Recent content by BlackHand

What, did our Treasury Secretary defect?

Somehow, I missed the original context of what you were replying to.

Rotational weight impacts acceleration and climbing more than static weight. To what degree and how much it is offset by loss of inertia on downhills seems to be one of those neverending debates.

What's crazy is that the Addict eRide versions on clearance are better specced than the equivalent price acoustic Addict. Ultegra level components for $3500 on the eRide RC 10.

Yeah, you have to be somewhat accepting when you buy into a 10 year old platform with a 6 year old display. (I also bought a new old stock bike last fall) FWIW, the Nyon display lets you configure up to 6 fields per screen, but it's biggest feature are custom assist modes. But I think they...

That's a really slick detail. Love how they eliminated a pain point for hub motors and turned it into a selling point.

Unfortunately, Vivax -who owned the design - went out of business about 5 years ago. At that, the kits were $3-4k I think and are probably worth more now if any could even be found.

Maybe you should get an exoskeleton, then you don't have to mess with your bike at all. 2.2kg for the system, 2.6kg with a spare battery which you would almost certainly need. https://hypershell.tech/en-us/products/hypershell-x?variant=46103181918444

I figured @Stefan was talking about the pirates :)

I guess I've been slacking on contributing to this thread so here are some assorted bits from the last 3 weeks of extended commutes. 4/16 - 42 miles. Cut across Seattle up and down cobblestone blocks to lake WA then north to home. I guess this was the Falcon's first "shakedown cruise" as I...

Use of class 3 ebikes are limited to those age 16+ in my state and in many/most states as far as I know.

Spoken like a true right hander! I mount the bike from the right pretty often. Right foot planted is more natural for me. I end up mounting from the left as well, mostly because of the kickstand on one bike and the direction I am getting out of the garage and around the car in the driveway...

I'm left handed and right footed. I don't think that I favor either foot forward if I'm up on the pedals. But I definitely plant my right foot when mounting and when stopped. The exception being when the bike lane dissolves into a right tun lane. Then after stopping I switch to my left...

Hope you enjoy it! I was wondering if you went with the 2 or the newer 3. Pretty decent discounts on both right now, but hard to pass up under $1k

Can you clarify what cadence feels too fast for you? I think at 28mph your cadence is prob still below 75rpm? Everybody's natural range is a bit different, but you may find that your upper limit increases as you start cycling more often. It's been noted a couple times, but I would recommend...