Recent content by fritz katzenjammer

Only about 2000 km a year. I suppose it’s not bad for a guy who only a few years ago was stuck behind a desk 9 hours a day. retirement is great, now if I didn’t live in a land where winter can be so darn nasty.

Cool! you can never have too much in the braking department.

If you want the Flow app to automatically engage you have to leave it open on your phone at all times. which is a pain if you shut your phone off at night and forget to turn that app back on in the morning. if you use the automatic security on the app it also means you have to carry your phone...

Are your brake pads compatible with your rotors? not all pad types, sintered/metallic, resin, ceramic… get along with all rotor types.

The tube shows it to be a low temperature synthetic grease. it has to work at low temperatures, high temperature grease may be way too thick at the temperatures your motor operates at. its synthetic, likely to keep it from ruining your polymer gear train or causing the seals to swell and...

That’s not a good idea at all. That’s for slow moving, sliding parts at elevated temperatures. its not for rotating parts like bearing or parts that shear their lubricants like gears.

Synthetic means they can charge too much for it but it won’t degrade any plastic components within the assembly, which a petroleum based lubricant might do. low temperature means it otherwise nothing special. you could likely get away with a silicone based grease but why not use the...

I know! Send the cyclist to the pub and put a motor on the airplane! some old Rolls Royce unit would be fine… a Merlin?… Griffin? BMW has made some nice radials…

Agreed. The distributors and manufacturers eating the tariffs is only temporary though. If the tariffs don’t come off they will have to be passed on sooner or later. The company I deal with currently is counting on the tariffs being temporary and are eating them for now, but it has hurt the...

Well if the tariffs are going to doom imported parts I don’t know what the US will be riding. It‘s all imported. You biggest maker, Trek, makes about 1% of its bikes in the US, everything else is subject to tariff. And all of the components on that 1% are imported. If you run into one of those...

The stuff is really expensive and doesn’t a work any better than the competition. add in not making “the winning equipment” any more and they are most likely doomed in the long run. they’ll likely get swallowed up by SRAM like the rest of Europe’s small brands. ten years from now we’ll all be...

What ever happened to people just being responsible for their actions? everything now has to involve a new law and some litigation.

I run two old road bikes, one is Suntour Cyclone equipped, the other Nuovo Record, the Suntour definitely works better. I read a few books on the history of cycling and the equipment in particular and the opinion in those books seemed to be in favour of Suntour. I think the reason Suntour...

No surprise really. The Japanese, in the form of Suntour, passed Campagnolo in functionality and matched them for quality in the seventies, the cycling world didn’t acknowledge it because the components weren’t made in Europe. When Suntour‘s patents were up and Shimano copied Suntour’s slant...

Yeah, Fazua… who thought a right angle drive was a good idea in a small output vehicle like an e-bike. A substantial piece of that motor’s output was soaked up going around a 90 degree corner. Just stupid its why you don’t see shaft drives on full on sports motorcycles, the mechanical losses...