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I owned a diamondback MTB, a 18 speed. The wheels were too small to seat the tires, which fell off the rim blowing the tube several times. After ~1000 miles the rear axle broke in two under my enormous 180 lb. I do not jump curbs, rocks or picnic tables. The shimano axle was 8 mm thick...

I am a man. Have to keep up the work for your muscles, else you feel old. I shoveled snow 21 days this winter, at 3 properties, about 3 hours a day. >12" of snow, twice. Had to clear the path to the propane tank twice for the truck that never came over a 5 day window. 2 lean women stopped...

I ride kenda or giant knobbies at all times on pavement because when the knobs are taller than 3/32", I do not gets flats. I don't use flatout or slime or liners, Slime plugged up the valve where I could no longer add air to the tire. That is required every 3 months however good the tire is. I...

I'm age 75. I ride a geared hub motor on the front. No drag if I pedal unpowered. 14 extra pounds, less than the toolbox, water, spares & rain gear I carry. I'm feeling frisky, I ride my 30 mile route unpowered. Wind 25 mph in my face, 96 deg F, I turn on the motor. I don't get to choose...

3 1/2 hours. Since covid damage to lungs, my weekly 30 mile commute to summer camp now takes 4 hours. 6 hours if the wind is >20 mph in my face and the motor is rotating mostly backwards. Crossing 2 phase wires makes it rotate backwards the other way. Supply of cheap controllers destroyed by...

I found a Brooks saddle bruising after a couple of hours. I use a selle explora, which is the most padding I can buy for a rail mount. Cloud9 is only for post mount. My bike has an odd sized post, with a rail adapter from the factory. I use a cloud9 padded seat cover, which falls off a lot...

Per Clevelandclinic.org " Types of heart blockSecond-degree (incomplete) heart block: With this type, your heart’s impulses only get to the lower chambers some of the time. The types of second-degree heart block are: Type II, also called Mobitz Type II: While most of the electrical signals...

My Yuba bike has cable pull brakes. The front caliper needs tightening at ~1000 miles which takes 2 minutes. The front pads need replaced at ~2000 miles. The disks are 160 mm. With panniers, spares, tools, water, weather gear, the bike weighs 94 lb. The OEM 3.5" handles were too short, but...

The ones from the bike store will most likely have real steel cables and spokes, and real aluminum rims. The <$1300 ebikes tend to have the same grey metal parts as $200 bikes from the discount stores. The ones that require the cables to be adjusted biweekly: the spokes to be tightened 4 times...

Rather than paying a tax pro, the surgeon has arranged the pacemaker installation in November. So I will pay for it, perhaps helped by Medicare, in January. That is a new tax year. Medicare denies two thirds of all my medical care claims, so I am not optimistic about this one. Pacemaker is not...

I get leg cramps while sleeping in the summer starting late June or early July. I take medicine for diabetes, cholesterol, and high blood pressure, so lack of cramps in moderate and cold weather proves those have nothing to do with it for me. Correction is one shake of Morton's Lite Salt on my...

If you are not a downhill Mountain Bike racer, totally unnecessary. I have 13000 miles on my cable pull brakes, and I like them fine. Quality bikes have real steel cables that don't need adjustment every month like the grey metal trash cables in cheap kiddiie (and electric) bikes. I have 77...

Ha Ha Ha Ha!. My usual federal tax bill is $2200. One year two taxable mutual funds terminated, causing my income to increase $20000. My tax bill was $14000. Social security became fully taxable instead of ~35%, and I paid Alternative Minimum Tax which took my standard deduction. Yeah, that...

Result of 10/14/25 visit with cardio surgeon. Medicare will do nothing for a heart that drops from 84 bpm to 60, every time my respiration gets above 40 cpm. Pulse should go to 120 or 132 or 144, but since ablation surgery during aerobic exercise the heart skips every other beat. But the...

I bought ebikeling front wheel 2"x26" tire kit in 2018. Everything worked together. I got ~4500 miles out of it, 2 1/2 years, before the gears wore out. The controller lasted 6 years until a land on the pcb lost connection and it gave error 8 all the time (no PAS pickup). Turning the PAS off as...