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Although if you look at the rate of return on power plant development nothing pays for itself faster and brings in more money than solar. No imaginable technology will make electricity cheaper than solar panels. And people aren't going to pay more money to get electricity from dinosaurs.

This rear rack is ludicrously expensive but is known to work pretty well. It will work if your rear axle uses a QR skewer or most thru axles: https://www.tailfin.cc/pannier-rack/ It installs easily (with a multi-tool) and is (in my opinion) much more secure and can carry more stuff than the...

I don't see the practical win in using EV chargers (even at 240V) to charge e-bikes, as most e-bike chargers won't charge more quickly when you use 240V.

I've not had any problems. Some locations and some hotels don't permit any bikes in the rooms though. If you have good quality batteries and treat them well you shouldn't have any safety issues. On the other hand if you have a bad wreck or drop your battery onto a concrete floor you need to...

I think the problem here is that the most probable catastrophic failures that would render a bike unrideable would also make it impossible to tow the bike as well. With most imaginable drivetrain failures you can usually jury-rig it well enough to get home slowly with modest discomfort. E.g...

Better: Right in the Trail Here it is, near the house, a big pile, fat scats, Studded with those deep red Smooth-skinned manzanita berries, Such a pile! Such droppings, Awesome. And I saw how The young girl in the story, Had good cause to comment ON the bearscats she found while Picking...

There are times and places here where bear hunting is legal. So the bears make themselves scarce at those times and places. I'm amazed that bears have accurate calendars and GPS devices. Hunting season pretty much eliminates nearly all of the habituated bears here on an annual basis...

I encountered this guy near a place called Big Boy Meadow in Idaho:

Unless you are carrying remarkable hardware and have trained intensively for exactly the situations that come from a bear encounter gone bad you aren't likely to accomplish anything but p*ssing the bear off even more than it already is. If you even get a shot. A bear can easily outrun a horse...

No reason you can't make an e-bike with a low-power motor and small battery that weighs 20 to 25 pounds (or 9 to 12 woke pounds (also known as kilograms)).

"Body asking shadow: how do you keep up?" -- Han Shan (Cold Mountain), c. 800 CE

For me, at least, turn-by-turn navigation isn't a daily rider kind of thing. But if I am trying to safely navigate an intricate route or an unfamiliar city it is indispensable. It becomes more so if you are trying to stick to bike infra that is incomplete and poorly connected. Some of the...

Battery life Phones perform poorly (*) in both very hot and very cold conditions. Sometimes it is very hot or very cold when you are riding a bike. Touchscreens can be totally unusable in wet conditions. Sometimes it rains when you are riding a bike. Phones are generally bigger and heavier and...

The battery life of the solar-powered Garmins is enormous (100 hours) and that seems a better solution than using a USB C charging cable. But that's me.

Yes, it will. Sometimes in surprising ways. Any mapping product is going to suffer from problems like this because maps are not the terrain. Sometimes the route gods smile upon you. Sometimes they smirk. Sometimes they sneer. Sometimes they snarl. It is part of riding learning how to roll...

Personally I really dislike CO2 and don't often use them. While I have a Fumpa that I rather like, it is not an everyday (or even many days) carry item for me. The only (borderline) use case for carrying an electric pump would be that you *might* be able to seat a tubeless tire with it. But...

I think you can look at this problem from the other end of it. Most people don't ride around with their battery charger all day, and chances are when the bike is stolen the thief doesn't get the battery charger along with it. So why don't we have a pairing process that pairs chargers and...

Old Man Mountain racks for the win.

Seriously, how many e-bike user actually commute more than 20 miles or more in a day? I guarantee any guess you give will be ludicrously too high.

Oh, and this was unplugged: