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That is terrifying, even if it was over a quarter century ago. I do not have enough faith in technology and product safety to believe we have entirely eliminated issues like these. Yeah, I remember that. I stumbled across those posts when researching cracks on the early versions of the...

My answer to this question used to be that I wouldn't pay more than $5,674.39 for an e-bike, but that was a few years ago. 10 minutes ago, I would have adjusted for inflation and said my limit was $6,314.28 if I were in the market for a bike, which I'm not just at this moment. (My point being...

Thank you for doing the math, Jeremy! By way of comparison, I can ride up a 15% graded road on a 40nm 250W 47 lb. mid-drive eMTB, and I'm 66 and have health problems, but it does require substantial effort and I work pretty hard generally to stay fit. If you are reasonably fit, the 51 lb...

I took a tour of the Vehicle Assembly Building in about 1965. I remember the tour guide saying that it actually had its own weather indoors-- sometimes it would kinda rain in there when it was dry outside due to condensation. That was a very large construction project for such an elaborate...

I did not read the whole thread, but being disappointed is not a binary situation. It's entirely possible to be very happy with a purchase in some respects, but disappointed in others. I would say my least disappointing purchase was the Motobecane with the E5000 motor. It's reliable and...

No problem with riding with a camera on the bars or your helmet, filming, and reporting, the worst offenders who nearly cause accidents. Or suing them if they do. And I know that London, in particular, is really, really dangerous for cyclists. i understand the frustration. But reporting...

One thing I miss about my front-wheel hub Hiltopper is the cornering from AWD. I found it to be like cornering in a front wheel drive car-- you can lean the bike way over on a hairpin, and as you are exiting, nudge the throttle as you pedal hard (if you can avoid pedal strikes) to snap out of...

We have three stereos in this house. All are mid-90s relics, with huge, fat speaker cables. The system in the living room has fantastic speakers, but stupidly, I re-coned them myself and didn't mount them properly, so they fart a bit at really high volume... but at moderate to high volume...

Man, I almost got to ride a European eBike (with the lower limiter) when I was helping my sick friend in Portugal for the last two weeks! I really wanted to see what it was like, and I had plotted a route from Portimao to Ferragudo castle that had two monster hills... the car rental place had...

I wear body armor all the time riding both my Class I and Class III bikes in the Hollywood Hills, whether on trail or off, whether it's a little three or four mile fitness ride or a 32+ mile trek out to the Verdugos. I'm on blood thinners, so my main concern is internal bleeding, though road...

Interesting. I take your general point and agree that a hard limit of 5 MPH would be tricky to maintain, but on many long, steeper stretches here, I'm going 5 to 6 MPH for five to 6 minutes at a time. On the really steep trails, I'm definitely going right around 5 MPH for a minute or two here...

All good thoughts, though note that the Propella has no suspension. The price and weight are going to be limiting factors. For that price range, even if you went up a bit, figure a hardtail (front suspension only) not front and rear suspension. The front suspension does seem more important to...

When I hit the link for the bike testing contraption, at first, I thought, "Hey, this could be cool, if it measures the real-world speed bikes are capable of with electric assistance. It doesn't regulate the kind of technology you can use to limit speed, it regulates what the bike can do on the...

It is very strange up here in the hills-- sometimes, I think we've already taken the hit. A lot of empty houses. There is one right next to me-- no one has lived there in at least 15 years, could be 20. I know it sounds insane, but no developers can make any money here, or that's what it...

<-- Exactly! (Or, it's a narrow range of RPM and pedal pressure.) I wonder if mine would do better if the speed sensor was connected. Pedaluma thinks that the power required for it to make whatever calculations it needs to make may be significant, and/or that its little brain doesn't really...

Man, I gotta say, the TSDZ2 (in my case, the "B" version) is a weird critter. Some days, I'm convinced I'm going to replace it and go with something else-- and soon. On other days, I'm like, "What am I complaining about? This thing is actually great, it gives me a good workout, and it can go...

Well, it's ready to slide, that's for sure-- I'm just not sure about where it will go. Into the sea, the canyon, the desert, etc. And while I didn't get to the reservoir, I did try some steeper trails today-- and I think there was a short stretch that was probably a bit more than 15%. She was...

Just checking in with my usual composite of multiple short rides-- too cold and rainy for longer ones, but I've been going a bit harder with the shorter ones. These are, as usual, between about 4 miles with 400 feet of vertical and 8 miles with 1000 feet of vertical. These are in no particular...

I love this! That is the Chargeride way! And I completely agree. Just get a bunch of guys from the neighborhood pub when the building inspector isn't around, throw down some beams, flip up a few sheet rock walls, little solar power system on a corrugated tin roof for some television, hot...

Another potential point of failure is the presta valve adaptor. They do not last forever, the seals do fail eventually, and very much as you describe: They may hiss, they may not, and for the non-hissing failures, it often seems like the pump has gone bad. Mine acted particularly strangely--...