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sure, 600w + 100-200w human input will take you up a steep hill… but it might take a motor rated for much higher than that to achieve 600w at a relatively slow hill climbing speed, especially with a hub drive. and with a mid drive, you’ll need the right gearing, which many e-bikes don’t have.

hard to say always, but most of the time the average reading was too high for either heart rate correlated with other PMs, the actual climbing rate (if you know weight and slope … the amount of work done is very simple), or power pedals when i tried them on the creo.

what kind of power readings are you seeing with the motor off? say, riding on level ground at 16mph with little wind and a steady HR in the 90-130 range? my conclusion after quite a bit of mucking around with the data was that with the latest firmware and the motor off it was within 10%, but...

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2024/12/31/super73-sued-over-legality-its-e-bikes-california I have to assume most of these outfits are just going to stop selling bikes in California. They’ll be like fireworks.

the forum has an ignore function :) it does make the thread a little harder to follow sometimes.

To me, it’s really simple. Bike infrastructure (what little of it we have) was designed for vehicles with a certain performance envelope, which is approximately what a reasonably fit human can provide. Not a world tour rider in a peloton at full blast, but a reasonably fit human on a reasonably...

No, a few small fire trucks could not have saved the entire area. Your politically motivated lies are offensive and diminish the weight of everyone’s suffering.

Much ado about nothing. the e-bike market in North America is strong and growing. some players will make it, and some won’t, the same as any market. perhaps people don’t want 75lb, $10,000 “Bicycles” with lots of proprietary parts.

By volume, possibly. I’d be surprised if it was that much by value, with the average name brand bike shop bike costing many times as much as the “bike shaped objects” you’ll get from some of the big box stores. the average unit price of the 14 million or so bicycles sold in the US last year is...

some pretty cool features. easy to get 12v power on an e-bike, but those fat cables going to the lights up front don’t look too easy to integrate. 240g total weight, not horrible! i’m guessing it would actually work with only the rear piece, since communication with the app/head unit is by BLE...

no. you do not need to worry about the rims in any way unless you’re a heavy rider. 27 lb is not a particularly heavy bike, except when compared to lightweight road bikes, but even there the 13lb difference between your bike and a very light bike is not significant compared to the rider weight...

right, there are definitely localized areas where streets are close enough to 45 degrees to limit the usefulness of the cardinal points. a good chunk of our street grid is turned 44 degrees (following the original spanish road from harbor to mission), and everyone in the know knows which was is...

on a related note... it really surprises me how many people don't know which direction is which. sometimes when giving someone (simple) directions, i'll say "go north x blocks then turn left." ... "which way is north?" given that most american cities have large areas of roughly n-s-e-w street...

kind of a weird premise. GPS is a locating technology. a map is a visual representation, 2 or 3 dimensional, at a reduced scale, of a physical place. maps on a phone or tablet are amazing, essentially limitless with far more types of information available than one could ever have hoped to carry...

it’s an interesting discussion … but i think you’re missing the point of torque specs on modern bike parts. it isn’t entirely about the fastener - it’s the clamping (or other force) requirement or LIMIT of the design of the parts, e.g. a carbon stem, or aluminum whatever. it’s actually more...

I don’t really but that all people have a similar “threshold” of discomfort or pain for the length of the hex key digging into their hands. torque specs also vary a decent amount for same sized-fasteners on modern bikes, especially carbon fiber ones. in the ballpark, maybe. correct? No. torque...

LA has spent over $40 Billion in recent decades on rail transit, has another $120 billion planned, and ridership has recovered post pandemic better than most cities in the country. no other American city is doing as much to try and reduce their dependence on the automobile at this scale. it is...

that's part of it - and of course they have insurance - but the bigger part is actually that if you put your kid behind the wheel of a 5,000lb SUV and they get hit by a car, the likely result is basically an annoyance. you get the car fixed, maybe pay your deductible, etc. if your kid is...

I suggested a bike very close to his wish list. Oddly, no reply.

what garmin device are you referring to?