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  1. Mr. Coffee

    Throttles and California

    Actually it is more like they are banning class 3 e-bikes from bike lanes and sidewalks.
  2. Mr. Coffee

    Throttles and California

    Trump promised to reduce grocery prices, including the price of eggs. Now the cult members start gaslighting us about how it is okay that they were deceived. Trump also promised no more wars. Except apparently now with Canada, Denmark, Mexico, and Panama.
  3. Mr. Coffee

    Throttles and California

    There isn't actually a federal law against insurrection. But the multiple courts found that the Jan 6th riot fit the definition of an insurrection. So you consider threatening military action against a peaceful country a negotiating tactic? How does that work? If your neighbor wanted your...
  4. Mr. Coffee

    Throttles and California

    Are you saying those things did not happen? Gaslighting people is never respectful.
  5. Mr. Coffee

    Throttles and California

    I'm thinking more Mao's Cultural Revolution. Either way not a Good Thing.
  6. Mr. Coffee

    New Tariffs 2025 !

    Given all that is happening I can't put paying more for a new e-bike even in the top 100 list of things to be concerned about. And how can this discussion not be "political"?
  7. Mr. Coffee

    Tubeless Blues

    I've never had any luck getting a tubeless tire to seat with a normal floor pump. Also I'd be very skeptical of that cracked rim -- depending on where and how it is cracked that alone may make it impossible to seal. Keep in mind that the reason you use rim tape is that sealant isn't going to...
  8. Mr. Coffee

    Throttles and California

    No, it isn't auto-correct. It is the result of decades of incompetent education in the Untied States. I've lost count of the number of people I've worked with who got through University and Grad School and still can't spell "maybe".
  9. Mr. Coffee

    WTF! Why do people cheat on fitness apps?

    Training. That brings up another pet peeve I have. Heart rate monitors have revolutionized training for endurance sports. The fact that they are inexpensive and widely available has also taught us some pretty wild things about physiology as well. Which is always kind of cool. The fact is...
  10. Mr. Coffee

    LA Fires!

    Probably. But on the other hand the people who are complaining about "forest management" again have exactly zero idea what they are talking about. Forests are extremely complex systems and direct human intervention in such systems does not have a happy history, so I am skeptical that anyone...
  11. Mr. Coffee

    Pure torque control. Cadence and others if included leads to unnatural ride.

    Lag generally has to do with (1) how often the controller checks pedal input, which can vary between 20 and more than 100 times per second, and (2) how much angular change has to happen in the cranks before the controller does anything. Generally cheaper e-bikes have bigger lags. Two big...
  12. Mr. Coffee

    Comfortable E bike seat

    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...
  13. Mr. Coffee

    LA Fires!

    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.
  14. Mr. Coffee

    LA Fires!

    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...
  15. Mr. Coffee

    Comfortable E bike seat

    75 centimeters can't be correct. That would put the saddle behind the rear wheel.
  16. Mr. Coffee

    WTF! Why do people cheat on fitness apps?

    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...
  17. Mr. Coffee

    LA Fires!

    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...
  18. Mr. Coffee

    LA Fires!

    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...
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