make a lot of sense.

Guy ran a stop sign in his car to yell at me for doing an Idaho stop through a completely empty intersection on 31st (ofc when I don't put my camera on for the half mile bike ride home).

Anybody ever ran into idiots unaware of the laws of this state? Kinda the worst!

On a side note there is no way to look like a not insane person when yelling "Learn about at Idaho stop asshole", just a deeply dorky moment for OP

Thursday Feb 12 | 6:30 PM| @ Luce Line Brewing

Love biking? Want to lead group rides—or just talk bikes over a beer?
Join us for a casual info meeting about the Luce Line Trail Riders, a
volunteer-run social cycling club organized at Luce Line Brewing.

We’ll cover ride styles, safety, and how to get involved. No pressure.
No commitment. No cost.

City rides, gravel rides, good people. If you like to ride, you belong
here. 

I’ve heard some details on the Mendota railing that don’t sound good. Sounds like they are going to put a fence in front of the existing railing because someone at department of health wants a suicide fence and for some reason they can’t put it on top of the pillars. It’s going to take away a foot of walkway.

hello I have always wanted to get into cycling just never have other than as a kid or as an adult on a cheap box store mnt bike riding 15 miles to and from work 20 years ago. anyways I started running last year and need to and want to start cycling to help build up my endurance and my cardiovascular side of things plus on top of my running and who knows at my age of 46 may not be able to run for many years due to past knee surgery. Anyways I am wondering what is the best bike shop in the cities for a new person looking to get started.

I broke the bike out of storage hoping to get some miles. Has anyone else? If so, how are the roads/trails? I was thinking of doing a little bit of the Greenway > River Parkway > Minnehaha Creek. Fully expect puddles and what not but is there a lot of ice still?

This was around Snelling & St Anthony in St Paul.

Please let me know if any info. It's an old pure steel bike, and I've fallen in love with it over the years.

I got it at a garage sale back in like 2018 for $20. Spent a lot of time working on it.

It was a nice slice of community. Thank you to all organizers and volunteers <3

Keep looking out for your neighborhood.