Recent content by jabberwocky

I would personally prefer people just treated others with respect instead of obsessing over superficial gestures like saying please and thank you.

Standing may be less efficient in pure energy expenditure, but it lets you apply more absolute power. Even pros in grand tours (which are basically 3 week exercises in energy conservation) are standing when they sprint or attack. There are times to sit and spin and save your energy, and there...

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 and pretty hard to tip. But the inside wheel lifting up in hard cornering is part of why they are fun. Its a different experience than riding a bike. You feel...

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 biological doping. You need a motor which means you need metal and magnets and those can be found relatively simply, and if your bike has a motor in it its hard...

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 up like 3/4 of the trail and he had changed the gearing so he could cruise at 25-30mph and this was before ebikes were really allowed and codified on trails in...

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 work in high end architecture and have plenty of clients for whom spending outrageous money is absolutely worth it if it impresses their friends and neighbors...

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 VCs, but if they actually intended on selling them I'm not sure who the target market would be). The battery is physically small so is unlikely to actually store...

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 some, but mainly its a way to spend a bunch of VC money on management and engineers. I will be amazed if the company survives long enough to sell more than a...

If speed differentials are that big a thing for you, just get a motorcycle my dude.

Broadly speaking, increased competition at the low end and tariffs eating what profit margin they had are probably the major factors, but there were others. They ate a few lawsuits in the US regarding people getting injured (and in one case, killed) riding their bikes. They got huge influxes of...

Ebikes can really hide a lot of crimes, bike-fit wise. I've seen some truly bizarre saddle/stem decisions made by ebike riders. Its easier to get away with when the motor is doing a lot of the work. But man, a bike that fits properly and has a saddle that works for you is just so much nicer...

This is a genuine annoyance. Seems to be mainly a result of the move to more factory store models by the big 3 (Specialized, Trek and to a lesser extent Giant) where they really strong arm stores into buying more product and pushing not just the brands bikes, but all those high-profit...

I genuinely don't know that I'd call the Globe Haul/Pakyak/etc "cheap". They are ~$4k bikes even on sale. If thats cheap to you, I think you have a very skewed idea of what people spend on bikes. They are still considerably more expensive than the DTC brands like Lectric/Aventon/Rad/etc.

I think they mean its not cheap in that it has good build quality and a decent parts spec. Its not Giant=good and Momentum=bottom barrel crap. Or Spec-Globe, same comment. They have different models occupying different price points, but the sub brands seem to still be good quality offerings...

Yeah, the sub-brands that the major manufacturers have come up with seem to be more about marketing (having something thats more attractive to non-cyclists) than it being "cheaper", So Giant markets ebikes to traditional cyclists and Momentum is more about marketing to people who don't ride...