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Given all that is happening I can't put paying more for a new e-bike even in the top 100 list of things to be concerned about. And how can this discussion not be "political"?

I've never had any luck getting a tubeless tire to seat with a normal floor pump. Also I'd be very skeptical of that cracked rim -- depending on where and how it is cracked that alone may make it impossible to seal. Keep in mind that the reason you use rim tape is that sealant isn't going to...

No, it isn't auto-correct. It is the result of decades of incompetent education in the Untied States. I've lost count of the number of people I've worked with who got through University and Grad School and still can't spell "maybe".

Sort of.

Training. That brings up another pet peeve I have. Heart rate monitors have revolutionized training for endurance sports. The fact that they are inexpensive and widely available has also taught us some pretty wild things about physiology as well. Which is always kind of cool. The fact is...

Probably. But on the other hand the people who are complaining about "forest management" again have exactly zero idea what they are talking about. Forests are extremely complex systems and direct human intervention in such systems does not have a happy history, so I am skeptical that anyone...

Lag generally has to do with (1) how often the controller checks pedal input, which can vary between 20 and more than 100 times per second, and (2) how much angular change has to happen in the cranks before the controller does anything. Generally cheaper e-bikes have bigger lags. Two big...

Even 75mm is a HUGE distance to move the saddle back, and questionably safe to do so. If you need to adjust the saddle that much it is much more likely that the bike is either much too large or too small for you or the saddle is much too high or too low. I'd be guessing too small or too low...

If you look at Street View a lot of those "trees" are just bushes. There is some timber at the higher and easternmost reaches of the Eaton Fire and some trees in the drainages at wet spots. But most of it is brushy.

There are no forests in the areas where the current LA fires are active, so I do not see how "forest management" can possibly be an issue except in some people's imagination. The combined fuel reduction budget (both from the states and federal) is around $10 billion per year. Realistic...

75 centimeters can't be correct. That would put the saddle behind the rear wheel.

Everybody is different. AFAIK nobody is going to force you to use a fitness app. There are actual dystopian sci-fi novels that talk about how fitness apps could be used to oppress people. My first thought is that the challenge would be to get everyone to use the same app. And that ain't...

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Honestly that is kind of a pointless question. How We Got Here took decades of mistakes and poor decisions made by lots of people. And like lots of poor decisions they seemed like reasonable things (or at least harmless things) to do at the time. If you want one person to blame, I'd start...

Historically natural fire in that area has a rate of return of about three years. That means that every location there should expect to be engulfed in fire every three years. If you put out the fires and make that period longer you get more vegetation, more fuel, and more intense fires when it...

Meanwhile, yahoos are saying this tragedy is caused by California's poor forest management. Which ignores the fact that the currently burning parts of Los Angeles are not a forest. For that matter, 57% of the forest land in California is owned by the federal government.

That ain't how insurance works.

He's got over a million subscribers and has the most successful mountain biking channel on youtube. So I dunno about "wannabe".

Unfortunately, in the Real World it is well-understood that if you are explaining, you are losing. Public mass media is an ineffective tool for communicating subtle differences or fine technical points to large populations. We will never win the argument in that venue.

I don't consider myseld an "anti-ebiker". What I think I am doing is looking at what is going on and drawing conclusions. What I see is a promising technology with multiple product safety issues and an extremely bad public image which is being made rapidly worse by many electric bike owners...