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Boy, if witches can change their weight at will, bet they get a lot of applicants. ;^}

Units can definitely be maddening, but they can also be a lot more helpful than many realize — especially SI units, which extend the metric system. Units are your friends. For one thing, they're great reality checks. If you come up with a formula for a fuel price conversion, the units in the...

Thanks, guys — now I know what to look for. Just one of the reasons I love EBR.

Thanks for picking that up. You know way more about this than I do. What are you seeing? My understanding is that smaller cogs wear more quickly, all other things being equal. So 10 and 11 make some sense, and they do get a lot more use than 12.

Thanks! Lots of fond Mt. Tam memories in those photos. Rattled my brain and pounded my wrists down those long, jarring rocky descents many a time on a rigid 1985 Rock Hopper. Probably lost 10 IQ points to the brain microtrauma in the process. I'd get to the bottom of the Old Railroad Grade and...

The bike found a kindred spirit on the local rail trail the other day. Birds of a color. The rail trail's been torn up by nearby rail bridge construction for months now. Also lots of barriers to access now, but you can get around most of them on a bike you can lift. The trail was once all...

You're right. Some folks genuinely prefer other things, and nothing wrong with that. Come to think of it, my neighbor/riding buddy is one of them. He loves it here in coastal SoCal, but he'd spend 80% of his time at his house in Lake Tahoe — a gorgeous mountain place — if his wife let him.

Lucky both of us, then. The ocean's been in my soul since the family trips to the Carolina shore started around age 6. Even moreso on the SW SoCal coast now at 78. But I bet there's a 3rd option. If the ocean's not already in your soul when you move to a place where you can see and visit it on...

Earlier in this thread, I was of the opinion that listening to music in the saddle wasn't a good idea for me on safety grounds. Even with my Shokx bone conduction headphones. Yes, the Shokx don't block ambient sound. But they also don't address my limited auditory bandwidth at age 75+. Can only...

No experience with fat tire bikes, but I know what it's like to ride in the loose, dry, deep beach sand that @RabH showed with 38 mm (1.50") and 60 mm (2.35") gravel tires: It's hopeless. Can't imagine any skill level making it rideable at those widths. Q1. So how wide a tire do you need to...

Thanks! Can't say how grateful I am to have the Coast Highway (US Hwy 101) just 5 minutes from home by bike. Ode to the Coast Highway What's not to like here? Good to great bike infrastructure almost everywhere, often surprisingly unbusy, decent drivers, good to great pavement, and good to...

Much better to ride mellow than not at all! Have to remind myself of that sometimes. Didn't have nearly as good an excuse as you, but yesterday's hill and coast ride was more of a struggle than usual for me, too. So nice to be able to keep going and actually enjoy it (kind of) just by upping...

The table below from Wilson & Schmidt, 2020, Bicycling Science, 4th ed. offers some good guidance on bike and rider inputs for the model's sliders. Ignore the power estimates, as they assume bikes lighter than most ebikes. Ground speed units The model uses m/s for ground speed, as that's the...

MacGyver would very much approve of this solution. Love it when something I already own turns out to be just the thing — especially when it turns out to have even more uses. Sounds like you have some gorgeous riding ahead in the Black Hills. If you run into bears, remember, they're big Fred...

Really like the paint job on that last crow. Never would have imagined those colors going together so well.

Spotted at a favorite breakfast place in Carlsbad Village, which I ride to and through a lot. They deserve the Nobel Prize in hash browns. There's often a line, but I'd somehow never noticed the Doggie Menu thoughtfully placed where the doggies can read it. A bit over the top, but the next...

You make chain art yourself, right? Recall seeing that bicycle before, and I think you made it.

That's the crux of it — genuine accountability, not least for the suppliers of street-illegal machines. It's clear that all too many folks the world over operate on a simple ethic: What's right is what you can get away with. To keep it clean, I'll call them "yahoos" for short. Put any kind of...

I started to say that you have a gift, but that use of gift is now irrevocably tied in my mind to a classic British TV burn that went something like... Man: Another fabulous dinner, darling! You have a gift for broccoli. Wife, cheerily: We all have our gifts, dear! I'm sure yours will reveal...

Looks like off-road fun, but it's not an ebike in any legal sense of the term. It's an e-motorcycle with no place on public bike infrastructure. Sorry if you were told otherwise.