Is Vado Smoking Addictive?

[stompandgo]

That bike with a throttle required a wheel magnet speed sensor. Those speed pick-ups attach with two zip ties to the chain stay, and that is why I used matching ones. I also had to use a wire to the display that is wider than I can route through frame to accommodate the throttle, so it had to be routed externally, it is largely invisible, but secured with matching zip ties. Again, I do not like any zip ties at all on my builds. But I was able to make the guy happy and get rid of a new motor that was sitting in box for 18-months. Battery mounts bolt to frames.


If you want, I am about 35 miles north of the Golden Gate. Look on a popular maps app for eBikes when zooming in there just on the east side of the freeway, and you can see some customer posted photos.
Check out the messy wires on this one; yes that is electric. See the glowing display? The wire from the battery to the motor emerges from the back of the seat tube at the top tube. No zip ties were sacrificed. She is small and just wanted to get down the San Francisco hill to work and back with a big climb. Small battery, big gears, small powerful mid-drive.

I am familiar with your area. We have family friends in Marin.

You do outstanding work. In my opinion, it's every bit as important as the great steel frame builders of the day. Peter Mooney, Chris Chance and the like.

 

[stompandgo]

It is this weekend.

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I hope they keep the deaths to a minimum.

 

[PedalUma]

We have family friends in Marin

We ride Western Marin all the time. It shares the same zip code as my downtown and is less than a mile outside of downtown. Beautiful.

 

[stompandgo]

We ride Western Marin all the time. It shares the same zip code as my downtown and is less than a mile outside of downtown. Beautiful.

It's a pretty area full of rolling hills. They live towards the bottom of one. They could not afford living near the top.

 

[PedalUma]

My young wife at the time and I were in Southern Marin between Tiburon, Sausalito, and Mill Valley but could not buy there. That is when we did buy a house in Petaluma. Since then it has become more hip and has an international set but still looks like its from early last century downtown. It has real hippies and real cowboys. And it has deep cycling culture. Many of the Marin builders took manufacturing, distribution, and development up here from their Marin roots because space was cheaper, and it is where the workers were. Back in the 1890's 6,000 suffragettes had a group ride here. This is a fun article.

Women of the Wheel - Petaluma Historian

Fashion, Sex, and Suffrage During the 1890s Bicycle Craze On July 4, 1896, Petaluma found itself anointed the new “bicycling Mecca” of the West Coast, as a reported 6,000 people turned out at the city’s new Wheelman Park for the annual divisional meet of the League of American Wheelmen. Among...

petalumahistorian.com

And it turns out that a good climate for chickens was also the best climate for pot.

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[GAJ]

Lots of great bicycling here in Sonoma County.

I'm in Santa Rosa waiting for the SMART train bike path to Petaluma to be completed.

In my lifetime I hope.

 

[kevinmccune]

Uma started the thread before he started working for Specialized, and only later he could ride a Vado. I still cannot understand why he needed to secure the battery with a zip tie when nobody of us Vado riders does it. Perhaps too much marijuana

of course,then again,perhaps good "Vado"

 

[kevinmccune]

That bike with a throttle required a wheel magnet speed sensor. Those speed pick-ups attach with two zip ties to the chain stay, and that is why I used matching ones. I also had to use a wire to the display that is wider than I can route through frame to accommodate the throttle, so it had to be routed externally, it is largely invisible, but secured with matching zip ties. Again, I do not like any zip ties at all on my builds. But I was able to make the guy happy and get rid of a new motor that was sitting in box for 18-months. Battery mounts bolt to frames.


If you want, I am about 35 miles north of the Golden Gate. Look on a popular maps app for eBikes when zooming in there just on the east side of the freeway, and you can see some customer posted photos.
Check out the messy wires on this one; yes that is electric. See the glowing display? The wire from the battery to the motor emerges from the back of the seat tube at the top tube. No zip ties were sacrificed. She is small and just wanted to get down the San Francisco hill to work and back with a big climb. Small battery, big gears, small powerful mid-drive.

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Knice!

 

[PedalUma]

SMART train bike path to Petaluma

It is only that Santa Rosa Ave. gauntlet remaining. Where are you having lunch?

 

[GAJ]

It is only that Santa Rosa Ave. gauntlet remaining. Where are you having lunch?

I never have a restaurant as a bicycle destination.

Only brewpubs!

 

[kevinmccune]

It is only that Santa Rosa Ave. gauntlet remaining. Where are you having lunch?

[Gwine no where suh! man gotta have a home,man gotta have a home!]

 

[PedalUma]

I never have a restaurant as a bicycle destination.

Only brewpubs!

Someone really wanted me to have a bike taxi that did a beer garden circuit. This town has about one beer garden or brewery per 2,000 people, and they are a big draw. Did you do Crooked Goat, Brewsters, the Block or Lugunitas and Henhouse by the north station?

Home

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Beer garden

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[GAJ]

Someone really wanted me to have a bike taxi that did a beer garden circuit. This town has about one beer garden or brewery per 2,000 people, and they are a big draw. Did you do Crooked Goat, Brewsters, the Block or Lugunitas and Henhouse by the north station?

Home

lagunitas.com

Beer garden

www.google.com

Crooked Goat in Sebastopol was our main mid point stopping destination.

On the last ride it was Russian River and Old Possum.

 

[kevinmccune]

Someone really wanted me to have a bike taxi that did a beer garden circuit. This town has about one beer garden or brewery per 2,000 people, and they are a big draw. Did you do Crooked Goat, Brewsters, the Block or Lugunitas and Henhouse by the north station?

Home

lagunitas.com

Beer garden

www.google.com

leaving rt250 on the way to Charlottesville in amherst or nelson county,there are so many micro brewerys,vineyards or cider places,if you had a honk at each one you simply couldnt complete the journey-lets hear it for local!( Starr brewery is my favorite they actually have a few different craft beers I can stomach,IPAs became more palatable after I understood them.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I never have a restaurant as a bicycle destination.

Only brewpubs!

While I am a hop-head, I don't drink and ride.

 

[stompandgo]

While I am a hop-head, I don't drink and ride.

I'm the same. Once the computer is shut off, anything goes.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I admit I've been to a brewpub on my e-bike once or twice but it always was an alcohol free IPA

This is the most popular 0.0% IPA of Poland: Miłosław Bezalkoholowe. The photo is 3 years old but it was taken in the same cycling restaurant I visited on last Sunday. Only I preferred compote as it was a very warm day yesterday! Important to say: many Polish competing cyclists don't drink alcohol but love beer!

A rare e-bike visit to a brewpub. This alcohol free IPA comes from probably the best craft brewery of Poland, Trzech Kumpli (Three Mates). You can find this brewpub (Kufle i Kapsle, Beer Mugs & Bottle Caps) in the promenade of Warsaw, Nowy Świat (New World St.)

 

[stompandgo]

N/A craft brews are a growing market here in America. Most breweries near me have at least one available. Athletic Brewing in CT only brews N/A beers.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Russian River and Old Possum.

While some well known high quality American craft ales and stout are imported in Poland, I had no luck to try the famous Russian River!

 

[Slaphappygamer]

I quit drinking 15 years ago. Athletic is a really good non alcoholic beer. I usually get that when I see it offered at a restaurant. I tried other non alcoholic brew, but they were garbage.

I would drink Heineken or Tecate in the summer. Then switch to Sierra Nevada Torpedo or something similarly dark for winter time. Lagunutas was also a favorite.

Though I miss drinking, especially when outdoors at a festival, but I don’t miss spending $10-14 a pint, waiting in line for a bracelet that lets me stand in another line for beer WHICH makes find the other line for the bathroom. I also didn’t like being a giant baby and my friends would have to babysit me. I could never regulate my drinking, until I “saw the light” and cold quit. I can regulate my daily Vado intake and will never give that up, unless a doctor gives me a good reason.