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  1. AleksR

    Headed to Rome, Italy next week, then a week in Amalfi Coast. Any eBike advice?

    Not sure I would ebike Rome, but certainly the islands and smaller cities. The traffic is just too crazy
  2. AleksR

    Angry Acoustic Karens

    I was riding my Riese and Muller Supercharger2 pedelec along a Lomita Drive, a road between Mill valley and Corte Madera, when this Karen was making gestures at me, angry, gesticulating, I ignored him listening to my music but did glance at the sign marking the bike path and sign said "no...
  3. AleksR

    Going to document my weight loss

    It's all diet. Little to do with exercise.
  4. AleksR

    Going to document my weight loss

    ChatGPT image?
  5. AleksR

    Going to document my weight loss

    It's all about diet. Very little to do with exercise.
  6. AleksR

    Disappointed after purchasing an e-bike?

    Same bike shop. They have been great so far. I am in the Bay Area and purchased it at Newwheel in San Francisco.
  7. AleksR

    Disappointed after purchasing an e-bike?

    Nope. My 4 year old Riese and Mueller Supercharger 2 has been nothing but a pleasant surprise. My bike store services it yearly and it runs like a champ.
  8. AleksR

    Named my ebike today

    My bike is appropriately named "Sparky"
  9. AleksR

    Good Stuff You Bought

    Extra 500 Wh battery for my Supercharger 2. Now I can ride forever......
  10. AleksR

    Hypotheticals - would you replace your R&M with another R&M??

    I have supercharger2, three years now. No issues. The next bike would need to be lighter, R&M would be a strong contender if they made lighter bike.
  11. AleksR

    E-bike battery fires and common sense prevention per Wall Street.

    There is also a related article on why it happens: https://archive.ph/QkD3G
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    E-bike battery fires and common sense prevention per Wall Street.

    https://archive.ph/eKfsD
  13. AleksR

    How to Make Your Bike Really Hard to Steal

    An interesting article in WSJ that may be useful to some. https://archive.ph/3neFS
  14. AleksR

    Quality first but dollars count!

    Only one after 14,000 miles. I would say it's pretty good.
  15. AleksR

    Front page LA Times today regarding Ebikes

    I didn't initially bring politics into this, but if we want to go that route, let's be honest about it.
  16. AleksR

    Front page LA Times today regarding Ebikes

    Put the throttles on the highways. That is where they belong. Let them survive in the jungle. They don't belong with pedestrians. Yes, correct. It doesn't matter what you and I think. We are N=2. Increase the N and you lose. I have no doubt about it. Throttle your way to a nearby highway. That...
  17. AleksR

    Front page LA Times today regarding Ebikes

    Unlike you, I don't like to ramble about nonsense. This is a clear cut thing. Throttling among pedestrians is perceived as dangerous. Do a poll and I bet it will show that sentiment.
  18. AleksR

    Front page LA Times today regarding Ebikes

    Actually, majority is correct vast majority of the time. That is why we have democracy.
  19. AleksR

    Front page LA Times today regarding Ebikes

    Nobody cares what you think. It's what majority think. And you are in minority.
  20. AleksR

    Front page LA Times today regarding Ebikes

    When you see one of these throttling down pedestrian path, and you are walking with you 5 years old daughter, what do you think?
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