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Toyota and some other reputable company I forget the name of are claiming they're about a year or so away. I'd still like some salt around the rim of that drink, but I think it's on the near horizon. More importantly for the environment (until an even better chemistry can be found and made to...

No thanks. I'm trying to refrain from building a much better e bike for a quarter of that price until this year's build off (thanks to batteryhookup for the super cheap lifepo cells, though I got a little carried away with size, so it won't fit in a top tube tank unless I want to make it a weak...

Seems more like Fokker Eindecker and Bristol M1

I'd need more than that, especially where I need to finish some purpleheart earrings I'm making for someone first. If there's another one in the fall, I'll likely do it.

Shoot, I just thought of something I could have done for this. Oh well, it's fun just following along.

Yeager was an awesome individual. Was actually thinking about what a Yeager bike might look like and then, somehow, a Gee Bee bike (I love the Z and Rs) driving today since I heard the news. The bike would just be painted to match the X1 with a larger diameter, tapered "over tube" protruding...

If you like it, ride it! It's like clothes you feel great in—maybe some people think they're tacky or inappropriate or whatever, but if they're not your boss, who cares as long as you walk a little taller in them? Originality is for museum pieces. Outside of a bike show that hasn't been put on...

I think cantilevers are your most likely bet. Setup will probably be tedious. Even road bikes have discs now. I was a skeptic, but after using them, I can understand why. Of course, they're not cheap to retrofit, especially in the front, though I don't know if I'd trust the adapters on the rear...

I got the USAAF font I used free online.

In some ways, I guess I would prefer the simplicity of the '80s (though how much of that perceived simplicity was just from being young and the availability of information more limited, I don't know) with mostly just the binary specter of nuclear annihilation that I never really believed would...

I'm glad that I grew up on the cusp of the mechanical and computing ages. I'm not lost by today's tech, but I also understand mechanical stuff well and gained confidence to tackle anything (well almost—I know my limitations) by doing and learning things on my own without someone always looking...

Just replaced the gas struts on my hatch. They still work pretty well, but one of them was rattling. Anyway, I didn't try sitting on them, but they seem like the pair might work as suspension at the back of a banana seat. I don't have any banana seat bikes to try it out with, but curious if it's...

Can confirm that adult women dig this one:

Or a "witch" bike.

I just use the stem parts for installing star nuts. Remove or leave off the steerer spacers, drop the bolt through the cap, thread the cap to the star nut as far as possible, slide the stem over the steerer, drop the star nut assembly inside the stem with the cap seated to the ID of the stem...

I wondered the same thing with an extra hub I had. I ended up buying a hub that was threaded on both sides (other side for a freewheel for converting a cruiser to 6 speed). FWIW, whatever a freewheel's thread is, it's the same as those adapters.

I had that foam P-38! Won it with Skee Ball tickets. Ended up with about a roll of tape holding it together to keep it going. I later had one of those 5' or whatever foam planes, too. A friend lived on a second floor with a large yard and we used to throw it from the back porch along with all...

I'm tail end of Gen-X and I've done programming for CNC machines and PLCs for prototyping production machines. I can do what I need to do, but I only do it when I have to as I think I have ADD and it doesn't hold my interest (though I am old enough that ADD was referred to by teachers as...

How big of a wheel are you thinking? I have had in my head a build using one of those box store Genesis 32" wheels in the back or a 36" if I could find one cheap with the wheel coming up high enough to almost be a back rest. It would be a proper posture reinforcer. Anyway, I was just going to do...

I never get flats. Not sure if it's the rim tape or how I ride, but I use the Velox cloth or old tube cut into strips and taped over with electrical tape. Use the good electrical tape (3M, maybe others)—there is a wide difference in quality. What I never tried, but I bet would work well, would...