Recent content by Biplaneguy

This is my great grandfather's monkey wrench. Not sure what he used it for, he had a livery and transport business (horse drawn). A little larger than a typical small airplane tool but just what I needed to loosen the oil breather elbow.

Mine is clearly the Model B. I also have several unknown brand monkey wrenches (what they call "automobile wrenches") of various sizes which I still use.

I can't say I've actually used this on a bike, but this little monkey wrench is (I believe) from the toolkit included with Pierce Arrow bicycles, made by Billings & Spencer, around 100 years old. They also made motorcycles and cars but my understanding is that the "B" marked short wrenches...

Another part of the problem may be that most of Rad's older models are, well, kinda crude. That was OK at one time but the industry has moved on. Their new Radster models are a big step up in sophistication (I love mine), but I guess it was too late.

Note that the article is defending legal class 3 (28mph) ebikes, not the faster electric motorcycles masquerading as e-bikes.

That video is fun but way overdramaticized. It only takes about 15 lbs of pull to get that glider airborne, which about 1.5HP at the speed it needs to go. Remember a plane powered by only one pedaler crossed the English channel!

The bot scours the web to find forums, then creates the account and then posts the links, on thousands of forums at the same time. Now there are thousands of links to boost the search rankings.

Search engine ranking. The more other websites that have a link to yours, the higher you sit in the search results. So they put links in the post, in their user profile, etc. That's one reason why many forums restrict new users from posting links, so the bot tries to post enough messages to...

Well, being polite is a sign of "a proper upbringing that instilled a superior class of behaviour." It has nothing to do with social class. Indeed these days one is as (or more) likely to see to see polite behavior from an uneducated backwoods hillbilly than from a successful and "educated"...

I'm in the "both" camp, but I modulate the front and rear pressures according to how the bike feels without really thinking about it. But I'd say that a front wheel skid goes bad faster and is harder to recover from, than a rear wheel skid. And I vividly remember friends going over the...

The thing that seems to be ignored is the synergistic effect. One or two pints of Guinness or one or two puffs on a joint may not cause significant impairment, but combine the two and you may be way too impaired to be safe, even if below the legal limit(s).

26 / 600,000 = 0.004%. Just for fun, I did a search. Online quoted statistics are dubious, but that's about exactly the rate of fires for electric vehicles in general... which despite the hype, are a lot less common than fires in gasoline powered vehicles (but a lot more difficult to extinguish).

I think much of what a person finds attractive is based on the prevailing images and people around you during puberty when you start noticing the opposite sex (or, I guess, the same sex if that's how you're wired). For me that's the late 60s-early 70s simple/natural/no makeup/blue jeans/hippie...

The linked petition contradicts itself in several places. And, It's not arbitrary at all, it matches the established limits used by many other jurisdictions. As @jabberwocky said, if you want to go faster, buy a motorcycle.

I too have the Suntour seatpost and am very happy with it.