Recent content by DirkWisely

I enjoy arguing on the internet, so I'm going to waste my time humoring you. You brought up cranks and power, which implies pedalling. Thus a reasonable person (me) would assume you're talking about pedalling the bike being a pointless boondoggle on these new high power bikes. I took issue...

"I've said it before and I'll say it again: why do these have cranks at all? At this point it's just a bit of a silly way to pretend to be powering the thing. " So you just forgot what you typed?

My heart rate and sweat soaked shirt would argue that I'm not simply a passenger.

It's a pretty common phrasing. Basically just means "I don't want to work with you any more"

I'm not sure an electric car recovers more energy from regen proportional to its size than a bike. Yes, there's way more energy available, but it also requires way more energy to accelerate.

A significant portion of the energy you spent going uphill is burned up as heat going downhill. If your terrain is at all steep you're bleeding most of your energy as heat in the brakes, rather than to rolling resistance/wind resistance.

I'd say if you had to choose one, that capacity > charge speed. I think the minority of users are charging mid-ride.

There actually is such a thing as semi solid state. It has a definition.

Planetary gears are direct linkages to the rear wheel. It could feel different, but I think it will feel good.

Interesting if true. I'm pretty lazy and I still do my own chain/cassete stuff. There's nothing to it.

Do you think that's why Avinox is popular? Such a motor would get no traction.

I think it depends on what you attach the crankshaft to. If you make the sun gear directly attached to the cranks then I think it'd technically work, but the gearing would probably suck. Planetaries melt my brain though, so I might be wrong.

I've heard the MTBing on Mars is fantastic. The grit is hell on chains though. Make sure you use a wax based lube.

My main concern with an e-cvt is that I think it'd be terrible/unrideable with a dead battery, but maybe there's a way to engineer that problem away. But even for normal gearboxes or derailers, I can't help but think like 5-6 gears is enough, and that might simplify a normal gearbox.

Let's not pretend it's only government meddling leading to this. Bosch is more than big and rich enough to innovate at this pace if they wanted to. They're just a slow unwieldy dinosaur getting out competed by a young hungry company. Tale as old as time.