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Those lubes for for sealed-roller chains, or o-ring chains, x-ring chains. Your bicycle chain has open rollers, and they wear, and they need some oil in them. I still clean with WD40 and a cotton rag, like we did with the MC chains, but then lube with Triflo, and wipe off any excess. There are...

That would be 'box-end' or 'open-end' wrenches. Or even 'combo' or combination wrenches that have one each on each end. Or, err, wenches. LOL Then there are socket wrenches, that isn't a wrench at all, unless you call the ratchet handle a 'wrench'. And there are allen wrenches, that aren't...

Starting in grammar school and then even more in high school, they kept forcing that metric crap on us telling us eventually everything would switch over and our inches feet yards miles pounds and ounces, were going to go away. Hmmm...well, that just never happened did it?? LOL It was really...

The peanut gallery... 🤣 Why Smart Sams? Wifey still mostly rides paved bike paths, and I had some smooth ebike tires for riding those paths and roads with her, on my second wheelset - easy swap out by just pulling the axles. But I thought I would try the Smart-Sam's just for fun. I have quite...

Johnny Watts were sold out so Smart Sams went on the extra wheelset for my TranceE. They're so great I doubt I'll ever use the Minions again. ;) Hurricanes on the StanceE - they are really nice too, but obviously much more road-oriented. It's rather surprising how well they do on hard pack...

What's a 'moto ultra'? I run a Ikon on the back of my OCCAM. It's a very light and high-rolling knobby, Rekon on the front. My 27.5 tubes are about 7oz each on the TranceE. Running Schwalbe Smart Sams for my mostly road-setup. Supposedly you can run them tubeless, but sidewalls are known to be...

Nice trails to ride on. 👍 Alberta? Lots of young trees. I'm actually from BC, dad was Canadian. 😊 I put my ebikes on the scale...the Stance and Trance are nearly identical, with a half-pound difference in the battery pack. So obviously they fit a few more cells in the Stance. I have not tried...

Without any reference it's hard to tell exactly what you're looking at. But all hitch racks tend to be a bit springy and sway-ey. A hitch rack has an insert cinch feature to tighten it up so it doesn't flop around. A 2" receiver has a lot more rigidity. Curt is about hitch racks, so the...

One of the mountain single-track areas in the very southern Sierras has trails that go down to a dead-end, so steep you can't make it back up. One guy and his son had to leave their bikes, hike out, and get a recovery team. I've seen riders miles from civilization with a blown radiator, or a...

Where are the trees on those ridge tops??

You takes your chances or you buy from your dealer. We derove 200 miles to get the last bike of its kind in the state. $4550 plus tax, no discounts! LOL

800-mile 5-day ride with backpack-gear on the dualsport trip, 8 points on the north rim of the grand canyon... 1000-mile trip over 5 days, backpack gear on adventure bike, Colorado Rockies tour. Yes, motorbikes make eMTB's seem like a walk in the park. 😁 35-mile out-and-back on...

I had both battery packs out this morning charging on the bench while I cleaned and tuned the two bikes from the last outing, so we could put them in the truck for trip to the beach. I don't remove them very often either, but find it is convenient. Now with the two-bike rack on the new little...

Gazelle looks like a standard type comfort bike. Lots of comparables, like treks townie line, yeah the verve, giant rogue worth a look, spesh como, even rad power city or ride 1 up. Pack on the back rack is really old-tech. Don't get too hung up on price as it is soon forgotten. Test ride as...

Have you guys checked the stats on this thread lately? We hit a hundred pages today. 2000 posts, and 90,000 views. WOW!! o_O Thanks for following along. 🍻 We’re international!

I like them both - both brands, along with Trek, are the standards of the industry. I would choose based on the dealer. I've spent just a little over twelve thousand on Giant bikes in the past year or so - that should tell you something. LOL IMO, the yamaha drive is the best of the best out...

200 miles is a little early, but reasonable place to start if you're gonna DIY • For cleaning them up, I don't really 'wash' my bikes, just a quick spritz of a hose to clear the dirt off the tires and the big chunks of mud and such, wipe them down. I do this after each extended ride. • Chain...

OneUp Seatposts... Let's see...$10 verses $200. I'll see how the stock one does for a bit longer, but surely if it doesn't hold up the new V2 looks like the cat's pajamas. 👍 BTW, one of the very best features the wife likes on her new bike is the dropper post. Mount and dismount is just so...

Uh, no. It would be kind of interesting to install the front end off the Stance though, no? They call this a 'mullet' here. I thought mullet was a haircut. LOL They went with narrow rims on the Stance - 25mm...not sure why. And the rear axle is the old QR from road bikes, not the new 15mm hollow...