Biking
The chat's principal non-driving mode of transportation, mentioned in **at least 198 messages** containing *bike* and **30 more** containing *biking*, across **all six years and all seven members**. The most-cited multi-member biking activity is the **bike-edition [[hoen lunch]]**, formalized by [[Cullen Conway]] in 2025.
Biking
The chat's principal non-driving mode of transportation, mentioned in at least 198 messages containing bike and 30 more containing biking, across all six years and all seven members. The most-cited multi-member biking activity is the bike-edition hoen lunch, formalized by Cullen Conway in 2025.
Biking is the chat's most pervasive transportation practice. Across the corpus, 198 messages mention bike and 30 more mention biking explicitly; the practice is documented across all seven active members and continuously across all six calendar years. Biking is the chat's only physical activity to span the entire corpus without seasonal gaps.
Biking and hoen lunch
The chat's most-formalized biking practice is the bike-edition hoen lunch, in which the day's hoen is itself the destination of a non-trivial bike ride. The construction is first attested by Cullen Conway on 2025-03-06:
"Friday sandwich week hoen lunch bike edition?" ā Cullen Conway, 2025-03-06
The proposal received an immediate š¦ tapback from Matt and was operationalized the next day. By 2026 the bike edition designation has become a recurring sub-class of hoen lunch, ratified at least in spirit by every subsequent Cullen-led Sunday Sauce / Jerry's Tavern proposal.
Biking and No Kings
The chat's only documented biking-to-protest convoy is by Cullen Conway on 2026-03-28:
"Amanda, Maeve, and I will be biking down to the convention center for no Kings around 10:30 if any homies want to join" ā Cullen Conway, 2026-03-28
This is the only message in the corpus that combines (a) a biking commute, (b) a member's family unit, and (c) a No Kings protest invocation in a single utterance. The encyclopedia treats it as the canonical biking-as-civic-engagement instance.
Biking and afternoon plans
Biking is a stable component of the chat's afternoon-plans grammar. Brian Ambuel on 2026-03-12:
"It's also close to Biride time for cheeky pint afterwards" ā Kyle Derrick, 2026-03-12 (with the celebrated Biride typo for Birdie; see Birdie Time)
The pairing of biking with subsequent drinking is, in the chat's preferred grammar, equivalent to the Cheeky Pint / Birdie Time sequence. Cullen Conway elaborates on 2025-11-08:
"Reiterating my plan for today for any and all who care to join. Biking to Upright for a cheeky pint and a Grasslands BBQ cheesesteaks, then up to Garden Tav for Ducks-Iowa" ā Cullen Conway, 2025-11-08
This is the corpus's most-articulated biking-and-drinking-and-football itinerary and is the encyclopedia's preferred summary of how the chat treats biking on football Saturdays.
Cullen's late-bike
A small recurring sub-pattern is Cullen reporting that he is biking to a thing rather than confirming whether he is going. The canonical instance is 2026-04-24:
"I might hop on my bike a little early and head down for a cheeky pint" ā Cullen Conway, 2026-04-24
The construction ā "I might hop on my bike" as a soft RSVP ā is, in the chat's preferred grammar, a 60-70% confirmation. The encyclopedia notes that no Cullen biking RSVP has, in the corpus, ever been documented to have failed to materialize at the destination.