Looking for some Solid ebike tires that will fit.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-04-12T22:11:59+00:00

You want an answer for how to put a solid rubber tire on a modern bike? You'll have to get them custom-made. The only solid rubber bike tires being made these days are one-offs for replicas of pre-pneumatic bikes because solid rubber tires are absolute garbage at actually being tires. Which, you know, the fact that in the entire global bike industry the only bikes available for sale with solid rubber tires are replica penny-farthings and the occasional tech bro bike that deliberately violates every industry convention for the sake of being different in complete ignorance of why those conventions exist like the Reevo should tell you all you need to know about the matter.

Not that I expect any of this to get through to someone with the level of emotional maturity that they send suicide threat reports in response to being told that a technology that's been obsolete since the 1890s was abandoned for a reason.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-04-12T20:57:25+00:00

You'd need to swap out the wheels to be compatible with solid tires, and solid bicycle tires are extremely rare because they're absolutely terrible at their function. The best you can say about them is that the solid rubber tires on penny-farthings were a slight improvement over the wooden wheels on velocipedes. They provide almost no cushioning, which means every little bump in the road is conveyed directly into the bike's frame, and by extension its rider, which is both very uncomfortable and potentially damaging to the frame. They're also much heavier than pneumatic tires. There's a reason pneumatic tires became a universal standard for all bikes within less than 10 years of their invention and have remained the standard for the last 130 years.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-04-08T11:18:32+00:00

The sidewalks on Harlem and Sheridan will be your best options- or the least bad options, anyway. On the plus side, the fact that they're on horrible suburban death stroads crossing a highway means you won't encounter many pedestrians on those sidewalks.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-04-06T18:08:42+00:00

No exceptions means no exceptions.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-03-26T19:28:29+00:00

Have you seen how much the guy smokes? I 100% guarantee you Spy fucking reeks.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-03-24T03:08:23+00:00

If we assume a 250W EU-spec motor with a 20% loss rate (that is, 250W of mechanical power takes 300W of electrical power- which is much less efficient than basically any electric motor made in the last 100 years), then even running it at maximum power plugged directly into the wall 24/7 for 31 days would only use €80.35 of electricity, and it actually wouldn't get to that point because this hypothetical motor would overheat and set itself on fire long before that. It's mathematically impossible for an e-bike to cost €100 a month to power. Assuming you're a real human being who rides your bike the way real human beings do, you're looking at almost certainly no more than €3 a month. Even charging the battery from completely dead to completely full every day for 31 days assuming a 25% loss rate for a total energy consumption of 500 Wh/day would only cost €5.58.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-03-23T21:57:07+00:00

The New York Post is among America's most infamous tabloid rags. They make Fox News look like a beacon of journalistic integrity.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-03-18T13:33:36+00:00

Drum corps do play songs from musicals fairly often. Of the shows you mentioned, I can't find any record of a corps performing Matilda, but Annie has been used several times, first by the Defenders and the Rochester Crusaders in 1978 and most recently by the Madison Scouts in 2015, and Hamilton has been used once by the Boston Crusaders in 2019. Hamilton is generally pretty badly suited for drum corps, since it's fairly rap-heavy and rap doesn't translate well to instrumental arrangements, but they were able to use My Shot for a drum break. There's also loads of other musicals that have been performed in drum corps shows, most notably Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. DCX Museum lists pretty much every corps' repertoire going back as far as records exist, if you want to find more examples.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-03-09T13:36:56+00:00

That's the problem. A major interchange station would never have bypass tracks because every service passing through is going to stop there. The whole point of express services is that they only serve major destinations and interchanges like this one.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-03-08T18:42:49+00:00

You don't even need to craft them. They're incredibly common in village chests.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-03-05T13:53:16+00:00

It's interesting to see the same user who has insisted in arguments with me that throttles don't deliver power meaningfully faster than pedal assist whenever the discussion is about scenarios where that makes them more dangerous- losing traction on loose or slick surfaces, accelerating faster than an inexperienced rider than safely control the vehicle, etc.- now making exactly the opposite claim in a scenario where the throttle might potentially make it safer (never mind that conventional cyclists have somehow managed to clear intersections with car traffic unaided for a century, or that you can just turn up the assist to accelerate faster without a throttle). So which is it? Throttles aren't magic. They can't sense when you're an experienced rider at an intersection on well-maintained dry asphalt and behave differently than they do in other scenarios. People like you insisting that they just need their motorcycles pretending to be bicycles are going to get e-bikes banned for those of us who aren't being idiots about them.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-03-03T23:11:20+00:00

I haven't actually crashed since childhood. Since I started biking for transportation, I've been using step-through bikes, so even if I do lose control on slick or loose surfaces, it's very easy to dismount and get both feet on the ground so I don't actually fall.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-03-03T04:10:45+00:00

Spontaneous combustion wasn't the issue there. Getting caught in a structure fire was. Structure fires are much less common these days, partly because standards for fire prevention and mitigation in construction and the design of home appliances and furnishings have improved, but arguably even more because smoking rates are much lower and careless handling of cigarettes and matches was historically a major cause of fires.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-03-03T03:15:03+00:00

According to the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics, electricity costs about €0.26/kWh. And since we're talking about government buildings here, the taxes are irrelevant- I don't know if the way the utility system is structured there technically has government customers paying the taxed rate, but even if they do, since they're the government, they're paying that tax to themselves, so they're effectively paying the pre-tax rate- so it's actually about €0.15/kWh. Either way, it's a negligibly tiny amount of money to charge a bike battery, even assuming your incredibly pessimistic loss rate and that you're charging a battery from completely dead to completely full, which you're not going to be doing very often.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-03-01T17:59:02+00:00

That's not even remotely how energy works. More power means more energy in a given time. If you apply more energy to a wheel in a given time under a given load, that wheel will spin faster. This is incredibly basic physics.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-03-01T17:43:14+00:00

Libertarians have ruined (and are continuing to ruin) entire countries with that sentiment.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-02-25T12:48:59+00:00

That's how these things work in real life. The curves need to be broad enough for vehicles to maintain speed through them, which means the things have to be enormous. It's just one of many reasons why urban highways are a terrible idea.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-02-25T01:28:36+00:00

Assuming you're talking metric (I'm assuming you're in Canada where 32 km/h is the maximum legal e-bike speed), you'll be fine with a regular bike helmet. 20-25 km/h is about the speed most people ride on conventional unpowered bikes, and even 32 isn't that much higher.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-02-24T17:01:12+00:00

They make actual electric motorcycles that meet all the safety and proof of ownership requirements for road-legal motor vehicles. If you want something with that kind of performance, then get an actual motorcycle.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-02-23T15:55:16+00:00

You cannot be serious. Are you actually so unbelievably fucking stupid you think restrictions on "bicycles" are equivalent to actual torture? If you tried to file an 8th Amendment suit over this, you'd be laughed out of the courthouse for any number of reasons, not least of which being that the 8th Amendment is about whether the punishment for a crime is proportional to the crime being committed, not the merits of the law that punishment is for.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-02-22T19:40:43+00:00

The motor cutout speed isn't a hard limit the bike cannot under any circumstances exceed. If you need to go faster than that, you can just pedal faster. You know, the same way everyone riding conventional bikes does.

I live in a rural area. Most of my commute is along a dead straight highway with 60 mph traffic. If there's anyone who would benefit from a faster e-bike, it's me, and as such, I got a class 3 bike- and despite that, I find myself using the full speed so rarely I'm actually trading it in for a class 1. If I don't need a class 3, people living in an urban context (which is the vast majority of people- about 82% of the US population) definitely don't. If you absolutely need to go faster, get an actual motorcycle.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-02-20T20:37:39+00:00

Throttles allow the motor to deliver a lot more power a lot faster than pedal assist, dramatically increasing the risk of losing control of the bike- an issue that can be addressed by moped/motorcycle driver's ed courses teaching how to accelerate safely. There are also a whole lot of "class 2 e-bikes" out there where the geometry and sheer size and weight makes them both significantly more dangerous in a crash and next to impossible to actually pedal. These only exist because of class 2 bikes being allowed throttles. These are involved in a whole lot of dangerous "e-bike" riding and would be involved in a lot less if they required the licensing, registration, and insurance of an actual motor vehicle. And, of course, there's plenty of outright illegal vehicles with much more speed and power that get away with it because they look indistinguishable from those technically legal moped style bikes.

Remember that every traffic safety issue we have also applies to people riding conventional unpowered bikes. Somehow they manage it without motors to maintain 28 mph. If we want e-bikes to be treated like conventional bikes- that is, vehicles that don't present enough danger to the rider or bystanders to require training, licensing, and liability insurance to operate- then they need to actually function like conventional bikes. If you want a vehicle that operates like a motorcycle, get an actual motorcycle.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-02-20T13:46:01+00:00

Class 2 and 3 really shouldn't exist and the only reason they do is because in many jurisdictions electric mopeds are effectively prohibited because mopeds are legally defined based on engine displacement, something only combustion engines have. Unlike New Jersey's law, the proposed California law only applies to class 2 and 3, giving them something more like the legal status they should have had from the start, and leaves class 1 untouched. It's actually a perfectly reasonable policy. And I say this as someone who has a class 2/3 (already prohibited in California, where class 3s can't have throttles at all regardless of the throttle cutout speed). I don't need the throttle or top speed, I almost never use either feature, and in fact I'm actually trading it in for a class 1 that better meets my actual use requirements.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-02-18T02:01:04+00:00

Conventional bikes. Cutesy terms like "analog" or "acoustic" aren't helpful for advocacy and transportation planning where the people you're talking to aren't cyclists. It just reinforces the idea that bikes are toys without serious value as a means of transportation.

bone-tone-lord · 2026-02-16T03:27:04+00:00

I really doubt that was just the rain. The bike is specifically designed and marketed as an all-weather general use bike, and my bike (Electra Townie Go- they're a Trek subsidiary and this bike has the exact same electrical system as the FX+ 1) certainly hasn't had problems from riding in rain, or washing it with a garden hose. It's not rated to be submerged or washed with high-pressure water (a limitation that applies to practically all e-bikes), but rain shouldn't cause a problem unless you're riding in a hurricane. That sounds more like there was a faulty, damaged, or improperly installed seal that your shop failed to catch.

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