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Interbike 2017
On 9/22/2017 6:14 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 9/22/2017 7:40 PM, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 5:26:32 PM UTC-7, sms wrote: On 9/22/2017 3:32 PM, jbeattie wrote: On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 2:31:56 PM UTC-7, sms wrote: Photos with text at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vs26GExC_oC476V4oZl-dDn_2TcvWFCAuDZwjJN_MYE/edit?usp=sharing Interbike is in a Death Spiral E-Bikes Lights Cleaning and Lubrication Bamboo Cameras Power Meters Smart Helmets Folding Bikes Locks WIKE Salamander Pure Cycles Rod Brakes Are Back! Tent What I Won What I bought I thought I missed the boat because my new bike will have rim brakes instead of discs. I should have waited for rod brakes -- or traveled back in time. BTW, I rode with a guy last week who had been in marketing for Chris King.* He was riding a Cielo with CK components. Pretty bike. CK quit manufacturing Cielo in August.* It has also laid-off a lot of employees from its core component business since this article: https://bikeportland.org/2017/08/16/...-frames-239074 Whole lot of hurting going on in the high-end market. The same guy then went to work for Mavic trying to help them revive their brand in the US -- another slow death from a company that is not keeping up.* It bought Enve, so it will probably concentrate on that brand. It seems odd that bicycle sales are struggling so much, being that it is still popular.* Is it because of eBikes or something else? I was in a store near Stanford this afternoon. There were five Stanford students buying new bicycles. When you're spending $80K a year on college (or your parents are), the cost of a bicycle is pretty much lost in the noise. Stanford is a big biking campus and it's very large. Which is why it was depressing that the store was Walmart and they were buying the worst pieces of crap you can imagine. I understood enough Mandarin to know what they were talking about. One girl said that the bicycle was "good looking," or "好看." Speaking of eBikes, I got dumped by some chick on an eBike the other night.* I was struggling to keep up and thought I was having a heart attack.* As it turned out, my rear cable disc was stuck on. ****ty return springs on the first-gen BB7s, and the rear cable run on my new warranty-repalcement CAADX is all in housing and takes some nasty turns, so the system is pretty draggy. It was really designed for hydraulic brakes.* I'm going to work on that tonight. Apparently e-bikes are extremely popular in Europe and Asia where there's more transportational cycling, and not in the U.S. where it's more recreational. It's cheating, but I'm going to buy one for my wife -- and then use it. Sorry, honey, got to take the eBike today. It's the rare transportational cyclist riding an eBike around here, but that may change over time. I have no qualms about drafting eBikes since most are too fast to be in the bike lanes anyway. Some are just lightweight motorcycles. It's like Kommuter Keirin for me -- except for this one woman I see a lot who has an eCargoBike that goes zero to thirty in like a second. I don't have the thighs or lungs for that, and she drops me off the lights. -- Jay Beattie. I sincerely just don't get it. Is it faster than a much less expensive new moped? You can ride a e-bike on bicycle multi-use paths. Mopeds aren't allowed. Even when motorized bicycles aren't allowed, a lot of them are not obvious enough for anyone to complain, and since on the "pedal assist" models you have to be pedaling, there's some legal distinction in some states. |
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