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I' ve long been a deep skeptic regarding eugenics (the idea that low IQ people should be discouraged from breeding, while high IQ people should be encouraged). If eugenics is valid, how many of Einstein's kids were geniuses? How many of Sagan's? How many of Newton's? Unlike breeding chickens for...

I can remember when being drunk while driving (or committing some other offense) was a mitigating circumstance ("Judge, you have to let my client go, he was drunk at the time"). Of course back then we kids could ride in a car while standing up on the front seat, there were no seat belts, and...

Where's the perpetual motion machine when we need it?

But if not you, who?

Is any transportation principle or rule more disrespected than a bike lane?

I leave my Ryobi batteries plugged whether I'm supposed to or not. Doesn't seem to hurt them.

A hazard you are warned against in the motorcycle basic course. I had it happen when I was making a sharp downhill turn to the right, when a delivery van suddenly appeared coming up the hill. I was on a 650 Silvering, as I recall. Or maybe it was a 750 Vulcan. The driver helped me get it back...

I wear glasses with moderate correction, and have no problem focussing with the helmet mirror, though I don't claim to be able to read the license plate of a car approaching from behind. Just because something doesn't work for one person doesn't mean it can't work for someone else.

Much more efficient to use the gas engine directly powering the bike, instead of generating electricity to run the bike.

Sometimes for a very short distance like that, I might dismount and walk the bike. As a ped, I figure I have the right of way, more or less.

Saw a spider about that size in the Amazonian jungle of eastern Peru about 8 or 10 years ago. Tarantulas, I had read, are not aggressive, and I was able to hold it in my hand with no issues for 2 or 3 minutes. It was really cute, with auburn hair you could stroke on its butt. It was living in a...

Sometimes what I see coming up behind me isn't a car or truck, but another cyclist, and likely as not it's not an ebike, but an acoustic bike being ridden hard by a young, buff roadie; and that young, buff roadie may be female. And they may be on an acoustic mountain bike. And they pass me like...

I would hate to be killed every six hours. Seems like once is enough (sorry).

Google Velomobile CA (stands for Canada, not California). Also found under "Rainforest Designs". Steve Schleicher (sp?) used to design and build kayaks and paddles, then transitioned to bikes (and trikes) with full enclosures. He's been doing this for several years, and still has his website up...

Would the little generators for powering headlights produce a useful charge for ebikes? I'm thinking probably not, as I seem to remember that they create noticeable drag on an acoustic bike. But maybe, if it were engaged while going downhill, to give a little boost for the next climb.

Copy junkie? or Coffee junkie?

Besides which, the driver has no control over which brakes--front or rear--apply first. The car's braking system makes that decision.

I saw someone do it again today, riding against traffic in a bike lane. I wasn't involved, and I don't know how far they were going, nor did I see any riders coming along from upstream (the stream being street traffic--I like the salmon metaphor). But I do sometimes ride in that lane (with...

If you should want to drill out rims for schrader valves, a step drill is the proper tool. It's designed to enlarge holes.

We do have maybe one or two places where the lane is separate from the auto traffic and is wide enough for lanes in both directions, with arrows indicating such. This was on a normal bike lane. Also, I realize this comes perilously close to being nothing more than a tempest in a teapot.