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Sadly true. It also goes towards the learning curve of EVs in weird situations that aren't planned in advance. Tesla does have a battery heating scheduling function in their app, but I'm guessing a lot of drivers failed to use it. Maybe, after the Chicago fiasco, Tesla will put out an update...

My Rivian went in for service and their service center set me up (gratus) with Enterprise. I had only specified I wanted an EV, not any particular brand. That's how I got the Kona. Pic as it sat in my garage, charging, after the drive home. The charge port is in front on the driver side - you...

I had a Kona rental a few weeks back. It's a nice little car. It has dashboard buttons and a knobs here and there, although most of the controls are digital. Ride was smooth, quiet, and competent and the range was OK (I think it was about 220 mpc (miles per charge).

It could have resulted from a wagon filled with rock and dirt breaking down on that road and the dumped results being swept to the side to make way way for traffic. Lots of conjecture as to how that debris got there, but it sure as heck is NOT manure. We only have long range BEVs now - 300 mile...

I do see hybrids as a valid and worthwhile stepping stone for those who routinely travel great distances and are afraid to take the BEV plunge. We sold our hybrid when we realized it was sitting for months unused while we drove the 150 mile range EV everywhere. The hybrid (Prius) did come in...

Sorry, but...that photo isn't showing manure. It's showing rocks and rock debris. Ask me how I know (closing on 50 years of owning horses and shoveling their manure daily). Whoever titled this photo as showing a manure laden street did so in (it feels like deliberate) error. I think they were...

Sorry about that. I missed the line where the OP wanted a bike less than 44 lbs. Apparently that rules out the Gazelle at 55 lbs.

Vado is a better designed bike and a better value? Not in my opinion. Case in point: My Vado 4.0's motor imploded on me during a charity ride about 4 miles from the finish. Absolutely destroyed itself even though I had never been rough with the bike or motor. Had to have hubby drive the car to...

Gazelle C380+. 1 have two. Amazing bike, beautifully made. Carbon belt drive that is silent and powerful. This bike is a fabulous ride for this 70 year old lady. Love it for my area wide rural gravel roads for the "no chain so no fuss" maintenance.

Unlike the rest of this stalwart gang of adventurers hitting the snowy trails and/or long stretches of roads through pristine landscapes, I have encamped my extra bike and the trainer in my barn's heated Tack Room where I can pedal away in peace and quiet with a rolling landscape on a YouTube...

Soooooo pretty. Thank you. ❤️

@Surrey Pete - your photo of the autumn tree and bench underneath is brilliant! Hope you don't mind but I downloaded it as a subject to use in some artwork I plan to do later this winter. I'll share once I have the art finished. Not sure if it will be a painting or a collage. Bit up in the air...

@RabH - as always your rides and photos are such a treat...although I did flinch at the comment about ice (thankfully lack of!) on the bike trail. Been a while since I've visited this forum due to a very full schedule of "things not related to cycling". My bikes have been sitting gathering dust...

To me the gravel means peace, the softness of countryside silence, solitude, reflection of times past and times to come, enjoying the sound of my own relaxed breathing, being able to look around at the lovely scenery slowly passing by. It's freedom. When I want Time to be owned by me, and not...

Is/are there no committee(s) that are focused on litter pick-up in the area? If not, can the local government be encouraged to put something in place to attract volunteers to help with litter clean-up? Our county has a dedicated non-profit organization of volunteers to keep our roads clean, and...

The morning started out with both hubby and I on the tractors to cut the last of the Fall flush of lush grass in the fields before the coming cold weather puts an end to any more growth and gives the mowers a breather until next spring. By the time I'd spent 2 hours riding a mower, I was ready...

18 lovely miles yesterday, sneaking away from the farm for a bit over an hour, and setting on the back burner the list of projects needing my attention. The temps were perfect for a bike ride so I left hubby, who was busy painting Rustoleum on the metal farm gates, and took off down the road. I...

Are these the old carriage roads built by the Rockefellers, or new pathways? We drove the gravel carriage roads a million years ago with our pair, when bikes were restricted as to where they could be ridden. It's been decades so my memory isn't the clearest.

There were 542 riders signed up for the ride yesterday for the Land Trust of Virginia annual benefit. Just up the road, on the opposite side of town at the horse show grounds the annual 5 day Middleburg Classic with over 300 perfectly groomed horses, perfectly groomed riders, and tens of...

That sounds like the Outer Banks in North Carolina. They keep "enriching" the beaches with millions of dollars worth of sand dredged up from off shore sand bars, only for the Atlantic storms to batter the shoreline and erode the sands back into the ocean. In the past decade the sea level rise...