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Me this morning: Well, now that Freezing Saddles is over I’m free of the pressure to ride every day! I don’t think I’ll ride my bike at all.

Me, this evening: Wow, this freezing rain is awful. Why would I walk a mile in this like a chump?? I’ll take a CaBi home from the Metro…

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Bag of holding!! Get the bag of holding!

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Some of us expat midwesterners might be inclined to say we almost never get a real winter here.

As a New Englander I used to agree. But six years in this place has corrupted me. I’ve grown soft.

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But we didn’t get a real winter this year so who knows what it would be if we did.

But it feels like March is trying, though, right? Like a student who didn’t study all year, cramming for the final.
But, alas for that student, it doesn’t quite work that way.

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I’ll be there.

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Oh, so they do! I couldn’t find that — I’d looked for it under “safety”.

lordofthemark’s experience sounds a lot like what I found at first. I don’t want to sound like a Jump bike shill, but I’d suggest giving it a few more chances. My “amble” comment may have made them sound slow — they’re not. My experience is you have to ride them differently to keep the power from cutting out … almost like you’re trying not to let the bike know you’re trying to accelerate quickly, and you’re blithely unaware that you’re climbing a hill. Just keep a steady, casual, cadence. As long as the power is working, I’ve found them to be plenty fast, including from stoplights and up hills (though I’ve only tried smaller hills as well). If the power cuts out, then they feel like they’re punishing you for being lazy by using an e-bike in the first place.

Also, I want to reiterate that I don’t actually understand the power cut-out in the first place. So I feel like I’m passing along my homemade folklore. Which has worked for me, but, man. Not good design!

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Got it.
I love Jump bikes, but this strikes me as a really questionable design. If they told people about it, it would be different, but as far as I can find there isn’t anything about it on their website or the bikes themselves. (Maybe I’m missing something?) People here are aware it exists, but apparently don’t 100% understand it.

So from a casual user’s point of view, the electric assist on Jump bikes appears to work fine as long as you don’t actually need it, but breaks right when you want it the most.

When I first used Jump bikes I ran into the cutoff a couple times, and was on the verge of writing them off as so unreliable as to be useless, until someone at a coffee club told me about this “feature.” Now I know to just kinda amble along on them to let the battery do its thing, and if it cuts out to come to a complete stop, and I’m totally hooked. But it’s still unintuitive, and seems unwise to depend on word of mouth from their more savvy users to make a product function right. Don Norman would be sad.

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extra strain in pedaling, tripping the pedal-assist’s safety features and resulting in it cutting out the assist part

How does this work? What behavior causes the assist to cut out?

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I guess we all should have bought those Rivendell axes when we had the chance, huh?

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If you set the privacy zone somewhere where the circle encompasses your house, but your house is not at the very center of it, it should work better?

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Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!, by Corb Lund — it’s a Canadian country concept album.
“I Wanna Be in the Cavalry” can get stuck in your head while riding; almost every song on it is good.

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Sounds like that explains it. I’ve had trouble with my phone starting rides, and knowing where I am, but not recording them right. That ride was the same as others, like this one https://www.strava.com/activities/1361570654 but the phone recorded it as the crow flies. Oh well. At least now I have an answer — thanks!

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Teacher! Teacher! Is this the appropriate thread for for grubbing for points? (Or being chastised with a rules clarification?)
I’m kinda curious if some of my miles don’t count for some reason? I’m Andrew C on the individual leaderboard — in my neighborhood there’s several other riders with 19 days, and the difference with the mileage = difference in points, but apparently not for mine.

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Hi Ken!

Also, I’m curious about your handle … airport enthusiast?

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Crickets over here, huh?
Well, since I removed my Christmas lights from my bike this morning, I’ll take the chance to memorialize them here. This is from the HP100. The white lights in the front are hard to see in this picture, though.

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