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I think the choice is going to negotiate for some form of regulation or accept a total e-bike ban. Those are certainly suboptimal choices but it is what it is.

529 Garage, as mentioned, does the theft recovery very well. My fleet is registered there. The inspection problem is easily solvable. The most obvious solution is to have bike shops provide the service for a nominal fee (e.g. $40). From my point of view the purpose of a safety inspection...

More context on the history of bicycle licenses:

I think the world of e-bikes has changed since I first discovered them in 2016. And I'm not really happy with the changes: We are seeing mass-market e-bikes with very questionable safety We are seeing very popular unrestricted e-bikes which are not street legal and are basically electric...

Key Biscayne is, for all practical purposes, a wealthy suburb of Miami. And it is about a 55 mile drive from there to North Key Largo, the northernmost of what is considered the "Florida Keys".

A few thoughts: Not wearing a helmet doesn't make any accident your fault. And while I am a heretic in many ways I think that it is often reasonable to ride without one. Sometimes riding on a sidewalk is the only safe option. The Super 73 is an electric minibike or moped, not an electric...

You need to keep in mind that in most National Parks on nearly all trails any bicycle, electric or not, is prohibited. The National Park Service has barely came to terms with mountain bikes as a form of outdoor recreation. Also, the plain language of the 1964 Wilderness Act makes any bike an...

I think we Americans also have a tough time comprehending the safety culture around cycling and pedestrianism in the Netherlands (and for that matter much of Europe) and the level of public outrage when a motor vehicle operator injures or kills cyclists or pedestrians. And the public outrage is...

Also, to be somewhat fair, the United States isn't exactly the dystopian hellscape it is portrayed and widely perceived to be. I personally have never witnessed a firefight in a Wal-Mart. It is true, however, that the overall quality of life here has gone into precipitous decline these last...

I guarantee you that any estimate you'd make of any armed crimes in, say, Amsterdam would be wildly higher than the actual figures.

Also, TFA: https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.com/general/news/illegal-e-bikes-dutch-police-unveil-roadside-power-testing-equipment-to-catch-law-breakers

tailfin is making very good stuff. It is always good when we see someone making new and better stuff that is a bit outside the box.

Replacing the sleeping quilt I bought in 2006: https://enlightenedequipment.com/revelation-sleeping-quilt/

There are an amazing number of products out there that do exactly this, and there are also quite plausible DIY solutions and hacks that can do the job just fine. https://bikepacking.com/index/add-cage-mounts-bike/

Last week's unseasonably warm weather cleared out about ninety percent of the snowpack here. I'd say conditions are about par for the third or last week of March right now. There is still "skiing" but it is very poor skiing. Time to work on the bikes...

Rush, Xanadu. Hard to get through but pretty obvious Guns 'n Roses ripped 'em off a decade later. I kind of like the fact you are almost six minutes into the song before there are any vocals: Shonen Knife, a Japanese Punk Girl Group covering the Carpenters. I'm not making this one up...

That Tout Terrain e-bike checks all of my boxes. Finally. Tout Terrain is also a reputable bicycle maker with about 18 years in the business and knows how to build all terrain touring bikes. Although I'd rather have drop bars to be honest...

None of that would be surprising. Humans are extremely bad at rationally evaluating risk. Even people whose job is to evaluate risks often aren't very good at it.

Even under absolute optimal karma, you should expect only about +-30m accuracy from any barometric altimeter you can hold in your hand. Note that even with a GPS altimeter the likely vertical error is on the order of 5x the horizontal error. This has as much to do with mathematical issues with...

Yeah, my access road is a mixture of slippery wet ice and calf-deep mud. And some snowy mud ("snud" or "smuck"). So I'm 99 percent shut in at this point until things are less heinous. Normally for January it will never get above freezing here, and it hasn't been below freezing for almost a...