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I’ve lived in some lovely places in northern Canada so I’m familiar with real winter. The kind where you can walk up the snowdrift in front of the house right up onto the roof with just a small step at the edge of the roof. or where the daytime high was -30 to -35F for over a month straight...

Today’s ride… uh, nope!

Off they come! and then I put on my own.

Yes you have! Just looking at those things causes brain damage and… um… ooooo… nice….

I once used an aluminum camera case. From the used pile at the back of the large photography shop. Plastic free makes it difficult, why is that a requirement. i mean… other than its poisoning our planet.

the original issue doesn’t sound right at all. The seat provided with the Electra is of a type usually fitted with the nose up a bit, sorta nestles yer bum into the wide bit at the back of the seat. Is the seat post the right way around, I’ve seen dopier things done by shop builders. The portion...

A reasonably priced part from Germany. I just can’t get my brain to process that one.

I still have some cold weather riding gloves from my motorcycling days. Anything that’ll keep you warm at 5C on an unfair end motorcycle doing 85kph will keep you more than toasty on the bicycle at a few degrees below zero. beyond that the car gets some use.

Having spent a career in the automotive industry I think the marketing guys love the idea of a sub brand, so these things get launched in hopes of attracting that ton of people looking for something special who might not otherwise darken their doorstep. It’s only later that someone from...

I worked in a shop that carried Giant. Momentum was pushed as the e-bike brand, not a cheaper brand. I’ve built a few and did not find anything cheap about them. I do remember that any we sold never came back with problems… ever. for what it’s worth I have a Trek Fetch 2 and am very happy with...

Yamaha built a robot to ride a basically stock sport bike. Attached is Motobot 2 running against Valentino Rossi.

It does sound a bit odd. I had a gay friend tell me I had a nice backside one time. He did it strictly to get my goat. My wife almost fell over laughing. I too have beat myself up a bit on bicycles. I find that when a bicycle chucks you down the road it doesn’t throw you down quite as hard or...

Having crashed a few motorcycles comfort is no longer an option. but this big thing helps more than most…

I’ve worked with a few qualifies engineers who I would have happily replaced with a robot. They don’t teach practical engineering any more, just theoretical stuff, so I had one just out of university spend half a day assembling an IKEA Billy bookcase for his office and screw it up. I’ve seen...

I don’t remember who was the bright little lizard behind that system, but it was nickname “the dragon” because of it’s prodigious appetite for really expensive drive motors and its ability to tick me off. we figured I could digitize a simple object, a coffee cup was our usual suggestion, and...

this has been going on for a long while I used to share an office with a robotic measuring system. it talked its way through its tasks as required and learned as you used it, writing its own software on the fly so it could do the work on its own next time around. It could measure down to a...

It covers the cable between the arms of cheaper rim brakes… just off the end of the noodle. and they never stay in place once disturbed.

Ask and yea shall receive… check out them rod operated drum brakes

I Thought that of fat bike tires as well but then took one for a ride, they roll surprisingly well. I’ve even toyed with the idea of picking one up.

I hope there is room here for more than one nut. I’ve always been a trouble maker. i keep a few of these around… they are fun to release in crowds.