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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...

So let me get this straight. On the one hand, we argue that law enforcement and the legal system can't distinguish between various types of e-bikes but that means we shouldn't enforce any laws about e-bikes. On the other hand, we are shocked when the media and general public cannot distinguish...

This stuff is awesome for protecting wooden decks: https://www.flamestop.com/documents/Flame-Stop-II.pdf

You can still have a wood or metal-framed home that is resilient in the face of earthquakes but have the exterior be concrete, metal, vinyl, or stucco all of which are sufficiently fireproof to be as survivable as you are going to get. There are also these really cool vents that are fire safe...

Lots of them are. Heck, in places like LA after decades of ruthless natural selection most of them are. And it often doesn't really matter. If the fire is intense enough the radiant heat will ignite materials inside the house no matter what the exterior is made out of. I doubt you'd find a...

How nothing really changes. This is from 1962:

Kind of depends. This Jack Dempsey is a freshwater fish native to Mexico and Central America.

I have direct personal experience with how insanely and dangerously stupid people can be during conditions of high fire risk. And bluntly the reality is often worse than the rumors. If only because of the old saying, "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." My two...