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Seriously "Take care not to heat the battery. You can put a damp rag on the battery to protect it from the heat." I would use a better heat shield than a wet rag, and work on it outside. A battery fire will ruin your whole day.

Apparently here in Pennsylvania you can legally ride on the sidewalk if (and only if ) if there is no bike lane available.

Absolutely correct. But 1. Traffic is scary in an immediate way that stops most people from even trying bikes. 2. We shouldn't have to choose between having a heart attack and a becoming a hood ornament on a pickup, IMHO.

Reviving this zombie thread since it was what I could find on infrastructure. I love this quote : " “Imagine if a team of scientists devised a drug which massively reduced people’s chances of developing cancer or heart disease, cutting their overall likelihood of dying early by 40%. This would...

Yes. Fit is the about the only technical thing about bikes that I really try to understand, and a big reason I am so leary of DTC bikes. Fit really matters more than the battery capacity or amount of boost for even a medium level ride, because my legs and butt give up long before my bike does.

I'm with Jeremy here. I didn't learn much about bikes, but I learned a lot about myself and that at my advanced age, the third stage of life doesn't have to be a sedentary decline .We are built to move, to try new things, to have fun, not to just survive . That's part of what makes EBR so special.

Very, very cool. I remember your description of your physical condition when I first joined EBR, and I swear you're younger now then then.

It's actually shorter in Welsh than the literal English translation which is an entire paragraph, IIRC.

I am so sorry @indianajo . We have all benefited from your experience and hope you can hang around and help some others as you have done so often in the past. Thanks.

Too heavy, probably titanium next step.

Yeah, it used to be fun shopping for albums as well. Long ago.

I saw one of those in a friend's dad's huge Chrysler. Impressive, but not a good idea with our washed out roads. But maybe the turnpikes back then were still smooth?

Gotta be able to depend on something, I guess. It's been pissing down here daily in Pennsylvania for about 3 weeks, which sounds pretty normal for the Scots. Rab is just used to it.

Usually it's not even that precise. "Maybe a half day drive" is as accurate as it gets without mapping software.

Another possibility; I am using an old cast iron woodstove (much larger inside than my ammo can) vented through a non used chimney to store batteries, and I charge outside or on a stone floored foyer with no living space above.

We usually buy 18 packs of standard, not free range or organic, eggs here (central Pennsylvania) ...two days ago an 18 pack was back down to about $6.

So rather than the chicken and egg, the question is which comes first ... a good electric grid or ebikes? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250508-rwanda-is-sparking-africas-e-bike-revolution

Indeed, we are apparently in the times of the mule in that trilogy,

Indeed. The two party system makes any big improvements very difficult ... now it's by design ... with everything reduced to only two parties, they can't present many solutions to any issues, they can't even think beyond an increasingly obsolete left or right view.

An old laptop bag works for me. Will post pic.