Recent content by jabberwocky

Yeah, they clearly wanted to mount racks without having to change the frame (since carbon molds are very expensive). The suspension pivot is already nice and strong, so mounting it there makes sense. A seatpost clamp is a... serviceable.. solution for the other mounting point. Its not a bad...

Fantastic deal! :p Wonder if they will sell the racks by themselves? Probably a different linkage piece to allow it to attach, but the seatpost clamp and front rack look like they would fit the standard bike.

I would love to read the meeting notes where Specs well-paid marketing department decided that a 12 grand bikepacking EMTB made sense. Genuinely, it seems incredibly niche but it would be cool if there was actually a market. I guess to be fair it looks like they just kludged the rear rack onto...

I'm pretty frequently above 20mph on my class 3, but not generally by a lot and not for all that long. On flat roads or modest downhills, with a good effort from my I'm usually cruising in the 20-23mph range. But my average speeds for rides are usually in the mid teens.

...Are you an alien visitor who has no experience with how humans work?

IME almost every cyclist is also a driver. Also IME whenever drivers are complaining about "entitled cyclists", they are almost always just whining that they had to slow down for 5 seconds 3 months ago and are still bitter about it. As a resident of what you would probably consider "the...

The ever-fashionable roadie hate is entitlement, but not generally on the part of the road cyclist. Its motorists sense of entitlement to drive without even a minor inconvenience, ever.

Town I lived in dropped the blanket speed from 25mph to 20mph a few years back. It did drop the average driver speed from 40mph to 35mph, so.. success, kinda?

His is a first year quad motor. He has had some minor issues and the one major one (my recollection is he was slow charging off a 120v connection at a vacation rental and the slow charge inverter had an issue and put the main battery into limp mode). They seem to be going down the same path...

My brother isn't some green zealot, he just think it maths out for him. And the Rivian is genuinely a fantastic car; super comfy, nice inside, extremely fast (he had the quad motor which like 3s to 60; it outruns my dads M4 pretty handily). He does road trips several times a year and has...

As someone who actually bike commuted for 12 years and lived car free for a few years in the middle, I think you have an idealized and largely fictional idea of what utility type cyclists want or need. Which is why there isn't really anything on the market that caters to it. 20mph up an 8%...

Where I live you see a lot of Rivians. EVs are pretty popular in NoVA. My brother had a Tesla 3 for a while, but he didn't really fit in it all that well (he's like 6'-5") and the build quality was terrible. He was an early adopter on the Rivian. He likes it a lot. He definitely drives it...

Dunno, where I live there are very few bike lanes even today (and there were basically none when I started road riding in 2005) and the hostility has always been there. I think its historically just that people are self centered and see cyclists as inconveniencing them on "their" roads. Its...

Regen braking is great, but its not as strong as conventional brakes, so all electric cars still have those. So it makes sense to just disable regen when you have nowhere to put the power and use the conventional brakes. I assume its seamless (the car decides how much regen and how much...

Amusing that the author commented that Its not a legal grey area, its unequivocally not a legal ebike which means its needs to be registered as a moped or motorcycle to be ridden on public roads. Whether that gets enforced or not is an open question, but lack of enforcement doesn't actually...