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GM’s announcements this week were quite eye-opening and reality-revealing. Canceling the Cruise project, delaying and downsizing their planned battery plant. Huge stock buybacks. EV production cuts. AND the emphasis on continuing and expanding ICE vehicle production. They need money. They...

You are all scaring me with your stories of snow and cold. I am returning to Wisconsin this Friday for a 2 week holiday trip. Can’t say I will do any riding or not. In the meantime it has been very nice this week In AZ. 80’s all week. Great biking along the Phoenix area washes. Tempe Lake Trail...

I have found the Trek Technical 800# free telephone support to be very helpful. (800) 585-8735 You can be assured you will get the proper parts info.

All good comments. I have been riding with these recumbents for 3+ years and my wife and I continue to feel more uncomfortable with each ride. Yes, all recumbents have flags and everyone wears helmets. We also stipulate high-vis clothing. One of our favorite rides is along the Indian Bend Wash...

For a lot of us, the older we get, the more upright our riding position becomes. Much due to our inability to comfortably tilt our heads up for long distance. After back surgery last year my surgeon forbade bike riding for 8 weeks due to the amount of pressure our lower spines carry in a...

Yes, guilty of guilt. Not asking friends who ride lowriders to ride with us, from a discomfort/fear perspective. And we don’t want to infer inferior transports.

Mixed meaning 2 wheelers and recumbents. My wife and I ride with and lead several bike groups. Without trying to sound too supercilious, we find it less safe and more challenging to ride with recumbents because we cannot always see them as we track the group. And we fear that if we cannot see...

Yes, the legs on the Giant rack may be too short — they were for most of us who added the rack to our 8s racks. Previous conversations within this tread allude to our mounting solutions. Hopefully one will work for you.

Stopped into the local dispensary. 2 for 1 sale. Amazing. Plus their Senior discount.

Absolutely for me as well — why I added a Range Boost to bring total onboard to 1,125 watts. Allows me 50-60 miles in Turbo (or 250 miles in Eco).

Yes, very good pump — the 2nd one. I don’t own the 1st. Per the Woowind, it works great. I carry it always because invariably someone in our riding group will need air. I can pump several tires and have never had a problem. I use it regularly to top off my wife’s or my tires. And will pump a...

I have a strap mount for my phone that works great. Never a problem However, when I picked up my bike with a Bosch COBI Smartphone Hub Controller mount, the first and only advice the Trek bike builder told me was to never put my phone in the bike clasp. He said the phone would fall out and...

It happens because you do it. Kudos!

Good question! As a commuter, or any bicyclist, I high recommend hi-vis clothing. For ebiking an extra layer of wind protection is good. Like you, I ride in the 25-30mph range whenever riding solo. Relative to adequate protection for a crash, my best advice is don’t crash. At 10mph or 25mph, you...

Welcome, also, to the forum from a southern Wisconsinite. We all would hope that your 7 mile limit does not keep you from fully enjoying your ebike. Achy butt is generally associated with a reduction in blood flow caused by an impingement from your riding position. As DiggyGun describes, be...

This string has strayed a bit from the original post. So, just to add some addition Allant info ... Having recently purchased another bike via the Trek employee purchase program for overstocked bikes (my brother is a Trek employee), I added an Allant 8s to my stable. Having >8,800 miles on my...

My guideline rule on the street: The bigger/faster object yields to the smaller/slower object. AND, bikers yield to everything.

Your uphill/downhill yield has also been an unexplainable rule for me even though I was able to get his best explanation from grand pubah of the high council of trail hikers several years ago. He agreed it should be reversed for the same reasons you describe. However the rule is so ingrained it...

How far back in time do you go? Do I need a dinosaur gun? Will I still be able to charge the battery on my ebike?

The general rule for a UL approved lithium ebike battery is 60%-80% charge, store at near room temperature with modest relative humidity.