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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:

You guys all ride in such flat places.

At times it seems completely random what tubeless tires will work with a given rim. Yes, there are standards but my experience so far is that the standards are at best a starting point for working out what tires and rims are compatible.

FLIR is a company that makes thermal sensors at varying price points.

Well, precisely, some modern winter base layers. I often think that merino wool is as much marketing hype as technical performance. Merino wool, on the average, can absorb more water than synthetic technical fabrics and sometimes takes much longer to dry out when it does become wet. Merino...

There is a lot of technical gear nowadays that uses wool. While it isn't as stinky I find even the very best wool to be a lot less durable, especially for very thin or very light layers.

I'd argue nearly all outdoor sports do to one degree or another. Take hunters and camo. They even wear camo under the bright orange vests they are required to wear to avoid being shot by other hunters who might mistake them for a duck. A lot of outdoor sports have a pretty specific dress...

I'd argue that in 2017 or 2018 they were something special. But their designs really haven't moved on from what they made back then and the state of the art has moved on. So yeah, kind of like an old iPhone.

You jump to a lot of conclusions about how much spandex I might own and wear. Based on my experience, inevitably in a larger group someone ignores or stretches the limits of courtesy to other people. And what happens then is that other members of the group see that person doing it and...