Recent content by mschwett

yes, that's what i mean. you can add the calorie field or any other to any of the in-ride dashboards/screens that you want to. since "average watts" is already calculated there's no fancy math needed, just multiply moving time by average watts. it would be kind of sad to watch calories tick up...

ah ! rider energy! the one i use will show calories, workout load, intensity, etc. calories is basically total energy, easily converted to wH but it uses the kCal unit. it also shows average watts and elapsed time, which is even easier math and doesn’t rely on the “efficiency” factor. a cool...

doubt it most show wh of battery, so you just look at the beginning and do the math? i take a screen shot of the battery screen before and after each ride, just to have my own record of wh used when looking at rides in strava and so on

a cool moment in history!

this is the inevitable result of the "we don't want any (even reasonable) regulations on ebikes, personal responsibility and enforcement will be enough" crowd. enforcement is very hard without licensing and insurance and registration, and you can basically buy anything you want at this point...

this is interesting, and similar to the way mahle’s x20 bottom bracket torque sensor works. unfortunately it’s very inaccurate on those bikes, i wonder if the TQ version is better! it’s a very minimal and cost effective approach.

r+m made this decision in february. the exemption on bikes was announced in april, by which point they'd likely already pretty much wound things down. elections matter.

kids have been riding on public roads for 100 years on UNPOWERED bikes. maximum speeds reached on level ground are closer to 10mph than 28mph. the risks are completely different and the results of the last few years in places where kids ride ebikes have validated what ought to have been common...

all reports seem to say that’s it’s totally like a regular road bike above the cutoff or when turned off. it has one of the two clutches or freewheels that a typical motor has…. but when it’s energized, the output shaft of the motor is rigidly connected to the cranks, requiring pretty...

yes, and a few other reports say that some pretty sophisticated algorithms are used to “learn” the rider’s pedaling style over time so that it can provide just the right amount of power to create that feeling of zero drag!

the SL motors have a clutch (or something like one) - you physically can’t turn the motor with the pedals, and the motor can’t actually turn the pedals either. if you put the bike on a stand and give the pedals a quick spin without any load on the wheel in turbo what you’ll see is actually the...

from a review of the new BMC this is what i have been worried about with these designs, which lacks the “clutch” behavior of other mid drive motors. it makes sense that once it’s engaged, with no clutch and at very low power levels, you could overrun the motor and essentially be acting as a...

99% of the cargo bikes i see have a child seat and about half the time an actual child in the seat :)

i’m sure when england send up a spaceship to the moon they’ll make some better films!

fantastic ! i bet you are the single rider globally who rides the furthest on that particular model of bike :) how many miles does it have in total? must be a lot, 8 years on. the scenery around you is interesting to me, some it looks very familiar to northern california, and some of it...