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Photos don't really cut it. Any slope can look nearly vertical if viewed head on without any reference points. Again, GPS logs please or it didn't happen. I live in an extremely mountainous area with lots of long, steep climbs on both roads and trails. Even on the steepest and roughest...

GPS logs or it didn't happen.

Another thought. There are lots of people on here with a history of injuries and health problems. Many of them do just fine on bikes without throttles or suspension.

It is important to keep in mind that suspension in a mountain bike is not at all designed for comfort. They are designed to keep the rubber side down and the rider more or less in control on serious jank. The suspension in most e-mountain bikes, and any low-cost models, are largely decorative...

This must be news to the millions of people in Europe who use e-bikes as a primary form of transportation. For that matter, that is big news to the tens of millions of people all around the world who use unpowered bicycles as a primary form of transportation.

Its your body and your money. Good luck.

I don't understand why you want the weight, cost, and maintenance complexity of a full suspension bike for a city commuter. If you are concerned about comfort suspension seatposts and suspension stems are widely available and will do the job just fine on all but the roughest pavement. And...

Apparently it is only actionable if it names specific persons. My own feeling is that such obnoxious innocence needs an appropriate retaliation. Also obnoxious.

There have been repeated calls and my understanding is that the calls don't rise to the level of something that is illegal. These calls are being made from a business in Round Rock, Texas.

We live in a messed up world. I can't blame service workers for not wanting those jobs, given how horribly some customers treat them. I sure as heck wouldn't do those jobs for the money they are paying. For that matter, there are lots of high skill and formerly high status jobs where folks...

A through axle is definitely rubbing against something. Or maybe my bikes don't have whatever anti-gravity devices your bike might have. Also, the bike mechanics I know tell me that you need to grease through axles. So I do and they work fine.

I'd modestly and respectfully disagree with your opinion. QR skewers are fine for rim brake bikes. With disk brakes you need to have a good quality QR skewer in good working order and correctly designed dropouts. There were a lot of recalls in the past where companies like Trek and Giant...

I am actually hornswoggled that in 2024 they still sell bikes with QR skewers. And that folks buy them.

Wright's Law rapidly comes into play, all of the current manufacturers still in the US manufacture high-end parts at tiny scales. If you scaled them up by a factor of 1000 (which would take time and money, how much time depends on how much money) costs would drop dramatically. And labor costs...

I might actually be cautiously optimistic here. All of the expertise to design and build decent bikes exists in the United States. Right now it mostly focuses on manufacturing of very high-end bikes and pretty components. But all of the expertise is there. Look at companies like Stinner and...

A guy named Marx beat him to it by 150 years. If you had the government making investments in private securities how exactly would that work? Who would decide what securities to buy and which ones to sell? Who would decide when those were bought and sold? Also, if the securities are shares...

Keep in mind that there are a lot of reasons manufacturers are shutting down and (more often) exiting certain markets. Especially at mid-range prices but sometimes for no-name imported e-bikes there is still a huge glut of inventory left over from the pandemic, when demand for bicycles of all...

The "self-funding" of Social Security and Medicare are mere accounting tricks and not reflective of objective reality. When either of these programs take in more tax revenue than their expenses, they purchase T-bills with that surplus. When they have more expenses than revenues, they sell some...

Only pedal wrench I've ever needed (glove for scale): A pet peeve I've always had is that even though a lot of multi-tools include an 8mm hex key, almost all of them tell you that you shouldn't use that for cracking pedals. My question has always been, where else would you use an 8mm hex...