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  • My first job straight out of college in the late 90s, I was making 35k a year (tech industry.) my boss was from France, H1B, making 30K, obvious reason is obvious.

  • This company along with sur-ron have been playing really fast and loose with the "rules" around e-bikes. I'm not surprised at all. Regulations and more laws are coming for sure. Just waiting for the day you have to get a license, registration, and liability on all e-bikes because these companies take no ownership of this stuff.

    I mean, who do they think they are? The firearms industry?

  • I have a Santa Cruz Heckler for fun, but I was using an Aventon cargo bike for all my shopping until just recently, it's being sold and replaced with a fat tire. The heckler was stupid, the others are both in that DTC/store class, 2kish range.

  • I believe they're in the same "type group" as Aventon, Lectric, etc. Sold in bike stores and DTC. Not tier 1 stuff and not aimed at people who use the word "send" in an MTB context ;) but good enough for most people who haven't normalized "Only "$8K??? Damn that's a deal!"

    Edit to add - and yes it was a deal and no I don't have a problem.

  • I am currently hosting my own email on a server that I rent and I am absolutely sick and tired of email issues, spam, google randomly being assholes and blocking my family's traffic, just stupid shit. It's a second fucking job at times. I have DKIM, DMARC, SPF all configured correctly, Google just randomly decides to stop my traffic randomly. Which of these options would you recommend for say up to 20 email accounts or so, using your own domain? I assume all of these options do things like spam filtering on the back end.

    To be clear, I am not looking for free, just reasonable.

  • You'd probably get a discount if you promise to live in it and become a vanfluencer. Make sure to be quirky!

  • Somebody needs to make (Or I need to do a better job searching for) a small camera that does forwards and backwards and uses a GoPro mount so I can stick it on top of my helmet. A regular GoPro is way too big/heavy and not bidirectional.

  • Code monkey is the appropriate term

  • The other AC

  • Yeah, that's fair. I've put 2500 miles on my cargo bike since I got it just over a year ago. Bike was $1700, plus various accessories, probably $2500 in total.

    Replaced the tires for $100, a few tubes, maybe $20, and the freewheel for $20. I do my own maintenance so no labor.

    I doubt charging was that much, it's pretty damn cheap to charge it.

  • In comparison to owning a car, it's dirt cheap for sure, but unless you can entirely eliminate your need to own a car, it's still an additional cost, and most of the US isn't very good about biking infrastructure. I live in the Phoenix area and we have good bike lanes, but as the saying goes, "paint isn't infrastructure" - the vast majority of my urban riding is along 45mph roads, and paint isn't very good at stopping a distracted driver from wandering into my lane.

    I kinda got sidetracked there but my point is, that 1500 is an additional cost to owning a car for a lot of the country. (Again, US focused.)

  • I've got some issues with my knees, I'm right there with you on walking vs cycling. I had to do a cardio stress test a few years back, and they only had a treadmill. My knees hurt for a month, and I told them in no uncertain terms that I was never doing that again and I'd find a cardiologist who offers a bike for that (and some do.)

    I also agree very much on the variability of types of exercise. I bike in two very different ways - MTBing, which has your 2&3, and I have a cargo bike that I use instead of my car most of the time, and that tends to be zone 2 type steady state. I thoroughly enjoy all of it.

    One thing that's fair to point out though, is that decent bikes are expensive. I'm really glad to see the rise of decent DTC companies that are making bikes (primarily e-bikes) more affordable - Lectric, Aventon, Himiway, etc. that new Lectric cargo bike for $1500 is a great deal, but it's still $1500. And of course that's in comparison to older companies like Specialized or Santa Cruz, where you're looking at significantly more.

  • I think this is inevitable in the USA. We nanny state everything.

  • Ours are 11, 7, and 3.

  • It's not common but make sure both the bike and battery are certified - UL here in the US. My rule of thumb is to buy a brand that's sold in bike stores, even if you buy it DTC. Odds are better you'll get something where you can get parts that way, or store support if you don't do your own work.

    I have a watt meter that's programmed to shut off the output when the power draw drops below a set threshold for 60 seconds. It also powers a couple computer fans that cool the charger, so it's set at 10W cutoff. Works great, and because it's WiFi, I can plug in the battery when I get home, set a timer on my phone since I always let the battery sit for an hour to cool down or warm up to room temp before charging, then trigger it remotely to start. https://a.co/d/akYxqL9

  • I have an Aventon abound cargo bike, and I'm about 220 riding weight. On 2nd level assist (of four levels) which is where I ride 99% of the time, I get about 30 miles. Fairly flat terrain. I also ride on the fast side and I'm in decent mountain biking shape - that definitely matters, I almost never touch the throttle.

    Most cargo I've had on it was around 150lb. No idea what the range reduction would have been but the bike handled just fine.

  • I'm sure he's a kinder, gentler Huckabee nowadays.