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Looking for loop rides in the southwest USA. Leaving Saturday from Pennsylvania traveling south to west Texas the west on either HWY 40 or 10. Our final destination is Santa Cruz. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Bicycle advocacy group classified as terrorist

Wilderness article on way e-bikes should be banned from certain trails.

Nice story in today’s NYT. Ebike changed my life

For a second year the Giro d’Italia organized an electric bicycle event. Giro d’Italia

A few weeks ago on our way to the Pine Creek trail in northeast Pennsylvania we were stopped for by a state trooper for having an obscured car license plate. We had our two ebikes on a Thule hitch rack. After this incident I called the PA department of transportation in search of a resolve...

Bike Virgina has a 3 or 6 day organized bike tour of the Shenandoah Valley this June. Base camp will be located in Woodstock, Virginia for June 21through 23 and Harrisonburg, Virginia for June 24 through 26. From each base camp there will be a variety of loop rides with various distance and...

For reference let’s look at the state of the art non-electric touring bike. The Tout Terrain Silkroad has become the European standard equipped with either the belt driven Rohloff Speedhub 14(526%) or the Pinion P1. 18 midship transmission(636%). The Silkroad uses the global standard 26” wheel...

My wife and I split our time between Santa Cruz, California in the winter and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the other seasons. In Pittsburgh we work to have a low carbon footprint and use our ebikes to run errands. The ebike of choice is the Nevo NuVinci with the GX motor. What a well mannered...

I’m not sure if I have ever felt as unsafe on a bicycle as I do on my Bosch Performance CX/Rohloff E-14 ebike. A little history: For the first 400 miles the E-14 powertrain worked well, although stiff. Since then there had been a series of malfunctions that has brought to the surface the warts...

After spending a few months using the Rohloff E-14 my favorite gears are 5, 8, 11 with my start gear being 8. What are your favorite?

One of the great bike touring adventures of the world is riding along the California coast. Here in Santa Cruz we see an endless parade of Americans and Europeans fulfilling their dream of riding from San Fransisco down the central coast, passing through rugged and majestic Big Sur on their way...

This is a quick overview of the Riese & Muller Nevo GX Rohloff. Most of the Rohloff transmission quirks have been beautify detailed by David Berry with his Rohloff drive Homage so I will only add a few of my observations. I find the Rohloff to be considerable more efficient than the NuVinci on a...

Uber/Jump upgraded EBike for 2019 https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18144582/uber-jump-new-electric-bike-bikeshare-micromobility

Test rode a R&M with the Rohloff E-14 transmission at bicycle show in Brimingham. WOW what a quick and responsive run through the gears.

As if it’s not hard enough to find Racktime baskets and trunk bags for exsisting R&M bikes the 2019 R&M Nevo GX and GT will be equipped with Basil MIK system. Basil has absolutely no presence in the USA.

Pittsburgh claims the steepest street in the USA. Walkabout: Having fun with uphill challenges in the 'Burgh http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/diana-nelson-jones/2018/08/26/Canton-Avenue-Beechview-Pittsburgh-Dirty-Dozen-bike-race-Guiness-Book-of-World-Records/stories/201808260060

My wife and I thought of taking our bikes on the Amtrak West Coast lines but discovered it is virtually impossible with electric bikes, at least for our bikes. The restrictions include a maximum weight of 50 pounds and a maximum tire width of 2”. What a shame it would have been quite the trip...

Interesting article on how to cross a city intersection in USA cities. https://slate.com/business/2018/08/it-is-ok-to-cut-off-cyclists-at-the-light.html

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