Recent content by fritz katzenjammer

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...

Shouldn’t be a problem as long as you get a quality timer that can handle the load. I have one on my swimming pool pump that turns it on for ten hours each night when the power is cheaper, and that draws 9 amps. Its been working for about twenty years now.

Now be nice, we only have three currently on the go right now. and that one discontinued thing that should never have seen the light of day…

Yuk! This will likely finish Rad Power Bikes. Too bad.

Decent quality lights will be labeled as to power consumption, often molded into the lens, if you want to confirm.

My lock weighs 16 pounds and I doubt it’s enough. I hate parking my bike anywhere but my locked garage.

An update to my earlier comments. A few things have been updated as of late and we can now interface with a Bosch equipped Gazelle as well as we do own own Bosch equipped Trek stuff. I don’t know if the issue was at our end or with Bosch but that should eliminate some of that concern with buying...

Sad, but no surprise here. The whole industry is hurting. Manufacturers thought the Covid boom would last forever, continuing after Covid was obviously ending, so everybody kept ordering bikes just knowing they could unload everything they could squeeze out of whoever actually builds their...

Ooooo… thanks for that. She is a teacher and I could have been in trouble for that one but she is Dutch so likely doesn’t care about it. She just rolls her eyes and tells me to go stand in the corner.