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    Food Porn Rides

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

    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...
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    Show Us Your Bikes

    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...
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    California Highway Patrol eBike Certification Class

    CHP Bicycle Safety Training Class I took the California Highway Patrol electric bike training class yesterday and became certified. It is highly useful and applicable to all cyclists and further delves into the particulars of eBikes. Given the growing popularity of electric bikes everyone...
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    Lugging a Motor, Why it's Bad

    Well it happened again. I tell people to downshift in anticipation of slowing, to pedal lightly and quickly, like swimming with fins. Then they don't downshift, lug the motor in high gear at low speeds while clodhopping side to side. Then they destroy their drivetrains and motors. If you took...
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    Used Chopsticks, What Do You Do? Most Whimsical, Practical, or Creative Ideas.

    What do you do with your used chopsticks? Poke out a mugger/rapist's eyes! What could you do? ' Stir tea. Hold your hair in a bun? Use a section as a dowel to fix a wobbly table leg? I want a challenge for 1000 reasons to re-use a used chopstick. Don't chuck it. I mixed epoxy with one tonight...
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    DMO2 Conversation, Programing

    This is part of an actual conversation of the DMO2 motor: Oh, it kills Specialized and all off the shelf bikes. I have contacted my ToSeven representative in China and will be ordering a motor with a non-default display that is smaller, the T-154 we discussed. I will find out more about...
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    Helmet Safety Protection Ratings

    Virginia Tech has the latest ratings for most 2025 bicycle helmets. Specialized has three in the top 12 out of 264. These cost less that one ranked 246. I purchased one today, not only to protect my brain, but so I can say on a test ride, 'I can have any helmet I want and this is my pick, it is...
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    2025 Abound LR (long rack)

    The '25 Aveton Abound cargo bike is now available in the long rack. It is nice. I built and test rode one today. The power delivery is smooth. You can lock the double kickstand down through a code in your display and unlock the battery through the display, not a key. It has tons of customizable...
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    Radster Trail

    I just built a Radster Trail today and test rode it to bed the brakes. Quality has gone way up on these bikes. I feel that it is something I could comfortably sell to a friend or neighbor. The UL battery is semi-external for quick swaps and is in an aluminum case with a feature where it will...
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    Wine Country Century

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    25 CREO SL COMP CARBON UL

    We mostly sell aluminum bikes in our market, but will sell as pre-order carbon, yet if those not fully satisfied on a first test, we will refund. These are not stock bikes. One came inbox to build today as a special order. It is a 2025 Creo Super Light Carbon UL. It is taking hours to build and...
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    Tubeless Blues

    I have been trying for days to do a tubeless set-up on a gravel, adventure, road bike. Normally I can do it with a regular hand/foot pump. I purchased at my personal shop a doughnut pump with 110, psi 8/bar, loud air pump. The rear still wouldn't seal. It has a crack in the AL rim at the joint...
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    Calipers That Will Not Adjust Straight

    Most disc brake bikes come with calipers that will never adjust right and stay that way. There are a few reasons for this. Did you ever give caliper screws that final torque for tightness and then they always go sideways? The problem is chiefly caused by O-rings. In a bike factory assembly line...
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    New Aventon Abound 'SR' Short Rack, Cargo

    A new Abound cargo bike just came in today. It is sweet to ride, and offers features such as an electronic locking double kickstand. I would stay away from all the networked wizbangs. It carries 147 pounds on the rear. It is sleek and modern. I built if an rode one. It is a Turn Haul killer at...
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    Right To Repair/Modify, Who Owns Your Bike?

    Repairing your electronic device just got a little easier thanks to a seemingly unexpected source: The Library of Congress. In a ruling that took effect on Oct. 28, the Librarian of Congress gave consumers more freedom to repair their devices by granting them the right to legally circumvent...
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    Whizzbang Treat Alert W/Video

    Is mounting an AI enabled device that alerts a cyclist to approaching threats from ahead and behind while recording and displaying those potential threats another techno distraction from being in the real world, or a massive benefit? I got rolled coal in a group ride last month. The driver...
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    Mechanical Cable Actuated Disc Brakes

    It takes skill to maintain cable or mechanically actuated disc brakes. There is an inside pad which is fixed that needs constant adjustment in a click as its surface thins, and there is a moving outside pad which also needs to be tightened regularly with pad erosion and cable stretch. Having...
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    Rip-Off Web Clone Aventon Scam

    There is a scam using the Aventon name and photos. All bikes are priced under $100 with 'free shipping' on orders over $100, so you will also order a helmet as part of the scam. It uses the official company name followed by -US. That is not the company's true URL. It has now been reported to...
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    With the Current Market, Are Conversions Worth it?

    I have been doing conversions for eight years professionally. I believe in good conversions, one reason is the recycling/cycling concept. Why throw away something perfectly good when it can be updated and its imbedded carbon pushed forward? I have made some very nice all through frame pro...
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