Community rules
Biiikes is for people who love riding bikes and finding community along the way. These rules help keep it welcoming, respectful, and useful for everyone.
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What you can post
Post photos and clips from a ride you went to, that you took or have permission to share. Crashes, scrapes and broken bikes are fine. No nudity or sexual content, no gore, graphic injuries or graphic violence, and nothing showing self-harm. Everything you post is checked automatically before anyone else sees it, and anything that clearly breaks the rules won't go up. A person at Biiikes looks when someone reports a post, or when you ask us to look again at a post that didn't go up or was taken down. We report child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and lock the account.
Treat people with respect
Don't harass, bully, threaten, or direct hate at anyone. Disagreements are fine. Harassment and personal attacks aren't.
Don't stalk, track, intimidate, or repeatedly contact someone who doesn't want contact with you. Don't share someone's private information, location, or plans without their permission.
Sexual harassment, unwanted sexual advances, and sharing someone's intimate images without their permission aren't allowed. Neither is any form of sexual exploitation of minors.
Don't use another account to get around someone's block.
A tag of you shows only after you OK it. If you or your child are in a post, tap This is me or This is my child to hide it at once while we take a look.
Be genuine
Be yourself. Don't impersonate another rider, ride leader, or organization. Having the same name as someone else isn't impersonation by itself.
Don't use Biiikes to spam, scam, or deliberately mislead people. That includes fake accounts, deceptive links, and pretending to represent a group you're not part of.
Rides on the calendar
Many rides on Biiikes come from Shift, Portland's volunteer-run ride calendar. You'll recognize them by the Copied from Shift label.
We only remove ride listings that are illegal, threaten someone's safety, impersonate a real ride or ride leader, or are spam. Deliberately misleading ride details that put people at risk aren't allowed either.
We don't remove rides just because they're unusual, unpopular, or not someone's cup of tea.
Removing a ride from Biiikes doesn't cancel the actual ride or remove its listing from Shift.
When you're out riding
Biiikes helps you find rides and connect with other riders, but we don't organize or supervise the rides listed here.
Ride leaders are responsible for running their own rides. Biiikes doesn't check or approve ride leaders, routes, riders, or bikes.
If there's an emergency, call 911. Biiikes can't see what's happening on a ride or respond to emergencies.
Reporting someone
You can report a post, a rider, or a live share.
If another rider is harassing, threatening, or otherwise making you feel unsafe, you can report them. You can also report serious harassment, threats, or safety concerns involving another Biiikes rider that happened during a ride.
When you report someone for harassment or bullying, violence or threats, sexual content, or child safety concerns, we'll automatically block them and turn on Warn me for you.
They won't be told who reported them, although the circumstances may sometimes make it possible for someone to guess.
We'll let you know when we receive your report and again when we've finished reviewing it. To protect everyone's privacy, we won't share details about the other person or what happened to their account.
Please report in good faith. Don't knowingly submit false reports, organize reports to target someone, or use our safety tools to harass others. A report that doesn't result in action isn't necessarily a false report.
Blocking and Warn me
You have two tools to help manage your experience on Biiikes.
Blocking ends any follow between you and another rider, in both directions. Unblocking them won't restore those follows. They won't be notified.
It also ends any live link you sent them, and they stop seeing where you are while you share.
Blocking someone doesn't prevent either of you from attending the same public ride.
Warn me gives you a private heads-up when another rider is going to a ride. You'll see that rider marked on the ride, and their avatar ring will appear gold, visible only to you.
Warn me isn't a report, and it doesn't mean Biiikes has made any judgment about that rider. It's a personal reminder you control, and you can turn it off whenever you like.
You can manage both lists in Settings → People.
What happens when rules are broken
If someone breaks these rules, we may remove content, restrict account features, temporarily suspend an account, or close it permanently.
What happens depends on the situation, how serious it is, and whether the behavior has happened before.
Taken down by mistake?
If we took down your post or ride and you think we got it wrong, tap Ask for another look on the notice. You can ask once, within 30 days. A person at Biiikes decides and tells you either way. It stays down until then.
Riders under 18
You must be 18 or older to have a Biiikes account. Anyone can see every ride on the calendar without one.
Rides may be public, and other people can see you at a ride.
Your photos and location
We privately keep each photo and clip's details, like when and where it was taken. The exact spot is kept only if you turn on Use your photos' locations; otherwise it's made approximate. None of it is shown to other riders or sold, and from riders under 18 we keep only what the checks need.
For more about how we handle your information, read our Privacy Policy.
Have a question? Email us at [email protected].