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  1. stompandgo

    Watching the peloton - Professional Road Racing thread 2026

    Horrific crash at the front at 65km to go. Pidcock loses Pijuan, Ganna loses three including Kwiatkowski. EDIT: Looks like Turner made it back for Ganna.
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    Solved chain dropping problem (Creo)

    Those are similar to a file tread cyclocross tire. They should do well for you. I have the X1 Plus on the Pinarello, with TPU tubes.
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    Watching the peloton - Professional Road Racing thread 2026

    I'm a bit older than you, then. I started racing as a senior in 1981. I never raced as a Junior, and I wish I had. Practice makes perfect in this sport. I raced mainly in North America against North Americans, but the big races paid start money for guest riders from Europe. The best were from...
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    Watching the peloton - Professional Road Racing thread 2026

    I feel blessed to have been able to race at the top amateur level in the 80's. Today's young American riders have no idea how good and how hard the racing was back then. No computers. No power meters. No radios on the riders.
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    Watching the peloton - Professional Road Racing thread 2026

    Their bad luck streak continued yesterday. Four out of 7 crashed out, including one who was all set for a top 10 but hit the deck on a hard left turn after the kite. They are getting media attention and slowly building UCI points. If Pinarello, Unibet, and Tudor move up next year, they should...
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    Electric motorcycle

    There is pending legislation in many states to regulate these bikes. They range from banning them from rail trails to allowing them on the roads with license and registration required. A lot of these kinds of bikes are bought by parents for their kids who are not old enough to drive. Road and...
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    Chuck Norris

    One of the best action movie actors ever. RIP.
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    Solved chain dropping problem (Creo)

    You're gonna love the Gravel Kings. Which version did you get, and is your setup tubed or tubeless?
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    Specialized Turbo Vado SL: An Incredible E-Bike (User Club)

    You could have gotten almost all of this with Shimano Deore Di2 M6260. You would have had to change your cassette and chain to Linkglide, and the RD would be hardwired into your main battery. I have not seen this brand in person, but it is all over social media. Let us know how it works out...
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    Signs of Spring

    We have a similar thing in New England, with roads like Vermont's App Gap (Route 17) opening up in early April, and the Mt. Washington Auto Road opening up in May.
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    Decided to run my ebikes on solar

    Thanks. This helps. I shut down the pump based on the freeze cycle, which varies year to year. Normally, it's from November to March, roughly the duration of Eastern Standard Time. It does not see the shortest days. During that time, I only run the 15W aerator. I realize that the system I'm...
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    Decided to run my ebikes on solar

    Thanks, that helps. Take a look at this scenario. Let's say that a 200W panel can output 160W on a good day across 10 hours. With the 80W constant load, that leaves 80W/h for charging. That would leave me 224W short from grid independence every good sun day. I could add another 200W panel...
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    Specialized Turbo Vado SL: An Incredible E-Bike (User Club)

    Cape Cod Chips. Sadly, they are not being made on Cape Cod anymore.
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    Specialized Turbo Vado SL: An Incredible E-Bike (User Club)

    I was born in New Jersey. We went to the shore, or seashore, every summer. After leaving NJ and moving to CT, it became the beach. Now on the Cape, it's either the ocean (Nantucket Bay) or the bay (Cape Cod Bay), because they are very different.
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    Decided to run my ebikes on solar

    Sorry, I am not familiar with this terminology. By "non-steered", do you mean fixed, in place panels that do not follow the sun? By "generation factor", would that imply that for 80W I would need 320W of panels just to run the pond and have nothing left to charge the power bank?
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    Decided to run my ebikes on solar

    Back to the subject. I have been looking into a system like this to power my fish pond. In season (soon), the filter pump runs 24x7 and draws 65W according to the manufacturer. I also use a small disc aerator that draws 15W. That's 80W total, 24x7. I have an area to mount a panel. I also have AC...
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    Signs of Spring

    My 2018 Felt FR1 weighed 14 pounds with pedals and bottle cages, but it was rim brake.
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    Decided to run my ebikes on solar

    Data centers have always eaten power. Once corporations started migrating their business applications and data to the cloud, everything ramped up. Crypto mining has always used the same GPU's as AI, but the "datacenters" were distributed all over the world. Still a lot of power, but spread out...
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    Decided to run my ebikes on solar

    They need to either be responsible for generating their own electricity, with surplus going to the grid, or off the grid entirely. This situation is already out of control, and it just started, with no end in sight.
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    Watching the peloton - Professional Road Racing thread 2026

    While you were watching Milano Torino, I was watching Danilith Nokere Koerse, a flat to rolling romp through the Belgian countryside on pavement, dirt, and a number of cobbled sections. The roads are narrow for most of the race, so there were lots of crashes. A group of four, including Sean...
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