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absolutely - often the people who make it a point to hate something are the ONLY ones making a statement … but it’s not the statement they think they’re making. you see this behavior in a lot of spheres, people being anti-nice things or anti-expertise or anti-popular things. i mean… i’d never...

sure, a statement that they don't want to be hot and chafed and stinky and uncomfortable while exercising. i never see people who aren't exercising on a bike wearing spandex or lycra or other technical fabrics. when i ride for sport, i wear the appropriate clothes, and when i ride to work or...

in whose opinion? yours? what is good for society is a complex question and i'd advise anyone to be deeply skeptical of anyone who claims to have the answer unequivocally, as your comment here suggests. some level of regulation is required in most things that are truly shared public resources...

on this site … oftentimes the rider is the tool!

how is the reaction force against the frame handled? there’s a reason lightweight carbon road eBikes have much heavier rear dropouts than their acoustic cousins - to house the non-rotating nut and transmit those forces into steel pieces embedded into heavier carbon members. i would guess the...

last i compared 12 to 18 at my local stores they were 9.99 and 14.99… technically a half a cent more expensive in quantity 😂

they’re around $10 a dozen here!

Yeah this is common, often these rings have a little diagram engraved in them. When placed incorrectly the risk of chain drops is allegedly higher by some unknowable amount. Depending on the design, the chain may not really fit well the other way, so yours may always be correct. The praxis...

only if the app is stupid. iPhone location services use a combination of barometric pressure and GPS, which is selectable by the app, as with this cycling app :

nice little native clik mini pump https://www.wolftoothcomponents.com/collections/pumps/products/encase-pump-for-schwalbe-clik-valve

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definitely targeted at MTBs, not sure i’ve ever seen a road bike with 4 piston brakes but i imagine it’s possible. probably easier than inventing a new motor and adapting a rear hub motor to a carbon frame with a regular through axle. ;) anyway, i agree wholeheartedly that continuing innovation...

of course it could be smaller, but unless your friend is proposing starting a motor company to design and have manufactured a motor (which would surely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for the first unit) it really is irrelevant what he thinks. if it was so easy, such a product would exist...

Thinking about the rear hub motor a bit more, i wonder how much the design of a frame for disk brakes takes into account similar forces, applied rather suddenly? The seat stays on a lot of super light modern carbon road bikes are seriously thin, which make sense if they go into tension in...

We have three bikes with presta - my aethos, addict e-ride, and daughter’s sirrus. The first two tubeless, the latter tubed. Have a front hub commuter with schrader, and my younger daughter has a little cleary with schrader also. And an electric scooter with schrader. however, 95% of my tire...

that’s all very interesting, i hadn’t observed that correlation before. i’m not really a spinner and tend to bounce a bit in the saddle at those higher speeds, but it goes away out of the saddle, under heavy load, or at my more comfortable cadences. i did a ride yesterday that accidentally was...

that’s interesting, are you talking about resonance in the bike frame itself … or bouncing/oscillation of the rider on the seat which transfers into the frame? the latter is usually from the seat being not quite at the right height, or the bike is helping you out too much and there isn’t isn’t...

a good phone mount will have some small amount of damping (typically in the design of the arm or, for direct mount, rubber interface) which probably helps with the most damaging high frequency vibrations, compared to something much beefier and rigid attached to the also much beefier and rigid...

silca ”Terra.” I like the wood handle, and the guage is rock solid, super smooth. When you stop pumping it snaps to the pressure super fast and stays right there. the only other floor pump I’ve had was a cheapie (that lasted 13 years), no comparison. the head snaps on really straight and...

I got a new pump recently, and while it’s way nicer than my old one, the lever to lock the head on is so hard to fold down I worry I’m going to break the tubeless valve off! it locks on very securely even without the lever, and has me wondering about clik again 😄