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An all too common typo in the photography forums... “I bought a new lense today!” Grrr. Also I can assure you that the new purchase will ensure the need to insure the gear.

(Not to meddle...) For displaying such mettle, pin a metal medal on him! ;)

Agreed! Here it is, the day it came out of the shop last summer, all fixed up for riding 25 years after purchase; nearly mint condition, given how little I rode it in the 90's: (Edit: This is before a new saddle, new pedals, new grips, bike rack... all added later that month.)

I didn't "go back to" a non-e-bike but I did reincorporate one into my riding patterns. Long story short, after riding the ebike exclusively for about 16 months, I discovered last summer that I still owned my original 1990's Bianchi (I had developed a clearly-incorrect memory of selling it at...

@DIL glad to hear what a great experience (and deal) you had with that bike; of course, really sorry to hear it was eventually stolen! What options or changes are you considering, in light of the theft, for the new bike?

Welcome aboard, Stephen. Arlington, VA here, near the W&OD's Columbia Pike crossing.

Pretty sure all the available colors in the world are suitable for girls.

My Ebike comes up into my condo apartment with me after every ride, and lives in my breakfast nook which has a tiled floor should there be any mess. I have a floor standing, lean-against the wall bike rack that can take two bikes to hang on its hooks, one positioned above the other. the...

Your recent posts in and around Bluemont motivated me to (carefully) break with the stay-at-home guidance, a week ago, and drive my S.O. out to Bluemont to see the old family home of my earliest childhood memories... (it had appeared in one of your older posts here, in a vintage photograph of...

Looks like a lychgate! Very English...

Not on a Vado here, but as @gorse said above, earlier, about riding forever with the motor off... :p I just ended a self appointed exercise to see how far I could go before charging up again... relying on Level 0 assist, and allowing myself Level 1 (of 5) when I didn’t feel like straining on an...

My handle; a shortening of first name Christopher plus last-name initial B. Avatar; detail shot from the cast-aluminum battery housing (shown below) of my Cafe ebike by Vintage Electric Bikes, showing just the bas-relief company logo. ("V" with a lightning bolt through it.) I chose it because...

Well... I missed hitting 8,000 total biked miles as of 3/31, by 21 miles. (That measure is both the ebike + Bianchi pedal bike miles -- tracked since the March 2, 2018 delivery of my ebike; the Bianchi came into play a year+ later, July 31, 2019.) Fortunately, I cleared 8,000 in the first week...

Surely the seatpost is adjustable for saddle height? Watching the clips of it being ridden, my knees were hurting based on that riding position for pedaling leg extension.

@Alaskan -- is that a FuelTank, or FastFuel Drybag?

Let's see... on the ebike, I've been through a variety of saddles... The stock saddle (in a lovely brown perforated leather, with integrated rear-facing LED) was far too narrow to be comfortable for me. Replaced that with a Brooks B67 (losing the integrated light) which showed promise but...

Not a name per se, perhaps more a slogan... to rephrase Kermit's famous song, in light of ebiking... "It's so easy being green!"

If I was to find an unexpected silver lining in all this, it is the drop in overall car traffic which has made roadways dramatically more comfortable and attractive biking options (well, the secondary / residential roads around me.) A good number of roads here have painted "sharrows" or painted...

No official switch here -- but I'd say perhaps my only advice is, it doesn't have to be a 100% switch, either/or consideration. I just decided to start alternating my rides on the ebike with rides on a pedal bike I owned (but had not ridden in eons)... Particularly after, like you, I reached...

Mine ended with a broken rear spoke 5 mi from home (on the 1990’s pedal Bianchi, not ebike.) 2nd one to break in a week; had them put on a whole new wheel this time, as all the original spokes are 25+ years old at this point!