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Naah, I took a 6,000 mile (mostly offroad) trip one summer. Took me a month riding pretty much all day every day. Would have taken me 6 months on an electric. The engine is also the soul of a motorcycle. You listen to it for subtle cues in sketchy situations & it keeps you company on long...

The vast majority of a bike's braking ability is on the front wheel - just sayin. Did you loosen a fitting or sommat to lose the fluid? Squeaking usually means a contaminated rotor / pads. Rotors can be cleaned with alcohol. Pads can to a degree, but if they got hydraulic fluid or mineral...

e-bike racing is a thing? I guess of course it is. If it moves, people will race it. Can't say I've heard of this though.

I've talked with their customer service before. They were pretty rude & told me to go to the shop. A trip to my shop was the reason I contacted them. Considering that this outside the warranty period, and my previous experience with them, I'm not going to chase it any further. I'll buy a...

Ha! That's Jackie - a 1st gen Salsa Timberjack. I don't want to know what the bike park would be like on the Allant. I'd want an ambulance on standby.

Yeah, I bet suspension takes a lot of the hit off the wheels.

I've never cracked a rim in my life. Then again, this is the only ebike I've ever owned. Gonna try to find something that's made for the power & extra weight. Like the OEM chain, I suspect this rim was not designed with e-bike use in mind.

Eeh, just talked to the bike shop & components are on the 2 year warranty plan. Looks like I'm on my own. Hate this, but I think it may be what will push me to just buy a truing stand and replace the rim. After I dig into the bearings to see if it's even worth rescuing this setup.

So I took my Allant 7 down for maintenance today - new chainring, chain and cassette. Cleaned up the rear wheel to put the new cassette on and found a cracked rim. While it gets good care and feeding, I don't spit shine it unless I'm replacing or inspecting something & this almost got out of...

You have to watch the movie Mallrats to get mine :) Been using it since the early PC gaming days when I discovered I needed a gamer tag

My local park prohibits them too For good reasons though :) I still see electric motorcycles out here almost every day :rolleyes:

Trek did this a couple years back with the Allant line. Now, it's discontinued. Same playbook?

You get used to it. When I moved here 15 years ago, I couldn't make it an hour. A year or 2 later, I was climbing from the base areas of ski hills to the top to ride the downhill trails back down on a squishy MTB (no motor). Welcome!

I miss that bike park (by the jail) more than anything else about living in Boulder. What a sweet resource! I used to ride it several times a week. Welcome!

Go see a bike fitter. They have machines now that measure the pressure on your sit bones & other sensitive areas & can remove the guesswork to get you on the right saddle. I spend a good bit of time on trainers at the gym in the winter & the saddles are awful. I find that spinning a minute or...

Thanks! Yeah, it was pretty cool. We actually get a lot of days like that. The majority of sunsets here tend to be on the spectacular side - storm or no storm. Sunrises too. I work in a taller building and watch the sun come up most days while drinking coffee on the 12th floor. On a...

24 years on my Tacoma & plan to keep it forever. I occasionally catch some flak for driving a truck (albeit one of the smallest ones on the road). Haters gonna hate. I do not care. I do truck things. I still burn far less fuel than most drivers and ride a bike to work & run errands when I...

Yeah, I hear that. That Camry was like a go-kart. My main ride is a 4x4 Tacoma, mildly lifted, with fairly beefy ATs. It will go anywhere and I can see everything.

I do love living close to work. I might put 2500 miles on my truck in a whole year. Put almost that on the Allant :) I'll rent if I plan to pile on miles. Rented a Camry hybrid last year & got combined ~55 MPG on a mostly highway trip and it's a reasonably big car (although very low to the...