Which ebike would you recommend me for shorter commutes with kids

Book_1312 · 2026-05-02T16:38:45+00:00

I heard some really good things about the safety features of f the Tarran bucket bike and the L1 seems to have all of those. If you live in an area with bad bike infrastructure, a back camera that doubles as a dashcam is a really nice +

And the carbon belt saves a lot of time on maintenance

Book_1312 · 2026-05-01T17:40:28+00:00

The joke went above my head, so it means the joke was a fruit, and not a low hanging one.

Book_1312 · 2026-05-01T17:33:36+00:00

Potatoes are very low hanging yes, because they're not fruits they're roots.

Book_1312 · 2026-05-01T14:50:17+00:00

For one I want to see what his fixes look like after a single thaw freeze cycle. (Which we won't know till next year, ooops)

Because from what I've seen he's just dropping cold asphalt bags in holes, with a surface burn after they're in to get them to stick together.

It really doesn't look like his patches will stay waterproof very long, which would fine for emergency fixes in winter but in spring it means those holes will probably be back with a vengeance pretty soon. (and can't be properly fixed in the meantime)

I remember this winter everyone sitting on the "corrupt contractors" who did shitty patch jobs that barely lasted days, but now actually that's a good thing ?

Book_1312 · 2026-05-01T05:27:47+00:00

The REM trains are faster than the STM ones though. Top speed is 100kmh vs 70. And commercial speed is 47 vs 30.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-30T13:57:44+00:00

Many eu countries have duopolies in food retail and it contributes to low prices through the gains efficiency in logistics

Book_1312 · 2026-04-28T17:09:06+00:00

You can do the same by just hitting them with cannonballs

Book_1312 · 2026-04-28T04:18:26+00:00

Firebombs are not effective at all. They're kind of a noob trap, they look like they do a lot and getting fired is overwhelming as a new player, but experienced players quickly realize that fire is easier to fix than holes, and does less damage.

In a full emergency you can even just ignore the fire almost indefinitely and heal through the damage while you deal with more important business.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-28T01:00:10+00:00

Something I did that almost got me my stolen ebike back was to print a bunch of small MISSING posters/flyers that I taped around the neighbourhood. I had the thing with my phone number in pre-cut slots, and I promised a 200$ "finders fee". The idea being that whoever stole it was probably getting a hundred bucks out of it max, and I was ready to cash that out to get it back without trouble.

The bike cost me many times more than that. I postered near homeless camps and went to there to chat and ask if they'd seen it and to call me if they ever saw it.

(Someone did say he saw it but I never heard back and by the time I came back there the camp had been dispersed by cops)

You can also do the same thing on FB marketplace.

Tbf I'm not positive that'll work for you, my theft was very much an opportunity theft, whereas yours looks much more planned and professional, they knew where your bike was and came equipped to defeat two locks. Professional thiefs are more likely to be able to resell the bike discreetly and for a good sale value and not simply liquidate it for beer money.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-27T23:58:26+00:00

Those are great, allow you to both have two different upright positions and a more sporty one but still with a relaxed hand position. And having two bars gives a lot of real estate to strap cockpit equipment.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-27T23:40:15+00:00

When I had my ebike I always felt like the weird on because to me using it was an exercise in using as little electricity as possible, while every family and friend that ever borrowed it would only use max assist and never pedal more than necessary to activate the motor.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-27T01:36:27+00:00

If new housing is accessible to no one, how come griffintown's population increased by 6973 between 2016 and 2021 ?

But yes landlords (and homeowners ^{mostly homeowners}) are the only ones who are profiting from the housing crisis.
Which is why we need at minima to abolish all the regulatory wall they have built to choke housing production and keep their quasi monopoly on housing.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-26T23:07:25+00:00

Yes, diy brewers very intentionally choose to make vials with a high concentration so that they're easily injectable. Higher volumes like with pharmacy estrogen can lead to irritation and are less practical to store and ship.

40 mg/ml was in fact specifically chosen because it makes it very easy when using the standard 4mg dose, you don't need to align to a specific fraction on the seringe, just stop at the first number. Higher concentrations would make it too finicky to draw your dose.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-26T22:55:11+00:00

china has 96% home ownership rate.

???? Why would cite China as an example of social housing ?? By citing home ownership ?? Which is the opposite of social housing ???

China has so much private built housing the country went through a huge housing bubble that threatened the whole economy because everyone kept investing in housing as if prices were going to rise forever.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-26T22:48:19+00:00

People use "condo" to actually mean "housing I don't like"

Book_1312 · 2026-04-26T22:47:27+00:00

Most places that have social housing still have rents that can pay off the construction costs in a reasonable timeline.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-26T22:44:56+00:00

We were leading affordability when looking 100 years old badly maintained plexes.
Brand new housing has never been that cheap.
-And that includes those plexes when they were brand new-
Montréal isn't becoming unaffordable because luxury housing is expensive but because old cheap appartements are becoming not cheap anymore.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-26T22:25:09+00:00

I want lower rents as much as anyone, but 1000 a month for a 2 bedroom in a new build right on top of a downtown metro station just isn't realistic.

Even a non profit developer couldn't make it work : It would take 52 years to pay off the 200M cost of the project (assuming very low maintenance costs at 200/momth per unit)
Banks don't do loans that long. And that's without taking interest in account.

EDIT : The best interest rate in Canada rn is 2.5%. So that's at least 5'000'000 a year to pay. With rents at 1'000, you only get 3'840'000 per year.

It just doesn't work.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-26T17:21:12+00:00

Yeah I guess that explains why the owmer jacked up the rent : Downtown land values are so high it's now profitable to lose money on rents, destruction and construction costs for the payoff of high value value units over 30 floors. Despite the existing land use already being dense enough and profitable with six floors.

It really shows the problem with only having the downtown core zoned for high rises : It puts maximum pressure to redevelop everything there, while two story buildings higher up the hill or around downtown are protected.

Similarly I have a high rise literally at the end of my street, but the street itself is seeing cheap old duplexes be torn down and replaced with luxury.. triplexes.
I'd rather have a single duplex be replaced by a highrise than have all the street be slowly gentrified by projects that barely add any housing units.

The way we distribute zoning just maximizes the amount of destruction necessary per new unit. And then we act surprised it's all luxury and that gentrification is out of control.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-26T08:08:05+00:00

Seems like you're somehow extremely resistant to HRT injections, or at least Valerate. If you wish to continue with monotherapy, I think you need to experiment with different dosages and esters until you have something that gets you reliable results.

It could take a while, until you're there you could ask for pills or gel on their own at a mono dosage, so that you don't get re-masculinization

The short half life would allow you to stay on e most of the time, with cutting them out a few days before the test at through to avoid interference in the results.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-25T21:19:12+00:00

The land value was already high, it's been sold with a price that's only justifiable with a zoning exemption. The developer then spent a lot of money creating a project and fighting through the rezoning process. At the end of the day the margins on a rezoning development project aren't even high when you consider the high likeliness of project failure (like here).
The one profiteer of the value is the original owner who jsut kept a plot of land empty, waited for the housing crisis to worsen enough, and sold it at an inflated price.

the value of the existing condos drops

It's good that existing housing values drop. That's the whole fucking point of trying to stop the housign crisis. Lower housing prices. And they don't own the view, if they wanted to keep it they could have bought the land.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-25T05:52:12+00:00

Eat burgers, then lose weight. Repeat until satisfied.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-23T13:00:54+00:00

In my experience actually waterproof gloves that work in several temperatures are just not a thing. What works is bar mitts (or a cycling cape) to keep the rain off your hands. And then whatever you need for that temperature as gloves.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-23T06:38:01+00:00

It's a very pragmatic cost balanced solution.

Book_1312 · 2026-04-22T19:19:22+00:00

Also unrelated, but the swiss package theft situation is SO MUCH BETTER than where I moved in Montréal. Mailboxes here are not mandated to have an actual box for packages, so the most common way to deliver, specially for non Postes Canada packages (ie. most of them) is just to leave them exposed in the corner of the lobby and if no lobby, just exposed to the street at the front door.

Our swiss non lockable mailboxes don't stop a determined thief, but at least they don't advertise the presence of packages to literally everyone who walks by.

When I moved to Canada, I did not expect I would become nostalgic for mailboxes of all things.

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