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Those pedals make all the difference.

There are so many variables it is almost imposable where to start. Better bikes are all mid-drives. What class 1,2,3? What weight? Junk tires can be sliced with a thumb nail. What range. Do you know how to pedal like a pro? Commuter bikes have full sized tires that are not fat. They have fenders...

That is a real bike. We will get some with an O-ring on the stanchion of a non-adjustable pogo-fork, with plasi-chrome parts that do not do anything.

Welcome. I would enjoy seeing a photo in its wild habitat.

The state store system is weird. I got carded today and told them my DOB was 9,9,99. They said I was lying. And I said, so, I am old enough, or not? Input what you will.

Self-reply, not generally good and very rare. We ate a giant cake made from freshly toasted pistachios, crushed and pressed, baked, then topped with thick dark melt-in-your mouth chocolate after a gravel section. That was after riding to another place that makes their own ice cream from local...

We had a birthday party by bike today riding all over and enjoying sights and treats. This little town just got ranked a one of the best to visit. I never heard of the Star Wars Collection. But they are right about the food. https://www.cnn.com/travel/petaluma-california-best-towns-america-2025

Yep. Set the limits without the cable attached. Then set cable tension. Not indexing can be caused by cable friction, internal corrosion, or sometimes an over zealous cable zip tie on a shift housing. Also lube the derailleur pivot points. REI hires big kids to assemble bikes. They will apply...

If the old chain was the correct length, I put it over a door and cut the new to the same length. Stretch is internal between the rollers and pins, not overall. I make an old piece of spoke into a chain hook. It is about 75mm long with hooks on each end. That way you can size on the bike...

What is funny is that she is so lovely and he is anything but, yet somehow they are so close.

The pitch or length between pins is identical, but single speed chains are wider, so force is dispersed over a larger area. Kids are standing on BMX with long cranks. It needs to be strong. Half-links were just a single quick-link on a single speed chain. Now you can get the entire chain that...

What if you blacked out one tooth and pushed out the ears?

@DDBB, What you need is a DhAG. I had a bike this week that I thought was totally dialed in, in everyway. But it would shift down into higher gears crisply but would skip and miss going up to larger cogs. The vertical alignment of the hanger was off by 5mm and the horizontal by 10. The DhAG...

See this classic bike shown before with a wide half-link chain to an IGH. You see the wire from the battery to the motor. Zoom that chain! That is exactly what an electric bike looks like that eats Creos. My first Creo eater in 2019 was chrome. Zoom that puppy, I am a much better builder but was...

Perhaps the cassette calculation and calibration of chain length use even numbers on the high-end for a reason. I just had a 5:15 Saturday beer so I might not be fully cogent. Chains typically have narrow links and wide links alternating. A quick link only fits the outer plates = wide. But, and...

I did some math. Maybe I got it. The chain has one bad link. It is not bending right and the chain is 112 links long. So every time the chain goes around once the bad link hits that exact same cog. Edit: Cassettes have odd teeth to allow for ramps shifting up and down.

It is badly misshapen. One looks like a shark fin. You could keep it and just not use that cog.

I have been riding a fast analog bike for about five days. It has been great to practice pedaling technique and spinning at high cadence. I needed to make a house call, that means tools so I packed up and took a torque sensor mid-drive. The pedaling practice really paid off. And at a cadence of...

Is she related to this guy?

My old tank died. Now I am getting a new larger one. It is 2L. I know a guy who waxes his ass; isn't that the start of a limerick? In an illustrated book? https://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?typeofrhyme=perfect&loc=thesql&Word=ass