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Nobody has long term experience with Avinox/Amflow since they are so new, but I haven't seen any widespread issues reported. Especially with the motor system itself. Guess we will see. We don't have many Avinox people on this forum since its primarily an emtb system, but there are tons of...

Yeah, Shimano hasn't been keeping up. Zero issues with my now 7 year old M8000 emtb though. Keeps ticking along. Shimanos big advantage is they are a huge oem for tons of components so have relationships with lots of bike companies. On the emtb forums I see a lot of positive experiences and...

To be blunt, Shimano and Sram have it coming... The price of mid-high range groupsets have skyrocketed over the past 15 years. They are absolutely primed to have someone come in and eat their lunch.

I wouldnt mind a ~80nm of torque motor as light as they can make it, but the M2 motors aren't that much heavier than lightweight motors from Spec, TQ, etc. Like, the TQ motor Trek uses is just under 2kg, Specs SL 1.2 is about that as well. The Avinox M2 motors are 2.6kg. Its not nothing, but...

I keep selfishly hoping someone will release a drop bar gravel bike with the Avinox (that I can buy in the US) just because I need to replace my Revolt at some point and don't want a superlight low power bike with a tiny battery. I don't need the power, but some company riding the hype train...

The sequential 4-port charging hub they list is a really smart idea for touring as well. Anyone doing long distances would probably want multiple batteries/extenders, and that lets them carry a single charger they can plug them all into and have them all charge while they do other stuff.

200kg is a pretty high weight limit, so they have a lot of confidence in their design. If you read the website, they say its total system weight. "Includes the weight of the bike, rider, and the loads on the front rack (max 20kg) and rear rack (max 27kg)." There are definitely commercial...

Has anyone mentioned the anticipated price on that TL? Seems like a similar idea to the high end R&M trekking bikes (high end build, FS, relaxed riding position, full power motor, lots of battery). I have to imagine they will be undercutting most of the companies in that space. Could just be...

Thats been bouncing around for a while now I think. The main issue is that the remaining reactor is a really old design and not particularly profitable to operate. I suppose data centers don't really care how expensive their power is. Hah, the partial meltdown happened in the 70s and the...

I mean, Chernobyl was a bad design subjected to a very poorly planned test (typical for soviet engineering of that era). Even the 70s era US reactors wouldn't fail in that way. The 3 Mile Island partial meltdown is main one for the US and even that had a pretty limited radiation release and...

The environmental movements historical hostility to nuclear power is probably one of the most spectacular own-goals in human history.

Certainly on larger commercial sites, where there are dedicated safety crew ensuring that nobody gets hurt. No pickup is being used for anything. The company my wife works for has some 2dr F150s as fleet trucks mainly for PMs to drive from the main office to the site. The field people who...

Whichever one Trump has most recently thrown under the bus to avoid blame for whatever he fucked up.

Lol. I visit a pretty wide variety of residential construction, but generally the first thing done at any job site is grading and access. Once thats done they dump down gravel. You apparently don't really know what you're talking about, but its not normal to leave a construction site a mud...

My dad is an avid fisherman and has the F150 primarily to tow his bass boat around. Like pretty much all recreation, its not for some financially sound reason. He just loves to fish and can afford to indulge it so he does. I would agree that its not worth going into massive debt you can't...

Most people who drive pickups in the US do so primarily for the image. Sure, if youre a landscaper or need to tow something large, they make sense. That isn't most people. I'm in the building industry and my observation is that higher up field people (project managers, company owners) drive...

Electronic group sets typically have very long battery life. You just charge them periodically? Doesn’t seem like that should be a sticking point among people who ride ebikes. 😜

Kind of an odd framing. "EV transition enablers" probably encompasses a huge swath of people, industries and government policies (I say probably because I'm not totally sure what you mean by that). Here in the US, the vast majority of our power generation is done by private for profit...

Yeah, they clearly wanted to mount racks without having to change the frame (since carbon molds are very expensive). The suspension pivot is already nice and strong, so mounting it there makes sense. A seatpost clamp is a... serviceable.. solution for the other mounting point. Its not a bad...

Fantastic deal! :p Wonder if they will sell the racks by themselves? Probably a different linkage piece to allow it to attach, but the seatpost clamp and front rack look like they would fit the standard bike.