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It is true that any movement is better than sitting on a couch. I have not sat on a couch for about a dozen years. It is like smoking. If you get him on a trike have him do figure eights in a vacant parking lot for 20 minutes a day for three days. Then he will get the hang of it. Then turn him...

On the DM02 one can go into Device and there are 15 options, scroll down past the bottom to Battery setting the three parameters, then press Up and Down at the middle one to set all the percentages of how the power displays. You shape it like a sperm whale curve. Heavy on the front end with a...

It is an insult to Americans. Heavy, fat, and lazy stereotypes reinforced. It is designed for 400 pounders not cyclists. It does not belong on a mountain and I do not know where it belongs. Maybe a trailer park in Florida.

How the best gravel frames in the the world are made. Multi-part, in GB. See them all. Handcrafted bikes. They kick butt over the off the shelf ones.

On that Yuba imagine that you can walk over to it. Place your hand on the seat tube on the back side by the rear tire, running your fingers down to the back of the down tube. That is where you will feel the white discharge wire going to the motor. It is in plain sight but vanishes.

@RunForTheHills, I want batteries with particular features such as aluminum cases, toggle switch, USB port, can be swapped with various sizes (depending on that day's ride) super premium BMS, can easily charge to 90% and stop there, and only the best cells. Sometimes I use larger ones. For most...

Panniers with a heavy battery on a full suspension does not add up to me. For me I never need to go 100 km on a ride. There is a point at which more is less. When each additional mile becomes less fun.

Then get the appropriate batteries for five hours of ride time. What is good is they are easily swappable in several seconds, In frame batteries suck. Inframe are a pain to swap. External ones are the best. And non-proprietary. You will not ever be beholden to brand X agin. Freedom, freedom...

It does 2.5 hours. Who really wants to sit on a bike saddle longer than a feature film? A larger one is possible, or a second smaller one to swap from the pannier for a 190 K ride. Getting to work or around town is normally less than three miles each way dressed for your practical daily...

In 2022 I made a Como eater out of a Roll. It is a casual commuter bike with a coffee holder. This came up because the prospective new owner contacted me today after the original owner posted it for sale. The original idea was to cut commute times to 1/3rd by using it on the train for the last...

Fat bikes had a shelf life of 9 months back in 2018. But somehow the idea got picked up by cheep online, DTC, only brands with hub-drives. They are not for cyclists. Fat and mountain are incompatible with no Ven overlap except for those who do not know and have never been on a mountain. Then...

I converted a Specialized FatBoy once. Fat is not better, so yes, it makes me uncomfortable. Ask @pem about how she likes her gravel/adventure bike and what she has done and will do with it.

Gravel/Adventure bikes have a longer wheelbase than road bikes. The fork kicks out much more and you can put three or four fingers between the seat tube at the bottom bracket and the rear wheel. Everything is more robust on the frame and they have road bike shift indexing with mountain bike...

I am not inclined to show photos of myself. I may look like this because I ride torque sensor bikes and have big hills. Yet no woman can get a single hand around the upper portion, not shown. It takes two baby. Those are size 13 feet, 33 cm, that directly translates to other parts. There is an...

Merry Christmas! That was a joke thread that I thought would last 72 hours. It was going to be about passing people kitted out on Creos. I made a chrome bike in 2019 while selling Specialized just ahead of the launch of the Creo, called Creo Eater. There would be a kid in a Dickens accent saying...

@ChezCheese:), My manageably sized downtown area is ground zero for training seeing eye dogs. Do you see how vaulted their skulls are. That is brains. And they are so sweet and only want to serve. Those pups were sleepy, it was nap time and kept falling over. If I really did look like that I...

@PCeBiker, If John Belushi were to look at a joint dubiously, while fixing a flat, would he raise one eyebrow?

A nail clipper became dull over the years so I made a lure out of it. My town has grain elevators where they make feed for mostly dairy cattle. That attracts many hundreds of pigeons. And that attracts peregrine falcons. It is fun to watch the aerial battle while riding.

Remember, you can't get a Tannus where the sun don't shine.