Harry Meatmotor
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Participant@Dewey 166278 wrote:
Electric motorcycles with similar styling are Vintage. Not my cup of tea. I’m unsure where electric motorcycles are legal unless they are built to confirm with NHTSA federal motor vehicle safety standards and have a VIN number stamped on the frame. They’re not ebikes because those are defined federally as 750W and locally as 1,000W VA, 500W MD.
I’m pretty sure most companies importing the 3kW motorcycles require the buyer to sign a waiver; somethingsomethingoffroaduseonlysomethingsomething. The good news, tho, is you can grab the 72v/84v hub/wheel kits on eBay for less than $500.
Me personally? I’m waiting for 5kW and $200; maybe by 2019?
ParticipantAwww Yissss!!
Finally, normal people are riding e-bikes! Just yesterday I saw a nice fellow riding an Icon e-Flyer on the MVT!!!
3500w Race Mode, FTW! That’ll easily make all of our bike/ped infrastructure headaches disappear!
Let’s see if we can get him signed up for some WABA safe 3500w-cycling classes.
edit: I actually chatted with the guy while riding, because i’m a gear head and icon makes some sweet, lust-worthy FJ40 replicas. he wasn’t wearing a helmet, but i didn’t want to get into that ball of wax. nice guy, and he was out on his first actual ride on the motorcycle.
Participant@drevil 166202 wrote:
+1. After wrasslin’ with gunked up cores and trying to clean ’em with little success, I discovered that replaceable cores are cheap and a huge time saver. Buy a bag of 10 Kenda cores for a little more than a buck a pop/each:
https://www.amazon.com/Kenda-Presta-Valve-Cores-Bag/dp/B0028N8DGUbikeshop trick: customer has flat tire –> after replacing tube, ask customer if they want the old tube –> if no, pull the valve core (if removable) and stash in workbench drawer.
non-bikeshop trick: call bike shop –> ask if they have a stash of used presta valve cores –> profit.
other bike shop trick: no tubeless valve stem? cut up old innertube, leaving 1 cm of butyl around valve stem. Viola! tubeless!
Participant@dasgeh 166160 wrote:
it’s reasonable to think that collisions will go down as more “normal people” ride bikes.
You keep saying these things along the lines of “more people on trails = safer,” when you really mean “more people riding bikes = easier to point at larger or smaller numbers in non-representative European data about a foreign population with different norms, rules, and laws, to suit a specific local advocacy issue”. You should be more honest about the statistics.
We get that you’re a vocal cycling-as-transportation advocate. And you need numbers to throw at Arlington to “prove” a position during BAC meetings. But reading/regurgitating a handful of surveys about why people don’t like riding bikes up steep hills doesn’t change the physics of collisions or accidental crashes.
And who are “normal people” riding bikes? What’s the demographic composition of the class/strata of “normal people” riding bikes? Or are normal people simply “not Freds that ride carbon bikes”? Is it simply “skinny people” that ride bikes that you don’t like? Or is it just men that ride too fast?
Participant@Judd 166119 wrote:
Daaaaaaaaamn! 10 more years and you can get down to 55 pounds. Way to go on the weight loss.
my W/kg would be off the charts. in actuality, i’d be ded.
also, at what point does “one less car” jump the shark?
Participant@dasgeh 166106 wrote:
The status quo is that if a woman biking on her kids on her e-cargo-bike on the MBT gets hit by a woman on a 750W e-bike bike coming the other way who pulled into her lane around a blind curve to pass a jogger, and her bike is totaled and her kids end up in the hospital, she’ll probably be on the hook for the entire bill. Are you ok with that status quo?
This is the same argument, right?
@dasgeh 166105 wrote:
That is what seems to be behind the “ban them” argument.
Well, I can only speak as someone who used to weigh 250lbs, then after almost 10 years of riding bikes regularly, am down to 155. I know firsthand what being fat is. And I know firsthand how awful and hopeless one can feel being obese.
So, I’ll reiterate. This has nothing to do with what you think it does. This argument is about safer utilization of limited resources. Class 3 e-bikes are motorcycles.
Participant@dasgeh 166079 wrote:
the argument here for banning ebikes seems to boil down to “I don’t want to share trails with people unlike me.”
Are you just trying to bait someone into fat-shaming people on e-bikes?
Participant@SolarBikeCar 166047 wrote:
“Considerate of others” is so corrupted by bias that it can’t be a rational rule. Do we have to be considerate of people who hate purple and not buy a purple vehicle? The only rules that matter are the ones that improve safety outcomes enough to offset the social cost of enforcing the rule. If 20 is too fast for the trails why do non-ebike riders consistently pass me on the downhills at speeds much closer to 30? Attempting to apply a speed limit to e-bikes that you don’t want applied to everyone exposes the bias–just be honest that you hate e-bike riders more than roadies.
You have a Gadsden bumper sticker on your car-bike thing, don’t you?
Participant@dasgeh 165989 wrote:
As a note, most German autobahns now have speed limits, because Germans are human too. Their drivers are better educated, and they do have more serious penalties for violating traffic laws.
Either you don’t know much about the German autobahn or you’re being a little disingenuous, because the origin of the speed limits there have little to do with what you’re insinuating.
Participant@dkel 165898 wrote:
My 8-speed hub needed service early because the clutch was pissing me off—it almost pitched me right off the bike when it jammed the drivetrain in neutral unexpectedly after a shift. Rather than spend $40 on the service (and eventually $80 on two services), I spent $70 on the stinky Shimano transmission fluid, and did the job myself (I’ll come out ahead the next time I do the job!). It wasn’t that hard except that it takes quite a while to get the thing apart (especially the damn snap ring!). The hub works much better since I did the service. Is there some other aspect of this that I’m missing that makes the job difficult? I think it would be pretty hard to mess it up (there’s only one way that the parts go together, as far as I can tell), and I don’t consider myself to be much more than average at the mechanical stuff.
The 8spd isn’t terribly complex, but from a mechanic’s perspective the difficulty lies in getting everyone to leave you alone for an hour in the shop to fix them. Having various small needle nose pliers and a couple different snap ring tools helps tremendously.
ParticipantParticipant@TwoWheelsDC 165840 wrote:
Virginia allows up to 1000W motors to be classified as “electric power-assisted bicycles,” which are effectively treated the same as bikes.
This is the problem.
ParticipantParticipantrcannon100;165357 wrote:i was not feeling weak.“sir! Do you require motorized assistance???”
Participant@TwoWheelsDC 165310 wrote:
Such a bike would be legally classified as a moped due to the gasoline motor, and mopeds are prohibited on trails per Virginia code (although seemingly by exclusion in the pertinent statute, which explicitly allows e-bikes, BTW.) Mopeds are also barred from sidewalks.
perhaps sjclaeys was making a normative statement?
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