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You say that as if it matters. Given the ridiculously high RPM and consistent torque across the entire RPM range typical of electric motors in general, that very notion that having the drive train in there helps is 100% bullcookies. This is why most successful EV's and hybrids use hub motors in...

Thinking of clown clothes, this past weekend I rode to a Halloween party as Mr. J. Which is fun since I can do the Mark Hamill voice. Didn't get pictures this year, but here I am back in 2019 (and 30 pounds heavier) wearing the same getup. This time around I got the hair to actually go green...

Surprised the hell out of me 'cause I hadn't either. I mean mineral oil doesn't generally promote growth. I was thinking "how was there enough water in there for something to grow?" Was definitely bacterial too because I know that smell -- more like "stench of death" -- from working with PC's...

That might explain why this past spring when I did a fork and rotor swap, my brakes stopped working right after flipping the bike over for an hour, and why when I flushed the rear line there was bacterial growth in the system with me thinking "how did enough water get in there for this to...

Video is comically Eurocentric. "I don't need to tell you what cars these are" -- not quite, since here in the colonies the majority of people have never even heard of Citroen. They'll think it's a VW Beetle which it clearly is not since you know, front-engine vs. rear and VW having twice the...

Mine's a VW Thing so... same page.

Which likely means a mismatch of your highest chainring to cassette ratio. What are you running front-and-rear? Your front looks "tiny" to me... but then I'm running 53:11-36 precisely to get rid of that "ghost pedal" feel. Am I the only one who finds it comedy gold that you can blow down the...

This happened on my old 3 speed beach cruiser. Dozens of punctures I wasn't even aware of on the front tire to the point the slime was gluing the tube to both rim and tire. I ended up having to replace both tire and tube. I didn't even find that out until it did finally go flat, I went to add...

The trick with them is to adjust their angle -- and the brake grip angle -- so that your hand is flat with the wrist flat, so you're "holding" on via friction without curling your fingers (until you brake) more than about the amount they'd be if you were holding a 2 liter bottle. They help...

They'd have to, where else are they going to put it. As I said though, "hub motors" seem to universally have been cadence sensors, though I'm starting to see torque sensors (aventon's level 2) at the pedals with hub motors finally become a thing. It's just really weird we don't just see larger...

Which is exactly what I was talking about preventing, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Rather than neutering the output by turning the controller settings down, up the gear ratio. What part of that did you fail to understand? Then what exactly do you think it's doing, blowing rainbow...

The "ghost pedaling" / "feels like the bike is racing ahead of me" thing was something I noticed right out of the gate with my Aventure. A lot of people say to "turn down the controller settings" but for a lot of us that's not even an option... much less why would you want to neuter the power...

The {expletive omitted} you say?!? I don't think there are that many bicycle stores in my entire STATE. Did you omit a zero... or two on that "5 miles" 'cause... well...

There was an adjustment, you could feel it did something and I did a pressure check, there just wasn't enough travel on them. If you'll read down the thread a bit further (post#8) I did end up doing a fork swap and adding a suspension post. In my "late intro thread" I made a post showing off how...

Oh, it is. It's a pointless kohlerye redundancy to using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript properly, that suckers you into a deeper buld process (possibly in cases where there shoudln't even be one), client side scripting only solutions flipping the bird at usability and accessibility (which is why...

Sounds about right. Also why to me it feels like so many of the claims -- and designs themselves -- are more hoodoo-voodoo than fact the fancier they get. And that's about what my cheap amazon one does. It just softens the blow of a real impact and smooths out vibration over washboard-like...

176 and dropping. I'm rather proud of that these days since 12 years ago I was up over 280, and at that time getting a simple 3 speed cruiser helped me get rid of 50 of that. Hit a plateau at 230 I couldn't get below, but then a nice case of COVID helped me get down to 200. Mobility problems...

Fair enough. A lot of that attitude of mine stems from my day job bleeding into my off time. I deal with marketers and advertisers who DO blatantly lie to the public all the time, as well as "developers" using mind-numbing asshat rubbish like bootstrap, tailwind, react, angular, and so forth...

Ok, some say high pressure, some say low, in that case I'd say we can possibly dismiss pressure, or that tire pressure's effect varies on what's being thrown. And @K PierreR that "sounds like gunshots" is something I encountered on some heavier/larger crushed stone. I thought I was popping the...

I knew they directed down and back, but I just wasn't expecting so much of the travel to be back so far that I'd slide off the front of the seat when it compresses and then get thrown clear off when it releases. I think more so it's that they're designed for "crotch rocket" riders, which I'm...