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No. Its a stupidism. There is no intelligence test given to those who intend to buy something with a keyboard attached. Should there be? Definitely mebbe.

I use a combination of a Litelok X3 and a Pragmasis boron steel noose chain. No D lock is going to be useful for locking up other than the frame of the bike, if you are also trying to keep it secured to something, which is what my insurance wants...

It seems strange that if I want to find anti-ebikers, this is the place where I would go.

Magura brakes don't make noise on their own. Something needs to be wrong for that to happen. I think I have 8 or maybe 9 sets of MT5's... I've lost count. The MT30 is just this year's flavor of the standard-issue MT5/MT7 caliper. They've changed the color discs to black and you get the basic...

Well the thread title had the word 'Costco' in it originally, and Costco is not selling this ebike there. For $2999 they are selling that reasonably high spec analog mtb https://www.costco.com/intense-951-xc-mountain-bike.product.4000136479.html plus another even higher-spec 951 XC with even...

Gahd in a previous life, I had an angel tank (125 gal show tank) and me and my girlfriend bred them for extra money. Which was not exactly a big moneymaker. Later we did cichlids and it was like Friday Night Fights in that tank every day. Had a mated pair of clown knives that mixed it up with...

Wow this thing is genuinely awesome. https://intensecycles.com/products/951-series-trail-udh Modified Horst link suspension. That 'flip chip' feature is for real I have something very similar on my Guerilla Gravity Smash and it makes a major difference in suspension behavior when riding to an...

Intense is just such a brand. You just have to know a bit about cycling to know what you are looking at, I guess. Any LBS could work on a bike like this no problem. You'll find zero cheap parts on it. https://intensecycles.com/pages/intense-history

WOW. Intense is an old and very well-pedigree'd brand. I have an Intense Tracer from 2000 that I built up from scratch into an e-mtb and its a real gem to ride. Intense used to be THE professional competition MTB. My Tracer was considered an upgrade over the Stumpjumper FSR of the day and in...

Yeah that practice has made us lazy, and people who don't have a lot of breadth of experience think they are being shortchanged somehow by having to think about stuff like responsibly sizing imagery. In 2025 our browsers are much more capable of showing big images zoomed in to show all kinds of...

Also, EBR is not my only ebike discussion group. Frankly this ebike forum has - by far - the most vitriolic anti-ebike members of any ebike discussion group I belong to. Spread your wings and dig into a variety of Facebook groups, and other forums. Make this site a single stop on a tour of...

New owners? There is definitely a new image size limit. I tried to upload a 3.19mb 4000x3000 image native from my phone and it was refused as too big. I downsized it to the 4k standard (3840x2880) with 80% jpg quality, which yielded a 1.26mb image and it was accepted (below). This is still an...

That is how I get my first working 'centered' result. One hand on the brake lever holding it closed. The other has a wrench in it and I stretch a little so I can tighten the caliper and clamp the lever at the same time. I may need a couple tries and I'll usually need to jigger it a touch...

huh? :) I have been called a brake whisperer when it comes to adjusting people's brakes for them, and the secret has always been to NOT tighten the crap out of the caliper into the mount. As you say, the caliper can be aligned just perfectly, and that final torque-down ruins it. I don't have...

In a location like mine, there is no alternative. We have a military base that closes off traffic from one side of town to another, creating a choke point where the only way thru that is not a MUP is a narrow underground tunnel with two lanes and high speeds. Since equal access is a thing...

I think thats a key observation here: Traditional cyclists and normies riding analog bikes are already gone. ALL of the tourist rentals are ebikes - Rads, Aventons and Lectrics so none of them are high-powered but now all of them are illegal. Speaking of which, this means all ebike businesses...

I don't see that argument being allowed to kill off the cargo bike industry, and utility biking in general. Using ebikes to reduce auto usage, reduce congstion etc. is such a near/dear goal to progressive politicians that I think they will be very susceptible to some form of accommodation. All...

Re-ordering the cassette cogs is a common hack in the DIY community, but its an extreme solution (as in a hack; kludge; bodge etc.). I've never needed to do it after many years of building with BBSHDs on a wide variety of bike types. You can typically solve alignment problems by making a change...

OR the perceived usefulness of ebikes has grown beyond what was originally intended or even known at the time of initial legislation, such that the definition of what an ebike is needs to grow with it. In 2002 cargo bikes did not exist. The concept of them didn't exist, either. But even more...

^^^ this exactly. Myself, I cannot see a benefit in paying for a theft-proof battery that doesn't prevent theft. It prevents use, but the value in the theft-proofing lies in the thief knowing (or believing ) that the battery cannot be used after they take it (or break it) off your bike. Amen...