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i planned this morning's ride to be exactly 30 miles and 3000 feet of climbing. it turned out to be 30.21 miles and 3019 feet :D it was kind of fun to roll around some neighborhoods i never, ever spend time in but i missed a few of the grades, and a few spots were really too steep for my...

nah. it'll be like telephones. africa jumped straight to cell phones and many parts of the world will jump straight from cheap, simple, crappy old vehicles to electric vehicles. why? not necessarily because it'll save the planet (it depends where the electricity comes from) but because they're...

a lot of progress has been made on this front, we do lots of projects with low carbon concrete - about half the embodied carbon of typical cement…

it seems like a lot of low voltage connectors are way bigger than needed these days! compare to the little tiny ones shimano uses for di2…

looks pretty clean!! i imagine it’s tricky work routing that through the headset. well done.

fertilizers do require (at least for now!) fossil fuel inputs but they are a tiny tiny fraction of global consumption. something like a percent or two. they consume a fairly large ratio of petrochemical consumption but when you compare them to the amounts used for transportation in general and...

cloudy morning for a nice loop ride. 37.2 miles and 2,000 feet, 16.6mph average. used 82wh of the addict eRide's battery. into the redwoods! back out onto the open road adjacent to and winding around a reservoir back up into some hills for the last climb cows of various sizes!

growing up in an enthusiastic, do-it-yourself kind of family, i had never driven an automatic transmission until the first time i rented a car in the states. my best mate and i actually "hired" a car in scotland years before we did in the states, and of course it was a stick! great times. i've...

no. all 45 states with sales tax (in theory) levy a use tax (identical to the sales tax) on out of state purchases. it’s just that nobody bothers.

i guess technically you're supposed to pay sales taxes on out-of-state purchases in the year you purchase them. other than cars or other very big ticket registered items, i have never heard of anyone doing it. does anyone?

there are DOZENS of sources which say essentially the same thing, go ahead and look for them. what incentive does a government agency like the EIA have to underestimate grid losses? i've heard the same thing from electrical engineers and scientists, similar ranges, similar explanations. the only...

and this explains why a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing in the hands of bias. the large losses are not “IN THE GRID” as you falsely claim - they occur in the generation of electricity from the primary source. if you package up a gallon of gasoline, and ship it to a car, there are...

this number (electric loss) gets tossed around a lot, and it’s hard to know what the truth is because there are so many different versions of it. this is direct from the EIA, at this link https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=105&t=3 which suggests losses are far loss than your chart...

it’s not really hate, it’s jealousy and envy of people who are healthy, fit, dedicated, and having fun doing something that doesn‘t trash the environment or kill animals or generate tax revenue or support big oil or whatever it is that offends people. grown adults name calling and making fun of...

for a while i used an iPhone 13 mini as my bike computer, while I had a pro max of whatever the latest flavor was for my main carry Phone. it was great, smaller, lighter, OLED screen, get all my calls and texts and zooms and emails and slacks and take pictures and the best cycling apps...

traditionally jerseys have been very brightly colored! the more recent trend towards gravel and mixed riding has merged road-function clothes with the muted colors of mountain bike or traditional outdoor gear. while I appreciate the look, i wouldn’t do it for any ride with the potential for...

you're the one who said to someone who basically said what i said. if you don't want people to say obvious things, don't say things that are wrong and misleading?

i've probably visited about $10b worth of construction sites, never seen anyone use a pickup truck for anything other than getting their gear, crew, pack out boxes, etc to the site. earthwork is done by earth moving equipment and the people in the hole and on the ground aren't driving their...

interesting, maybe mahle has some sort of patent on the integrated connection.

vast swathes of land. not vast numbers of people. land doesn't drive vehicles, people do!