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    Cannabis, how is it legalized?

    Fentanyl is used every day in hospitals for pain. The trick is the correct dose which can't done effectively if it's black market. I think I once read where there are test strips for it so maybe those could be distributed to cut down on the ODs.
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    Cannabis, how is it legalized?

    I would say the only purpose to legalize that is to make it safer. Whenever something exists that people want, making it illegal always makes it more dangerous, more expensive, and not any harder to get if you want it. The Volstead Act kind of proved that.
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    Cannabis, how is it legalized?

    I've not experienced the former. For me it tends to blot negative emotions and enhance positive ones. Never tried shrooms. LSD a few times over 50 years ago which was always quite nice.
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    Mackinac Island impounds ebikes

    All Ebikes are motorized vehicles unless you leave the battery at home. You can go just as fast using PAS as you can with a throttle.
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    Mackinac Island impounds ebikes

    What's the difference between being "buzzed" by a throttled ebike or a regular bike?
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    new battery technology

    Just saw this. https://news.yahoo.com/company-pioneers-sulfur-based-battery-150000874.html
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    Bikes that are not bikes

    Don't know that there is much difference between say a 150 pound person peddling a 125 pound bike or a 200 pound person peddling a 75 pound bike. It's the 1000W motor that takes it out of the ebike class at least in my state.
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    How to Make Your Bike Really Hard to Steal

    In my case my bike is either locked in my garage or sitting under my ass. Pretty safe in either place.
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    Help! Can't get my wife to try ebike.

    But she already regards her analog bike as "heavy" That is something I just don't get. What is easier, riding a heavy ebike up a hill or pushing a lightweight analog bike up a hill?
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    Buying a House Advice Thread

    What I did was buy a piece of land and then build a very bare bones house. Then over the next 35 years I added to it and finished parts of it whenever money and time became available. I never had a mortgage.
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    Upgrade issues!!

    Personally I'd be suspect about the safety of an E-bike battery that only cost $230.
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    I thought Class 3 would feel safer on the road

    Funny story from my youth. The US government gave me three choices when I was 18: 1. Go to college. 2. Move to Canada. or 3. Go to prison. I chose door number one and never regretted it until after 2016. By then though I was too old and set in my ways to choose door number two. At least I...
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    I thought Class 3 would feel safer on the road

    "I would guess most who carry can control their tempers". I would suggest that over three hundred mass shootings so far this year disagree.
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    I thought Class 3 would feel safer on the road

    Not to mention that if you crash your bike at 30mph it's going to hurt a lot more than if you crash at 15mph.
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    rear hub motor riding styles affects on chains

    There are some hills every ride but most are not too long so only short bursts of PAS 4 and sometimes 5. Some groomed gravel trails and the occasional dirt rode.
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    rear hub motor riding styles affects on chains

    900 miles? Wow, that's too bad. I replaced my stock chain at around 2,000 miles with KMC. I've got a little over 4300 miles on it now and it's still good. I live on the coast too but here it's rocky rather than sandy.
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    rear hub motor riding styles affects on chains

    OK, Do you think during shifting there is more chain wear as it jumps for cog to cog than just from turning the wheel? I think you are in Florida? where I would guess fewer hills than Maine although I've never been there. Does the KT controller deliver more power that stock Rad ones?
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    rear hub motor riding styles affects on chains

    Over time I've developed a fairly specific riding style. My rides are generally in the 15-25 mile range. I have no interest in speed and usually ride in the 10-15 mph range. I don't shift much and am generally in either 3rd or 4th gear (out of 7) I pretty much never use 1st or 2nd and 5-7...
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    CLASS 1 EBIKES: A VANISHING BREED?

    50mph on a bicycle sounds insane. I start pumping my brakes when I get close to 25MPH.
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