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i literally couldn’t ride anywhere unless i drove there first 😂 i’ve found that there’s something inherently different about going uphill - the same power output always results in a higher heart rate!

glad you appreciated it! its hard adjusting to 1) staying so much closer to home and 2) never ever riding hard. a few years ago this would have been a very short ride and I’d have done it on the aethos in less time at 220 human watts… today on the addict I kept my average output to 130w or so...

i haven't done one of these in a while because i've not been able to do the big rides i liked so much, but it was such a beautiful day i figured i'd share! this ±32 mile loop has about 2,000 feet of climbing, and a cool mix of urban, park, coast, hill, etc. the first few minutes are too steep...

wind blowing down a hill is just horrible. it’s quite rare here since the hills tend to block the wind, but the occasional hot, dry “diablo” winds which blow out of the cursed Central Valley and set everything on fire make for miserable hill climbing in parts of the Bay Area. I got stuck in it...

for road, no. definitely not, unless you need more power. the creo 1 had good geometry and clearances for road. if you’re feeling the itch to upgrade, maybe a new one piece cockpit, tires, saddle? carbon cranks, lighter pedals? I enjoyed all those upgrades on my creo. if you’re reallllly...

so many of the reviews of the HPR40 bikes are from the UK, it’ll be very interesting to see how the motor fares at 25+ kph. in the UK these motors are basically only for hills. even with my much reduced output / exertion levels I go faster than that with no motor, and I’m certain all the people...

the statistics from marin county i referenced are the injury rate, not the total number of injuries. of course total number of injuries is a meaningless statistic without knowing how many riders there are!!

those are nice rides. my experience is a little different in that i was always relatively fit/athletic but have a heart condition which strongly encourages me to limit activity. so i actually started with ebikes, then decided i didn't need them and went to an analog bike (s-works aethos) but...

not really relevant whether it's a concrete wall, steel light post, aluminum car, etc. it's certainly unlikely to have a head-on collision with a concrete wall, but whether you hit the ground obliquely or a car door directly or a pedestrian, your kinetic energy goes somewhere. speed causes more...

not a great point for a few reasons : 1) motorcyclists usually wear protective clothing, full face/head helmets etc 2) motorcyclists have to be licensed and motorcycles have to be registered and insured and are usually pretty skilled operators of their vehicles 3) there are always exceptions...

e-bike absolutists are in such denial about everything you’ve said here, which is all true. a child’s tricycle can probably go 30mph if you drop it off a cliff, it still doesn’t mean that the average acoustic bike out on the road is routinely going 20+ for long distances. the dramatic increase...

mine typically detects bicycles…. but they have to be gaining on you. ride faster :)

what a strange article. a lot of work for a fake review of a fake bike. the bike described would be great, i'd definitely prefer a rigid vado to the boat anchor front forks they use, and the 3.0 having more torque is great... but the first image is absolutely AI generated (nanobanana) and there...

rad isn't big enough to invest in the kind of automation it would take to do things like install derailleurs and hydraulic brakes. it will certainly cost much more to build up a bike from components in the US, but maybe that can be slightly offset by logistics savings, incentives, etc. zero...

this is awesome !!!! have you tried wandrer.earth? it tracks what % of the roads you've ridden in various places. it's fun and the notifications that you covered a new xxx miles are always cool. sadly i don't get out much anymore but here was my last heat map from 2024, maybe 15,000 miles of...

would be interesting to conpare a few different cadences from both the display and the fit file to see if they’re really just always assuming 80%, or do they take into account their own published curve which is clearly much lower in places…

pretty interesting. basically what we see is that the support factor at xx/100 is significantly higher than what specialized claims it is. your observed values on the right, spec data from the reference paper on the left. that said ... inferring a few more data points than you studied (20...

not too surprising... but it's still way off lol interestingly the very low rider power values <100 watts actually match pretty well red is mahle blue is 4iiii precision

hmmmm. i think pretty much every mainstream bike from aventon, gazelle, specialized, trek, giant, vanmoof, etc is a geared motor. even rad switched to geared like 5 years ago, i think. in addition to more torque geared motors are smaller and more efficient at low speeds, because the motor isn't...

so i replaced the bottom bracket on my addict today. i'm guessing this is NOT going to change the power inaccuracy, but it'll be interesting to see! it took my a bit under an hour, but it's one of those things that would have been a PITA without the right tools. here's the tools all standard...