Recent content by mschwett

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?!?

these days your phone is your credit card, no?

on a ride less than 40 miles or so i don’t carry anything. 40+, i carry a wolf tooth multitool, which has hex bits and a chain tool, a dynaplug capsule, and a mini electric inflator. a bigger problem than that and its a train or uber home! in the pre-tubeless days, which were thankfully...

it’s very amusing how those types have NO problems using shared resources like roads, sewers, parks, water, national defense etc, all of which were built and generally paid for by other people.

many studies! technically it is true, of course, but the difference is nowhere near as significant as the 50% increase in power you get going from 60 to 90 at the same torque, or the endurance potential of going from 60 to 90 with, say, a third less torque, so pretty much every serious cyclist...

I tend to spin a little slower than most. I pretty consistently average 75 on a flat cruise.

it’s very cool. and the amount of data that goes into a foundation model for an AI is such that you need not be concerned about your data influencing it. the fact that it’s on the internet means that any AI (whether trained on your model or not) will be able to locate it and reference it, which...

it seems like maybe you should move somewhere less problematic, where you can stay year round and do what basically everyone else does : take reasonable precautions and get insurance. the things you're describing are not normal problems and have nothing to do with electrification of cars, bikes...

i’m not going to bother responding to your vitriolic “argument” but since you put it up there yourself, i’ll just point this out : state and local governments set the rules of the road. an overly simplistic federal definition of an bicycle or e-bicycle means said governments will either a)...

it's amusing, the idea that some obscure federal commission's definition of what an e-bike is would magically make such a device (unregistered, unlicensed, uninspected, and uninsured of course!) legal and appropriate to use on every trail, path, bike lane, road, etc across the nation. sometimes...

oh, i haven't had it in years! as i rode more i almost always used it without assist, so i got the aethos, and then sold the creo. then after a few years the health issues came back so i got the addict e-ride. i still have it (obviously) and the aethos, which i ride only for pretty easy rides...

i planned this morning's ride to be exactly 30 miles and 3000 feet of climbing. it turned out to be 30.21 miles and 3019 feet :D it was kind of fun to roll around some neighborhoods i never, ever spend time in but i missed a few of the grades, and a few spots were really too steep for my...

nah. it'll be like telephones. africa jumped straight to cell phones and many parts of the world will jump straight from cheap, simple, crappy old vehicles to electric vehicles. why? not necessarily because it'll save the planet (it depends where the electricity comes from) but because they're...

a lot of progress has been made on this front, we do lots of projects with low carbon concrete - about half the embodied carbon of typical cement…