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I had no idea, and I'm so sorry. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. I am so, so sad to see this-- indeed, he was a huge help when I started getting into eBikes, and was an essential part of holding this community together. Really appreciate your sharing this.

I'd love to, but it's about $3,000 more. For $4,500, the Griz ON7 is a lot of bike. Yeesh. But it isn't like the Motobecane, which is a pretty standard implementation of pretty standard parts. I'd worry about getting it serviced, and there are some user reports of some of them having...

I shouldn't be reading this thread. * From a very cursory review, it seems like swapping to a flat bar is not something people do, though folks do swap to other drop bars, drop bars with a rise, etc. Is there a reason for that? Apologies if this is a stupid question. I can ride drop bars...

I would probably stop the bicycle, tell them I was one of their neighbors, and ask the person to explain and identify themselves. Depending on their attitude, I might ask them flat out if they are threatening me. Sometimes, counter-intuitively, confronting someone can lead to a productive...

I was waiting for it... I knew someone here would come through! I SO MUCH want to talk about how much I love Penguins, particularly African penguins, who I got observe for hours at the Flamingo hotel in Vegas when... NO! I must not talk about penguins! Everybody, don't even THINK about...

We need to lock this thread. Quoted from the mods: "This is a site about electric bikes, not politics, religion or penguins." Free speech is a laudable goal, but it has never been the reality in the United States, except maybe in your own bedroom or neighborhood church, bar, or whatever...

For video, where the R100 (and the Fuji X-A5) has a huge advantage is audio. I think it may be slightly better than standalone audio recording w/ a Zoom field recorder w/ built in microphones, though I haven't done a head-to-head comparison. If there is a way to get good stereo audio on iPhone...

I do have to admit that iPhones seems to take better low-light gig photos than my mirrorless. I could probably get there with the R100, I can get results that are very similar, but I can't quite match the best iPhone shots. I think it's doing some kind of on-board processing, because the...

I don't want to be any deeper into Apple's ecosystem than I already am. I do use a five-year-old Macbook Air for work and for home recording and editing videos up to 25 minutes long, and it's great for that. I also have an iPad mini, I love for the form factor -- I use it mostly for writing on...

Yow! This is the most granular-- and useful-- breakdown of the whole hub-drive-doesn't-fit-the-dropout issue I could possibly imagine. I feel vindicated for paying my LBS do this for my first eBike, which was a front-hub conversion, rather than just grabbing a file from my toolkit and scraping...

Ouch for those who have damaged cameras while riding! I have experimented with several. For a total weight-weenie experience for the steepest climbs, I often brought some kind of early 2000s Canon Elph, even a few years ago, because my 'smart' phones were typically so cheap that their snapshot...

Thank you so much for that formula! (hub+rim+spokes etc.) I think your breakdown of why the shop doesn't want to help game that out sounds dead accurate. If I were them, I'd be thinking about it the same way. Your point about maintenance for lighter rims is well taken, too. I do have a good...

Ah, I see. Do all Americans have the same values? Come on, Stefan. You're better than that. You know better than that. What I said was: I don't lecture them about how many people they are going to kill or how dangerous it is. How did you get from there to 'remain silent'? There are...

Stefan, I've known you to be pretty harsh before, but accusing other board members of being murderers is a new low for you. This is aggressive behavior. I don't know who I'd be more worried about sharing the road with right now-- the OP or with you! You also know I'm a health care provider...

These are great points, as is Blackhand's response, which brings me to something I haven't mentioned: I love the way this bike handles and corners. That's an argument for going slow with changes to the weight high on the frame. The bars are a worthy gamble-- if I hate them, I've only gambled...

Yeah, that may be for the tires, but I do have to replace them in the fall, and if I can find something that rolls a little faster and is a little lighter, why not? I'm not even sure I can find Maxxis Ikons in 2.1 anymore. As for wheels, I'm trying to get a fix on how much my current wheels...

No. There are so many things wrong with that analogy, I wouldn't know where to start. If I'm working with someone who drinks and drives, I don't lecture them about how many people they are going to kill or how dangerous it is. That approach is doomed to fail. There is a playbook for how to...

As many of you know, I ride an XCish 46ish pound Class 1 FS eMTB with a 250 watt 40 nm motor and 34mm Suntour middle-of-the-road front fork. I break 30 MPH fairly frequently and occasionally break 40 MPH, but do that only very briefly on pavement that is smooth. On the trail I'm usually on...

Stefan! I'm not sure this is the right approachl if you actually want to convince him to slow / power down. However... This. Can we find out more about the bike? Its weight, your weight, how wide your tires are, if it's a 29er or 27.5, what kind of terrain you ride on-- how steep it is...

Past tense, I no longer have this motor, but it was really a mix. On flat terrain, I rode without any power, but while climbing, I had a trigger throttle that provided variable assist/ However, it was a low power motor, so there were not many increments to the amount of assist! I would say...