Posted on 06/02/2021 11:28:33 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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“don’t feel like pedaling, just twist the grip.”
that is my dilemma.
the tongsheng you don’t pedal you dont go. but you can select how much boost you want per pedal stroke
Pedal threads
I have an old peugeot px10 that has french pedal threads, and stronglight cranks, but that is super rare today, and most have had the threads buggered or tapped by now
0.55” x 20.32 tpi (14 x 1.25 mm)
In the Netherlands, where the bicyclist is actually accorded some respect, it’s been a something of a ‘tradition’ since the 1970s to open your car door with the inside hand because this forces you to turn your shoulders. And if your head turns along with your shoulders, you’ll naturally look over your outside shoulder, in which case you stand more of a chance of seeing an approaching bicyclist. It’s known and “the Dutch reach.”
But it’ll never catch on here because American cagers would sooner kill you than show cyclists an ounce of respect.
I started riding motorcycles several years before I took up cycling. In fact I only started cycling in the first place to help rehab a leg that had been broken by a cager who decided his car needed to be where my motorcycle was. And I found that I loved cycling — road and mountain — like no form of exercise I’d ever done before. I learned to love the hurt.
Anyway, when I first started motorcycling I sometimes rode with an old timer who had been a fighter pilot in WWII and Korea. One of the first lessons he taught me wasn’t about motorcycling, it was about driving my car. He kept hammering at me to always check over my shoulder, not once but twice, before turning left or making a lane change. He said he was taught to do this in flight training as a survival measure because the German fighter pilots were fond of diving at their prey from high and behind, so you had to “check your six” (as in the 6 o’clock position) every few seconds. They called it doing “the Messerschmidt twitch.”
That was decades ago and I still never drive my car that I don’t find myself reflexively doing “the Messerschmidt twitch” before any lane change or a left-hand turn.
The Pedego has the best of both worlds. You can set 5 different levels of pedal assist, (5 mph to 20 mph), 100% throttle only, or NO assist at all. Different terrain and conditions come up and you can cover most all of them.
Come to Bentonville, Arkansas. Northwest Arkansas is quickly becoming the biking capitol of the US.
There are great trails for all levels.
Rode the Gravel Locos last weekend with the wife 65 miles of Texas gravel roads around Hico Texas. Crossing 3 rivers on foot carrying the bike.
It took us almost 6 hours. The top 10 Pros rode 150 miles and did that in 7 hours. And it rained hard the last hour. Simply amazing.
Gravel riding is my favorite way to cycle. Very few cars, hell you hardly see any houses.
We will ride Hotter than Hell this year but not many other road rides.
My local and loved 'Rail-to-Trail', the Pinellas Trail [The Fred Marquis Pinellas Trail], just made for national discussion in a 1 June WSJ Article titled "The Fast and the Furious: Electric Bikers and Cyclists Compete for Trail Space" (maybe a paywall).
With the spurt of popularity in bicycling coming from this past COVID Year, it was almost inevitable that my favorite exercise & sport would come to near fisticuffs over sweat_v_electrons!
<> He kept hammering at me to always check over my shoulder, not once but twice, before turning left or making a lane change. He said he was taught to do this in flight training as a survival measure<>
Especially good advice in this age of gargantuan pickup trucks and SUVs.
We are thinking of going on a trail across Florida. One of our bucket list is to bike through an old railroad tunnel.
About 4 blocks, there’s a ghost kid bike. The girl waited for the walk signal with her brother and a teen girl struck her. The ghost bike is a reminder to drive and stop texting. A girl life is lost. The bike had training wheels and a basket, a typical girl’s bike.
Some of the trailheads has a ‘No Motorized Vehicles’ sign. I’m thinking of getting an electric bike. Any American made bike?
If you are talking about the Pinellas Trail, the WSJ article says that ALL of those signs are to be removed.
As for an eBike recommend, sorry, I am restricted by physical limits to a recumbent and am out of that market.
By the by, we have three new The Bicycle Thread PING List members who joined FRee Republic in 1998 🚴♂️👍
Not downhill!
Thanks
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