Recent content by jabberwocky

Been 3d printing for a while now. I use it for a lot of purposes, but primarily its great for shop organization and woodworking jigs. Need a weird router jig for a specific task? Super easy to knock up a model and print it. Vacuum adapter for a tool with a weird inlet size? Trivial to model...

Especially since despite their grandiose claims, there is some evidence that their hypersonics don't live up to the hype. Shocker, I know. Russia has launched a handful over the course of the war and analysis has been.. mixed. Patriot has shot down a few, or at least so its claimed. If...

It is true that being somewhat in the lane is safer, unless the lane is super wide or there is a generous shoulder. The reality is that most people aren't psychos who will try and kill you, but a lot of people will do incredibly stupid s*it that will endanger you if they think they can get away...

I think I'll take the crime rate and justice system here in the US to the one in Russia. But you do you. Lol. Ok. You're probably right that his regime hasn't been seriously damaged, but thats mainly because hes a dictator who is largely insulated from any consequences. But even dictators...

If Putin thought using nukes would have won him his special military operation, he would have used them years ago. Not losing the war he started is basically life or death for him; its hard to imagine a dictator surviving that sort of humiliation. He hasn't because a: he knows it would mean...

So more classes, with presumably a lower bottom end for kids and a much higher power limit at the top (750w is the current limit, so 2000-3000w is 2.5-4 times the current legal limit) and no speed cutoffs. A 2000w bike with no limit is going to be pretty easily capable of 40mph (just quick...

I'm unclear what you are proposing. If you had your way, how would ebikes be legally defined? The rest of the world regulates ebikes AFIAK. In most cases, more stringently than the US does. I don't really see a point in engaging with the "why is this sold as a safety issue" because I...

By access I mean everything that isn't strictly motor vehicle infrastructure. So bike lanes, MUPs, paths/sidewalks, unpaved trails, singletrack, etc. I don't mean strictly singletrack. And hey, if all you care about is riding on the roads, you already have an option (legit motorcycles) that...

Can you point at someone making the claim that power limits/assist cutoffs/whatever are primarily a safety measure? They are almost entirely an access measure, because at their core, ebikes are motorcycles. They have two wheels and a motor, and most non-powered user groups are not interested...

On roads, maybe, but on trails and such it happens all the time. National Wilderness still bans all bikes, and MTBers lose access to trail pretty regularly when land is put under wilderness protection (which is frustrating because MTB advocates have been put in the position of having to fight...

There are plenty of places where, if a jurisdiction was forced to accept vaguely limited ebikes if they allow bicycles, they would absolutely ban both. A lot of off-road trail is in that category. You simply don't realize how tenuous bicycle access is in a lot of places, because you've never...

This is definitely the way a serious advocate talks. Best of luck with your windmills, Mr Quixote.

I mock the idea that theres some shortcut to take instead of doing the hard advocacy work. The idea that some government agency definition preempts every use regulation in every jurisdiction in the country is straight up magical thinking. I get its an attractive magical idea that somehow rules...

But what if its tried in a court with gold fringe on the flag?

For most people it just comes down to the economics of it. It costs X to install a system, which will save Y a month. Whats the timeframe where the monthly savings covers the install cost? My experience (as a residential architect) is its somewhere in the 6-9 year range at todays costs and...