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The sign used to say, Men Working, now they have all become flaggers, with Flaggers Ahead! When will me make Spanish and French neuter, that is gender neutral, to help boost the moral of those workers in the sun?
I took a Tannis Armor sticker today and cut off the leading letter, sticking it under my buddies work lift. The reason those tire liners are pink and not tan is because, you can't get a Tannis where the sun don't shine.
 
The Irony is Strong in this One

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Had a similar situation here last year, with a "WATCH FOR CYCLISTS" sign blocking the entire bike lane on a very busy 6-lane suburban artery where swerving into the car lane is unsafe at best and often impossible.

Gave Carlsbad's traffic engineering office a heads-up. To their credit, they immediately understood the problem and moved the sign to the center divider 2 days later.
 
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Jeremy McCreary said:
Had a similar situation here last year, with a "WATCH FOR CYCLISTS" sign blocking the entire bike lane on a very busy 6-lane suburban artery where swerving into the car lane is unsafe at best and often impossible.

Gave Carlsbad's traffic engineering office a heads-up. To their credit, they immediately understood the problem and moved the sign to the center divider 2 days later.
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" Immediately " means two days later ? Of course.
 
Tars Tarkas said:
I picked up on that too, but just shrugged when I remembered we're talking about a highway department.

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Exactly. Two days is "instantaneous" in that world.

Pleasantly surprised that I only had to explain the situation once. Without hesitation, the person on the phone said she'd get a crew out there ASAP. And that's what she did.
 
Here during road repairs we had a similar thing. Share The Road signs were placed in bike lanes so bikes would have to ride in the busted road with pipes going in, grit and hot tar, along with the cars, jackhammers, backhoes and trucks. That is why they usually only do that in a bike lane! We sold 50 new eBikes in my downtown Theater District store for July with tons of service. The tide is changing.

The Levo SL carbon is so nice. It was the second bike of five that I built today along with service and sales. That white coffee color, bone, is so nice. Getting the dropper right takes a trick of turning the HB backwards to snip the housing length just right. Then about 14 inches comes off on a medium. Unboxing is almost half the battle. The cardboard from five bikes will fill a bin. That is better than the forever plastic foam packs. New bikes always have problems. Little O-rings must be removed, or the shifting needs a limit set, and the rotor is wavy, or things are not torqued right.
 

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The Lectric XP trike has an old school cadence sensor that requires 270 degrees of crank to kick-in with a lurch. It then overruns by 3.5 seconds after pedaling is stopped. When it is rolled while off the trike the pedals rotate. This means that if it is ON while you are off the bike for a minute and it catches a breeze or is on a slight slope, it will take off on its own. The feedback from the wheels turning gets feed back through the chain into the cadence sensor, so there it goes down the dock. Bye bye. If it gains enough momentum it will even climb a hill on its own. You can't make this stuff up.
 
PedalUma said:
The Lectric XP trike has an old school cadence sensor that requires 270 degrees of crank to kick-in with a lurch. It then overruns by 3.5 seconds after pedaling is stopped. When it is rolled while off the trike the pedals rotate. This means that if it is ON while you are off the bike for a minute and it catches a breeze or is on a slight slope, it will take off on its own. The feedback from the wheels turning gets feed back through the chain into the cadence sensor, so there it goes down the dock. Bye bye. If it gains enough momentum it will even climb a hill on its own. You can't make this stuff up.
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That is more than annoying. I'd go as far as to call it a disqualifier.
 
PedalUma said:
The Lectric XP trike has an old school cadence sensor that requires 270 degrees of crank to kick-in with a lurch. It then overruns by 3.5 seconds after pedaling is stopped. When it is rolled while off the trike the pedals rotate. This means that if it is ON while you are off the bike for a minute and it catches a breeze or is on a slight slope, it will take off on its own. The feedback from the wheels turning gets feed back through the chain into the cadence sensor, so there it goes down the dock. Bye bye. If it gains enough momentum it will even climb a hill on its own. You can't make this stuff up.
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How could an ebike company with any expertise and pride in its products sell a power delivery scheme like that? They had to know it was a bad and potentially dangerous design.

Have never ridden a Lectric, but the company seems to have a decent reputation on EBR. Does this all come down to cost and profit, or are other factors involved?
 
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the brake levers should kill the motor immediatley.
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That trike has locking levers as parking brakes. Most trikes do. It happened again to me today. I built a trike and was taking it on a test ride to bed the brakes. I turned it on just inside the doors and forgot my sunglasses. 30 seconds later as I walked it through the door it started to take off. These trikes have a single speed chain that is extra tight before break in. It loosens up after several hours of ride time. It could make for a comical video. Their website says that it takes one minute to build. It takes a half-hour to unpack, 20 minutes to get rid of the trash and recycling, and another half-hour tightening and adjusting. That is one hour twenty-one minutes. 75% have badly bent fenders. One of them yesterday also had a bent rim. An autonomous trike might be like a self-walking dog.

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kevinmccune said:
first one i got looked like it had been dropped off a fully raised forklift.
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A grocery store manager sees a woman approaching a new shopping cart and says, 'Stop, just a second'. And then takes a baseball bat to the front wheel so it has a castor shimmy, saying, 'Now you can have it'. That is how it is with these bikes.
 
Scooter "brakes" are a joke. To change a rear-drive flat you would need to remove the calipers and rotor then deal with all the other nonsense. Then there is no way to center the calipers because you cannot access or see. The pads are inevitably disintegrated. I have stopped working on them. The rotors are held on with screws that will strip on contact.
 
PedalUma said:
Scooter "brakes" are a joke. To change a rear-drive flat you would need to remove the calipers and rotor then deal with all the other nonsense. Then there is no way to center the calipers because you cannot access or see. The pads are inevitably disintegrated. I have stopped working on them. The rotors are held on with screws that will strip on contact.
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I know it will take the fun out of it, but you might need to explain what's funny there.

TT
 
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