Recent content by PedalUma

I think he collects aluminum cans. I just did a tune, bleed, and lubed inside the motor on a 139 pound bike. It is actually a motorcycle with pedals and it goes, 44mph. Obscene. .

POS. Everything about it falls apart. Junk. No local service. Zero. No product support. Only AI chat bots half a world away stalling, redundant. Totally illegal anywhere. For happy runs just let curry sit out for 17 days you will get them for free. Note: there is no way to adjust the inside of...

I had one come in three or four years ago for assembly, a Walmart junker. The dropouts didn't fit. It had a loose battery in a sack on the handlebar. And no BMS. You had to put it on a timer or it would catch fire. It was for an obese kid, so I locked out the throttle with a set screw. The mom...

Empathy and kindness are inversely proportional to entitlement. There is one powerful politician for example who is rude as can be and calls everyone names and talks about their body parts. Then there was a Prince who raped little girls and got kicked out of a royal family. And another prince...

That is so true. Remember the Boston Marathon bomber from about a dozen years ago? He used a little pressure cooker to make it explode. Imagine what would happen with a safe. Oh, this is weird, they said they wanted that terrorist captured alive. When he was hiding in that boat and it was a cold...

To Step-Thru time and worlds.

That one is deep sci-fi. The US Navy has giant blimps that explore adjacent universes at a rate of over one per second. The gap is interesting. There is one universe where the earth does not exist but the moon is still there. So if you can sideways jump into that gap there is no issue with...

I think it needs a new bike. Investing more in this is a lost cause; don't die on that hill. And I am not going to follow along.

I am reading a series that has a character who is AI and operates across multiple parallel universes. He is a beneficent Buddhist deity and created a corporeal body for himself and made another one for a dead nun and resurrected her so he has a companion. That is just one minor sideline story in...

Weird and unusual things? This is what I am putting together now. I also made a tossing toy. A friend tossed one at his wife and she fell down laughing. Another friend toss one at her teen who also laughed for ten minutes and caught her off guard and tossed it back.

@Ava Garcia, What is the bike? Do you have a rack and panniers. Those make it so you can go shopping. There are some front baskets that are attractive and have a cupholder that a bouquet can go in. When I stage a bike with a basket with a bouquet they sell immediately. Pedals are great upgrade...

I was just talking to someone who will ride over the Rockies. She does not really want someone drilling her beautiful handmade frame and she does not want to spend $800 on a wireless dropper, that also is one more thing to remember to keep charged. Her descents could be hours long so it probably...

If you have a rack and pannier, put it in the bottom of the pannier, low. The second one can be smaller than the first, just as long as it fits in the same tray or holder. I can swap batteries based on that day's ride needs. Normally smaller is better, 60 mile rides are very rare for me. Most...

I recently made an add-hock hammy 15-bean soup. It was mostly veggies with squash, peppers, then a six-year-old who does not like veggies ate a giant bowl served with warm cornbread with butter and honey. That will stick to your ribs on a cold day. His mom can't get him to eat veggies but he ate...

This may not apply, but in the Spring of 2020 there were supply line problems due to the pandemic. Factories would need to shut down without warning and the restart where they left off three weeks later. When that happens things fall through the cracks. Demand was very high and you just could...