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What are some of your favorite things to eat after a ride? Today for me it is a Poke Bowl. It is Hawaiian. It is essentially sushi without a wrap. This one is has steamed sticky rice on the bottom, California ahi with crab, and spicy ahi. Then wakame seaweed salad, pickled ginger, and kimchi...

They call it a fixie, except it has brakes and a throttle!

Is everyday is bike to workday for you?

Amazon says it will no longer allow the sale of certain high-speed e-bikes in California following a consumer alert issued by California Attorney General Rob Bonta last month warning about illegal electric bikes and motorcycles being marketed to consumers.

Often on bikes the highest bar on the display showing remaining battery power takes you the most miles. The last bar takes you the fewest miles. What if each bar took you the same number of miles? How would you program that? I am programing a bike right now. It has a 48V nominal battery. The...

They are lumping illegal motorcycles with legal eBikes and want to make them in the whippy image of @Stefan Mikes. Cargo moms with two kids and groceries should be able to leave the car behind and take an adequately assisted bike up a hill to home. This would make their bikes unlawful and...

No chain, no belt to maintain. No gears. All the feel and with regen.

If your bike is PAS governor limited to 20mph you can make the new cap 28 by using the metric conversion trick; taking it from Class 1 to make it Class 3. Let's say you have a display such as this: https://e-glidebike.com/images/sf-manuals/e-glide-SF-LCD-Manual.pdf. Kilometers are 40% smaller...

I just worked on a bike that was left out in the rain for a series of Winter storms. The owner told me initially that the wire to the speed sensor rubbed on his tire and shorted. He tried soldering but it still didn't work so the bike would shut down every five minutes. Okay, I fixed it so it...

https://www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/2026/CPSC-Warns-Consumers-to-Immediately-Stop-Using-Ridstar-E-Bikes-Due-to-Fire-Hazard-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death I just replaced one with a UL certified battery.

With quantum batteries, the larger the battery, the faster it charges; in seconds by using a powerful laser. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260322020249.htm

https://electrek.co/2026/02/24/another-new-california-e-bike-bill-was-just-introduced-now-with-broader-support/

I have a custom conversion comming up that I am excited to work on. I have spend 2.5 hours sitting down and consulting with the owner. And now we have it all planned. We are starting with a dropbar touring/gravel bike with the Shimano GRX groupset for durability. I am changing a many things...

I was listening to a station in the Netherlands that out of the blue played 'It's Yesterday Once More', corny as hell, Carpenters, but it hit a nerve. Nost-algia, is a sickness. What to you is the corniest song of all time? Name it.

Would it be politically correct to make Spanish gender neutral? I had just referred to an actress of 25 years ago, then realized that the proper term these day is actor. So, why not do the same with Spanish?

RAD Power Bikes is going out of business. All their customers will have unsupported bikes. https://www.inc.com/ava-levinson/this-wildly-popular-bike-brand-is-on-the-brink-of-going-bust/91264522

This is the place to post your food porn before or after a bike ride.

I am working on nice XL Giant for a 21-year-old who is taking it back to college in NY. It is his main transportation. It is getting a tune with bunch of refinements and upgrades. He is slim 6'6" and 21 so he does not need an eBike. Analog is just fine. I am truing the front wheel now and it was...

This is the place to show your bike or bikes and talk about what sets it apart for you and for general bike discussions. I just made a bike electric with a DM02 motor that is called a Pashley Prospero. It has modern off-road/sturdy Shimano GRX components a sturdy Reynolds 631 frame with some...