Toutouxc

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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
You’re probably right, I’d trust a cheap Decathlon bike not to be unsafe. But they’re really exceptional in this regard, most non-Decathlon gear at cheapest-Decathlon prices is trash.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
I’m pretty sure I’d have preferred a poorly controlled motor over staring at my dad’s ass at 9 years old. Luckily we didn’t have either, we used a dog leash for towing.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
Note that this is the most common and cheap approach: a hub motor, battery, controller, Hall-effect cadence sensor. There are renowned Chinese companies that sell those and you can find great deals if you shop around.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
Power, not speed. Exactly because these kinds of kits don’t have a way to measure your power (effort), they need an external way to tell them how much you want them to be helping. So there are power levels (often 5) that change the power c
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
> severe movement in the frame that bring the rear wheel closer to the saddle might be problematic, even without full suspension Sorry but what? The only alternative to a FS frame is a hardtail. Where “hard” means that the rear wheel doe
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
That’s interesting. Our winters are often wet and annoying. You don’t see many roadies out there before at least February. To be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a proper road bike with mudguards in the wild.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
I’ll add that none of these motors are actually “250 W” in any meaningful sense. That’s just the nominal figure, the average power over something like 30 minutes. That’s why there are such differences between the lines and makes of e-bike m
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
Yes, but a tiny minority of bikes use those, and the product is meant to go on existing bikes. Also, even on hub-geared bikes (or single-speeds) you’d still need to switch to a longer chain or significantly move the rear wheel to be able to
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
I think it’s just “cheap bikes”. Nobody wants to work on or with cheap bikes. And bikes are getting more and more expensive (quite fast). A solid bike built with brand name components is quickly approaching 2000€.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
Go ahead, sit down with a piece of paper and try to design it in a way that doesn’t prevent shifting, doesn’t skip under load, doesn’t require you to use a longer chain, works with rear suspension and doesn’t interfere with your legs.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
If it’s for a chill cargo bike, just get a hub motor kit. It’s the proper solution, there are tons of them and they are cheap and durable.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
As an experienced mountain biker I’d love if the downvoters could engage with the comment. I agree with it. A proper legal e-bike, especially when clamped to 25 km/h or a similar limit, doesn’t really need that much stopping power than
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
Why “especially a disc brake bike”? They’re the most reliable and resilient system so far, especially compared to rim brakes (V-brakes or cantilevers).
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
> the bike with the cadence sensor seems to decide how fast it wants to go Well yes, because there’s no other input. It’s an on/off switch, the bike just knows that you’re pedaling. Usually there are multiple power levels you can sw
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
I guess that’s the reason you don’t understand why bikes are sold without these things. €400 gets you a very, very, very low-end new bike, like just one step above “unsafe to ride”. You often don’t get pedals on new bikes because you have y
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
Do you have any kind of education in this area? Because that doesn’t sound like the little that I’ve read about sociology and psychology.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
What are you basing that on?
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
As a mountain biker I don’t see the appeal of this. Yes, this rather expensive solution could transform my nice bike into a shitty e-bike, but the point of having a nice bike is to avoid a shitty experience. A proper e-bike needs to be desi
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
Only commuter and bikepacking bikes have mudguards, almost nobody puts one on a mountain bike or a proper road bike, regardless of whether they’re electrified. This looks like it’s more for these “sporty” categories of bikes.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
I don’t think there is anything important in there.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
This kind of turbo confident naivety is quite common among software engineers. I know people preaching about LLMs being the Next Industrial Revolution, who couldn’t place the industrial revolution in the correct century. I have people at wo
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
I think I understand what you’re saying, but I’d also argue that he’s everything but straightforward and transparent. I could totally respect a politician with a different opinion, but not a rambling idiot who has every possible opinion at
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
Insider trading as a service. No one is going to take the US seriously for the next 50 years.
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
That’s weird. Isn’t that kind of on the employer to decide whether they have different work for you? Are you expected to be actively doing something during this period?
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
I think we should first define what “coding” is and whether “code” means “any code” or “optimal code”, because otherwise we’ll just keep talking past each other. But I enthusiastically agree with your point about engaging with your output a
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
What kind of systems do you work with where code is a fluid?
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
Do you have a source for that claim?
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
It seems the author has misunderstood the point of the common narrative and has torn apart what’s essentially a strawman. The degrees, the books, that’s not the supposedly easy part. That’s the HARD PART, and it’s actually the “what you bui
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
As a former rabbit owner I can attest that around 5 am was when the theater would open, and the first thing on was always this improvised bit called “abused animal trapped forever in a cage”. Lots of special effects too, there was gnawing a
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by Toutouxc 2mo ago
I grew up in an ex-eastern bloc country, so I’m familiar with some of the aesthetics and even echoes of the Soviet mentality. The images fill me with despair. So much human potential wasted.

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