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definitely targeted at MTBs, not sure i’ve ever seen a road bike with 4 piston brakes but i imagine it’s possible. probably easier than...

of course it could be smaller, but unless your friend is proposing starting a motor company to design and have manufactured a motor...

Thinking about the rear hub motor a bit more, i wonder how much the design of a frame for disk brakes takes into account similar forces...

We have three bikes with presta - my aethos, addict e-ride, and daughter’s sirrus. The first two tubeless, the latter tubed. Have a...

that’s all very interesting, i hadn’t observed that correlation before. i’m not really a spinner and tend to bounce a bit in the saddle...

that’s interesting, are you talking about resonance in the bike frame itself … or bouncing/oscillation of the rider on the seat which...

a good phone mount will have some small amount of damping (typically in the design of the arm or, for direct mount, rubber interface)...

silca ”Terra.” I like the wood handle, and the guage is rock solid, super smooth. When you stop pumping it snaps to the pressure super...

I got a new pump recently, and while it’s way nicer than my old one, the lever to lock the head on is so hard to fold down I worry I’m...

also.… the addict e-ride is a very nice bike, maybe pick up a used one? it’s essentially the bike you are trying to build yourself...

they’re serving a very different market, with nothing even remotely as light as the X20 that @Katrina92 is trying to improve on. The...

electricity, on the other hand, is already up to 40% renewable, 35-40% depending on the source. solar has been doubling every few years...

this is a very strange result - among the billions of words spent by cyclists debating wax and lube i have never heard of using both -...

same, many quality lithium ion batteries go way more cycles than promised.