Recent content by Jeremy McCreary

Could've used English subtitles to follow what he was saying, but pretty interesting to hear his revised take on ebikes after riding this one. Nothing that we haven't heard or said ourselves here, of course. But he comes at it as a serious roadie who's finally seeing what an ebike might be good...

Great finish worth watching in the La Fleche Wallonne Femmes 2026:

Hope the people around him have his best interests in mind.

San Clemente Island is a naval base. The east end of Santa Catalina is developed private land with houses, condos, and businesses. The islands are otherwise protected within the Channel Islands National Park. I've taken ferries from Ventura Harbor to Santa Cruz Island and from Long Beach Harbor...

If you mean in Malibu and Altadena, still in progress. Sometimes watch LA news and often see stories of this or that group upset with the clean up, the permitting, the delays, the new designs, and on and on. The wisdom of rebuilding there seldom comes up now. The topographic and atmospheric...

Yes, the cold California Current (blue on map below) keeps heading south below Point Conception (boundary between Central and Southern California), thus bypassing the Southern California Bight (broad coastline curvature on map). This sets up the red California Counter Current, which brings us...

Water temp was 68°F yesterday. Typically peaks in the low 70's in September, but you can comfortably wade barefoot year round. Our weather's different from LA's. They get hotter and stronger Santa Ana winds in fall and winter and many fewer marine layer days in the spring and summer. Air temps...

Very good to hear that! I plan to ride my SL a long, long time.

Some photos from today's Coast Highway ride south to Del Mar. First objective: Hot dogs at Moonlight Beach. The cute 70-something couple we met there has taken this aluminum-framed tandem on major rail trails all over the country — including some famous ones back east that @6zfshdb and...

Sorry, just edited my reply to change references to "motor" when I really meant "drive unit". The drive unit still functions as your bottom bracket, even when the motor's off.

La Fleche Wallone tomorrow. Just watched the 2025 NBC highlights. Never guess who just rode away at the bottom of the final climb with ~1 km to go. Roll and VV were apoplectic at his gravity-defying seated speeds up the double-digit gradients, which in places were over 20%.

Wow, how frustrating! Lots of diagnostic work here, but you haven't really addressed the drive unit or cranks yet. The fact that your tick-tock syncs with pedal rotation makes me wonder about both. After all, the drive unit still functions as your bottom bracket, even when the motor's off. This...

Stumbled across YouTube "final kms" highlights of the 2026 Tour of the Alps, Stage 1. Not on the streaming guide posted by @stompandgo . Unfortunately, streaming only on FloBikes in the US. Heard some big name riders mentioned but never heard of this race. Is it an important one? Would like to...

Sorry, beyond my pay grade. If there's a Park Tool video on the subject on YouTube, just do what they say. Also search the forum. I know this has come up before.

Last of the baby duck photos, I promise. The parents stayed close by this evening — maybe because it was getting close to dusk, when the coyotes tend to come out.