Recent content by mschwett

you obviously didn’t do enough listening to and sharing of music and software in the pre-internet days, i must have burned hundreds if not a thousand CDs. everything from audio mixes to photo and document backup, school assignments, data transfer, and, uh, maybe not quite legal software...

they do have filaments with embedded carbon fiber that are a couple times stronger than the normal plastics, but still not real CF or anywhere near metal. i would love to see one of those real-metal 3d printers in action!

i see a few threads over the years about people getting printers. i've long been printing bicycle related bits and pieces on the various printers we've used at the office for 15 years or so now, and finally splurged on one at home. having so much fun. and then, by chance, the sp-connect mount i...

ahhh, yeah you don’t need to take the cranks off. the clutch mechanism for the SL motor is essentially inside the motor, and the spider for the chainring is attached to one side of it and the crank to the other. you remove the chain guard / pant leg guard and access the bolts from the “inside”...

hmmm got a photo? I thought it was a standard 110x4 chainring. the spiders and crank are obviously unique to the SL but I’ve never seen one with a custom chainring. they are just slightly fiddlier to attach depending on the bolt configuration.

that's a good profile to test out such a thing, the end is all downhill :D

of course a structure needs to be designed for the site. go to switzerland, which is certainly a snowy, alpine place, where new roofs are required to have solar, usage is expanding rapidly (as it is basically everywhere), and no roofs or canopies are collapsing.

such nonsense. it has literally been working on the ground in hundreds of places over the planet for decades now, and has accelerated sharply. california - the fourth largest economy in the world, GDP per capita over 100k, routinely produces more than half it's electricity from solar and of...

that’s why having the power max setting in each mode is so useful! so that when you ride hard you don’t get LESS range lol.

yes, it needs a key! and some graphic work for sure. i'd like to extend to more bay area rides but the scale becomes problematic, unless one totally abandons any relationship between distance on the map and in real life. i'm an architect, so we make lots of drawings, but i also just really like...

i know these have been made for different regions, but i thought it would be a fun exercise to make one from my own most frequent cycling routes. of course it's not to scale, as these often aren't, with everything reduced to 45 degree increments and heavily abstracted - in the style of the...

cool! it also occurred to me that you’d need to take into account the motor cutoff on descents!

this is cool! i love exercises like this. it's always cool how close the real world matches the physics, in most cases. i think for this to be accurate for the kind of riding i do you'd need a way to break the ride into a few chunks or "types" of riding. the key factor is how often you're going...

i’m curious why a 19mph scooter doesn’t require a license or registration but a 20mph ebike does….

some of you guys take a ton of shite with you! are you going for a bike ride or to repair apollo 13?!?