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I love total isolation in buds. It's also dangerous while riding or even walking. Ask me how I know.

A properly designed cell/battery pack will allow a charger, even a misbehaving charger, to be plugged in indefinitely. This would be cells made by reputable companies like Panasonic, LG, Sony, and such. Hopefully the upcoming UL certification requirements will ensure that this is so. The flip...

Bought a bidet toilet seat on Amazon a couple of years ago. WHAT AN AMAZING IMPROVEMENT. Over the past two years, haven't needed to use toilet paper once. Not once. When I traveled Europe a few decades ago, hotels had the old-fashioned bidet bowl with faucets for hot and cold water. Now...

The Boeing 787 was revolutionary in many respects, one of which was the heavy use of electrical actuators for systems like flaps instead of hydraulics. But this meant they had to store much more electricity on board. They turned to lithium cells. Within a few years of deployment, several of...

New to ebikes but rode analog bikes for many years when I was younger. Never had a mid-drive ebike, though I'd imagine that when combined with a smooth torque sensor it would represent the ultimate experience: transparent power delivery combined with stump-pulling power at low speeds. Yeah, it...

Changing company policy right after a major lawsuit implies that, yeah, we were wrong but now we're doing the right thing. No, the correct response to litigation is to countersue for defamation and fight. Our Lectric 2.0 bikes had lousy brake feel, but simply removing the cables and generously...

Yow, this is remarkable. Wife and I bought two of the XP2.0st bikes 18 months ago for the special deal price of $999, including a similar bundle. Great machines, and the bundle adds a lot of value. We've since added ( in order of importance): (1) 11-34 freewheel ($20) (2) Wireless horn +...

I always find it kind of incongruous that people will pay a small fortune to shave a few pounds of weight off their bike, and then go around carrying a heavy chain around their waist. Two obvious things you can do: (1) take the battery with you, there's $500 right there; (2) paint a part of the...

I'm a pretty handy person, but I've come to the conclusion that messing with lithium cells (especially UNPROTECTED cells) is extremely dangerous. In the paper just this morning 2 people were killed when a lithium pack caught fire in a NYC ebike shop. Lots of amazing YouTube videos regarding...

We have a couple of the XP2.0st bikes. First mod we made was to replace the stock 14-28 freewheel with 11-34. Huge improvement. I don't know if your bike uses the same chainring. Other issue is that I've read a mid-drive is tough on chain and sprockets, and the poor 11-tooth sprocket will...

I would guess that Slime or FlatOut would puddle enough in an auto tire to cause a huge imbalance at speed.

Did it break? Why replace it? By far the best change I made to our stock XP2.0 bikes was putting in a 34-11 freewheel, which the stock derailleur handles fine. Major improvement at both ends of the range.

Only the blue route pictured goes by the airport. The open-air tour bus does the loop, and it takes a while, I recall. See any bison? (Technically, no such thing as a "buffalo"). I recall a story about how they were brought over to the island by Hollywood for the making of the "The Vanishing...

No, the Casino in Avalon has/had nothing to do with gambling. In the 30's it was the site for the Big Bands and an enormous dance floor. My dad as a young man worked for one of the Avalon hotels as a busboy one summer and met lots of big showbiz performers. I myself grew up in SoCal and lived...

Things are now evolving quickly. NYC is passing laws that will ban any ebike batteries that don't carry a UL sticker. Most ebike makers don't have such an endorsement and are presumably racing to get one. Once the UL thing becomes common, the co-op can modify its blanket ban to be just of...

Great video, the guy obviously knows what he's talking about and has a nice sense of humor to boot. Lithium batteries seem to be incompletely understood and I'm amazed that more cars are not catching on fire given the millions of cells already out there. At this point I would assume the...

I've also thought about rebuilding battery packs, but the clear trend these days is that in the future you won't be able to. Numerous apartment fires in NYC have prompted the city council to recently ban anything not UL certified, and also I think the re-use and re-building of batteries. There...

Then what's the point? I would have assumed that "UL Certified" means that, while nothing is 100% impossible, the item is made in a factory that uses very high quality standards and it is very unlikely that the battery will fail, assuming it is charged by a UL Certified charger. Water...

Very interesting thread. It seems to me that an ebike battery pack is so inherently dangerous that it must also be protected from impact forces because my understanding is that physical damage to a SINGLE cell can set off a massive fire as other cells contribute. So perhaps a physically-strong...

Lots of EV bashing, yes. Also lots of EV religion around. As with all religions, lots of faith-based beliefs. Which can make logical pros-and-cons discussion impossible. Like asking a Lutheran to debate a Muslim. Can't. And sorry, didn't read every post in the thread, must have missed that...