The Bosch range calculator will let you get an estimate with taking into account pretty much every factor: wind, hills, load, motor type, battery type, etc. But yeah, with every single company out there, the large print giveth; the fine print taketh away.

Yes, 125,000 miles. I was car-free for about 20 years, and I'm recently back to not owning a car. My partner has a car, but we are a very car-lite household. I was averaging More than 13,000 miles per year, in part because my commute was 25 miles each way and in part because I do randonneuring (long distance, unsupported cycling with time limits) and lots of bike touring. As a result, I have an intimate understanding of rates at which bike bits wear out and how to maximize value and longevity.

I always start with the price that I would want to pay if I were looking at/searching for that item at that quality. And that's the damned price, no haggling. I will lower the price unbidden of the person is super chill and easy to work with. Sometimes I just give it to them when they show up.

Because here's one of common use cases of selling stuff: you're not using it anymore, so you're selling it to recoup some of the investment, right? Otherwise, it is taking up space, consuming your resources, and providing you negative return on value. It's a millstone for you at this point and any dollar amount is recouping your finite life capacity, to which no dollar value can be assigned.

Yeah, I know there are plenty of other cases... maybe you're trying to afford an upgrade or afford something else; that's a whole different issue. Also scalpers and resellers. Fuck those parasites in their ears. My fair-pricing idea can be chum in the water for resellers. Know your customer and don't do business with these assholes. Once you've dealt with your first reseller, you quickly get a read on these bottom feeders.

This is a bummer. Revel was an independent, domestic builder across multiple cycling disciplines. There is a lot to dislike in the modern cycling industry, but among my weekly ride group, Revel was one of the few "one day" bikes we all had in common.

This won't be the last of the independents to fall. We were getting a delicious spread of independent domestic builders after the pandemic boom, but I fear we are going to see another wave of consolidation and M&A. This never goes well for consumers.

all 7 or 8 gears

This is an adjustment/tune problem often compounded by user error. Full stop.

HJF, fuck the industry. I get it, people want to make money and people want the new hawtness. But people really need to stop falling for this shit.

Eat of buffet of dicks, Bicycling Magazine, you astroturfing shitrag. You know what will far outlive 99.9% of cyclists lives? A properly built 32h cartridge bearing disc wheelset. If it were built properly, with double-butted spokes, spoke washers, brass nipples, and stress-relieved spokes, the hubshell and/or rim will fail before a spoke fails*. You know what other carbon fiber wheels had a "lifetime replacement warranty?" Mad Fiber. Yeah, go ahead and look up that mess.

*If you ever broke a spoke, it's because your wheel was built improperly. And no, I'm not talking about intrusion to the point of catastrophic failure. I'll spare you the stories, but even a lot of common intrusions shouldn't even make your wheel flinch.

So the article also goes "into" derailleurs. Who has ever worn out a derailleur, front or rear? I sold a bike with 125,000 miles with the same Deore XT derailleur, Shimano C101 (super low end) front derailleur. The C101 was still going strong, including a decade of intentional neglect just to see when it would quit. I gave up and decided it should be nurtured into its twilight years. Still going strong AFAIK/ last I talked to the new owner. That kit is over 20 years old now, as are the wheels I built.

To paraphrase Chris Rock: "THAT'S what you're supposed to do! What you do you want? A fucking cookie?!" Dear bike industry: don't stand by your stuff in perpetuity? We won't buy it.

I get it. A 9-speed triple drivetrain just ain't the sexy hawtness. And some people don't want to learn how to use TWO shifters. But it's bulletproof, always interchangeble, (mostly/potentially) non-proprietary, and will outlive three of us put together. Bar-end shifters? Sure! Brifters? Yep. Thumbies? That too, friend! Want hydraulics? A plethora of options! Oh, is something not quite right? Switch to friction mode, diagnose it later. Oh, and the parts are cheap if you crashed and need to replace something.

My rant aside, I think Shimano is really onto something with the CUES system, especially the Linkglide system. Sure, it's proprietary, has all the Shimano lock-in it can manage, and that chaps my ass like most things about the modern bike industry. But CUES has a scheduled support lifespan, so one can make an informed decision about group selection. And Linkglide actually delivers on the shifting experience we should have had with Hyperglide. Shimano seem to have recognized what a mess they made and seem to be remedying that with CUES. I have lots of vitriol for Shimano (and SRAM, and Campy), but I can recognize a great product when it comes along. Especially when it's priced for average wage grunts like us.

And let me return to calling out Bicycling. Notice they said nothing about CUES or any of a wide array of quality parts companies often within the buy-once-cry-once territory. Oh, right, because those aren't big-ticket, whizz-bang hawtness. Seriously, if it's in Bicycling, it should always be met prima facie with skepticism, if not outright derision.

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OpenDroneMap. It's a suite that provides photogrammetry, stitching, volumetric analysis, geographic correlation, and 3D model conversion from aerial and non-aerial photos. And that's only the features that I use myself. It defaults to CPU-only rendering, so you don't need a big bad GPU to GSD.

Even ignoring the lack of subscription cost, ODM performs at least as well as other applications I tried such as Pix4D. Professionally, I use it for year-over-year kelp bed monitoring, photosynthetic mass analysis, and home construction analysis, specifically volumetric infill needs. Personally, I use it to generate 3D models of my boat interior, which I convert to STL files for arranging infrastructure in limited spaces.

This article feels a little disingenuous and seems written by someone who has only heard their friend complain about David Brooks. In his book "The Second Mountain," Brooks goes into his mea culpa moments. He has on more than a few occasions admitted his errors. I would share citations, but it was a library loan and it's on hold.

Those of us who protest against power, aren't we looking for exactly the kind of change of hearts and minds such that Brooks is showing?

Many of the flaws that the hubless design suffers from might very well be mitigated through further development

Sure, additional refinement could make hubless wheels a reasonable reality. I'll reiterate one of my original points: all engineering advancements that would make a better hubless wheel would also improve the already great hubbed wheel. Even if we could ignore the complexities of going hubless, the radially supported wheel will be stronger, lighter, simpler, less expensive, more aerodynamic, more repairable.

I might be getting a bit esoteric here, but the same conversations come up in software engineering. "Advances in computing will make Ruby more performant." Sure, but those advances will be multiplicative in already-performant languages such as C, C++, and Go, whereas they will be fractional in Ruby.

some degree of success in some motorcycle

Just because it functions doesn't translate to engineering success. This is form over function and sits only in the domain of niche/boutique motorcycle builders. If there were any advantages other than aesthetics, you'd see hubless wheels in competition motorcycles, e.g. MotoGP.

A hubless wheel will always be inferior to an equivalent hubbed wheel, especially in a use case such as motorcycles. In order to make the wheel strong enough for the task, the rim must be heavier than it would be for a wheel with spokes. This unnecessarily increases rotational mass in the worst possible place: at the outermost points of the wheel. This also means more unsprung mass. More energy is required for accelerating and braking the wheel. And because the hubless wheel will always be heavier, the suspension will be less responsive than if the wheel had a hub. The linkage from suspension to the wheel must also be more robust and more complex.

And this is ignoring the additional complexities of transferring power to and from the wheel, and angular/radial/lateral forces and shocks. How does one efficiently brake a hubless wheel while limiting brake fade?

These are only a few points to consider every single time you see someone trying to sell a hubless wheel.

Congrats on the new whip and best wishes for your ankle to stop being a punk!

I got nothing, because I'm just here for the painting and jokes. So... DAMN. That detail in painting is jaw-dropping!

Every so often, somebody gets the hubless wheel bug. It's like history repeating on a shorter timeline and a smaller scale than, say, geopolitics. Someone thinks they can radically improve on the spoked pneumatic bicycle wheel. And it's always utter garbage, a horrible choice of form over function.

"But improvements in materials engineering will make hubless wheels a reality one day!" Maybe, and those same engineering improvements will also apply to spoked pneumatic wheels. Moreover, those improvements will get applied and tested there first.

"These folks are thinking outside the box and innovating!" No, they are failing at engineering 101: don't reinvent the wheel, in this case literally. The key innovation here was duping others into paying for known, failed garbage like hubless wheels.

Please, for your own safety and your wallet's sake, don't ever fall for the hubless wheels. It's the perpetual motion scam of the bicycle world.

What conservative values do you think he thinks about and values the most?

That Conservative value would be: an in party that the law protects, but does not bind.

As always, amazing content. Thank you for your reporting!

One would develop Popeye forearms gaming on that thing. Get in your arm, neck, and shoulder day while gaming!

I had a Toshiba Satellite around the time this was out. It weighed 12 pounds. That millstone went everywhere with me. Now my laptop weighs about six pounds minus the brick, and I might carry it from my desk to the settee. I look back at what our devices used to be and always think "Damn, I've gotten soft!"

Hasselback potatoes. Accept no substitute. It's absolutely worth the effort. I hate potatoes, but I'll always say yes to Hasselback and gladly eat it all. I also love to make these for friends because they also look great. Link: https://youtu.be/cUriMeCAsxo

Hello (former) fellow Lehi worker! Although I was remote except for the onsite weeks. I'm not a fan of 99% mobile apps, maybe more than 99%. I didn't work on mobile, but I am quite sure that it is in fact a PWA.

Different financial institutions (FI) will all have different appearances, because of the nature of how MX is implemented, and whether on desktop or mobile. In the case of my credit union, it's right here:

The interface of MX Platform on desktop looks like this:

You might see something like this in your online banking home page:

There are two ways that MX can get data from other accounts which you have to explicitly link in your bank/CU interface. The first method is through Open Banking protocols, which are mercifully obfuscated from the end user. Seriously, if you're having trouble sleeping, try reading some of the Open Banking specifications. :D One selects their FI from the list, and enters creds and 2FA challenge. The other method is screen-scraping, but again this is abstracted away from the end user.

One of the features where MX slaps more than anyone else (for now) is identifying the source of debits and classifying them. Underneath the hood, debit and credit card transaction strings are chaos. But even if MX gets it wrong, you can manually re-classify your expenses, and it will apply that to future transactions (optional). I already mentioned the burndowns, but if you have an idea for a saving schedule, MX will provide reminders and factor in your growth. Platform will also provide reminders for almost everything.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Sure thing. On which part would you like more detail?