Sad to hear. As a German living in the Ausland for many decades its nice to see the Germans chat on here. Good luck with the transition.

I appreciate the rain in 10min. notifications, but there is no way I’d give an app access my sensors just for this, especially an app that is fully or partially ad subsidized. Is there a way to verify that it only accesses this one sensor?

This makes me think of how my parents’ generation would drive across town to save 5 cents on gas. Assuming a 13 gallon tank, you’re saving about 65 cents. Congratulations, big winner coming through! I will pay that 65 cents to have an extra 10 minutes of time to myself and have a hard time seeing how anyone would rather have the 65 cents.

Do you prefer the praying mantis bars, or the under-seat steering? I hear you on the price, I’ve been eying the Hase Pino Tandem for a while now. The driver is upright in the back, while another rider can pedal along recumbent in front. It’s a marvel. Test rode it 2-3 times and I just can’t bring myself to fork over that much dough unless I have to (which is why most of the recumbent riders in my life did it). Also knowing I’ll have ongoing maintenance costs the whole time I have it and some of those parts may not be off the shelf.

The guys who ride the recumbent trikes have it made though, they can pull up their wheeled lawnchairs in a circle and reach behind them into the attached cooler for some snacks.

They neglected road maintenance for decades in a climate with hot summers and cold winters so large cracks developed across the roadways every 10 feet. If I stood for every bump, i would never sit down. I bought a suspension seatpost.

It’s a great way of smoothing out the smaller bumps, or the rumble of crumbling asphault. That’s about what I paid for mine. Unlike a suspension that will suck away my power, once I stand up, the bike is as rigid and connected as ever. When I sit down it’s like I’m floating on a pillow a few inches above my speeding bike. I set it per their suggestion but when I have some time I want to see if I can get it tuned in even better for me.

Thought the same, sitting on this things looks about as risky as teabagging the moving parts in an elliptical machine.

Then you can use your glovebox battery to jump your main battery when you leave the light on!

As someone who has lustfully gazed at one too many tandem, cargo ebikes the prices go WAAAAYY higher. :)

Also, the worst hemmeroids ever and a special CEO diet consisting of nothing but exlax and habanero peppers.

Carbon is used because it’s lighter than a steel or aluminum bike. I have hear the same things as you about the stiffness. Maybe it only has to be stiff side to side not up and down? In any case, there are drawbacks. I get the strong sense that this bike is ridiculous and unreasonable, probably a fun concept, but I hope they prove me wrong and deliver $15k of value and it’s not just another luxury “thing”. :D

I dont know of anything. You could try the PhoneTrack Android app paired with Nextcloud Maps as a viewer. You don’t get the names neatly in a timeline, but you could pull up a day and see it on a map with labels. You can also adjust the polling interval which is nice when you need less granular data, like maybe only logging location every half hour. You do have to set up Nextcloud which can be pain depending on your nerd cred. It can automatically export to a Nextcloud folder. That only leaves you with the problem of finding an app to view, or a scrip to process the data likely against open street maps data because your trying to avoid google. Have you also considered taking a photo at every place you go and then using the photo app to see location names. I don’t knownhow granular some of these get.

I hope you figure it out, and please share an update when you do!

Fair point. I wonder if they could do something like “x volts or less” OR “governed at x mph” rather then both. This would allow say a 20 mph cargobike with a powerful engine, while not allowing 150lb fatbikes going 40 down the trail. At the same time, light bikes that have low voltage motors can enjoy mild assist up to speeds they would otherwise be able to achieve with muscle power alone by peddling on a slight grade.

My main bike is a 35-40lb ebike with a 250v motor. It’s class 3, so it cuts out at 30mph, but because its so light and the assist is so mild, it fits better with bikes than motorcycles. Peddling on flat ground, you’re lucky to get it to 20 without buns of steel. It’s much lighter and less assisted than even a run of the mill ebike, but it’s not legal to ride on most paths.

Having said that, I ring my bell whenever I pass someone and I limit my speed on multi-use paths. I’m not causing problems, but the proposed solution impacts riders like me. I think ebikes will continue to have grey zones in my area because we have excellent grade seperated multi use paths, but riding in the street is like taking your Fisher Price tricycle to the destruction derby.

The point about the insurance is valid though. Personally, mine is insured as an “electric motorcycle” for about $100/yr. with liability, collision, and theft. I’ve thankfully never had to use it. I certainly think I’m an outlier for insuring my bike.

I fail to understand why we have to restrict an amazing new technology to the degree where it impacts its utility instead of enforcing instances of it’s misuse. What’s so hard about putting two officers sitting on a bench next to a trail writing warnings for overtaking without a bell or going faster than 20mph on a shared use trail. Car engine size isn’t restricted, why should we cripple bikes. Also, big cargo bikes need extra big motors just to lumber along.

I was outside the path of totality, but saw one during my childhood. Today I made a pinhole camera and took a quick look before my meeting started and was able to see the shadow of the moon maybe 50%-60% over the sun. When I came back out after my meeting it was cloudy.

Sorry you had clouds :-(

What does upset mean? Its a bit different if she’s concerned for you vs if she can’t be alone. My wife was concerned for me when I was playing Minecraft until 4am every night during a stressful time in my life. She can’t be alone when she’s in my office during the middle of the workday telling me ten different YouTuber’s life stories. :D

I hope you find the balance that you’re looking for. If your girlfriend feels more social than you, its not necessarily bad to have her call her friends or something. I regularly tell my wife to “call Susan” or something like that when she wants to talk about something that I don’t have any bandwidth for or interest in. As long as you make an effort to connect when you can and don’t neglect her, I think it’s a fair ask.

I’m a person who needs a lot of alone time. It took me a while to learn how to set boundaries with partners. That balance wasn’t easy for me to find. Do you feel like it would benefit you if you got more alone time in your existing relationships?

Facebook/Meta and the like have proven to be untrustworthy. If they were a person, would you let them federate with your friend group? I wouldn’t. I hope they’re not invited to the party because the things that brought me here are the things that drove me away from there.

I generally agree with the ethos of it. Bicycles are the most efficient machine ever invented and we’re just adding a little power assist to flatten the hills. We dont need cars and they actually have tons of negative externalities especially climate related ones.

Paired with BRT with level boarding and in-car bike racks we could easily make a whole city bikeable basically overnight. Even suburban areas could support transit routes because the bikeshed (distance people are willing to bike from) of the stops would grow significantly.

Imagine biking 5 miles through a car free suburbia leftover from the days of cars. You go to a bus or train stop and roll right on with your bike. You are downtown in 15 min on bus rapid transit due to the 100% signal priority at junctions. You roll right off and into the street and bime another 5 miles to your destination. That’s 10 miles of biking each way. Totally doable on a muscle bike; many untrained, largely idle, people could do this on an ebike. People with accessibility needs would have a be more likely to ride it on an ebike. I’ve done something very similar in Germany 10-15 years ago. People are scared to give up their cars, or even to just use them less, but it’s actually a bit more like this.

No car registration, cheaper insurance, less road wear, less pollution, less loud traffic, can walk in the street with no cars for minutes at a time, drunk drivers are on a lighter vehicle and if they get too drunk there is a higher chance of them falling over than mowing down kids and a crossing guard, an extra room the size of a 2 car garage in many homes, much smaller roads with much more green space and plants in cities, kids are actually able to go places, less taxes on roads, less time at the DMV, no need to go to gas stations, less need to go to the gym, better health even with moderate use, see more places, social sphere is more accessible than inside a car, less road rage, don’t have to spend tens of thousands of dollars every decade or so to buy a new car (assuming you’re 30 and live to 70 that’s very conservatively an extra $100k you can spend on a hobby or life goal), no parking lots, and so much more.

Pick a day. Give everyone an ebike. Ban cars. Save millions. Save Lives. Save the earth.

This appears to be what I’ve been looking for. I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for sharing.

You mean after the price hike they also hiked the number of ads? I canceled when they hiked the price and managed to get it down to the old price a few months later, so I renewed for the personal heatmap. Looks like I’m definitely canceling again. I doubt they’ll give me the price break twice anyway.

Baking ads into a timeline like Strava and some other apps do has to be the worst app trend ever.