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A rare sight All Coast Highway rides from my house have to cross the Los Angeles to San Diego (LOSSAN) rail line twice. It's only a question of where. Decided to cross at Poinsettia Station in south Carlsbad today. Only to find a huge northbound BNSF freight stopped there. At a commuter...

What part of that are you looking forward to most?

I think clipless pedals would be a lot of fun on my SL, but it does enough offroad to make MTB pedals seem a smarter long-term choice. Not that I have any experience with clipless. Transitioned directly from road biking with toe clips to mountain biking with MTB pedals back in the Late Bronze...

I'm over a month into my Cliks now and nothing but happy about it.

Switch the coast (east to west) and the racing background (road to MTB), and you could be my friend Gary at Cadence Cyclery Encinitas. He retired from a high-level IT career — yes, an IT bike racer — to relive the bike shop days of his youth, and he's having a ball. He routinely talks me down...

Found out more about the Death Valley (DV) half-century from the RideWithGPS profile and a member who's ridden it. The elevation gain's 1796 ft, not 2500 ft. For battery usage estimation, I divided this 54.4 mi out-and-back DV profile into 2 segments — a 28.6 mi "rolling" middle segment, and...

Nice countryside! Which Specialized model? I've never seen that one before.

No range or range trend options for the programmable fields displayed by the app in recording mode. Will check to see if they're options for the display on the bike (TCU).

Glad you're experimenting. Folks who never touch their throttle because they think it's cheating are really missing out on a very useful power delivery option. They're just as silly as the roadies who call us cheaters for having a motor. She's really enjoying it. Stay tuned for my report on...

Many thanks for this info! Micro Tune's been very handy on group rides, and I can easily see it helping with battery management.

Riskier than this? "Hey honey, getting really excited about this half-century! Glad you're OK with the entrance fee and travel expenses and the new trunk bag I'll need. Oh, just one more thing: I'm gonna need another $1,000 for extra batteries and cables that I don't need at home."

Exactly why I rarely worry about battery and have had no need for a range extender (RE) on my SL 1 so far. The SL just sips from the smallish 320 Wh main battery in ECO (35/35) — even on hilly rides — and about 30-40% of my miles are in OFF by choice these days. The one close call was my fault...

Just to keep things in perspective, some Strava problems are worse than others.

A recent experience with RideWithGPS makes me think that some phony-looking segments might be unintentional. Recently rode a local hill loop involving El Fuerte Road — at grades of 20% or more in places, the steepest street close to home. Normally pay no attention to RideWithGPS segments but...

Please forgive me if this has already been mentioned... One of the questions on today's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me news quiz on NPR involved a real website that allows users to upload fake runs or rides to Strava. A pretty obscure news story for the average NPR listener, but host Peter Sagal is...

Good catch! Standard gravity is g = 9.80665 m/s², but I mistyped it as 9.0665. The error made all rider power differences between bikes too small, but not enough to change the main result: The claim is wrong. Sorry for the confusion. I've already replaced the spreadsheet screenshot and am...

Welcome aboard! I have 2 of these for my stainless thermoses. Very versatile, very secure...

CORRECTION: Sorry, the original version used a mistyped value for the acceleration of gravity. This made most rider power differences between bikes too small, but not by enough to change the conclusions. The spreadsheet screenshot and text below are now correct. I used the spreadsheet...

I always pedal with exertion (not just ghost-pedaling) but still find many uses for the ideal throttle on my heavy 70 lb torque-sensing hub-drive. Nearly all involve layering a second or two of throttle on top of pedaling. Examples: 1. Protecting my old knees from high-torque, low-cadence...

No doubt about it, bike lingo is a mess — especially ebike lingo. Don't get me started about using "PAS" to mean just cadence-sensing assist. But if it makes you feel any better, in geoscience and at least some engineering fields, "stretch" simply refers to a change in length by any mechanism —...