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I'm running fatter tires than that, and generally I'd say that with any 30mm tire or skinnier tubeless is of very questionable utility. The whole system works better at lower tire pressures on the average. The weight savings can be dramatic for not just fat tires but even big 29x3 tires. Oh...

For all of the caterwauling about how awful tubeless is, I'd guess that seventy percent of the cyclists I see around are riding tubeless. Probably the big exception is road cyclists on very skinny tires with very skinny wheels and high tire pressures. Especially for bigger tires the weight...

What I'm noticing is this: That doesn't look like a trapezoidal cutout to me. 99 percent of the tubeless issues I have had have either been from poor rim tape installation or the valves. Even bike shops with competent techs might take a couple of tries to get the rim tape installation just...

Not all tubeless-compatible rims are compatible with all tubeless tires of a given size. So a certain amount of trial and error is to be expected. It looks to me in that image like the rim is cracked (look just below the left-most spoke). If the rim is cracked you can hardly blame the...

The real issue is with solar or wind you don't have the recurring revenue that you do with natural gas or coal. You can't really charge for sunlight. In about 2011 a friend who works in finance explained the "facts of life" to me on this topic. Basically you have to borrow money to build any...

Although if you look at the rate of return on power plant development nothing pays for itself faster and brings in more money than solar. No imaginable technology will make electricity cheaper than solar panels. And people aren't going to pay more money to get electricity from dinosaurs.

This rear rack is ludicrously expensive but is known to work pretty well. It will work if your rear axle uses a QR skewer or most thru axles: https://www.tailfin.cc/pannier-rack/ It installs easily (with a multi-tool) and is (in my opinion) much more secure and can carry more stuff than the...

I don't see the practical win in using EV chargers (even at 240V) to charge e-bikes, as most e-bike chargers won't charge more quickly when you use 240V.

I've not had any problems. Some locations and some hotels don't permit any bikes in the rooms though. If you have good quality batteries and treat them well you shouldn't have any safety issues. On the other hand if you have a bad wreck or drop your battery onto a concrete floor you need to...

I think the problem here is that the most probable catastrophic failures that would render a bike unrideable would also make it impossible to tow the bike as well. With most imaginable drivetrain failures you can usually jury-rig it well enough to get home slowly with modest discomfort. E.g...

Better: Right in the Trail Here it is, near the house, a big pile, fat scats, Studded with those deep red Smooth-skinned manzanita berries, Such a pile! Such droppings, Awesome. And I saw how The young girl in the story, Had good cause to comment ON the bearscats she found while Picking...

There are times and places here where bear hunting is legal. So the bears make themselves scarce at those times and places. I'm amazed that bears have accurate calendars and GPS devices. Hunting season pretty much eliminates nearly all of the habituated bears here on an annual basis...

I encountered this guy near a place called Big Boy Meadow in Idaho:

Unless you are carrying remarkable hardware and have trained intensively for exactly the situations that come from a bear encounter gone bad you aren't likely to accomplish anything but p*ssing the bear off even more than it already is. If you even get a shot. A bear can easily outrun a horse...

No reason you can't make an e-bike with a low-power motor and small battery that weighs 20 to 25 pounds (or 9 to 12 woke pounds (also known as kilograms)).

"Body asking shadow: how do you keep up?" -- Han Shan (Cold Mountain), c. 800 CE

For me, at least, turn-by-turn navigation isn't a daily rider kind of thing. But if I am trying to safely navigate an intricate route or an unfamiliar city it is indispensable. It becomes more so if you are trying to stick to bike infra that is incomplete and poorly connected. Some of the...

Battery life Phones perform poorly (*) in both very hot and very cold conditions. Sometimes it is very hot or very cold when you are riding a bike. Touchscreens can be totally unusable in wet conditions. Sometimes it rains when you are riding a bike. Phones are generally bigger and heavier and...

The battery life of the solar-powered Garmins is enormous (100 hours) and that seems a better solution than using a USB C charging cable. But that's me.

Yes, it will. Sometimes in surprising ways. Any mapping product is going to suffer from problems like this because maps are not the terrain. Sometimes the route gods smile upon you. Sometimes they smirk. Sometimes they sneer. Sometimes they snarl. It is part of riding learning how to roll...