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I missed the "x" on "Super Moto X" The tread has the same recommendation as the Pickup: 3 bars asphalt, 4 bars gravel, 1 bar dirt. Being 27.5", @DDBB 's tires will carry more weight than my 20" pickups. I guess Aventon used 20" tires to keep the weight of the cargo lower.

I love hot dogs with ketchup and mustard, but I chop onions for crunch. If my larder has onion, bread, and peanut butter, I'm likely to have a peanut-butter-and-onion sandwich.

In 1957 I fried up some night crawlers to make a sandwich. Don't knock it until you've tried it! I've tried it and I knock it. :)

I hated the Kenda knobbies that came on my Radrunner. I loved the tires that came on my Abound until I had a puncture at 30 miles. They were only 25 tpi, as well as I could measure. I switched to Schwalbe pickups. I think most bike tires these days have only 1 ply, but these have two plies of 67...

CC doesn't equate to hp. It's for internal combustion engines. California has a motorized bicycle category that could apply. The limitation is 30 mph. I've read that in America, 750 watts means 750 watts output, on a dynamometer. I tested my Abound on a 6.1% hill and it accelerated to 17.6 mph...

We don't seem to be at all observant. If you liked @Mr. Coffee 's, why didn't you buy a little one like his? @fooferdoggie 's is a different tool. It's likely to damage what you grab. Two days ago, @Cliffy recommended twisting an axle with an open-end wrench to get it loose. He said it was...

Yes, my control cables were flat like lamp cord. No need for a shield. Like 300 ohm vhf cable but with 3 conductors. RG-6 coax was much better than 300 ohm ribbon cable for UHF. The shielded audio cable would probably have been efficient for carrying line-level stereo over a distance. I wonder...

A lighter might help old school strippers. Squeeze the strippers, heat the insulation a little with the lighter, and maybe the strippers can more easily slide the end piece away. With my automatic strippers, I see that the clamp on the side being pulled away has to be within a range. Too loose...

Back then I installed rotators at couple of houses because it was the only way to get UHF. A 2 or 4 -bay bowtie antenna on a rotator shaft on a mast on the roof. RG-6 coax because the UHF attenuation was much less than RG-59. A UHF amp on the antenna. The cable would carry DC from the power...

Why pay five dollars for a bag of beer nuts? A bag of deer nuts is under a buck.

A couple of weeks ago I bought these. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TS6KCXD I'd always used the kind where you figure out what gauge wire you have, find the notch in the strippers, use one size bigger if the wire is stranded, clamp the wire with the sharp hole, turn the stripper to be sure the...

I hadn't thought about connectors. Both aftermarket controllers were KT. I assumed the connectors would handle the current and that the matching motor connectors on the bikes had the same rating. I was concerned about overheating magnets. After climbing a hill, I'd stop and put a finger on the...

On a 60 pound bike, his gross weight would be 1273 N. 20 mph is 8.9 m/s. So it would take 11.38 kW to ride straight up a wall at 20 mph. Suppose his bike puts 750 mechanical watts on the wheel. 750 / 11.38k = 0.066. So 750 watts on the wheel would take him up a 6.6% grade at 20 mph. (Actually...

When it happened to me, I twisted the axle with Knipex 86 03 180 pliers. One size replaces several spanners. By clamping flats tightly, they are less damaging than spanners. That wasn't the problem. After several incidents in which I needed a 3-pound hammer and a block of wood to get the axle...

In 2021 I wanted to measure a grade to calculate how much power my hub motor was providing. I used a level stick to sight a spot on the road uphill, measured the height of the stick from the pavement where I stood, and measured the distance to the spot I'd sighted. (Actually, grade is rise over...

Fifty years ago I acquired a copy of the BCI manual on maintaining lead acid batteries, with all kinds of stuff about design, specific gravity, state-of-charge voltages, and charge rates. I had a 6-amp and a 1-amp charger. Often, an alternator wouldn't keep a battery charged, especially in...

I used to do something like that coming home from the public swimming pool. There was a steep hill with a stop sign at the bottom. Rather than wear out my brakes, I'd spread my towel like a sail or drag parachute behind my head. It was effective. If the seat tube had been too steep, the jolt...

Countersteering. It may be subtle on a bicycle. Supposedly you steer a bicycle by leaning. How do you establish a lean if the head tube angle (rake on a motorcycle) is going to steer the front wheel to bring you upright (as demonstrated when I would swing out of the saddle of a moving bicycle)...

It seems to me that the wind would blow the bike around primarily through the rider, being higher and having a bigger cross section. My fattest tires were the 3.3 inch ones on my Radrunner. Wind or no wind, it steered itself fine at the recommended 30 psi. If I found the pressure down to 25 or...

It can't be as bad as my Radrunner, from a big company with lots of dealers. Still, after three years of investment and work, it was much more satisfactory.... except those darned 20 x 3.3 tires. They wouldn't work well below 30 psi. At that pressure they slid badly on snow or mud, and they were...