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Yeah, but you will almost certainly cause less harm with an acoustic bicycle riding an average speed of 10mph versus an electric motorcycle going 50mph.

I just bought one of those. Works fine on presta valves. I found a little pill bottle that fits more-or-less perfectly inside the pump and I carry spare valve cores, valve caps, and a presta-to-shrader converter there. The 40cc version is adequate for 650b by 46mm tires. But probably not for...

A decent trailer is a pretty efficient way to haul stuff, so up hills even at 80 years of age shouldn't be a problem if the rider can easily make it up those hills without the trailer. And "rough terrain" is a pretty relative and subjective thing. From my standpoint what this guy is riding...

I don't know where some of you get your information on bike trailers. If you get a trailer that connects to the axle and you use a special through axle you can pull a trailer with a substantial amount of crap in it with a very light acoustic bike. Like this expensive Burley Coho XC...

I resent your insinuation. I am not a liberal.

There have been videos of Donald Trump doing weird crap for forty years. It was obvious even in the 1980s that there was something seriously wrong with the guy. A lot of it was entertaining if you watched it on teevee from a safe distance. But no person in their right mind would want to do...

That's the heart of it right there. If you believe you live in a savage and brutish world there is no room for compassion, kindness, and decency and all of those admirable qualities are just weaknesses that make you a target. What I do not understand is that some people think the "solution" is...

Some of us think the term "illegal" in this context is intentionally dehumanizing and is used to justify any foul act done to them. You can believe in rule of law and agree that immigration here is messed up and needs to be fixed and still treat the people in the mess like humans.

Well forgive me for being confused because what the tariffs actually are seem to be changing every day. I thought Taiwan was back to ten percent. Also, Taiwan is now mostly a high-tech manufacturer and not a mass producer of low-cost consumer goods where automated production is difficult and...

Again how do you export candy stripers? The vast majority of "services trade" is royalties and licensing fees. Followed by consulting fees. In theory a world where remote work was pretty universal would allow things like legal services and accounting and engineering to be traded as well, but...

I think people need to realize there is a difference between mainland China and Taiwan.

When you think "services" you are thinking about flipping burgers. I'm thinking about engineering and legal and financial services. You can't really export cheeseburgers, but you can export a franchise selling cheeseburgers and the royalties and franchise payments flow back to the US.

Great. Explain to me how the US Government's bull-in-a-china-shop antics over the last four months solve those problems. And explain to me how solving this problem is worth the risk driving the US economy in a major recession.

I think if you look at the last five thousand years of human history you will find that prosperous and stable civilizations all had robust (and often surprisingly wide-ranging) trade networks (Rome traded with China and India two thousand years ago). "Self-sufficient" autarkies were much less...

That is probably the healthiest response to the insanity and gaslighting here.

I unfortunately can. And wish I could rip my eyes out...

Two interesting data points from the bike (though not e-bike) industry: Oveja Negra, a small manufacturer of bikepacking bags in Salida, CO, is laying off half of its staff due to displacements caused by tariffs: https://bikepacking.com/news/oveja-negra-colorado-sun-story/ It is interesting...

For a long time my go-to adventure travel camera was a tiny Sony camera kind of like this one. It was tiny, had enormous battery life, and was inexpensive so I didn't feel too bad when it finally gave up the ghost. I found it in a closeout bin at the Fry's in McMinville, OR, talked them down...

Well let’s face it, if he soiled himself on national tv and rolled around in his own ordure. The cult members would praise his brilliance and wisdom.

I’d just note that 30% tariffs are in the same range as the 1929 Smoot Hawley tariffs that made the Great Depression so great. 30% tariffs also likely imply inflation between ten and fifteen percent. And for all we know the idiot in the White House will throw a fit and change the tariffs to...