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Just a quick update on the Marin build. I know @PedalUma packed my motor in a lot of grease, and you'd expect the bike would get more efficient as that burns off, but I still am very pleasantly surprised by how well this motor and battery have broken in. With 23 miles on the battery and 2,000...

Absolutely-- and maybe a smaller chain ring, IF a swap is even possible. With 42T or more in back (and hey, smaller at the chainring if possible-- it's probably not) you can probably grind away all day at 5 MPH on well over 15% grades, and even with a lot less power than that. This will not be...

+1 for both wing grips AND padded gloves. Yesterday, I took out the Motobecane, which has stock grips, after riding the Marin build for months. Whoa, my hands hurt-- wing grips rock! But the Marin build also has a riser for the bars and swept back bars like the ones in MaR@binson's post. I...

Oh, yeah-- and welcome!

As @PedalUma anticipated, when I had a very slightly torn meniscus, an injury which occurred ebiking, the doctor at urgent care recommended... more ebiking. However, she stressed what Jeremy mentioned: Misalignment, torquing, and twisting is what causes the injury. So using an ebike to address...

I do own one of Pedaluma's bike's, Stefan. I was consulted on every aspect of the build, and let's be clear: you absolutely have no idea what you are talking about. My bike is a 42-pound aluminum hard tail, the motor is neither heavy nor overpowered nor unsafe. It cannot exceed 26 MPH on...

Just breezed through this thread, did not read every word of every post. At one point, you asked about builders. Pedaluma is a forum member who builds bikes based on the TSDZ2B platform (torque-sensing mid-drive), and he built a 42 lb hard-tail for me, shipped it to Los Angeles at a reasonable...

Well-played, sir. Reminds me of the one near-DUI I had in 1985 or so in CT. The cop said, "I never know what to do with guys like you. You walk and you talk and you're being very respectful to me right now, which is helping you out a lot. But I don't think you should be driving tonight, so...

Whoa! Of course, I have mixed feelings about this. I do not, particularly, want to run into an officer if I'm riding a bike whose legality might be... shall we say, ambiguous for the particular trail that I am on. I'm not saying that would happen, of course, just hypothetically. OTOH, if I...

I know we talked about this before, but aren't you supposed to let the bike sit for 15 to 30 minutes after a full charge? I seem to remember something about not riding immediately-- like, less than 5 minutes-- after a full charge. Could be apocryphal.

These are not compression gloves, but my hands are closer to a medium, I bought them in small, they are relatively stiff, and they provide a lot of support. They also have lasted longer than any other fingerless gloves I've owned, and their padding rivals any bike gloves I have tried. I've...

Copper rules, digital sucks. Audio quality is way degraded, dropouts, random misconnections, no ring, no dial tone. Also doesn't work after an earthquake. FCC should mandate preserving copper as an option. The irony is, in my neighborhood, the digital service we are forced to use has a...

Sorry about this, Taylor. I know you posted about the fall. I gotta find the post where you described it. Hope you feel safe enough to do some riding, and find a route or bike that's safer for you. I get it that the day comes when we have to stop, but even sports I've 'stopped' like body...

I own two eBikes, and I've posted endless pictures of them, so I will refrain from doing so again. One is a $2,500 ($2,000 stock) slightly modified 47 lb Motobecane e-Adventure FS eMTB with a Shimano Steps E5000 250W 40nm motor delivering about 42 miles of range and over 4,000 feet of elevation...

We were attacked by cows in upstate New York in about 2018. Just walking in a field, they started stalking us, and at a certain point, charged. It was no different from being charged by several bulls. We ran to the fence, but could not all get over in time. My buddy who I flew to Portugal to...

I would, too! You may have seen this photo in another thread, but this is Mercury, an approximately 3K experimental Pedaluma build-- (including tax and everything else, e.g. riser, bars, and ergo grips, heavy duty chain, TSDZ2B motor and install, aftermarket pedals, etc.) Most of the cost was...

Yeah, that would do it. Sorry about the "Dropping Under the Influence" but I understand exactly how that could happen, particularly while drunk-- and the weight of motorcycles is something that I've always found really off-putting. Sounds like the kind of mistake you are unlikely to repeat...

That is terrifying, even if it was over a quarter century ago. I do not have enough faith in technology and product safety to believe we have entirely eliminated issues like these. Yeah, I remember that. I stumbled across those posts when researching cracks on the early versions of the...

My answer to this question used to be that I wouldn't pay more than $5,674.39 for an e-bike, but that was a few years ago. 10 minutes ago, I would have adjusted for inflation and said my limit was $6,314.28 if I were in the market for a bike, which I'm not just at this moment. (My point being...

Thank you for doing the math, Jeremy! By way of comparison, I can ride up a 15% graded road on a 40nm 250W 47 lb. mid-drive eMTB, and I'm 66 and have health problems, but it does require substantial effort and I work pretty hard generally to stay fit. If you are reasonably fit, the 51 lb...