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Thanks for the info. I won't be using it off road anymore than unpaved paths. I don't expect it to be amazing, but I definitely want something better than a set of cantilevers. I'm probably putting too much motor into it and it might end up being something like an old muscle car—all go and no...

Yeah, those are really good deals!

Middleweight, not ballooner, but same idea. I just used a wider axle that I had and axle nuts to spread it, same as a threaded rod. I put a 6-speed freewheel on and set it so it didn't have to be dished, which made it wider than necessary.

I'd bet a chainsaw would work. I can't think of anything else that's common with a side-oriented drive.

Pretty much any sapling within 5 yards of the water on our property has been beavered. After punching holes in one of their dams, I have to say that they're impressively clever. They anchor Y branches with the lower leg into the mud on the downstream side, using the V to hold the lateral members...

One of the best things you can get is a good set of calipers to measure things as the difference between some parts can be tenths of a mm, though a complete out-of-back-pocket guess would have me say that old American cruiser standard is a good place to start from, which I think much of the...

I wouldn't worry about the rated wattage of the hub. You could make a sticker to call it whatever you want and almost nobody would know the difference. It's not the rating that will get you in trouble, it's getting caught going faster than the speed limits for e-bikes without pedaling (usually...

That's what I'm doing. All the years of ICE knowledge feels like it might as well be steam train expertise now and I can't believe how rather suddenly I lost interest in it. Bicycles and a light displacement kayak hull are great for electric, but I wish batteries were at the point where I could...

If you want to go electric, the cost can be intimidating (especially for batteries), but if you're willing to put together a battery pack yourself, batteryhookup.com has some incredible deals. What they have varies, so you have to keep checking, but I've never seen them without something...

Also, even with an explosion of demand for bikes, it's not likely to translate to much customizing. You're mostly going to see new riders or adults who haven't ridden since childhood, perhaps many of them getting into it to go on family rides and those aren't the people likely to start...

Way I solved the issue on Interrobang was to use grade 8 hardware on the (steel) binder clamp as the stock hardware was way too weak. Problem in my case was that I needed a long seat stem for my height and the only 13/16" I could find was a cheap Wald one that would bend with the necessary free...

There are a few different sites I found, but I'm going with makeplayingcards . com—they do packaging, game cards, all kinds of stuff. I've been thinking about maybe coming up with a board game now, but I probably won't end up doing it. It's funny that I found this out after my sister noticed on...

Making a pack for my BiL's birthday. I'll make him as the king, my sister the queen, and their 4 kids as each Jack. It's been a really fun project. Here's some of the cards: Card back based on Zakim Bridge. Caravaggio's Medusa as a joker.

I read that housing flex is a problem. People who used the aluminum section housing reported good results.

My Miyata 1000 LT had Biopace and killed my knees. Replaced them with round and my knees still don't like it, but didn't hate it as much. No idea why—it's supposed to be a very comfortable bike, the geometry is the kind I like, I'm a pounder more than a spinner (and it's caught up to me with...

Northern water snake (I think), Eastern milk snake (probably), Garter snake that hissed, "Don't tread on me!" before comically striking at the phone, Praying mantis, and beaver thunder dome where they make water rats fight to the death for winter accommodation (though I got that one from the...

It's a SA 90mm. The reviews seem to say they're almost as good as discs when bedded in and some of those are from use with ebikes. The 70mm seems to be pretty much universally appraised as about equivalent to rim brakes. Of course, I don't know what discs they mean in the former case, but it...

From spending hours looking, I don't think 1" 700c disc forks exist (if they do, they're apparently super rare and would probably not be new). It's only a more recent thing that road bikes and road bikes with wider tires gravel bikes have moved to disc and they're all 1 1/8". I can find them in...

If this is about car movies, other than the Mad Max series, offhand I can't think of any I really like that were made since the early '70s (though I haven't seen Ford vs Ferrari yet), but I like the old nihilistic ones: The Italian Job, Vanishing Point, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, Gone in 60...

Wow, that was fast! Perfect. I don't expect I'm going to be running this thing at speeds it can achieve (well . . . not often), but definitely higher than my average cruise speed and I need something more effective than upgrading cantilevers to V brakes. Ordered a 90mm SA. Thanks everyone!