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All very interesting. Early versions of the Marin Team 1 sometimes experienced broken seat stays, though everyone seems to love Marin and says they are super reliable. They repaired the broken frames at no charge and redesigned the frame / welds at least twice before my version, but I trolled...

Just those two things, particularly the long, steep climbs, but it's a fair question because I don't KNOW that for sure. It's just an educated guess. Everyone told me, 'hub motors aren't designed for steep climbs!' but I ignored them, and it seemed to be fine... until it wasn't. I sometimes...

The other issue that factors into the equation is the grades that you ride and how powerful your motor is. I ride at 50 PSI on 2.1s that are designed for 60 max because the hills here are so steep and my motor is so weak. If I rode somewhere more normal, I'd probably run them at 38 or low 40s...

My gut is telling me: Don't do this. The thing about CF-- as I understand it-- is that it's extremely lightweight and durable and very safe when subjected to stress from the vectors it was designed for. At its simplest level, this is why CF works for airplane hulls and not for submersibles, or...

This is totally awesome, 6z. What's the worst that could happen, or is this unknown? If the worst is it not working, I would totally try that. If the worst is bricking the controller or battery, that's more problematic. If the worst is blowing up the batteries, and dying pointlessly in an...

Yeah, I lost your outstanding thread/tutorial here (I think it was you?!) about using tool batteries as range extenders. I would really like to set that up for the Shimano 6010 battery. I have one mega-ride planned -- basically, riding from my house to the eastern edge of the Verdugos, riding...

Funny this topic came up just at this moment. With a bike and battery I bought in March of 2021, tariffs happening, social security and retirement funds at greater risk, I was wondering: Should I get a new battery? Even if it cost me $500 now, that price could be $800 or more in a couple of...

My bike is 46.5 pounds-- sort of an "L" instead of an "SL"-- and I'm fascinated at how minor increases in grade makes a difference in terms of whether, and how long, I can ride without assistance. On dead flat terrain, I set assistance to zero, and it's hardly any different from ECO, I ride for...

It probably depends on where you are riding, but I found that the extra (real world ) 6 MPH on my bike with a TSDZ2B made for safer riding in traffic on narrow streets with two lanes and a traffic speeds of 30-40 MPH, or it sure felt that way. Riding to the bank, I'd be passed by three cars vs...

Interesting. I don't know if there is a bright-line answer to this question, but... I ride 80% broken, cracked and crumbling pavement and 20% dirt; the thing is, when I want to ride dirt, I really want to ride dirt. I'm running 2.2 Maxxis Ikons at 50 PSI (they are 60 PSI max, so that should...

These sound really awesome! I'll see if you like them as much in a few months, and then probably take the plunge! I don't... quite understand Stefan's issue with complaints about Presta. And of course I ride Presta; I go tubeless on almost everything, and I've been riding Presta / Tubeless...

I can see why you might say that; I don't think that's unfair. I do think news was a lot better in the Walter Cronkite era, and the early to mid '70s; I actually thought it started getting worse in the early '80s, but we may be talking about the same general thing, and I certainly agree about...

<< All media presents biased nonsense, people just think their 'side' doesnt. >> Respectfully, no. Some media is definitely more reliable and less biased than others. Also, many of us believe there are no 'sides,' that this is a fiction promoted deliberately by one faction (not 'both,' not...

Haven't been to England since 2015, but one of my buddies in London got seriously injured by thieves on a scooter long before eBikes came on the scene. The smash-and-grab tactic had nothing to do with e-bikes or mobile phones-- they stole his money-- and everything to do with speed and...

I think something like that happens in Three Body Problem-- the sun is blocked or the earth is put in a shell or something, but we manage to muddle along for a few years as everything starts slowly freezing. Man, that trilogy was brutal to read. I understood maybe 17% of the physics. But I...

This, agree generally. The one battery I had trouble with was the Hilltopper, which was very small / low capacity, frequently run down to zero, and which I left 'on' all the time-- I never remembered to shut the battery off when I got home, and the passive drain was huge-- I'd leave it on with...

Ah, but go back 50 years or so, and it's a different story. During the era of bike messengers in NYC in the early '80s, professional cyclists going too fast was a HUGE issue in The Big Apple, a lot of complaints, and a lot of press... but like this controversy, the number of injuries (per...

I don't do (most of) my own work, but the issue I had on Mercury, the 29er w/ the TSDZ2B, was that time and time again, one tire would start getting slow flats. Since this has happened before, now I just live with it as the the leak slowly gets faster... ...until inevitably, I'll be filling...

Having lived in Southern California over 30 years, I can say this was an unprecedented event at least within that time frame. These were not 'normal' Santa Anas. Yes, there were scientists who understood climate change might get this severe, but a lot of what burned in Altadena were on flat...

Sure, there's always a contingent in any demographic that whines and complains and likes to tell others what to do, and makes wild generalization, calling out other people and making assumptions about what they are thinking. And that does happen with young people today, as it always has. I...