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  1. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Rad Power Bikes In trouble?

    Rad investors include Fidelity Management & Research Company; Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley); Vulcan Capital; Durable Capital Partners LP; The Rise Fund (TPG’s multi-sector global impact investing strategy); and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates. Blue Nile and Zulily...
  2. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Crash today on black ice

    All the best to a speedy and full recovery. When it comes to black ice or ice of any kind & you are a commuter, there is no good one-fits-all answer. Studs on paper sounds like a great solution and only if you aired down those tires and still, tip-toed your way anytime you turned your handlebar...
  3. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Riding Mid Drive on only highest gear

    Al, many thanks! I've long been convinced that there is not one particular component, one particular tire, anything and everything including riding styles that is a fit-one/fits all standard. That's why I'll pretty much stay away from those threads asking advice about what saddle or grip works...
  4. Mike TowpathTraveler

    What Would You Have Done?

    @6zfshdb, the D&R section I refer to starts at Lock 1 in Bordentown and ends at Lamberton Road/Duck Island. It's only about 4 miles from both end points. At Lamberton Road, the D&R as you know, was filled in and highways built atop it. It requires alot of street running to access the D&R feeder...
  5. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Riding Mid Drive on only highest gear

    I guess I'm the exception to that rule. Since April, 2017, I've been exclusively riding my Haibike Full FatSix with it's Yamaha PW drive set in the High power position. There have been very few times when I haven't and they've always involved some kind of need for conserving battery power; such...
  6. Mike TowpathTraveler

    What Would You Have Done?

    Back to the OP and the original post...... I believe @6zfshdb had great, internal Situational Awareness instincts as to what he came upon on that remote trail ride. To be dismissive of that kind of encounter would be foolish. Especially today, when homeless (with any kind of human behavorial...
  7. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Riding Mid Drive on only highest gear

    Fair questions, Al. But I want to believe as adults, we all come here with a basic understanding about how the human propelled bicycle works. (that assumption is more likely a critical error on my part!) Not so much about adjusting a derailleur, but more a basic understanding that if I shift the...
  8. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Riding Mid Drive on only highest gear

    This. 1000%. End of discussion. Nothing else need more be said about a ridiculous topic brought up by the OP bicyclist who has no clue about why there is a cassette rear set of gears with a particular set amount of gear teeth on each cog. No clue at all. Probably never figured that when shifting...
  9. Mike TowpathTraveler

    How important is having a local bike shop?

    Where are you located? I'm in NJ and I see that most Yamaha motorcycle dealers also stock and sell the Yamaha ebikes. Worth it to see if the motorcycle dealers that sell Yamaha sell their ebikes as well. And if they do, discuss with them their ability to service the Yamaha ebike for a warranty...
  10. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Need some advice

    Shane, good on ya! Get an ebike that you really like, hit those trails and have some fun!
  11. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Need some advice

    I've been riding a fatbike exclusively since 2016; first a Fatboy and now a Haibike Full FatSix. I have a Master's Degree in Flat Tires, suffered, er, earned at the University of Hard Knocks. By a rough estimate, over 25,000 miles of fat bike riding, on pavement, trail, sand trail, snow. I've...
  12. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Trailer For Rad Bike

    @tomjasz is on the right track with the trailers. Here's a link to the QuietKat game hunting trailer (which does not require a thru-axle on the rear tire to connect to) Link: https://quietkat.com/collections/trailers/products/quietkat-cargo-trailer-2-wheel There should be enough high quality...
  13. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Need some advice

    I'm on the east coast, where we don't have goat heads. But I've conversed with western bicyclists enough in on-line forums to know that the one and only true way to deal with the goat head problem is the Tubeless tire set up. I run tannus armour in my tubed fatbike tires and have had enough...
  14. Mike TowpathTraveler

    What -- even remotely related to your ebike -- are you thankful for?

    Thankful for my overall good health and the good health of my family and friends. Thankful to have lived in a time when this ebike phenomenon has allowed us Social Security-types to pedal distances we only could do back when we were in our teens, twenties and thirties. Thankful that the Full...
  15. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Perception from other cyclists when on a moped style ebike?

    People are going to give approving or dirty or indifferent looks no matter where you go or what you ride. Hell, long time posters within this forum site get insulted over what was written to them and so, they get outraged, make a public spectacle of it and then, leave. It's unfortunate we live...
  16. Mike TowpathTraveler

    The Experience of a Bicycle

    No doubt, the alcohol treated pump gas plays havoc on carburated engines. And if the stuff is allowed to sit for a good amount of time without using it, things in the carb and gas tank get worse. Boats, too. Old engines built prior to the introduction of methanol have a hard time with the...
  17. Mike TowpathTraveler

    On The Road Repairs

    Haibike Full FatSix. The drill: Find a nice, soft spot off the road that is friendly towards your saddle. If nothing is available, use the soft towels you carry in your repair kit to place under the saddle where it sits....... Remove the rear pannier bag or bags. Remove the front handlebar bag...
  18. Mike TowpathTraveler

    The Experience of a Bicycle

    And now, for something completely different...... I think it was that time I just wanted to break out the gas powered chain saw to cut some downed tree limbs. So I break out the chain saw and after about 100 pulls and no start, the reality of a ruined fuel system due to alcohol in our gas set...
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    The Experience of a Bicycle

    You never know how these forum discussions turn when it gets beyond the original topic. But more often than not, here on this forum, these extended discussions take a nice turn & reveals what a wonderful, multi-talented bunch you all really are! It's a pleasure and a great learning experience...
  20. Mike TowpathTraveler

    Lake Superior North Shore

    47 years ago tonight, 10 November 1975 on Lake Superior, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and all hands onboard are lost in a hurricane westwind........
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