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    Peddle, or pedal?

    Drives me nuts as well. Don't get me started on breaking brakes......
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    High Powered eBike Camping: Enter the Realm of Highly Compromised Decisions and Deeply Ambivalent Feelings

    The hut system is a backcountry system, and also reservations are difficult to come by, like you make them a year out if you are lucky enough to get one. No idea if they are even running in virusworld.
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    High Powered eBike Camping: Enter the Realm of Highly Compromised Decisions and Deeply Ambivalent Feelings

    I don't think any of the smaller cargo vans have 4wd or awd as an option. Sprinter has a 4wd, Transit has awd and a Fiat version of the Promaster is awd electric, but short range. Both the Promaster and Promaster City are fwd, which are a bit better in the snow. I run studded snows on mine in...
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    High Powered eBike Camping: Enter the Realm of Highly Compromised Decisions and Deeply Ambivalent Feelings

    Indeed, quite peculiar. I've got a tall roof Promaster, and I sympathize with the overly tall issue. Being an older guy though, I got sick of crawling around on my hands and knees car camping, being able to stand while changing clothes, or just moving around inside is a revelation. If you end...
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    High Powered eBike Camping: Enter the Realm of Highly Compromised Decisions and Deeply Ambivalent Feelings

    200 miles per day? Every day? Yikes. Have you much experience with that sort of saddle time? While the minivan route is tempting, and are awesome for day trips, if you are going to live in a vehicle, you need to be able to stand up in it, especially after riding all day. Buy either a full size...
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    SONDORS is releasing it's first mid-drive EBikes.

    The components are mostly garbage, necessary to hit that price point. I'd bet most people will noodle around on roads with these and won't know the difference anyway. Anyone riding these on real mtb trails will end up having to upgrade almost everything.
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    Mystery screws on XDuro Trekking frame

    In the old days, quality road bikes used to come with a chain hanger on the inside of the drive side seatstay. You'd hang your chain on it when you removed the rear wheel which kept it clean and everything aligned to make reassembly easier. The #1 screw looks suspiciously in the same location...
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    Schwalbe's New for 2020 Hurricane Tires - A Review

    This sounds pretty obvious, but lower the pressure until the front feels squirmy when you weight it, then add a couple of psi. The rear should have a few more on top of that. It'll give you a better ride and lower the rolling resistance. Depending on how stiff the casing is, I'd bet you'd be mid...
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    I hate fenders...

    I love fenders when needed. If they're set up right, they make foul weather fun.
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    Woohoo.. we are live with the exclusive new controller for bafang ultra.. and more goodies!

    Lenz does make an ebike, it mounts the motor above the BB pivot. https://lenzsport.com/mountain-bikes/interceptor-e-bike/
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    Woohoo.. we are live with the exclusive new controller for bafang ultra.. and more goodies!

    You're hitting home runs with all the URT bikes. The Trek Y bike was famously known as the "Why???" bike among my friends who owned them in the day, or commonly, as "The bike that kept trying to kill me". Here's the short answer, the suspension only really worked when seated, not when standing...
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    Woohoo.. we are live with the exclusive new controller for bafang ultra.. and more goodies!

    Lol, three of the worst riding fs mtbs of all time...... You can always pivot around the BB like Lenz does. https://lenzsport.com/919-2/
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    Woohoo.. we are live with the exclusive new controller for bafang ultra.. and more goodies!

    That's 2-3 times what the EU middrives are making, that's wild.
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    Whoa.. is this real? An actual 3000W controller for the Bafang Ultra ?

    How are bike drivetrains making out with that much power?
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    Why not speed limits?

    Drivers underestimate the speed at which you are riding, they think that since you are on a bike, you must be slow and ridin like a kid with training wheels. I've had that happen countless times, they speed up, pass you and think they've left you far behind, when in reality you are still sitting...
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    Are there instances of e-bike road riders getting punished for exceeding legal *power* limits of 750 W (US)

    I agree, I think the only time it could/would matter is #3 if you crashed and caused damage or injury. No cop is going to spend time checking stickers on ebikes. The laws only matter because they gave us the opportunity to ride ebikes pretty much anywhere, no one is going to care what class they...
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    More People Are Biking These Days — So Why Are Kids Riding Less?

    The percentage of people who care about making it easier and safer to ride bikes is small and is far outweighed but the huge majority who only advocate for car infrastructure and for what they perceive as benefits themselves. They see every square foot of ground used for bike lanes etc as a loss...
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