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I tend to spin a little slower than most. I pretty consistently average 75 on a flat cruise.

it’s very cool. and the amount of data that goes into a foundation model for an AI is such that you need not be concerned about your data influencing it. the fact that it’s on the internet means that any AI (whether trained on your model or not) will be able to locate it and reference it, which...

it seems like maybe you should move somewhere less problematic, where you can stay year round and do what basically everyone else does : take reasonable precautions and get insurance. the things you're describing are not normal problems and have nothing to do with electrification of cars, bikes...

i’m not going to bother responding to your vitriolic “argument” but since you put it up there yourself, i’ll just point this out : state and local governments set the rules of the road. an overly simplistic federal definition of an bicycle or e-bicycle means said governments will either a)...

it's amusing, the idea that some obscure federal commission's definition of what an e-bike is would magically make such a device (unregistered, unlicensed, uninspected, and uninsured of course!) legal and appropriate to use on every trail, path, bike lane, road, etc across the nation. sometimes...

oh, i haven't had it in years! as i rode more i almost always used it without assist, so i got the aethos, and then sold the creo. then after a few years the health issues came back so i got the addict e-ride. i still have it (obviously) and the aethos, which i ride only for pretty easy rides...

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...