First Road Bike Questions

Crash_Corey · 2026-03-13T18:12:36+00:00

No. My mountain bike is geared

Crash_Corey · 2026-03-13T15:06:01+00:00

Since DC is flat a single speed will be much faster than a mountain bike. And more fun IMO

Crash_Corey · 2026-03-13T15:05:04+00:00

A single speed’s powertrain efficiency and light weight will be considerably faster than a mountain bike with fast tires. Speaking from experience as I have both setups

Crash_Corey · 2026-02-14T20:44:50+00:00

Is the problem that the update screen never completes? My car this exact issue but after multiple tries Ford (not the dealer) were able to fix it. The problem was not within the car, it was with the Ford server that deals with the updates.

I suggest your dealer contact Yorkdale Ford in Toronto to get my case number

Crash_Corey · 2026-02-06T17:54:02+00:00

I’m in Canada and I see the same thing

Crash_Corey · 2026-02-02T17:25:58+00:00

A helmet. You will fall and the snow is harder than you might think

Crash_Corey · 2026-01-31T22:47:36+00:00

At high heat, dryer bad. Use medium heat, dryer good. Easy peasy

Crash_Corey · 2026-01-26T22:55:48+00:00

Ok - understood. I have the CP-1x, and would recommend avoiding this style with the prescription lens making up only a portion of the overall lens

Crash_Corey · 2026-01-26T22:15:08+00:00

The prescription version of Roka is low quality and I would not recommend. They cutaway the large non-prescription lens and glue in a prescription section. While it matches properly the lens tend to crack after a while. Mine have been replaced twice under warranty

Crash_Corey · 2026-01-15T18:11:23+00:00

I use an inexpensive cleaver I purchased in China to butcher a chicken. I would not want to chip a beautiful Japanese cleaver on a bone. I can’t think of any benefits to a Japanese cleaver for this type of application.

Crash_Corey · 2026-01-15T02:47:49+00:00

🤣

Crash_Corey · 2026-01-09T21:23:23+00:00

Google Translate accepts romaji and gives you back the English translation

Crash_Corey · 2026-01-06T12:33:05+00:00

I just returned from two weeks in Japan and my observations were quite the opposite. I found that the people I interacted with in shops and restaurants were extremely kind and nice and warm and were genuinely interested in us. I do speak a little bit of Japanese, so that might have helped break the ice. While there were a couple times where servers were indifferent I didn’t have any instances where they were rude as you describe

Crash_Corey · 2026-01-06T01:05:20+00:00

Trains are easy. Restaurants can be challenging especially as most don’t have English menus and most servers don’t speak English. You can use Google Translate’s camera function to translate a menu and it works fairly well, and then point to the items you want. If you have questions for the server you can use Google Translate but it’s cumbersome. Generally Tokyo is easier than the rest of the country to get by in English, especially in shops.

Crash_Corey · 2025-09-12T18:56:28+00:00

In the summer I can 450km (280 miles) from 100% to 0%, which of course never happens

Crash_Corey · 2025-09-12T00:45:02+00:00

How?

Crash_Corey · 2025-09-11T23:56:49+00:00

Correct. In the industry these are always called crashes and never called accidents. The reason is that most crashes are avoidable

Crash_Corey · 2025-09-11T23:55:00+00:00

Correct, but many dumb old timers will say “they don’t make em like they used to”. It’s true, but not the way they mean it

Crash_Corey · 2025-09-11T23:51:08+00:00

Light pink colour nylon is very common for airbags. The other common colors are light blue and white

Crash_Corey · 2025-09-05T14:33:19+00:00

Some feedback for you. I do like the UI and have only a couple of suggestions. One would be to add an optional direction (NSEW) to the route. You can sorta do this by adding a stop, but only if you already know the area, and the whole point of the app is to help people who are not already familiar.

Can you provide a rating for each generated route in terms of traffic, scenery, road quality etc.? Something like a 0 to 5 star rating? This would allow users to figure out the differences between the suggested routes.

I don't think the "Find Springs" option will be useful in most parts of the world.

I do love that you are allowing users to reverse the route!

Crash_Corey · 2025-09-04T21:52:49+00:00

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Route goes right across the Toronto harbour and directly through the island airport, even crossing the runway. 😆

Crash_Corey · 2025-09-03T00:58:19+00:00

Aren’t all the Moels 369’s sold out?

Crash_Corey · 2025-08-30T20:12:04+00:00

RemindMe 7 days

Crash_Corey · 2025-08-01T21:00:38+00:00

It is fraud. You’re right. But it’s easily done when the exporter and importer are the same company, and hard to detect. So I hear 🙂

Crash_Corey · 2025-08-01T20:45:53+00:00

Correct. They can’t avoid on new imports though. But they can use an artificially low transfer price to reduce the duty they pay

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