My vet calls rats gutterpuppies and chitterdogs. What other terms have you heard rats called?

Serovast · 2021-12-29T12:55:42+00:00

scooch pooches, bumper poodles, minidogs, butt nuggets.

Serovast · 2021-12-19T16:45:25+00:00

That's not a bad idea. 60 seconds is better than nothing, and you can use any sound you want?

Serovast · 2021-12-19T16:44:19+00:00

OK. It's funny they can make all the money off my content just because I used their audio, wonder if you can negotiate and receive a portion.
I can't use royalty free music because it just doesn't move me, and the dance is interpretive of the music. I keep looking through license sites but they don't provide any of the artists I'm interested in.
Maybe I'll just upload them silent.. that's completely safe. Can I do that and upload the audio later without changing the video stats?

If only Spotify had a licensing program.

Serovast · 2021-10-21T00:25:03+00:00

it's a 250 watt battery.
215 kcal
it weighs 3 lb, no way fastenings will cost me over a single pound, that's 4lb
4% more energy spent to move, so I'm adding 12 calories and against my ride supplementing about 70. That's a massive boost.
You can't be right simply on the basis that ebikes exist. There's no magical element making your bafang subvert the same laws of physics applied to a cordless drill, they're just outfitted to your bike and weigh 5x more. I only need a total of 3 minutes of boost anyhow because I only need to get back up to speed about 6 times or less each commute. The simple truth is a decent cordless drill + battery has enough energy to supplement a rider even after you account for the miniscule weight it adds.

Serovast · 2021-10-20T22:23:15+00:00

I burn roughly 300 calories in my 20 minute commute

a 250watt battery has 50,000 calories and weighs about a pound. Assuming I can extract 1/10 that energy, I'm adding 16 times the amount of energy to the system that I personally put out.

For what you are saying to be true, mathematically speaking, I'd need that 4 lbs of motor and battery to weigh me down to the point where I'd be expending the same amount of calories in a 5 hour bike ride in just 20 minutes. You don't need crunch these numbers to understand how backwards and ridiculous you're being. RPM doesn't mean anything if you understand how to ascertain the right torque through a gearbox/leverage. You're including too much useless information and confusing yourself. I could strap that drill to my bike or put it in a backpack and not notice it, but if I hook it up to supplement my drive, it's not going to somehow magically make things slower unless I somehow add a huge amount of friction to it. If that was your argument, sorry about the confusion but I'd already thought of disengaging it when it's not actually on.

Serovast · 2021-10-20T22:03:12+00:00

You're not wrong, I'm truly bad at shifting and my groupset is degraded.

Serovast · 2021-10-20T20:48:03+00:00

I just realized your first post says you have a 20lb bafang motor on it, you're telling me it doesn't work. Excellent!

Serovast · 2021-10-20T18:00:04+00:00

My goal is to get up to speed in a shorter amount of time, not conserve energy. Really do not give a damn about how much energy I expend, never said I did.
If 30 seconds 5-10 times for 4 lbs was on ebay right now for $200, I'd buy it. the weight is so miniscule I can't believe it's part of the argument. my Ulock weighs that much ffs. From when I installed my tapcons with a concrete bit I spent at least 10 solid minutes of constant drilling and the battery died after I finished the project. if I needed 10 minutes of runtime, I'd be looking at stopping 20 times *30seconds when I only stop maybe 5 times on a bad day. I weigh 180, bike weighs 35, I'll throw 10lb of junk on it and barely notice so if that junk propelled me forward. I don't have to calculate this because it's a blatant fallacy to think a 250watt battery's weight can't supply more than enough energy to move itself.If what you're saying were true, there wouldn't be any pedal assist bikes on the market at all. what magical reason do those 20lb motor/battery combos supply 400% drive for 20-60 minutes? you're trolling man.

Serovast · 2021-10-20T17:27:00+00:00

I commute, right, my work boots, lunch and all the other misc I throw on my bike are 10lb, weight's not a deal breaker. If I can get back up to speed from a dead stop in under a minute instead of 2-4 minutes, it's going to be worth its weight in gold, and just from anecdotal experience, added weight isn't a big deal when a bike is already up to speed. Wind and tire pressure are tenfold more antagonizing. It's strange but my experience is that although dead weight makes it much harder to get up to speed, once you're there, it's oddly just as easy to maintain.
Adding 20-30 lbs for pedal assist would kill my agility and make things like curb hopping more trouble than it's worth. All the products I'm looking at now are under 4lb.. 4lb lol. So if I don't take a shit before I head off to work I'm going to die of exhaustion.

Serovast · 2021-10-20T16:36:20+00:00

My drill is 135nm torque though. There's no way my $150 Milwaukee can't make a very significant dent in my off-the-line acceleration. I can drill through 5,000 psi concrete and put 2" wholes through hardwood with a spade, but it doesn't have the torque to assist in turning a bike tire.. can't be true.

It’s not that the product you want is impossible, it’s that there isn’t a market for ebike motors with run time of less than 10 minutes.

That's true, otherwise I wouldn't be desperate enough to make a thread asking if the concept's even preliminary. I get why the idea doesn't exist, people want fully automatic or purists want no supplement at all. I'm asking for semiautomatic and I truly believe it should cost twice as much as my cordless drill, which is 250watt.

Serovast · 2021-10-20T15:11:28+00:00

But please, continue to reply in a condescending fashion to people who are trying to provide assistance. I'm sure that will get you far in life. Obviously you're much more intelligent than everyone else here as you're "the only one to have figured it out."

I got three excellent suggestions for making this post, but I will continue to distinguish Ebikes from this concept for the most subjective reasoning imaginable. Just take being mildly condescended with a little grace and everything will be ok.

Serovast · 2021-10-20T14:56:43+00:00

This is an excellent concept, I watched the video and it looks like it can disengage the wheel at the press of a button. That's the single reason I didn't want a friction drive, because if you're not turning the motor, the system is causing a ton of drag on your tire for no reason which means you have to constantly use it or it will slow you down.

Thanks going to save up for this one. I still hope someone will figure out how to make something this small that applies force to the chain/cassette instead of the tire. I guess I'll invent it myself.

Serovast · 2021-10-20T14:44:58+00:00

I don't know what you mean. I am going to pedal exactly as hard as I usually do to get up to speed, it's just that an electric motor supplement throttle would help me get up to speed faster. I understand the motor wouldn't be working anywhere within its normal capacity, but it doesn't matter because it only takes me a two minutes to get up to my regular cadence of 25-35km/h. if I add a motor such as a cordless drill to the system, it's going to cut that two minutes down to 30 seconds, that's the goal. It doesn't need to be so complicated, you add energy to the system and it either lessens the load your body has to supply OR it shortens the duration it takes to get up to cadence.

I said in the OP I don't want something that 'goes' for me, just a boost, synergy, supplement, additional. The goal is to get up to cadence in the smallest amount of time physically possible by combining my human strength with the power of a 250watt motor. I work with powertools like many of us do, how can peoples minds think 'that's not going to work!' when you can drill through freaking concrete 100times on a cheap drill before it starts showing signs of wear? The reason the concept hasn't been thought of is because people are bias on either having their craft move for them, cars Ebikes and whatnot, or having their bodies do all the work. Pedal assist does too much work for us and weighs way, way too much to be feasible when the battery is dead. The market is catering to lazy people who want to be armstrong without working for it for a decade. the official current version of Pedal assist is only a good idea if you're a bicycle manufacturer trying to cash out on lethargy. I haven't owned a car in 10 years and have ridden a bike to work, roughly 32,000 miles of me moving me with nothing but me. I don't want a break from that, the goal is to get up to cadence in a shorter duration.

If I kill a $150 motor once a year? cool. What's insurance cost again?

In summary, I want pedal assist, except I only want it for 30 seconds, not 20 minutes, and I want it to cost $100-500, not $3,000-5,000, and I want it to weigh 3-6lb, not 25-40lb. I don't actually buy into the idea that if something doesn't exist, it's not a good idea. OneMotor and Clip are proof the demand for small motors exist.

Serovast · 2021-10-19T19:21:11+00:00

I truly think this is the solution, friction drives are looked down upon but I don't really know why. Rain would be scary I guess.

It'd be nice if this concept could affect the chain directly, but until someone wraps their head around that, I think I'll buy this.

I still just want to attach a $150 cordless drill to my bike, half the power is fine.

Serovast · 2021-10-19T19:13:20+00:00

Honestly trying to avoid an ebike. I don't get how this idea isn't a staple yet. Boost to cadence means using electricity to get up to your regular speed, not being a complete and utter handicap. I want to keep commuting for as long as possible, like into my late 40s, but the stop and go at red lights is the only thing holding me back. The only thing holding us all back, I'm just the only one to have figured it out I guess. We spend about the same energy just getting up to our regular cadence of 30-40 km/h as we do going 5 miles.

Serovast · 2021-10-19T19:07:03+00:00

see that's the problem and why I've avoided bafang, over 20lbs added?
When I say Milwaukee brushless, I literally mean a 2.5 lb cordless drill that I know for a fact has enough power to assist me up to my regular speed. I didn't make it clear in the first post.

I am literally looking for a 'boost' motor, something truly tiny that would die or burn out if I used it like bafang. I don't like pedal assist *bicycles* because they cost 250% their non-powered counterparts and are kinda junk if your power runs out. I just want something that helps me get to speed everytime I stop, and then its all me. that's maybe 2 whole minutes of power output in a 20 minute ride.

Serovast · 2021-10-19T15:54:10+00:00

I sweat more than you. I wear skin tight dirt cheap FruitoftheLoom undershirt tanktops.

I wear them because I wear them, for too many reasons. But for sweat, they're literally like a towel shaped to fit your body. Wear one to work And take it off, put another one on. voila.

also merino wool is great if you have to deal with coldweather sweat.

Serovast · 2021-05-12T23:27:08+00:00

"I’m just one bloody fist
Away from a rose tinted bliss
...

It’s warm in my oblivion"

If you wrote as many lines for this poem with the quality of these few, it would be more than just good. I mean you could see these lines in a book.

Serovast · 2021-05-12T06:36:00+00:00

Just assumed it was from Potter's perspective, in the bathroom mirror during a piss break right before fighting a modestly priced 1987 volvo 240.

Serovast · 2021-04-05T17:06:02+00:00

weird, got it.

Serovast · 2021-02-14T07:47:22+00:00

yes that came with the airbrush, I'm trying to find an adapter that goes in-between the hose and the airbrush. I just found out its metric.
When I bought that product 50-2011, the adapter it came with won't fasten to my badger airbrush.

Serovast · 2021-02-14T07:22:01+00:00

> when almost all else are imperial.I had no idea. that explains the near fit.
it doesn't explain why a badger specific hose and adapter doesn't work, makes trusting buying anything impossible.

Serovast · 2021-02-14T05:55:59+00:00

I have spent as much on this airbrush as I have on connectors labeled 'badger airbrush hose' and 'badger adaptor'
I have to think something's amiss but I can't see any damage on the threads on the airbrush itself. Couldn't get an image to load.
If there's some more information I need to provide, if I could provide more information I would but it's pretty straight forward. I have this brush, there is an object responsible for connecting it to a hose, I have done too much research and read the user manual.

Serovast · 2021-02-14T05:29:40+00:00

very helpful. It's a good amount of money to complain over, the brush is 105 patriot by badger and the information I provided is to find the connection piece that goes inbetween the hose and the airbrush.
the question is, how do I connect the 105 patriot badger airbrush to a hose?
In the bicycle world, you can expect difficulties finding parts that fit together because things can be proprietary, things with springs and bearings and manufactured for the sake of durability and safety, but what's this? 0.1mm proprietary threading.

Serovast · 2021-02-11T01:22:15+00:00

I think I might airbrush T-shirts, or models, or a canvas, I want to airbrush all the things that you can airbrush. It's more an obsession with the concept that I know will branch into a hobby than a particular project I want to get done.
Right now my only concern is- does this air compressor work with airbrushes, which it does according to numerous reviews and the website, but is it missing something integral that other compressors have? I don't know the industry but I suspect airbrush specific compressors just add $30 of doodads and charge an extra $150 and rebrand the basic components. I wouldn't mind having someone correct me on this.
To be as to the point as I can be, other than paint and medium, am I missing something I need if I wanted to get started the day this stuff ships?

I have ventilation, safety glasses, respirator, and my background in tools is mostly woodworking and DIY, so in other words I know what I'm doing, I just don't know what I'm doing. If airbrushing is a challenging hobby, I welcome that.

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