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Co-motion Metolius: https://co-motion.com/products/metolius Dual battery Bosch and 14-speed Rohloff hub.

Yes, beefy e-bike tires, especially when on well-built wheels, can be very tight and it can be a challenge to remove the tire or re-seat the bead of the tire unless you are in a shop with a beefy floor pump or compressor. A portable pump or portable compressor often won't have enough oomph to...

For the conditions described by the OP, most any of the Schwalbe E-bike rated tires with a good puncture protection option should give you a good number of miles. Riding on good pavement (not chip seal!) in moderate temperatures probably matters as much as the specific choice of tire or...

I think a lot of it is because the bicycle industry is really bad at listening to customers who aren't racers. And bluntly in a lot of cases they don't care about your opinion unless you are a super athlete. The near-extinction of 2x (and to a lesser extent 3x) drivetrains is a symptom of this...

Because most bikes sold are wildly geared too high for normal people. And electric bikes make this even worse. I think most bike manufacturers think all of their riders have thighs and quads that are bigger than most tree trunks.

https://www.relive.cc/view/v8qV3e1xj7v 36mph while hauling a dog.

Just my $0.02, and I know some other prominent voices here disagree. On the average I think you end up with a better e-bike if you start with a great bicycle design and add a motor. There are many well-liked brands of e-bikes out there, especially at the very high end, where I've concluded...

At the heart of it is the fact that maritime safety is appallingly bad across the board. Ships have far higher accident and loss rates than commercial aircraft. Also the folks piloting ships have an awful track record of running into things. And we don’t have a very good system for pulling...

A fully loaded large container ship weighs more than 150000 tons on the average. There is very little that we know how to build that can survive being rammed, even at very low speeds, by something that big.

You can't compare rotten apples with plastic oranges. Any electric motor of a given size and weight is going to have design tradeoffs. And there are no standardized ways that I know of that measure motor power output and torque that are in common use. And we aren't getting our motor tech...

I just started using the cowchippers and really like them.

I too have a short list of shorter bikepacking trips that I am working down. What I've found is that even the shorter trips are at best awkward and usually impractical even with an e-bike with lots of legs and a willingness to hypermile as much as possible. What I mean by "awkward" is that you...

The trip only starts when you get out of cell range. There are lots of e-bikes out there where you can do many popular long-haul tours. That problem has already been solved. At this point in time someone has probably already ridden the Northern Tier, the Trans Am, and the Southern Tier routes...

My opinion: both range and charging time limitations of existing e-bikes really limit your options. Some otherwise appealing routes are just not feasible, and others would require rather contrived and unnatural itineraries in order to work around the range and charge time limitations. Outside...

Mid drives do the job. 'nuff said. https://ridewithgps.com/trips/122550728

I would think Priority Bikes would be an early mover offering an affordable Pinion drive e-bike. Note that the whole shebang isn't yet available in the states anyhow and that will take some time.

But if you are replacing chains frequently and replacing the cassette every year or so you'll probably break even on costs in three or four years.

I've been riding on a Pinion 18-speed gearbox for the last full year. The only very minor problem was that the shifter needed to be greased after assembly and we didn't do that when we built the bike. Also, the shifter was a custom part and not from Pinion. 10k+ km on it and zero trouble...

Bike geometry comes into this as well. If you have a bike set up for an upright (or partially upright) riding position, a slammed saddle will be nothing but an instrument of torture. Conversely, if your bike is set up for riding slammed an upright saddle will just make you suffer. Also, very...