Cyclists (aka people who cycle)! I want to make a cheat sheet of cycling hashtags in various languages of Mastodon to help folks find cycling folks & topics here.

Can you add any to these? (And define use for those that need that)

English:

#BikeTooter
#Cycling
#BikeNite (weekly [a]synchronous chat on community-submitted questions)
#Recumbent
#CarryShitOlympics (showing your cargo loading prowess)

German:
#FrostPendeln (winter commute)

Dutch:
#Regel17 (recumbents need photos)

@meganL #fedibikes and variations, and of course the magnificent #carryshitolympics .

@meganL there's a French bike-focused Mastodon instance I'm part of (admin is @alter_unicorn ) : http://masto.bike

Frequent French hashtags are #BRM200 (ultra races) #velotaf (bike commute) #velorution #CriticalMass

masto.bike

Instance Mastodon ouverte à toustes, dans le respect des règles barrière. Faire du vélo ou juste envisager d'essayer est un plus ;) English: https://blog.masto.bike/pages/english/

Mastodon hosted on masto.bike
@meganL
#velo
#velotaf (commute by bike)
#velorution (riot on a bike)
#BRM (Brevet Randonneur Mondiaux, à bike challenge), may have some distance derivative
#Audax (audacious in Latin, starting name of practicers of BRM clubs)
@vincentxavier @meganL
#velorando (multi-days travel on a bike, from "randonnée" (hiking) and "vélo" (bicycle))
#cyclorando (same as velorando but with the word cyclo (cycle) instead of vélo)
#cyclotourisme (same as velorando and cyclorando: literaly tourism on bike)
#bikepacking (multi-days traval on a bike with light luggages)
@vincentxavier @meganL
I may add #MaiAVélo used for a French national event promoting cycling everywhere in France during May.
@meganL #mdRzA (German: mit dem Rad zur Arbeit, literally: go to work by bike)

@meganL #MotorNormativity for people talking about transport policy and #CarBrain .

#UrbanCycling for cycling in towns and cities, usually for transport purposes.

#CyclingUK for cycling in the UK (and presumably for what was previously the CTC).

#Coffeeneuring for folks who #AlwaysBeCoffeeneuring or who are taking part in the annual challenge (ride a bike 7 times at least 2 miles and have a beverage).

Have also seen #SustainableTransport , although that's not cycling specific.

@meganL

English
#obob - old bags on bikes
#CM & #CriticalMass
(form of direct action in which people travel as a group on bicycles at a set location and time; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass_(cycling))

German
#mdRddG & #rausgeschafft (just going for a ride)
#mdRzA (bike commute to work)
#mdRnH (bike commute home)

[Edit: + closing parenthesis]

Critical Mass (cycling) - Wikipedia

@meganL

There are also a number of cycling/ safety/ accident related hashtags in German. Don't have the time to list them all now, might make a list later if I remember.

@meganL

Okay, I made a list of bike-related hashtags.
With translations and some short explanations (for most entries).

A word of warning: the toots using #'s from the bottom of that list ("category: conflict") can contain a lot of frustration and aggression.

Maybe we should also tag in bike-related groups such as @fedibiker
or
@fedibikes

And … sorry, no AltTxt yet, I need a break first. 😬

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Just the hashtags in AltTxt now due to character limit.
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#BikeTooter
#Cycling

@meganL

I tried to add AltTxt but it's more than 2`400 chars too long. If you need/ want a transcript please ask (really), and we'll figure something out, okay?

@meganL

#mdRzA mit dem Rad zur Arbeit (commuting)

@meganL German : #mdRzA (commute to work by bicycle)

@meganL

#Alltagsradler
#Alltagsradlerin
#Alltagsradeln

Es gibt auch einige Hashtags mit Abkürzungen:
#MdRzA
#mdRddG
#MdRnH
(Mit dem Rad zur Arbeit, mit dem Rad durch die Gegend, mit dem Rad nach Hause)

@meganL Finnish - by no means exhaustive, but some I recall seeing:

In general:
#pyöräily
#pyöräilydontti

More specific:
#MeanwhileInOulu winter cycling in Oulu
#siltakerho (bridges and bicycles)
#RandonneursFi (long-distance bike nerdery)
#munkkipäivitys (biking pause updates)

Some specific events (increment the number annually)

#ruska2025 Ruska 2025
#tps2025 Talvipäivänseisaus 2025

@muep @meganL and #kuormahaaste for the carryshitolympics
@meganL #MTB for mountain biking
Also #fatbike
@meganL #Quaxing is a New Zealand term that means to run errands (shop in particular I think) by bike. I've seen some residents complain it doesn't get used here enough.
@SRLevine
Named after Dick Quax, who insisted nobody can shop by bike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaxing
@meganL
Quaxing - Wikipedia

@meganL

#MTB Mountain Bike
#gravel mixed-terrain cycling

@meganL Germany:

#mdRzA (mit dem Rad zur Arbeit, commuting on the way there)
#mdRnH (mit dem Rad nach Hause, commuting back home)
#mdRddG (mit dem Rad durch die Gegend, general riding, often just for the sake of it)

@meganL One that is close to my heart is #Fatbike for those of us who ride with proper big tyres :-)

@jexner

Wo fängt "proper" an?

(Ich überlege, ob du meine Ruby gerade "dick" genannt hast. 😉)

@meganL

@47363

Ich würde sagen dort wo die fahrende Person sich total super fühlt, weil die Reifen so cool sind!

Und das "fat" in "fat bike" ist ein klar positiv gelesenes "fat".

(Meins ist ein 26x4.8 auf 100mm Felgen, das nenne ich klar "fat", siehe z.B. https://tooting.ch/@jexner/116362519483338971)

@jexner

Das 😉 hätte signalisieren sollen, dass ich nicht beleidigt bin. Hab mir die Gutste (https://media.norden.social/media_attachments/files/115/719/313/402/397/967/original/76633e10d6a0e04a.png) ja gerade erst (im November) so ausgesucht.

Sie trägt Schuhgröße 57-622 / 29 x 2,25

@47363 Schön!

(Ich hab's auch nicht beleidigt gelesen)

@meganL what about #vikingbiking - is this still a thing?
And the most important one: #tallbike 🙌 ;-)

@x_tof

Völlig unmöglich, dass TallBike wichtiger ist als Kurt! ;)

@meganL

@meganL there's no dutch tags. we don't cycle here.
@meganL In Canada I see most often —
* #velomtl (Montreal, FR, sometimes EN)
* #velodhiver (Québec, FR, sometimes EN)
* #ottbike (Ottawa)
* #yegbike (Edmonton)
@meganL I'm trying to get #JoyOfCycling working
@otfrom It must be because someone mentioned it.