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Since none of you live around here you can't crash the party. I sent this out to a bunch of my friends today. When I led the most recent First Friday Ride after the third speech by the mayor that evening I proposed this idea and everyone liked it. All these places have live music and are...

The sign used to say, Men At Work. Now it says Flaggers Ahead. Who wants to be called a Flagert? Isn't canbus still illegal in some states? That is funny about a pair of panties and a singular bra. Maybe because women claim many men are snakes and most make snakes possess two penises...

Off topic again. Just a quick aside. Why are females in films like Stormy Daniels now called 'Actors' but climate change is called 'Man-Made'? And why is an unidentified assailant called a 'gunman,' not gunperson? Are females exempt from climate change? The Texas hill country floods last year...

I want two wires to a battery. Red and black.

That person has an EBR a reaction score of 2. Basically no one responds or cares. Cursor over that avatar to see it. Outliers sometimes happen. It is the nature of things. What exactly is the specific question? Is it about illegal eMotos being hated, impounded, and crushed? I love @Gionnirocket...

That good friend is totally into all the latest tech. But can't find his butt using both hands or tell you which direction is North.

@LandoftheGiants, That is cool, even though I cannot quiet picture it fully. Like a dry sponge doesn't absorb. What parts of the world do you listen to? Who is listening to you? Remember the '90's film where ham Morse code saved the world from a Mars invasion? The rare outlier exception proves...

It is a battery operated illegal motorcycle. The first thing to do is to pay a bulldozer operator to crush it several times. Firstly bikes have pedals. Then put the two-stroke gas mix on it and set it on fire. Start at 6 min. in. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c1m2p42v847o

The ones in the OP do, particularly when you look to the sea. I told a friend about them and he spent an hour trying to order them.

The DM02 motors I use take a ton of programing. Points taken. M. Robinson had a good point too of using extra-beefy motors that were down tuned on his cargo bikes. It is so the bus boy can have a picnic.

@Gionnirocket, I am not posing as a person who knows everything and is perfect. I screw up all the time. I just try to embrace and laugh at my screw ups. I had one BBS02 bike that I covered with carbon fiber look heat shrink wrap years ago, like a buss boy puts on the rear wing on a two-door...

What size it the chainring? A larger one could prevent spinning out, taking pressure off the small higher geared rear cogs. In 2018 I had a mid-drive ghost pedaling Bafang mid-drive that just ate through chains and cogs. I thought it was cool before I knew anything about torque sensors. It was...

I get bikes that come in with no stopping power and the levers go back against the grips. The lower fluid is black. I would like to be able to store fluid in a slight vacuum that would preremove dissolved gasses. In a couple days I will be installing a set of four piston hydros on a bike...

The bronze also conducts heat away a little better than organic resin. I suspect that organic pads come with new bikes because they do not require initial bedding. And are at first smoother and quieter. Bronze sintered kick butt but need bedding and are at first louder.

To service the 8-speed Alfine/Nexus hubs I take them out of the shell and soak them in Mobil 1 0W-40 then use lithium grease. As the guy said, 'There is nothing as smooth as a lubed tranny.'

The wheelie kids mostly have upside down reservoirs. Suddenly the brakes stop working. A single mom came in with her kid today with no brakes. I fixed it in a half hour with new sintered pads. Flatout is the easiest sell in the world. For the price of one tube in a box, you will never get a flat...

I would let her borrow mine.

One time I rode a Raleigh 3 speed, 70's rootbeer brown, up a Mt. Tam fire trail to the top. The one with the little chain was a Sturmey Archer. Mine has a little bar that pushes in to shift. I can remove that to get oil in with the bike laying down.

A bunch of brakes use DOT 3 or DOT 5.1. It is 95F here today; that is unusual. I see a huge fog bank off the coast that will roll in about three hours from now, by 4:15 PST. A guy, Nathan, had squeaky brakes. He called me to see if I had some brake oil. I said, Yes. When he showed up I figured...

Off topic again. Ditching the cast iron crankset and loose bearing American BB made a huge improvement on the analog coaster brake Electra. The distance between the bb and the chainstays was so long that it took two chains of equal length. I didn't have quicklinks, so had to carefully reuse the...