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If it gives you pleasure to believe the woman was a vigilante, TV news has you hooked by your confirmation bias. A vigilante seeks to enforce laws without legal authority. To enforce is to compel compliance. Nobody has accused her of seeking to compel compliance. An anonymous caller accused...

According to a 2024 Gallup poll, there are only 3 of 17 institutions in which a majority of Americans have “quite a lot” of confidence: small business, the military, and police. Only 12% trust TV news. Revenue comes from advertising, which depends on audience size, and confirmatory bias is the...

Enforce the law? The chief complains that there are no laws to enforce. In America in the 1950s, the per-mile death rate for adult bicyclists was lower than it was later, in the age of helmets. Town boys also fared well, but the death toll for rural boys was horrendous. A rural boy might not...

Mine were sold under different brands but had the same KT LCD8H display, so maybe both controllers came from the same factory as the display. The 35-amp was advertised for the Radrunner. I don't recall if the 25-amp mentioned the Radmission, or I just saw that it had the same connectors.

I don't know, but I guess they're the same. I got one for my Radrunner, which came with much less output power and torque than advertised. The 35 amp controller doubled both. I sometimes had trouble with moisture, due to the exposed position on the Radrunner, behind the front wheel and not far...

It seemed like the rear pads in my Radrunner wore out very fast. Actually, it was 15 months of daily riding. Because I was in the habit of applying both levers together, maybe they had been worn out for weeks without I noticed. I learned from that to apply each brake independently at least once...

Today I bought 2 dozen @2.72 a dozen. I have a relative who produces organic eggs for farmers' markets. Customers would pay high prices for "better" eggs. If only they knew... By selling a little food, he could dodge standard property tax rates by calling his estate a farm. I'd run it while he...

The boy claimed the woman chasing him was 6 feet behind him. Then how did a motorist cut her off without a collision? Video shows him cutting across the walk path, then she comes along and turns so they can talk, driver's window to driver's window. The boy was anonymous until he showed his mama...

Mine are BV brand. I don't know who made them, but they passed the Zedler Institute's tests for e-bike pedals. That sold me because I imagine it would be dangerous if a spindle snapped! https://www.zedler.de/en/ BV is in Illinois. They started as a dog-care products store. They claim they got...

I'd love to try your recumbent on a street around the corner where there's usually a bad headwind. I've had good luck with chains. I did spend maybe $10 on a breaker to remove a chain so I could soak it in gasoline to see if the dry lube had really kept it as clean as it looked. I spent about...

I believe there's an app for that. With the app, your smartphone can tell the bike your fingerprint or just turn the bike on. There's an app for my Abound. I downloaded it to my phone but didn't mess with it.

Barefoot! A year ago I spent $30 on a pair of Whitun Barefoot shoes. No heel cushioning.... who needs it? I'll switch to industrial shoes if I might step on a nail sticking out of a board or drop a cement block on my toe, but the thin, tough rubber soles and leather-like canvas uppers are...

Does Eric Adams have the authority to criminalize what was lawful? Is NYC a dictatorship? In 2023 the NYT published an article saying e-bikes should be banned because there had been 23 deaths in 2022. (In a city of 8 million.) The accompanying chart showed that 23 bicycle fatalities a year had...

I also bought a Radmission in the 2022 sale, and I love the way it rides, after I raised the handlebars and moved the seat back. I wish the wheelbase were a little longer and that it had a gearshift so I could manage more hills without motor assistance. I'd never liked the OE tires on my...

Wow! ... and using a roller with a pail on a ladder! I haven't done ceilings in 34 years, and I need to do it again. I seem to recall cutting in with a 2.5" brush and doing the middle with a Wagner device that used D cells for a pump that sent paint to a roller. Maybe I still have it.

I was high on a ladder painting my aunt's dairy barn when the bull approached. By his ears, he appeared to be on the verge of violent anger. I froze. He calmed down and went about his business. That barn was a lot of square feet, but I didn't know how to use a roller on an extension ladder. I've...

After I worked on my Abound, the handlebars felt misaligned. I'd always found aligning ebike handlebars a hassle. This one was especially bad. From behind the handlebars, the wide battery box hid the wheel. Handlebars were adjusted by turning the stem, but loosening the pinch clamp allowed the...

Did you find the cause? Fatigue can blow fuses. It can get a no-name fuse sooner and a reputable brand later. If the replacement fuse blows soon, then there's probably a circuit problem.

We used to heat 2500 square feet by wood. My favorite maul was like this. They call it 12 pounds but it weighs 15. For kindling I used a smaller maul and a 2-pound hatchet. The back view shows how decrepit the old axe heads were. I wondered why my grandfather hadn't discarded them. in the...