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Cars are the enemy! I don't encounter all that many on my typical rides, even in the daytime. About one every 2~5 minutes on average out on the rural backroads. I have a mirror, watch them like hawks, and ALWAYS move right over to the edge. I often slow down and go onto the verge, gravel or...

guy talks too fast. TTFDL 😁

I was watching a YT about WWII in the pacific yesterday, a battle at Buna in New Guinea. Towards the end the allies had a lot of field guns in place and one officer was using his to take out individual Jap soldiers. Apparently the shells detonated on impact with no problems and essentially...

Nothing special about her either, just a circus act. I always preferred the clowns myself. A bit off topic but looks like fun. A good dice near the end too.

You can make little winglets to cover your ears from the wind, that might be a good investment?

I don't like to push things at all, I have the belief that any motor, electric or fueled will last longer if kept well below the max point. But it sounds like @DDBB isn't pushing it too hard at all. I'd be happy with a very warm motor. In fact many electrical systems work better when they get...

And so is the aircraft carrier, and the jet fighters and bombers. All WWII tech basically. First it was standing armies, then ships with cannon, culminating in the mighty Battle Ship which Britain entered WWII with and found them useless. Then planes and tanks, aircraft carriers and...

Everyone who knows anything about military force knows that Russia could have squashed the ukraine like a bug if it had wanted too. So it begs the question, why don't they want to? Firstly they would be responsible for the place, managing it like before. and as it stands they have already...

I've read Strauss and Howe's Books "Generations" and "The Forth Turning, and American prophecy" In them they point to fact that our western civilizations pass through 4 distinct cycles, Spring Summer Fall and Winter, every 80 to 100 years. They have tracked these cycles back 400 years and it's...

Now the winds stopped but the nights are down to zero Celsius, that's the freezing point of water. I've ridden in those temps but I think I'll do day rides for a while instead.

Well with the quality of processed supermarket and fast food taking a nose dive over the past few decades I'm not surprised with the "Ranch dressing" phenomena. The chemicals and non-foods they slip into stuff now to cut costs yet make them sort of palatable is a crime against humanity. Soy is...

Would love one of those in my kit, they have a special name and are for special applications but that escapes me?

Unfortunately for city riders, which will make up the majority here, there is no choice but to ride through a fog of exhaust emissions. When humans are faced with something they have no control over they typically minimize any risk and get on with their lives. Like people who live below dams...

Quite, thumbing their nose at cheap Russian gas was just the final nail in the coffin, they were one of the world leaders in solar panel manufacture back in 2005, now crickets. China's eating everyone's lunch. The war drums over Russia and how it's threatening the West is just a cover story for...

I must be doing something wrong, I have only ever once bled a set of brakes, and that on a 20 year old bike. And I have never replaced pads either, even on bikes with thousands of miles on them. Mind you I hate hills so rarely use brakes. My current little route has one brake stop at the end...

Here's a 1/4 drive torque driver set I bought But for accuracy I sometimes rely on this older 1/4 drive I have these on a couple of bikes, the D-fuse seatpost The workshop :) Nothing too serious gets done here. No serious mods or wheel truing like.

It's a very misunderstood topic isn't it, but bikes are bikes and the same physics applies to both. Leaning is a natural consequence of the bike tipping over, to tip a bike over when moving you need to push/move the front wheel out of line with the rear. This is even noticeable as we come to...

I'd rather breath in a bit of bush fire smoke than the lungfuls of invisible and very toxic exhaust emissions spewed out of tailpipes in urban environments. It like fluoride in water, it's actually a very dangerous chemical so they set the rate at which they add it based on average human...

Yawn...

I converse with people from all over the world but mostly with locals in my own state. good luck with the hub conversion parts.