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Yeah, a new bike could well be out of balance. Radpower used to say you should leave a new battery on the charger 12 hours for 3 times, even if you ride only a mile between charges. They changed their advice. Maybe ordinary charge and discharge cycles will improve @Old-tool-guy 's range.

I bought this for one bike https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C4JFPJY and this for another. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VB28P3P I wanted to move bars forward, and these let me fine tune my adjustments. By clamping it "backwards" to the stem, it looks as if one would let you move your bars back.

I started using wire nuts as an electronics technician on a Coast Guard ship. I found them so reliable that I used them to connect the turn signals on the fairing and saddlebags of a motorcycle I bought in 1972. Until 1998, it was my only vehicle. Some years, I’d ride it more than 20,000 miles...

Until 10 years ago, I depended on solder and wire nuts. A wire nut can clamp conductors both at the bare ends and where they're jacketed. For many conductors, it's much stronger to clamp them where they're jacketed. It's only recently that I became aware of crimping. The bare connectors are...

The problem with a digital bathroom scale is that a person's pressure keeps changing because he's live weight. When the scale shows a steady weight, that's a digital guess. I bought this a couple of years ago and never went back to my bathroom scale. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMX6WS9Z To use...

What does that have to do with my post? My handles were on the wrong faucets. What does that have to do with entry standards for medical schools?

In November, 1620, Myles Standish led a party ashore on Cape Cod. A dog barked, but an unseen Yankee whistled and the dog withdrew. They found what they thought was a well-traveled road leading to a town. It led to a corral, and the tracks were made by deer. They also noted that the woods were...

Knives were a problem in butchering a goat. You had to get the hide off, then open the abdomen and remove the gut without puncturing anything. There was the danger of cutting your other hand. A knife would get gummed with slime that would make a handle hard to grip and keep a blade from...

Hamlet said wealth is the cause of war. In Roman times, someone learned to make beaver fur into felt garments to make armor more comfortable. That increased the price. By 1500, they'd vanished in many places. In North America, the tradition was to take only the young adults that were heading...

We had 70 acres of overgrown farmland. Multifloral rose, kudzu, briars, and poison ivy were barriers, besides shrubs and trees with low limbs. We fenced maybe half for goats. They kept it clear for walking. They also provided fire protection by leaving little to turn brown annually.

By sling, do you mean a wire rope with crimped eyes? What diameter? What length?

That was the least of their problems. Some tracks were only 1/2 mile and banked at 50 degrees. A racer who went down would be impaled with large splinters, often fatally. Control of a motorcycle was tenuous, and when one flew over the rim, there could be mass decapitations. I wonder if any...

In 1969, BMW motorcycles adopted Porsche fade-proof brake linings. That was a disgusting marketing decision. I've never heard of brake fade on a motorcycle, and if these linings absorbed moisture from the air, touching them could lock the wheel, especially the front wheel, with dual leading...

I guess you don't mean you wear socks over Army boots... The Boy Scout manual recommended wearing dress socks under boot socks. So did the Marine Corps manual. I was 33 before I caught on. Palms and soles sweat in response to friction. That's why walking would soon cause my boot socks to get...

I'm not talking about being tough. I keep my thermostat at 69 in winter, but a few years ago I'd wear long underwear indoors. That's because the vests I had didn't cover my neck and lower torso. I found better vests and quit wearing long underwear, indoors or out. If I got chilly indoors with a...

My rides aren't many miles but may last half an hour in windy conditions in the teens. For 50 years, I've found a vest the most important cold-weather clothing, if it comes up to my jaw and down to my hips, like this one. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077FJ6FLR Second is a skullcap under my helmet...

If you wonder how many links to add or subtract, take the difference in chainwheel diameters in inches and multiply by pi. That will be the chain difference in half inches, which is the number of links. Then just take the nearest whole number. For example, if you replaced an 8" ring with a 9"...

An acronym is just A Contrived Reduction Of Nouns Yielding Mnemonics. :rolleyes:

I have a metal cutter, too. I won't have to crank it manually after I fasten it to the cogwheel on my derailleur. That's a job for J B Weld.

I guess that rules out my cart with a 24" track width! (The scale says 52.0 pounds.) The cart is rated for 1,000 pounds. I see the single-wheel trailer is rated for 70. How about a cargo bike? My Abound is rated for 140 pounds on the rear rack. I've hauled loads of sawed logs up a sort of cow...