Recent content by Biplaneguy

I grew up in the Hudson Valley, still have a cabin there, currently live in southern CT but plan to permanently move back to upstate NY soon. Not the cheapest place to live and the NY State government sucks but it's such a beautiful place... My rule is to live somewhere where there's a hard...

Life has gotten in the way of a lot of things lately, but I finally got a ride in this afternoon. The fall colors are past peak by now. but it was sunny and unseasonably warm, there won't be many more days this nice this year. The state forest entrance is about a mile from my house...

That was fun. Now I wanna see them do it on pennyfarthing bicycles.

My wife rides a Zugo (about the only ebike she could find to fit her short stature). Juls, the owner of Zugo, told us that one of her main motivations was to develop and sell a bike that would do well at Burning Man. I've never been to Burning Man (and won't, absent a time machine to go back...

Radster IS the model. Mine is the Radster Trail, which is identical to the Radster Road except for the wheels/tires.

Do you also make the semi-integrated batteries for the Radster models?

Then there's this...

The NJ law effectively bans out of state visitors from bringing their ebikes to NJ and riding them there, as many RVers do.

170# is also the standard human weight used for aircraft design calculations, has been for years.

What I want to know is how NJ will handle visitors from all the other states that don't issue ebike registrations?

Humans are tribal creatures. Throughout most of history, anybody not in your tribe was less than human and could / should be killed. We're trying to get past that, with varying degrees of success. Making fun of the other tribe is human nature, and better than actual fighting. Me, as a member...

I recently saw that Florida is proposing a law limiting ebike speed to 10mph when within 50ft of a pedestrian.

I like this one, I have one on my bike and one in my plane.

My son in law that ride a few years ago. He's done a number of long distance rides, here in the US as well as the UK and NZ. He tows a trailer with his supplies and camping gear.

My old friend was supposed to stop at our house enroute to look at a sailboat, but he cancelled, as he usually does. I was going to take him to the Shipwreck Tavern, so instead I rode my Radster there, about 6 miles on back roads Was going to sit outside to keep an eye on the bike (not that...