Recent content by Biplaneguy

Probably typos but people should understand the difference between Watts (W), which is the rate of energy consumption, and Watt-hours (Wh), which is the total amount of energy used or stored. A device drawing 6W for one hour uses 6Wh of stored energy. 6W for a week is 1008Wh. Though a 1050...

My wife is 5'0" and fits her Zugo Rhino well. However, like most fat tire bikes it's not lightweight, but she wanted something that could handle sand and gravel roads at campgrounds, with a big battery for useful range.

Welcome! When I was in Syracuse for a few years with a bicycle as my only means of transportation, it was about getting around town at a constant elevation, i.e. going around instead of over the many small hills (called "drumlins") the city is built on. An ebike would've been nice, but they...

This. That common definition should include what requires registration and/or licensing and what doesn't, then the individual states can make operating regulations to suit their particular needs. Just like a car registered in, say, New York is legal to drive in California, though you have to...

No, there's a special level level of hell for impolite riders... where all rides are uphill, into the wind, on a heavy ebike with a dead battery.

NY State technically allows class 3, but only in New York City. Throughout the rest of the state it's class 1-2 only, and only on roads with 30mph speed limit or less. By many measures, NY is the least free state in the US.

Rode up the old camp road to the lake up the valley from our cabin, upstate NY. Not far, only a couple miles each way.

The rack we have now is made as a motorcycle rack, and as you can see from the picture, is a good bit larger than it needs to be. Also because motorcycles are larger, the dual bikes space them farther apart, increasing the load (or rather leverage) on the vehicle's trailer hitch, which in our...

That dates back to the 1980s at least, and it didn't originate with Jeep marketers; they just capitalized what Jeep drivers (real Jeeps; not Jeep SUVs) were already doing. Motorcycles, too. Don't even get me started on Jeeps and ducks... The only synthetic clothing I own or am likely to own...

This is her Zugo on the camper: But now that I have the Radster we need a two bike rack, so I've been looking at these two: Young Electric: https://www.amazon.com/Young-Electric-Capacity-Trailers-Receiver/dp/B0D13H18W7 CyberRack...

I wish I could say I'm surprised, but NY has been consistently been ranked as the "least free state" in the US. For me it's the 30 mph road speed restriction that's the most onerous. Meanwhile, where I sit in Harriman State Park (southern upstate), every nice day we're overrun with idiots on...

Soldering makes the best electrical connection, but it also stiffens the wire adjacent to the joint so it can break from fatigue in a vibration environment. For this reason, soldered connections aren't often used in aircraft unless the wire can be anchored close to the connection so there's no...

Welcome! To me anything north of NYC and LI is "upstate"... but I grew up and still spend a lot of time in the Hudson valley mountains so so I guess I want to emphasize my distance from the city. NY has some weird ebike laws... class 3 is 25 mph, not 28, and only legal in NYC. Elsewhere in...

The confusing patchwork of laws here in the US doesn't help, either. Some states allow class 1, some 2 or 3. What's legal in one state may not be legal just across the border... or may or may not be legal depending on what menu settings you choose. Then individual towns have their own...

Lots of kids around here on gas powered dirtbikes, too... the difference is that everybody knows they're not street legal. You see them on the roads occasionally, but mainly just quickly zipping between their house and the start of an old woods road.