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Ready for adventure! I think many if not most would refer to those cable-activated brakes as "mechanical". In what sense are you using "hydro" here?

I know the feeling.

Yesterday's ride included some quality time around nearby Bataquitos Lagoon. This large tidal lagoon (background) is the drowned mouth of San Marcos Creek, a major drainage on San Diego County's west slope. Now it's part of a huge nature preserve on the boundary between south Carlsbad and...

Looks kinda like the canal somehow collapsed downward from this view, but that doesn't compute — unless there was a tunnel under the canal. Can't see it directly, but guessing the levee to the left is what actually collapsed. The outrush of water to the left then excavated the hole with 2 boats...

Very impressive numbers! Way behind you. It's been 3 years and 3 months since my ebike-powered return to cycling after 20+ years of very little riding. The first 2 years, all on a hub-drive commuter, averaged ~1,500 mi/yr. The 3rd year nearly doubled that at just over 2,800 mi — almost all of...

Can't tell you how much I wish that containment scheme had worked. Denver city government did exactly that maybe 5-6 years ago to reclaim City Park from the thousands of geeze residing there year-round. (Your geese really like Colorado.) Had to get a special dispensation from the Federal...

Gee, thanks. I have serious Canada goose PTSD after 20 years of close contact with ever-growing numbers on a small suburban lake in Denver. OK, it wasn't physically traumatic — just mentally. Ours weren't aggressive when they didn't have eggs or young goslings around. They just ate everything...

People who know the difference between evidence and claims.

We'll have to agree to disagree about that. The air's full of bona fide mis- and disinformation these days — far more than I've ever seen in my 77 years.

Absolutely, a very complicated technical issue. Nothing intuitive about vibration engineering. The devil's always in the details. Reports of phone damage on handlebars first hit critical mass on motorcycles. And Quadlock did the right thing: They hired vibration experts, identified the damaging...

Bacon, eh? Some day we need to have a talk about what the word "bacon" means. We'll have to include @peterh_nz , 'cuz the Kiwis have no idea, either. (To be fair, though, they REALLY know what to do with potatoes.) ;^}

I don't know, fried cheese curds are pretty darned popular in the upper Midwest. ;^}

I'm sure you do. You aren't prone to sweeping generalizations that couldn't possibly be true. But Canadians are different. They ARE all alike. ;^}

Never made that claim. And it's irrelevant. A blanket statement that phone-based GPS mapping doesn't work on bicycles because it uses too much phone battery, implying no exceptions, is patently false. And it'd be nice if members stopped spreading that misinformation. There are in fact...

I'm surprised that so many of our non-American members think they know what Americans are like. We're no more alike than Brits or Poles. Is that so hard to grasp?

Welcome aboard! I'd ride road or gravel with you if I still lived in Sausalito. Put in many miles on and around Mt. Tam back in the day (Late Bronze Age). What a cycling wonderland Marin County is! We'd love to see your Creo and the places you ride. My 3 favorite forum threads are the ones for...

KML may have little use in cycling, but it's by no means a disaster. It turns Google Earth into a powerful programmable 3D geographic information system. Made extensive use if it in my geoscience days. Quite elegant.

Here in coastal SoCal, the RideWithGPS cycling layer is pretty good about (a) showing most offroad cycling opportunities, and (b) NOT showing trails closed to all bikes. But it's not perfect on either score and has nothing to say about legal ebike access. RideWithGPS also has a USGS topo layer...

Yes, it's got good battery life. But phone battery life wasn't an issue for me pre-ACE. I need real-time GPS mapping on my bars, and I want detailed ride recording. Had all that pre-ACE, and seldom use turn-by-turn nav. If it weren't for the risk of phone camera damage on handlebars, I'd...

Quoting myself only to emphasize that it's a gross oversimplification to say that phone-based mapping/recording eats up phone batteries. That's certainly the case for RideWithGPS with the screen always on. But you can cut back screen usage in the settings to good effect. And it's not true at...