Welcome to #BikeNite on Friday, April 3rd!

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Our intro and Q from @DurableAce:

Q1. Where are you posting from today? Do you have cycling-related wallpaper or a lock screen photo on your phone? If you do, what do you have and why? Answers with photos if possible please 📷️

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@DurableAce @bikenite A1. I'm in Oakland, CA as usual. I don't have a cycling-related background on my phone! I have a picture from a trip a long time ago and a drawing my kid made when they were a toddler.

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@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1 Posting from a suspiciously warm Beaverton, OR today. The sky is clear, the sun is shining, and my bike is still in the shop with cracked rims. :(

I don't have a phone wallpaper, or lock screen. Both are just black.

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@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite Posting from near-Atlanta, GA:

Oh yes! I always use this guy, and the original image can be found here (also attached):

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/712245?page=1&rtp=1&ros=1&asr=1&assoc=all&mb=c

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@sam @ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite I have this hanging above my bench in my little garage workshop. ^_^

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@moira @ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite I really want to print a bigger copy and get it framed for my workshop too! One of these days I'll actually get it done!

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#BikeNite A1:
I'm posting from home in Rochester Minnesota.
Though cycling is what I spend most of my time doing, my other love is ice hockey. So my avatar is a picture of me with the actual Stanley Cup presentation trophy (taken in 2009), and my lock screen is me carrying the puck at center ice at what was then called the Xcel Energy Center (now Grand Casino Arena) home of the Minnesota Wild, taken in 2015.
@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1: currently on a train going home after an afternoon in NYC. There’s a blue Brompton folded up in the next car—whose is it? Do I know them? #mykindofmystery

@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1: Sydney Australia where autumn feels strangely more like spring in many ways. The lawn is definitely enjoying the warm, wet weather.

I don't really do lock screens or wallpaper. But my background for Teams video calls is a shed full of bicycles :)

@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1. Northern Virginia as always. Sorry, the lock screen is a panorama of native wild rice, taken from a kayak. The closest I can come is a different photo of a different stand of wild rice that I took from my bike on a different occasion. #Bikenite

@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite #BikeNIte A1 Posting from northern NM, where the weather is lovely today.

I use random desktop wallpaper, choosing from a large collection. Only a few of them are specifically bike related though some others were taken on bike rides but don't show the bike.

@akkana @ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite

A1 That reminded me that I too have a couple of bicycle photos in the folder of images that my desktop cycles through (haha) at random.

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So I'm not the only one. My computer desktop randomly cycles through my "Bike Leans" folder from the previous year to remind me of all the rides I took.
@akkana One of my coworkers is riding a multi day backpacking trip in northern NM and is sending me several pictures just like this each day and it's so glorious.

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A1. Writing in from Ann Arbor MI. No bicycle joy on the phone lock screen but that's an awesome idea.

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A1. I am posting from lovely #VancouverIsland where hordes of visitors are in the process of arriving for a long holiday weekend.

A1.a. No, I am a traditionalist - on my mobile lock screen there is a grandbaby pic. On my laptop the background is a solid colour.

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@Amgine is it cruise ship season already!?

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@dgodon @ascentale @DurableAce

No, no… this is just the Easter Holiday weekend.

It's okay, I have 4 frozen meals, a bag of salad, a 12-pack of soda, and a local pizza delivery company. (There's also a pick-up indian place that has *fabulous* dishes, but they will likely be slammed.)

@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite #bikenite A1, Posting from home in Carbon County, Montana. I have lots of bike pictures on my phone but the lock screen and background are just stock color fades.

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#BikeNite A1. Ventura County, California. I have no wallpaper or lock screen photo. At all. 🤔

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A1. As always, 2 AM insomnia couch posting from southern Germany

On phone: Not cycling related: sunset over ocean with small phishing boat captured in Ecuador in ~2019 (its worth a visit, we toured Ecuador with relatives and friends of friends for 1 month).

But on office laptop: Heatmap of all my GPS logs from fitness tracking app rendered over greyscale map as conversation starter

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#BikeNite A1: Posting from #WaterlooRegion, Ontario, Canada, just like last week.

All the wallpapers and backgrounds on my devices are from APOD, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. @apod

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@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite South central Minnesota tonight. My lock screens are all default stuff except for #JWST photo on one device. But a bicycle background is something I should look into. #bikenite
@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1. From my usual Seattle. My phone lockscreen picture I took while on a bike ride.
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@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1. Santa Clara, CA. No cycle Lock Screen photos. My phone has a falcon heavy launch (much less a fan of SpaceX these days, but the launch is still cool), and a picture of my sailboat when I’m working out. My iPad has a panorama from the top of half dome, after I hiked to the top last summer. #BikeNight

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A1: I'm posting from Oakland, California, USA.

This is the background on my phone. It's from segment 22 of the Colorado Trail, taken at 6:19 AM local time, August 4, 2022 during a #bikepacking trip. Here's the original photo: https://photos.app.goo.gl/e11aSve38qV36VBM8

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@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1. Toots on the move. Nah, my background is of one of the kiddos. No picture, obviously. Laptop may get one if I ever get a good artsy picture of my bike.

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London.

Lock screen bike leaning against a gate post in English countryside
Home Screens - landscape photo of green house at Harlow Carr Gardens Yorkshire. It used to scroll across as I switched screen but doesn't do that anymore

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A1.
Posting from a prone position in bed in my house on the edge of the moors east of Manchester. Coffee has not yet happened.
Nothing cycle related I'm afraid. My lockscreen and wallpaper reflect my squid obsession instead.
@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1 hello from Highcliffe-on-Sea, my work phone has a photo my friend Dave took on the way to Boldrewood in the New Forest, but my own has a cheerful wrapping paper pattern. #BikeNite

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A1 Home in Rome. No, nothing cycling related like that.

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@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1. In a city near Frankfurt, Germany, as usual.

I don't have a wallpaper with my bike, but I find it a good idea to change my lock screen picture on my phone.
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@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1. Bilbao, Spain.

I used to like putting up custom wallpaper and using custom icons, but it's been many years since I did any of that. So my phone just has the boring standard wallpapers that comes with it.

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@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1 - posting from Cheshire this Easter weekend but will be up in the Lakes next weekend. My phone cycles though my photos so plenty taken on rides and a few with my bike in.

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@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1) Indoors on account of the rain. #BikeNite
@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1 #BikeNite posting from Liverpool having scratched from a bikepacking race so getting to see family over Easter instead.
Canine rather than cycling-related for me!

@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite A1. Posting from my kitchen table in New England, the day after. I forgot about #BikeNite until so late that I didn't have the energy to respond.

My iPhone background is not cycling, it's ballet.

@ascentale @DurableAce @bikenite #bikenite A1 a day late. Gadabunud country, by the sea

No images, background and lock are uniform black

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A1. Posting from Tokyo, in my den with the door closed while my partner watches the historical drama with the volume cranked way too far up.

Posting on Sunday because I was on the road in picturesque Aizu-Wakamatsu on Saturday.

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A1. From Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Nope, no cycling-related wallpaper or lock screen on phone. On desktop computer every 15 minutes a different art-work, and there are some bike-related photos there.

One I often see - not sure about the "random" cycling through photos - is the picture attached.
This is one of the photos part of the No Place to Place project of Wu Guoyong. More info at https://phmuseum.com/projects/no-place-to-place