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Cleated shoes are sold at bike supplies. Require D or E width feet. Cleats are fine if you intend to call your Mommy for a ride if you have an unrepairable bike problem. Assuming there is cell phone coverage there. Pushing a bike 7 miles on cleats woutd be a PITB. I've done it in flats at 96...

The video of the Eaton canyon fire starting under an electrical pylon is clearly shown on Delorme So Cal map p93 is inside the boundary of the Los Angeles National Forest. About 300 meters from the nearest street in Altadena. Not that the electric line caused the fire. Electric company...

Forest management is bad all over the west coast. This includes US & state owned properties. I once thought paving 1 mile wide strips throughout west coast forests might prevent fire spread. Now with 80 mph winds at 10% humidity, I don't think that is even good enough. Clear cutting then...

There are no comfortable bike seats. I have tried 8 on my bodaboda. Selle Royal Explora is the best of the bad, but I can only stand it for 3 hours before my hips pain me greatly. My bike requires a rail seat with an oddball stem diameter, so Cloud 9 is out. Adding a Cloud-9 Double Gel Seat...

Buy tin/lead solder with rosin core. Use safety glasses, solder splashes especially when you are removing it. I buy my solder and soldering irons at newark, the US arm of Farnell in the UK. You will want some heat shrink tubing to put on the wires before soldering, then slide down over the...

Welcome to the site and the hobby. I was a fan of 60's 70's 80's rock & pop until my local unemployed house painter (during covid shutdown) hauled 2200 LP's & 200 CD's off to his fence. Now I listen to the FM radio. The local rock station has a playlist of about 40 songs, which hasn't changed...

I like a front geared hub motor bike. If I rode a lot of hills off road I might prefer a rear hub motor bike. Front tire does slip on grass up 8% or more grade. I'm 74 and ride a drop frame. I do not know a mid-drive motor that runs without a display, and I ride in the rain a lot. Rain...

It is not the sprockets that wear first, it is the chain. Commuters with 10 speed chain report lives as low as 800 miles. I get 5000 miles out of the thicker 8 speed chain on my bike. 2 1/2 years. I have about 12000 miles and have not changed a sprocket yet on the bike in the avatar. I oil...

I keep a plastic bag and a vegetable tie in the pannier with the poncho and jacket. If there is not a sudden downpour, it mostly works to keep throttle working.

I start trips in the rain. It rains 220 days a year here. If the bike wouldn't run in the rain I would have to buy a horse.

You should measure "very steep". 7/8" rise on a 6" spirit level is 14.6%. I traverse a very hilly area and I have available 24:32 to 52:11 . I never use the top end as I do not like to go over 28 mph, but sometimes, especially when the throttle is dead due to rain and I am carrying 60 lb...

Looks like a standard 42 to 18 sprocket ratio. Fine for flat Houston where there is no wind. If you get a windy day rider may have to stand on the pedals. Plus that tiny motor will be overwhelmed. Not even as big as a brake rotor. Looks like there are no brake rotor on the rear either. When I...

I have a map of the US in my head. I spent my years 2-4 standing in the front seat of the car to avoid motion sickness. So I knew my way to & from grocery (24 miles) by age 3. Totally illegal these days. My wife reports GPS ran her & daughter in a circle 3 times on way from Elizabethtown to...

I bought 2 Pelican IP68 Marine Waterproof Phone Pouch $24.60 or $12.30 ea on Ebay. Guaranteed waterproof to 3 feet under. Fits smart phones. Has a hard loop with a lanyard to wrap around my belt so the phone will be in reach if I am knocked off the bike by a car; or fall in the ocean off a crab...

Best of luck. This issue is invisible in all the tests done on ebikes. I have used 7 different controllers. The first ebikeling had cadence sense, and PAS 1 was dangerous at 13 mph on bad pavement. PAS 2 & 3 were even faster, hideous. I like 8 mph except downhill. I moved the cadence magnet...

I've bought CPSC approved helmet at Salvation Army resale for $1. Government gives them away to kids. Solid green, no dinosaur crest as kids crave. I washed it out with 409/Fantastik/SpicnSpan and a paper towel, in case the kid had lice. Worn on 3 mph rides to the grocery+bank+dollarstore 3...

I wrap the mouth vent of my full face helmet with saran wrap when temp is under 20. They don't sell saran wrap anymore, I think they call it sticky film or something. I don't cover the helmet, I stuff a welder's helmet liner in it. Keeps my ears warm. Helmet has 7 vents, a Fox Rampage, so...

NYC should require license plate and insurance for delivery riders. They are the problem. It is fairly obvious that prepared food deliveries come in a insulated pack. Individual riders not carrying large quantities of prepared food or merchandise should be exempt. Grocery shoppers (like me)...

I bought several MTB at Salvation Army resale after I quit driving cars. The Diamondback rear axle broke and two Pacifics the plastic crank arms wore out or the crank sprocket wore out. I donated the repaired axle one to a illegal worker attending my church whose car was confiscated by the city...

I ride my e-bike for errands like groceries or the lumberyard. Going out today at 27 F & 8 mph wind. I have not worked since 2008. But the battery stays in the garage under a heat pad. 840 WH is not enough to get me 28 miles to my summer property below 55 degrees, so I beg rides from the...