Thank you so much for the insight!

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Every day, I learn about a new gem.

the bridge is 5.5 mi (8.85km) long, the very shortest commutes between destinations on the two sides is about 7mi (11.25km), taking about 40mins each way.

Unless someone is riding at a very slow 16km/h pace, it would take far less than 40 minutes to ride that 11km (without an ebike).

On that note, if someone had the choice of sitting in traffic for an hour, or enjoying a beautiful 40 minute ride over a bridge, I think it would be an easy choice to make 🤗

That has the same vibe as, “I don’t hate black people. I just don’t think they deserve to drink from the same fountain, use the same bathroom, or eat in the same restaurant as me!”

Rather than advocate for the removal of someone else’s active, green form of transportation, he should be advocating for car pooling, better public transportation, WFH to lessen the burden of commuter traffic, and smaller vehicles.

The coalition argues that not only does the bike lane create more traffic,

False. Cars create the traffic, and “one more lane, bro” will do nothing to help. This is a fact played out EVERYWHERE.

but it also creates more pollution from all the cars backed up on the bridge.

Sounds like a car-made problem, man.

He says he’s tired of seeing cars idling endlessly, inching along the bridge with the bike lane empty, or - if not empty - at least under-utilized.

Quite curiously, Google Maps seems to suggest that the BRIDGE never has bad congestion, but the highway leading up to the bridge (without bike lanes) is very congested during rush hour, beginning 4km away.

this could have easily been a public transit vehicle that crashed.

For sure, and that still happens, but there are considerably more “cars” crashing into buildings than commercial vehicles. And nearly anyone, qualified or not, can drive a car without many barriers to entry.

The building should have been wearing high-viz and a helmet so the driver could see them! /s

Jokes aside, this shit happens way too often in North America. If drivers aren’t crashing into buildings, they are crashing into bus stop shelters.

It uses an internal (adjustable) spring, and the design allows the saddle to pivot back, rather than up and down. This keeps your leg length to the cranks the same throughout the motion.

It’s very comfortable, and almost no maintenance (you lube the spring every once in a while).

When I got it, it was just over $100, which was way cheaper than any of the other high end suspension posts. I think it’s gone up at least $50 since then, but that’s still a good value. LOL

Awesome! They make a nice suspension stem, too.

Great question. It’s fairly easy, but needs an extra component.

Tern has a product called the telescopic seatpost, which allows you to use more conventional 27.2 mm seatposts, since the telescopic post is in two parts (the lower half goes into the bike’s frame).

Then I got the Suntour SP12 NCX, and replaced the top half of the telescopic seatpost with that.

Installed and saddle, and that’s it.

It really helps to smooth out jolts, and find it much more comfortable when riding on a bike with smaller tires.

🤗

Excellent, but I haven’t really had any experience with other folding bikes, either.

The stock Schwalbe Big Apple tires are great. The rims, even after over 5,000 km, are still in perfect condition, and I use kool stop salmon pads. I did put a suspension seatpost for added comfort, and I recently changed the shifter to an older style friction shifter, since it’s my preference. And I also upgraded the cassette recently to a 34 tooth, which slightly benefits climbing ability.

I added a front rack as well as the luggage truss which allows you to attach all kinds of different basket and bag options.

It’s absolutely a head turner, and I get asked about it all the time, pretty much every time I take it out. People ask if it’s electric, and they want to know more about the folding bike and whatnot. It’s awesome.

But when compared to my road bike, or even my 90’s mountain bike, it is the slowest of the three. Which may not be a big deal for some, but it should be noted.

Made in Vietnam 🇻🇳

I can’t speak for the Verge, but I’ve had a D8 for well over 5000km, and have done some long (150km+ rides on it).

The v-brakes are excellent on a bike like this, and far less of a pain in the ass compared to disc brakes (lighter, too).

The stock D8 is more utilitarian with the included fenders and rear rack. This does add weight to it, despite being lighter than the Verge D9.

If you’re looking for something to get from point A to B with no plans to ride in rain or haul things, the Verge seems like a solid option.

“I just want to reiterate speed, seatbelts, fatigue, alcohol and drugs and distraction remain to be over-represented in all these crashes.”

Jesus Fucking Christ. Make driving a car as difficult as getting a pilot’s license, and have mandatory re-tests every few years.

And if you fuck up by driving drunk, too fast, without a seatbelt, on drugs, too tired, or distracted, you don’t get to drive again.

We can’t keep saying “these were all preventable deaths” while continuing to allow the same rules, infrastructure, licensing, and testing to continue like nothing was wrong.

I thought communists were bad. Or is that what liberals think? Are Republicans okay with communists now? What’s even happening? 😂😂😂

Never mind shade, anyone who’s ever ridden a bicycle from the country into an urban area will instantly feel the rise in air temperature. It’s almost unbelievable, like you’ve stepped into a different planet.

But it’s okay because cars have air conditioning. /s 😒

Idiots like that only see in terms of volume rather than people moved.

So seeing a traffic jam, which might only have a hundred cars, is like a wet dream to them compared to seeing a thousand cyclists in half the amount of space.

It’s disturbing that somebody like that could even be in any position of power, let alone ministry of transportation.

Looks like cars should get that 1m wide lane, and give cyclists the full road, instead. 😂

These numbers are high, but just imagine if cycling infrastructure was a priority, rather than an afterthought that needs to be fought for every single day. I have no doubt that cyclists would outnumber drivers pretty much any time, and maybe that’s why drivers are getting increasingly more hostile.

I was shocked when my new realme, which uses the same tech, didn’t even break 30°C while charging at 8+ Amps (should be around 80W). This was in a relatively warm room (25°C) and using the case that came with it

That’s impressive. I’m looking at my phone now, not charging, but the screen is on, and it’s at 33C. LOL

AccuBattery needs a session to have 60% charged, so <20% to 80% works. Doesn’t need to be every single one.

It’s rare for me to get that low, even while charging to 80%. 😵

But yeah, every so often I’ll let it drain, then do a 100% charge to see what’s up. I don’t like doing that, because even Accubattery says that takes up more of a charge cycle than charging conservatively.

I do like the trend chart, although, the battery health on that actually went UP 5% between March and May 😱

And my feeling is that they aren’t using the gains from this to make the batteries last, as SUPERVOOC is faster than pretty much every other standard. That makes me think they turned in any and all gains in battery health, for speed.

There is a setting to explicitly benefit from using an official charger and cable, but I don’t know if it’s on by default (it’s disabled on my phone).

That said, the heat while charging is about the same as the heat from holding the phone in my hand (around 38C), and doesn’t get much hotter than that while gaming thanks to pass-through charging.

My Samsung was definitely hotter, and would overheat if charging while doing anything like GPS navigation. But my last Samsung was a Note 10+, and so things may have very well changed since then.

You may want to use something like AccuBattery

Already do, and have for years.

But AccuBattery doesn’t seem to play nice with the OP13, with many users reporting lower battery health from the start (80-90%), and inaccurate capacity (<1000 mAh less than the designed capacity).

Coupled with the fact that it’s only accurate if you are constantly charging from below 15% to 100%, these are ranges that I rarely get my phone into.

Even though battery longevity is important to me, since I no longer replace my phones “every year”, it really would be best if these damn things had user-replaceable batteries that were readily available. 😫

Isn’t one plus one of the brands that has their own fast charging tech, that’s extra fast?

Yes, but…

OnePlus offloads heat to the charger, so the phone actually doesn’t get hot while charging. This fact alone would IMPROVE charge cycles, even at fast speeds.

But OnePlus also uses quite a few “tricks” to preserve battery health. Did the test include those features or did they turn them off. And if they turned them off, did they do the same with the Samsung phones (which have similar battery-health preserving options)?

I’ve had my OP13 since the day it came out (around 5-6 months) and keep it charged to 80% (built-in feature) and only charge it to 100% when I’ll be out for the day and need to use GPS with max screen brightness. Battery health is still 100%.

I’ve owned a lot of Samsung phones before that, and the battery health was the only reason I’ve needed to replace them. So, I’m glad to see that the EU is taking charge cycles into account.

One piece of the puzzle that the numbers don’t mention, is that the smaller battery of the Samsung phones means you’ll be charging more often (i.e. more charge cycles) vs. something like a OP13 with a larger battery and excellent battery life (i.e. fewer charge cycles for the same use). Maybe that balances things out, but I’m still shocked that Sammy can get 1000 more charge cycles, which is YEARS more battery health than the other brands.

edit: clarity