Recent content by mschwett

i use ring and have a ring camera in the garage, with motion alerts turned on. the $50-60 kidde smoke and CO alarms send alerts via ring, so either attempted theft or fire will result in lots of alarms going off. our building also has a hardwired fire alarm system that notifies the fire...

please don’t feed the AI trolls.

agree. communication styles and norms change over time. nobody thinks we’re being rude because we don’t use the queen’s english from the 17th century, when people certainly used a lot of words but the world but brutish, cruel, and inequitable! i could not care less if someone gives me a wordy...

not super relevant to the thread but we store 2 e-bikes, 3 regular bikes, and a scooter in a very small space - just a few feet deep up the height of the wall on one side and the wall space down low across the back of a single car garage. the two larger non-e bikes (a sirrus and an aethos) go as...

fantastic to hear about your recovery! keep on rolling!

whether wolf tooth or garbaruk, you need new bolts, which are two piece "sex bolts" that are easily available with the rings. most chainrings aren't threaded like the stock ones. like these (although you don't need to spend $7/bolt lol)...

a lot of road cyclists do in fact want to pedal when going downhill, whether just because it's fun or to keep heart rate steady, not sure. it's not always fastest, as most amateurs can't really put out a lot of power in a deep tuck on the drops, which will affect speed going down a decent grade...

hi, yes, a cockpit is the stem and the handlebar as one piece. the advantage is in weight, looks, aerodynamics, and the ability (if carbon fiber) to tune each of the junctions for strength and stiffness and damping which make the bike much more comfortable without adding shock absorbers or...

ok, that makes way more sense ! i wonder how much the weight penalty is compared to a lightweight one piece. my one piece weighs 255 grams total, replacing both stem and bar. i’m guessing this is more like 350?

yes, traditional large plants are very inflexible - nuclear most of all, solar least so. thus peaker plants, which are pretty inefficient. storage is a better answer and will become more common with energy towers and other types of water storage. on the topic of road trips, coincidentally this...

i’ve done a few 400+ mile trips, no problems, but using major interstates or state highways. when i was younger i drove all around the country but these days anything in the multi day range is gonna involve a train or airplane

canyon’s approach to this is pretty dumb, IMO. unless i’m mistaken you can’t even buy the bar in various sizes. maybe someday? i have two road bikes (one electric) with one piece cockpits and i LOVE them. sleek, light, stiff but with carefully tuned compliance. in both cases the manufacturer...

i don’t know where you get this stuff, but i have worked on large scale solar installations and the “capacity” is in fact the peak output. that’s like any system, pretty much. of course that’s still the capacity, even if for some reason (like not needing the power) you have to switch it off. if...

the duck curve is a real problem, but that’s why i pointed out the graph is GENERATION not capacity. massive amounts of energy don’t just go away, they get used. the generation capacity is far more than the actual amount generated because as you note it can’t all be used all the time. it...

two pounds ! sweet. i may get one for the sidelines of my little ones’ soccer games!