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not sure why a mechanical lockout - properly engineered - is dangerous. i've hidden airtags inside the frame of all my bikes, and my road bike power meter cranks have find my integrated into them. i use a good u-lock when locking in public (not one of the new gigantic grinder proof ones...) and...

don’t worry, all the bros whose jobs were taken by immigrant labor are going to leave the manosphere to do agricultural labor!! /s

same here, last dozen at Trader Joe’s was $3.99. surprising.

i love my speedplay pedals. have them on both the regular and e road bikes. i can't say the 54g weight savings between the nano and zero was really worth the money, but incremental gains in spinning things make a noticeable difference in aggregate :)

this is so true.

i‘m liking the current s-works evade 3 quite a bit. The align is also a very nice entry level helmet for occasional riders and the loma for slightly more enthusiastic ones. many choices and have never gone wrong with a specialized helmet.

the census bureau measures this fairly often. although cities do local counts, those can’t tell to what % of commuters use what mode because you don’t really know how representative the various points checked are. it’s actually up to 1.7% in NYC.

i doubt a lot of bike commuters commute 20 miles. and unfortunately only about one percent of people commute by bike on NYC, so the impact on traffic is going to be negligible.

it’s a bit of a lose-lose - the right wants “states rights” and local control and believe the federal government shouldn’t have any power at all, really. the left is generally overprotective and favors restricting things that might have a chance of being dangerous. the result is a hodgepodge of...

i discovered recently that the outlets in our garage (separate ground floor garage of a 6 unit / 4 story condo building) are on the house meter. i feel slightly bad about charging the bikes and scooter, but as noted it really doesn't add up to much energy. perhaps .5kwh a day between the three...

strava is surprisingly big, 150M+ users globally and probably 20-30M in the united states (they won't say.) and of course, those users tend towards being 25-50 year old men with disposable income, so it makes sense that there are so many add-on products/plugins/extensions/etc to monetize the...

there must not be many other riders where you are, if i waved at everyone i’d never have two hands on the bars! i only acknowledge other riders when we’re in pretty remote areas.

absolutely - often the people who make it a point to hate something are the ONLY ones making a statement … but it’s not the statement they think they’re making. you see this behavior in a lot of spheres, people being anti-nice things or anti-expertise or anti-popular things. i mean… i’d never...

sure, a statement that they don't want to be hot and chafed and stinky and uncomfortable while exercising. i never see people who aren't exercising on a bike wearing spandex or lycra or other technical fabrics. when i ride for sport, i wear the appropriate clothes, and when i ride to work or...

in whose opinion? yours? what is good for society is a complex question and i'd advise anyone to be deeply skeptical of anyone who claims to have the answer unequivocally, as your comment here suggests. some level of regulation is required in most things that are truly shared public resources...

on this site … oftentimes the rider is the tool!

how is the reaction force against the frame handled? there’s a reason lightweight carbon road eBikes have much heavier rear dropouts than their acoustic cousins - to house the non-rotating nut and transmit those forces into steel pieces embedded into heavier carbon members. i would guess the...

last i compared 12 to 18 at my local stores they were 9.99 and 14.99… technically a half a cent more expensive in quantity 😂

they’re around $10 a dozen here!

Yeah this is common, often these rings have a little diagram engraved in them. When placed incorrectly the risk of chain drops is allegedly higher by some unknowable amount. Depending on the design, the chain may not really fit well the other way, so yours may always be correct. The praxis...