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jabberwocky replied to the thread What happened to good manners.I would personally prefer people just treated others with respect instead of obsessing over superficial gestures like saying please and... -
Im always amused when people say ' I was brought up to....etc'. Theres quite a lot of unsaid implication in the statement Its a...
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True, but climbs in races are rarely at a static pace. It's attack after attack after attack. Conserving energy is important, but if...
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Agree with this but also on a long climb, say on one of the 3 week tours, the rider finds a cadence that they can maintain to conserve...
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jabberwocky replied to the thread Recumbent E-bikes.Standing may be less efficient in pure energy expenditure, but it lets you apply more absolute power. Even pros in grand tours (which...
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Yes the Catrike Speed has a 2.5-3 inch ground clearance. That would not work on speed bumps and 50% of my terrain. They are good for a...
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jabberwocky replied to the thread Recumbent E-bikes.Lol, as the owner of a recumbent tadpole. They vary in stability; mine (a mid 2000s vintage Catrike Speed) is super low to the ground...
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jabberwocky replied to the thread mechanical doping.The good news when it comes to mechanical doping is its much easier to check for and much less ambiguous than all the various ways of...
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jabberwocky replied to the thread Is it time to invest in ELF?.Hah. A local guy had an early one. He used to ride it on the local MUP in the early 2010s which caused a lot of local chatter (it took...
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jabberwocky reacted to Jeremy McCreary's post in the thread Rivian spins out a new micromobility startup called Also with $105M from Eclipse with
Haha.
Exactly what goes on here. Back in 2001, I heard a Colorado Public Radio interview with a winter Olympian from Vail, Colorado ahead of... -
jabberwocky replied to the thread Rivian spins out a new micromobility startup called Also with $105M from Eclipse.I live in Loudoun County, aka the wealthiest county in the US, so we have our share of people with more money than sense as well. :p I...
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jabberwocky reacted to Jeremy McCreary's post in the thread Rivian spins out a new micromobility startup called Also with $105M from Eclipse with Like.
I see at least a niche market in coastal SoCal. We have our share of sensible people, but lots of disposable money here. Rivians are...
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jabberwocky reacted to Jeremy McCreary's post in the thread Rivian spins out a new micromobility startup called Also with $105M from Eclipse with Like.
Agree with all of that. But I see little evidence that the California definition of a legal ebike (similar to many other state...
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jabberwocky replied to the thread Rivian spins out a new micromobility startup called Also with $105M from Eclipse.True, but the market for those bikes isn't going to want this thing. I'm not sure who the target market would actually be (well, its...
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jabberwocky replied to the thread Rivian spins out a new micromobility startup called Also with $105M from Eclipse.I still think this whole enterprise is just a way to separate VCs from their money. I'm sure prototypes exist, and they may even sell...