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True, but if you are riding a bike like a normal person you aren't likely to often find yourself pedaling at those low cadences. In practice, a normal cyclist riding a normal e-bike over typical terrain is likely to get more Wh/km in a mid-drive than in a hub drive. Sometimes far more...

Every business transaction you do with a large heartless corporation has an insane amount of fine print. Fine print that they frequently change. Nobody has the time or resources to spare to monitor all of that. For all I know my cell phone plan and notion.so software license require me to...

Those "insurance" concepts are not the same thing. Not at all. Mainly because the scenario where you wreck your Mercedes and the insurance refuses to pay because you were driving on an out-of-network highway and then you die does not happen.

Yes, because we still don't really know very much.

"Person of Interest" arrested today.

I should have made myself more clear. Medicare Advantage Plans have 2-3 times the gross margin of normal health plans, so they make much more money off of them...

Speaking of cases where we pay a lot for poor services... Does it bother any of you that this murder case is getting a lot more attention and resources because of who this guy was. Certainly law enforcement wouldn't put as much effort if a regular guy had been murdered on the street in New...

I'd suspect one reason Stromer is dropping out is that their bikes seem to do very poorly in rainy weather.

What I specifically mean is that the more you need and use a healthcare provider, the more likely you are to intensely dislike them. And on the other end people who have healthcare they've hardly ever used probably are pretty satisfied with it, especially if it is 100 percent paid by their...

At the moment we haven't identified who the shooter was and what their motive was. Until then it doesn't help much to speculate about the situation. Having said that, my experience with the healthcare system is that people are happy with their healthcare options in inverse proportion to how...

Some bike shops have demo days as well and those are a good opportunity to try out a bike.

There are lots of companies out there making great bike lights. And there are sometimes great deals on Amazon where you can get excellent bike lights at a quite reasonable price. You'll need to jump down the rabbit hole of youtube video reviews and listicles reviewing various brands of bike...

I'd suggest doing some research and renting three or four different e-bikes for a day and getting some actual experience. Also there are some pretty merciless step functions in play as you go up in price on which bike you might purchase. Not just in terms of reliability and safety, but also in...

I think a lot of you would benefit going to public meetings where trail access is discussed. What I see at those meetings can be summarized easily: E-bikes, especially throttle-equipped e-bikes, are universally loathed. I wouldn't underestimate that. Different trail user groups (e.g. hikers...

Where I come from on this throttle issue: I do advocate for access to trails and bike infra for e-bikes and actually talk to non-ebike users about what they think and what they see. What I keep hearing over and over is that pedal assist e-bikes are okay, but throttle equipped e-bikes are...

Easy. First off, I have both a hub drive e-bike with a throttle and a mid-drive e-bike without. And I also have a non-electric bike. All are used extensively and I put a lot of miles on all of them, enough that I think I know what I am talking about. At the very highest level of pedal...

Easy to do by running with a high level of pedal assist on the way to work and a low level on the way home. Goosing to the very highest levels of pedal assist accomplish everything that people say they need a throttle for.

Come on, dude. You asked a question on an internet forum! What exactly did you expect? People here are usually at least trying to be helpful. And people here have many years of experience with e-bikes and what works and what does not work and what is a godawful waste of money. If you ask a...

I use GPS, can read a map, and often ride in the rain. Whether I am a dodderhead is unknown.

I'd prefer an actual GPS log that will show me what the actual grades are. I doubt very much that they are over thirty percent for even very short distances. Failing that, can you give me the names of the streets, the nearest town, and precise GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) and I can...