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Ooooo… thanks for that. She is a teacher and I could have been in trouble for that one but she is Dutch so likely doesn’t care about it. She just rolls her eyes and tells me to go stand in the corner.

When Der Frau and I go for groceries I take the e-cargo thing and she takes her e-bike, otherwise it’s time for the tandem.

I love Deore, it’s easy to set up and bulletproof. I run it on my tandem and if anything is going to trash a derailleur, it’s a tandem. Unfortunately it’s all going over to Cues. I’ve gotten really good at setting up Cues, but no matter how much you fine tune them they never match Deore for...

It’s easy to create a make of bike. You go to the annual big bike show in Taiwan, choose all your components from the many makers at the show, pick a name and get that and some cool graphics done on your frame, contract a company to assemble it, contract someone to warehouse and ship it and set...

The bike market is really bad right now, the market is flooded with good used equipment post Covid and sales are way down so everybody is hurting. Anybody who is over extended financially, carrying too much inventory or selling a marginal quality product may not survive. I think Kona and...

I see a lot of totally crap shifters and derailleurs on new bikes I’m building, a bit upsetting when it’s an otherwise nice brand name e-bike. Lower end Shimano is now crap… right out of the box, especially the derailleurs. Microshift makes some very nice Shimano compatible shifters as well as...

Yeah, but everybody knows a good schlumph is a wonderful and enduring thing. Somethings to cherish and pass down to the next generation. like a set of fine dentures

Yeah, you are right. A stuck schlumph truly sucks. I glad to hear your schlumpification issue has been corrected. to prevent this happening again there is a cream for it…

I was thinking about that. But then it began to sound like an effort so I went for a ride on my Dutch bike… that cures all frustrations.

Two things about that stand. It doesn’t life either wheel clear of the ground, so if either wheel is sitting on a slight bump the kickstand is clear of the ground. It’s just a bit but it’s kinda stupid. the second thing is that there is an extension for the tab you push it down with, to clear...

Trek Fetch 2+. A fat pig that’s fun to ride but can also haul scrap metal or groceries or another bike or a lot of beer….

Cool! It’s like a bike diaper. those should come free with every Harley Davidson

If you can get your wife to use a small suitcase you have crossed into an area of reason which man rarely experiences, a moment to be cherished. I’d call the local university to get it documented as well.

the line between motorcycles and e-bikes is getting properly blurry now. 350 volts / 80ish mph

At our shop we’ve seen problems with e-bikes carried on racks in the rain. The electrical systems on these things is designed to withstand living outside in pretty much all weather, but not the blast of highway speeds. Driving down the highway at 70mph into a headwind of 20mph in heavy rain is...

And to let you know when the sweep has done his work.

I met my wife when her motorbike broke down and I stopped to help, so I literally picked her up in the gutter. I had a Jawa in those days, rare as hens teeth over here even when they were still importing them. The guy I was riding with that day got off his bike, walked back and saw a pretty...

Doesn’t a suitable partner show up to the first date on a hand built custom steel bike? something covered in polished aluminium bits and fitted with an NOS vintage group set. or am I setting my sights rather high.

I was amusing myself picturing the mailman dropping packages down the chimney, then I remembered they are on strike again.

Chimney bell?