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I thought you meant a motor vehicle with the "check engine" bulb removed to cover up the electrical problems causing lousy mileage and air pollution. I bought a new 20 mpg city 23 mpg hwy F150 in 2025. My repaired heart would not support riding my bike up hills: pulse collapsed to 60 bpm with...

Bike is car replacement. I brought home groceries, home improvement supplies, went to concerts & church, ate in restaurants 17 years without a car. You cannot do any of those by staying outside the store/venue/restaurant. Only AV block caused by ablation surgery 4/25, limiting pulse to 60 with...

6' x 3/8" for everyday in Jeffersonville. https://www.mcmaster.com/8942T547/ At the Greyhound station, county jail, or Louisville concerts I add a 6' x 1/2" https://www.mcmaster.com/8942T831/ through the frame and the 3/8" sling through the motor wheel. The 1/2" tends to squirt out of the...

8 years on same bike using a stainless sling from mcmaster and a $12 Master padlock. I shop, go to concerts, work a volunteer job. Weird is good, per post #24. I could cut the sling in 45 minutes, but I am an ex factory mechanic. No videos on Utube showing how to cut that. I have had 3...

On a cargo bike, you can dump excess layers into the pannier in the middle of a non-grocery ride. At 6 F I wear 6 layers upper, 4 lower. No electricity required in Army TA-50 gear. At 6 F 2 pairs of gloves including farmer mittens, cling wrap over the mouth & head vents. 2 pairs sox, inner...

I shouted "green" at a motorcycle & SUV driver conversing at a left turn green light yesterday. They could speed over the 5 lanes at the very end of the light. I cannot. They did wake up, start their engines, and I got through the light only seeing red on the second to last lane.

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...