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Mr. Coffee reacted to mschwett's post in the thread The Future of eBikes: How Fast is Too Fast? with
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in whose opinion? yours? what is good for society is a complex question and i'd advise anyone to be deeply skeptical of anyone who... -
Mr. Coffee replied to the thread Wireless Earbuds for cycling.If you look at the trainingpeaks app it kind of does that. I often use a polar HRM and their companion apps can call out pace and heart...
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Same here. Unfortunately, most of my local hills and bikeways have too much traffic for that. Just had a brilliant idea: I know from...
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Mr. Coffee replied to the thread Wireless Earbuds for cycling.I'll give an upvote for the Shokz too. Usually I only wear them on quiet grade-separated bike paths and gravel roads. They do make...
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Mr. Coffee replied to the thread E-Gravel Bike…Looking for Advice.Yeah, but some of them are pretty predictable. Most of the compute grades by sampling the elevation profile periodically. So if they...
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Mr. Coffee replied to the thread E-Gravel Bike…Looking for Advice.That's what I'd call a Saturday morning...
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That's what I wanted to suggest to you. A nice 55 mi ride at temperature 31 - 46 F and 4,500 ft elevation gain, constant raining, strong...
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Mr. Coffee replied to the thread E-Gravel Bike…Looking for Advice.Most cyclists and most bikes will be pretty much defeated by any grade over 25 percent, even for fairly short distances. I'd also point...
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Mr. Coffee replied to the thread From Concept to Prototype: Ultra-Light Ebike Kit for Road Bikes Now in Development!.The purpose of a torque arm is to keep the axle from rotating out of the dropout. With a through axle you don't have a dropout. You...
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Mr. Coffee replied to the thread E-Gravel Bike…Looking for Advice.My short answer is if you'd find it scary to ride down it is probably pretty steep. Sustained climbs of over 1000 feet per mile (so...
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Mr. Coffee reacted to jabberwocky's post in the thread The Future of eBikes: How Fast is Too Fast? with Haha.
If only there was an existing class of 2 wheeled vehicles that are allowed on all public roads and have no power or speed restrictions! :p
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Mr. Coffee replied to the thread Anybody tried Clik tire valves?.This is my own opinion. I think there is zero justification for running with tubes (outside of an emergency when you ripped your tire...
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Mr. Coffee replied to the thread From Concept to Prototype: Ultra-Light Ebike Kit for Road Bikes Now in Development!.I suspect you wouldn't need a torque arm if your conversion has a through axle. And if you did it would look really different than...
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Mr. Coffee replied to the thread Anybody tried Clik tire valves?.I'd watch Schwalbe's web site. Where last I read clik valve tubes were "coming soon". My own feeling is the really huge win with Clik...
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Mr. Coffee replied to the thread The Future of eBikes: How Fast is Too Fast?.That is a completely idiotic straw man argument and doesn't even appear relevant to our discussion here. And a lot of countries out...
