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Community

URBALT is more than a marketplace. The community section is where you meet other riders, gliders, and walkers, share what you're up to, read guides, find local meetups, and stay updated.

Choose your identity first

Before you can take part in the community, you need to pick a community identity in your profile. Three options:

  • 🚴 Rider — you ride bikes (any kind — city, MTB, e-bike, cargo).
  • 🛴 Glider — you ride scooters and other e-mobility (electric or kick).
  • 🚶 Walker — no bike yet, or you're here to watch and learn. Walkers can read and comment, but can't post as if they were a rider.

Identity is required — without it you can read anything, but you can't post, comment, or react. If you try, a small prompt pops up asking you to pick an identity; click through to profile, choose one, and come back.

Identity is not a locked role. It's just how you present yourself in the community. A Rider can still sell a scooter, a Glider can still share a bike route — you pick what fits you most of the time. You can switch it any time at the top of your profile.

The community sidebar

On the left of the community page there's a sidebar with shortcuts:

  • Feed — the main posts timeline.
  • Forum — longer, threaded discussions organized by topic.
  • Partner forums — a showcase of discussion topics from forums we partner with (currently Biketime).
  • Events — meetups, group rides, races.
  • Guides — community how-tos (fix a flat, pick the right size).
  • News — regional news (laws, rules, happenings).
  • Saved — posts you bookmarked with 📑.

Routes and the Territory capture game used to live here too — as of July 2026 they've moved to the Navigator. See the Navigator guide.

The community feed

The main community page is a three-column layout: sidebar on the left, the feed in the middle, and widgets with upcoming events, forum activity, and quick links on the right. At the top of the feed there's a composer where you can share a short text post with up to four photos, attach a listing / route / event, and @mention other members. The feed has three tabs: Discover, 🔥 Hot, and Following. See the community feed guide for the full walkthrough.

Forum categories

Each forum category page has three tabs so you can focus on what you're looking for:

  • Threads — longer, threaded discussions (the classic forum).
  • Events — upcoming meetups and group rides for this topic.
  • Posts — recent short feed posts tagged with this category.

Categories:

  • Riders — everything about bikes: routes, maintenance, gear talk.
  • Gliders — scooter community: e-scooter tips, kick culture, local meetups.
  • Parts — component questions, upgrade advice, compatibility.
  • Events — rides, races, group meetups across the Baltics.
  • Routes — talk about trails, commutes, and long tours. The actual GPX sharing happens in the Navigator, not here — this category is for discussion.
  • General — anything else micromobility-related.

Events — meetups and group rides

The events page lists upcoming community meetups — group rides, cleanup days, races, workshops. Each event has a map, a date, and a list of who's going. RSVP with one click: going, interested, or not going. Organising your own? Click create an event. See the events guide for the full rundown.

Saved posts

Hit the 📑 button on any post in the feed to save it. Your saved list lives at /community/saved — only you see it. Good for ride reports you want to come back to, or repair tips worth remembering.

Guides and news

The community section also hosts how-to guides (fix a flat, pick the right bike size) and regional news (local laws, e-scooter rules, events). If you spot something we missed, let us know.

Partner forums

The partner forums page mirrors forums we partner with — currently just Biketime, an independent Russian-language cycling community. Browse its real categories and sections, open a topic to read the original opening post translated into your language, then follow the link to read replies and post on the partner's own site. We're not trying to compete with these forums or absorb their communities; we're pointing people toward them. See the partner forums guide for the full walkthrough.

Routes and the Territory game — now in the Navigator

Sharing GPX tracks and playing the city-block capture game both moved out of Community and into the Navigator in July 2026. Open /navigator to plan or follow a ride, share your track, or start a capture. The old /community/routes and /community/territory addresses now redirect there automatically. See the Navigator guide for the full walkthrough, or the routes guide for details on GPX sharing specifically.

Follows and activity feed

You can follow other members to keep up with what they post. Open anyone's profile and click Follow. The activity feed has two tabs: Following shows new threads, replies, and guides from people you follow; Discover shows recent activity from everyone. There's also an Activity preview at the top of the community page. For details, see the follows and feed guide.

Clubs vs the community

The community is for everyone — informal posting, neighbours' rides, casual meetups. Formal cycling clubs live on a different surface: /clubs. If you're a registered club (road, MTB, gravel, BMX, triathlon, kids etc.) you can apply for a club page; everyone else uses the community. See the clubs guide for details.

Rules

  1. Be kind. Disagreements are fine, personal attacks are not.
  2. No spam, no pure self-promotion. Commercial posts go in listings or vendor storefronts.
  3. Stay on-topic within each category.
  4. Report, don't fight. Moderators handle the rest.