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Yes, it's a prediction. It's 100.0000000000% a prediction. The reality is no one knows, and there are many articles that speculate little will happen in the Nov talks (written by subject matter experts, not bike salesmen). It's also blatant political spin ("which made Trump's timing even...

regardless of what bike taillight you get, consider supplementing it with a small quarter sized "push button" type light to strap on the back of your helmet. My reasoning is that not only does this not only increase my visibility to motorists over just a taillight regardless of brand, but also...

Your small inner cardboard box, the one containing the tools, light etc & nestled basically inside the frame (IIRC) got smashed? I literally can't conceive of how that might happen without also destroying the bike frame itself. In any case, it wasn't a big deal, was only tossing it off as an...

This was the most head-scratching thing* for me about the pair of bikes I bought a couple months ago: why didn't they include a small tube of grease? I mean, they literally supply you with everything else you need to assemble the bike -- right down to the tools! I even sent a message to...

Yeah, I can second jazz's concern about wiping out @40mph. I was going about that speed when I laid down my motorcycle over thirty years ago, and I still have the scar tissue where there had been skin to show for it. I was an oozy mess for weeks, even months. And I had heavy highway bars...

As an alternative idea -- and I am only thinking about this, haven't attempted -- I am considering destroying my Topeak MTX rack (taken off my human-powered bike) in order to salvage just the track, and then try to figure out how to attach that to the top of the built-in rack, either somehow...

Actually, in some places (including where I live) there are already laws explicitly prohibiting ebikes from bike paths. However they're not actively being enforced here, to my knowledge. But all it will take is one or two incidents -- or maybe a handful of non-incidents, but just people very...

Sorry, but anything that can sustain 40mph shouldn't even be called a bicycle. Maybe call it an electric scooter with pedal assist? Please Juiced, market it under some other name, if you must sell it at all. Just because it's possible does not mean its a good idea. Something like this should...

I also don't understand this. I thought it's been established that the DNP is actually a bit "thicker" than the stock freewheel, so one must remove the stock spacer when doing the swap? (btw I'm assuming "shorter freewheel" means narrower/ less thick measured horizontally). EDIT: my...

Bob, which model & year bike did you do this with, and did you have to get a longer chain or add links? Did you also do (or even consider) switching to the4 11-32t DNP freewheel others here have used, also?

Yeah, I also found it weird that he was listing mostly 2015 and 2014 model year bikes in a post written in Jan 2017 (even putting aside that he posted it again without updating a year and a half later). Was there even much point tio the post or repost? Are/were any of those bikes still even...

I don't want FULL power ALL the time when I am going < 3mph. Indeed, wouldn't your suggestion actually make it impossible to go that slow? Regarding your other option, having full powered propulsion for thirty seconds without a way to limit is ... well, it's downright dangerous! No offense...

Just curious where you got the idea to ever use brake cleaner in the first place, and where you applied it to? Based on work I've done on cars, I recall it's basically a solvent (acetone etc) and I would think the label on the can would have told you to be careful to not get it on the paint on...

As primarily a commuter on urban roads I find throttle really useful for getting moving quickly from stationary out of busy 4-way stops, starts from bottom of hills, etc. I tend to establish full lane position at stops (don't stay by curb) and so am very conscious of pulling out slowly from...

I have friends with ebikes that are extremely bright, with PhDs in psychology and literature, law degrees, and so on, all very educated and successful. But that does not mean that they know/have an interest in understanding the electrical system of their bikes or know how to use a voltmeter...

You realize there was a cut of indeterminate length between those two shots in the video, right? For all we know she could have had 5-10 minutes to recover in between.

The point of the 11 tooth sprocket is for when you are on level ground and/or already up to speed; you wouldn't want to use 14, 13, or 11 on a climb. With the 14 tooth, once you get ~> 20mph it's hard to contribute much human power to the electric assist because you have to spin so fast...

In Wisconsin it is still officially illegal for an ebike of any class to be operated on bike trails, and further your are officially required to have a driver's license to be on one anywhere (so I guess it's literally illegal for anyone under 16 to ride one?) There were two bills introduced...

Auldphart, you sound just like us -- large frame RadCity for me, a Step-Thru for the wife. She's also still trying to get comfortable with it. In the meantime it's rather humorous when we go out together to be on ebikes and almost never pass any other bikers, even the human-pedaled folks pass...

Good questions, but on the other hand if this is the case then Radpower really ought to indicate that somewhere in their manual as a best practice to leave it charging until the light goes green, and I don't believe they do? (see p. 12-15). After all, a timer cut-off is no different than just...