Recent content by Bicyclista

Very cool! It even has front suspension, rack, and panniers! A front hub motor, is that right?

Yes, I live in Hillcrest and bike from my condo. Regarding Sunset Cliffs and Point Loma, you can ride one of the trails in Sunset Cliffs Park up to Lomaland Drive (you cannot do this in a car). You are then inside the campus of Point Loma Nazarene College. From there you can ride to the tip of...

Yes, @Jeremy McCreary, North County has it much better than San Diego proper, and it's even worse as you go south to Chula Vista, Imperial Beach, and San Ysidro. (And forget about going east to La Mesa, El Cajon, Santee, or Spring Valley.) But even as bike infrastructure in San Diego is middling...

@indianajo, it's possible that your condition is different than mine, and that the kind of variable-rate pacemaker I wear would not be appropriate. Mine is a Biotronik Edora 8 DR-T, and it uses a closed-loop stimulation sensor to respond to physiological demands on a beat-to-beat basis. On my...

@indianajo, sorry to hear about your health issues. @Mike TowpathTraveler has some good advice in post #29. I have a pacemaker myself, and I don't find that it hinders hill climbing. It's probable I have a rate-responsive pacemaker. It automatically adjusts to my exercise level. Pehaps you...

I don't know if @Katrina92 is still around, but there is a Kickstarter project for a Superbike weighing less than 20 lbs. Apparently, they will achieve this low weight by making it all carbon fiber with a small hub motor and small integrated battery. Not my cup of tea, but this may be the way to...

Is Park Tools talking to me? They show a Yuba Spicy Curry, my bike, on the stand. And you can power the lift with an electric drill! On second thought, I like @kevinmccune's remark: "the best lift resides at a bike shop with your favorite tech utilizing it!"

I have been riding my Haibike with Yamaha motor for ten years now. No issues. At 15,000 miles I had seals and bearings replaced as preventive maintenance. Still going strong after about 20,000 miles... My 3-year-old Yuba with Bosch motor has had no problems either. It has about 6,000 miles.

Thank you for the link, PedalUma! I launch and get on my saddle the forbidden way. I place my left pedal at either 9, 10, or 11 o'clock, push off with my right foot while simultaneously pressing the pedal with my left. I then swing my right leg over the saddle and I'm off. I have been getting...

I bring four cameras plus my iPhone. One Sony a1 with a 100-400mm lens; one Sony a1 Mark II with a 300mm lens + 2X teleconverter; one Leica Q2 Monochrom (with fixed 28mm lens); one Leica Q3 43 (with fixed 43mm lens). I may add my most recent acquisition, a Fujifilm GFX100RF (with fixed 35mm...

The Luna is 39 lbs. The OP rides a non-electric Scott Addict which probably weighs around 17 lbs. (unless she spent $16,000 for the 13 lbs. version). She thinks the Scott Addict eRide is too heavy at 24 lbs. The Luna is not in the same ballpark.

In my limited experience, the smallest hub motor I've seen is the front-hub motor (about 2.2 lbs) on the Gocycle. I doubt Gocycle will sell you one separately, but used Gocycle motors occasionally show up on eBay, such as this one. According to Richard Thorpe, the former McLaren F1 engineer who...

The original Yamaha battery in my 2016 Haibike AllMtn is still going strong after nearly 20,000 miles and nine years. It seems to have lost 10% of its capacity. The original Bosch batteries (two installed; the software automatically alternates between the two) in my 2022 Yuba Spicy Curry have...

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My LBS bled and replenished my Magura hydraulic disc brakes. Strange that your LBS won't get involved with this aspect of bike service. Maybe find a better LBS. You know it's time to bleed and replinish when your brakes feel mushy and there is excessive travel of your brake levers.