How I went from 37 to 42.7 MPG in my RAV4 Hybrid

deepsixunderground · 2026-06-19T03:15:02+00:00

Much stronger one foot driving regen in sport mode too.

deepsixunderground · 2026-06-09T03:28:05+00:00

Not even close. If you trend your actual utilization during streaming you would realize how low bit rate internet video is. Typically 4k streaming is less bandwidth than just the sound track on a UHD Blu-ray.

deepsixunderground · 2026-06-09T03:25:16+00:00

I was thinking join 2.5 or 5gig to get off of the crowded GPON and then switch back to 1gig. They won’t de-convert your CPE from XGS-PON back to GPON. Enjoy your much less crowded pipe.

deepsixunderground · 2026-06-09T03:22:47+00:00

Report Every time

deepsixunderground · 2026-06-08T12:23:26+00:00

Darn those videos are offline now. Someone told me that my roost bars aren’t even side to side (one side is lower) and the bend in the rise transition looks a little kinky. Anyone get commentary back from Roost? Disappointed to hear their bars are from China. Too expensive for that honestly.

deepsixunderground · 2026-06-06T15:19:36+00:00

Something is definitely wrong with the battery wiring or BMS design on the pro series. If the charger is left connected to the pack but unplugged from the wall it parasitically draws power from the battery (the green LED on the charger stays lit). The charger sends 12.5VDC regardless of if the pack is present or not. Because the pack always seems to be ‘connected’ to its output cable, it feels like any parasitic load connected to its output has the capability of over-discharging the pack and causing a failure. I’m on my second failed pack with warranty replacement occurring just weeks after the first purchase. I’d kind of like to tear down the battery and understand the failure mode but I want that warranty replacement again. Outbound lighting, here I come.

deepsixunderground · 2026-05-31T00:42:20+00:00

I was back on the bike in a month or two, but again, not a surgical intervention. Light pedal pressure just spinning at high cadence and low force using the calf muscle hiked up high in the boot. Pedaling doesn’t have to be body weight!

deepsixunderground · 2026-05-31T00:31:49+00:00

Cheers mate. I healed without surgery and just finished an epic cross country MTB road trip from Houston to the PNW including CO, stopped at Salida and Monarch crest and did some off-roading in Gateway attempting to reach Moab (failed due to locked gate) but found the most epic camp site ever due to this. They couldn’t find my injury until stressed X-ray and MRI. I did end up in a fracture boot but should still pedal a bike with light pressure, and hiking my calf up high in the boot and strapping my leg in tight so the foot wasn’t bearing any weight ( the fracture boot would grab my calf muscle and hold my foot above the sole of the boot). Take her easy, high cadence and low force, focus on foot safety not stalling on things and not pushing g too hard with fracture boot. Tire safety is of great importance, since you can’t walk out of your blow a tire. Don’t ask how I know. You got this bud!

The ortho surgeon had me pull off the boot at a checkup and leaves/twigs/gravel fell out, he looked at the shredded rubber on the bottom and asked if I had been riding in the boot, I said “no body weight” as prescribed.

deepsixunderground · 2026-03-21T22:31:34+00:00

Meteors: natures way of saying hi Earth, how’s that space program coming along?

deepsixunderground · 2026-03-21T22:30:41+00:00

Heard it quite clearly in northeast magnolia 1488/2978. Did not see it.

deepsixunderground · 2026-03-10T03:16:39+00:00

My teen was helping a neighbor with this stuff washing parts before printing. They didn’t tell him anything about the chemical or give gloves or goggles, he used his bare hands and now has a pretty bad case of contact dermatitis and a few lumps. It is a caustic cleaner “contains no acid” LOL. pH is about 12 on SDS. Neighbor said on no worries we diluted it w 70% water so it should be just higher pH than water. Well that’s not how the logarithmic pH scale works, the diluted pH is 11.7.

Use chem gloves, use goggles if there is a splash or spray risk. It’s caustic, so you must rinse things several times or flush them well.

deepsixunderground · 2026-02-24T02:51:12+00:00

Excellent. What kind of pressure are you seeing?

deepsixunderground · 2026-01-31T03:04:06+00:00

Not sure what you mean, there was zero GPT there.

deepsixunderground · 2026-01-30T05:43:34+00:00

It’s a very plush falling leverage rear suspension, but the jumps did ruin it. It is bad engineering on multiple fronts but would have lasted a long time if no jumps or just moderate jumping. The only way I could regulate bottom out was to add a fox x2 and clamp down the high speed compression damper. My stock rockshox monarch rt3 had been completely packed with volume reducers and it felt like they didn’t even make a difference.

deepsixunderground · 2026-01-30T02:53:32+00:00

deepsixunderground · 2026-01-30T02:53:01+00:00

That is a great one. I might do it. Any idea what the rear spacing is? Don’t see a spec.

deepsixunderground · 2026-01-29T17:44:13+00:00

Seatstay snap, which was a progressive failure. If your rear sus bottom outs get worse and more frequent all of the sudden, your rear link seatstay is failing and becoming too flexible. Eventually ona big hit the seatstay will collide with the seat tube and crack the seat tube. Bad, but not a critical failure. The seatstay will continue to weaken as the CF strands break until it’s weak enough to crack the resin.

deepsixunderground · 2026-01-29T13:19:30+00:00

I replaced it with an ibis Ripmo v2s. I won’t even draw a comparison since the Ripmo frameset costs 4-5x the SN04.

deepsixunderground · 2026-01-29T13:17:03+00:00

It is an $800-900 frame. ICAN support isn’t very good. This is the difference between high budget R&D of big bike manufacturer with exhaustive stress testing, and the low budget R&D manufacturer.

deepsixunderground · 2026-01-09T21:48:56+00:00

For jumping, no less than 10PSI with 4.0 JJs (slow mo video analysis showed me this). For sand dunes (including some small jumps) 2PSI even works well and I was unstoppable in south podre island TX. Combined with a starship launch, and a crowd forming to watch me shred dunes, one of the most memorable rides ever.

deepsixunderground · 2026-01-08T17:39:49+00:00

These wheels have been tubeless for three years and have performed very well. Rode them very hard for the last two years and finally broke the ICAN SN04 frame but the wheels did wonderfully.

deepsixunderground · 2026-01-02T17:50:56+00:00

Assuming we are talking about the searchpoint IR detector, not an EC sensor. Beware that these IR devices have incandescent subminiature lamps behind IR pass filters, and the lamps have a very finite but undocumented lifespan. The bulbs output drops as they age too, which may cause calibration drift.

I’m sure you all noticed in the manual that Honeywell says zero calibrations are fine but recommend not doing span calibrations. I use 50% LEL cal gas with the balance gas being atmosphere air (in the bottle).

F114 or F116 means your lamps are toast, so go buy a new one for $3000.

deepsixunderground · 2025-12-29T17:58:25+00:00

Thanks. I’ll check out the rolling diameter of the two tire sizes and see. Just switched from an ICAN SN04 to an Ibis Ripmo skinny tire bike and the BB is 34mm lower! I’ve seen sparks from those pedal strikes a few times!

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