Recent content by Catalyzt

My bike is 46.5 pounds-- sort of an "L" instead of an "SL"-- and I'm fascinated at how minor increases in grade makes a difference in terms of whether, and how long, I can ride without assistance. On dead flat terrain, I set assistance to zero, and it's hardly any different from ECO, I ride for...

It probably depends on where you are riding, but I found that the extra (real world ) 6 MPH on my bike with a TSDZ2B made for safer riding in traffic on narrow streets with two lanes and a traffic speeds of 30-40 MPH, or it sure felt that way. Riding to the bank, I'd be passed by three cars vs...

Interesting. I don't know if there is a bright-line answer to this question, but... I ride 80% broken, cracked and crumbling pavement and 20% dirt; the thing is, when I want to ride dirt, I really want to ride dirt. I'm running 2.2 Maxxis Ikons at 50 PSI (they are 60 PSI max, so that should...

These sound really awesome! I'll see if you like them as much in a few months, and then probably take the plunge! I don't... quite understand Stefan's issue with complaints about Presta. And of course I ride Presta; I go tubeless on almost everything, and I've been riding Presta / Tubeless...

I can see why you might say that; I don't think that's unfair. I do think news was a lot better in the Walter Cronkite era, and the early to mid '70s; I actually thought it started getting worse in the early '80s, but we may be talking about the same general thing, and I certainly agree about...

<< All media presents biased nonsense, people just think their 'side' doesnt. >> Respectfully, no. Some media is definitely more reliable and less biased than others. Also, many of us believe there are no 'sides,' that this is a fiction promoted deliberately by one faction (not 'both,' not...

Haven't been to England since 2015, but one of my buddies in London got seriously injured by thieves on a scooter long before eBikes came on the scene. The smash-and-grab tactic had nothing to do with e-bikes or mobile phones-- they stole his money-- and everything to do with speed and...

I think something like that happens in Three Body Problem-- the sun is blocked or the earth is put in a shell or something, but we manage to muddle along for a few years as everything starts slowly freezing. Man, that trilogy was brutal to read. I understood maybe 17% of the physics. But I...

This, agree generally. The one battery I had trouble with was the Hilltopper, which was very small / low capacity, frequently run down to zero, and which I left 'on' all the time-- I never remembered to shut the battery off when I got home, and the passive drain was huge-- I'd leave it on with...

Ah, but go back 50 years or so, and it's a different story. During the era of bike messengers in NYC in the early '80s, professional cyclists going too fast was a HUGE issue in The Big Apple, a lot of complaints, and a lot of press... but like this controversy, the number of injuries (per...

I don't do (most of) my own work, but the issue I had on Mercury, the 29er w/ the TSDZ2B, was that time and time again, one tire would start getting slow flats. Since this has happened before, now I just live with it as the the leak slowly gets faster... ...until inevitably, I'll be filling...

Having lived in Southern California over 30 years, I can say this was an unprecedented event at least within that time frame. These were not 'normal' Santa Anas. Yes, there were scientists who understood climate change might get this severe, but a lot of what burned in Altadena were on flat...

Sure, there's always a contingent in any demographic that whines and complains and likes to tell others what to do, and makes wild generalization, calling out other people and making assumptions about what they are thinking. And that does happen with young people today, as it always has. I...

Thanks, brother, appreciate it. No worries. Sorry if I'm a little tense! I confronted someone on the Motobecane today... MAGA looking dude in a green SUV. He engaged me in conversation, but mad no sense. How do I get through that gate? Me: No, that's someone's property. Him: How do I get...

Pedaluma! << The torch guy was doing his full-time job as a road worker melting tar >> << You have absolutely no factual basis for saying that, correct? That was not reported from any reliable source, was it? You made that up, correct? Why did you do that?! I know the guy who tackled...