i went out on that cursed ebike this afternoon, thinking, if i am careful and keep my speed low i'll have time to stop if something goes PING and i lose my brakes
barely 1km down the hill, on the most gentle path i can take, PING!
i had adjusted the brakes as much as i could, kept them down, and as it was, i literally had to turn sharply, with an oncoming car about 30m down the road, and roll up a bank, and i just threw that fucker off the bank into the blackberry vines, and i've thrown the stupid charger in my trashcan now too, pending to be put in the dumpster down the road
looking forward to getting my plain old simple 200 euro steel frame folder next week, when it should arrive
just hope that its brake feet are standard, and probably will buy several spare tubes and a couple actual steel wheels with spokes already tuned up, and need some spoke tuning tool as well because spokes be like that
i don't know what other ways i can find to improve my life at the moment, but if i can manage to safely go up and down the 300m altitude between me and my main suppliers independently and at worst have to replace a busted tube or brake foot on the way that's ok
but the feeling of when the last brake foot flies out on the road in front of you and you have to take evasive action to avoid another fucking tumble
and this is the other thing
i had a cheap scooter one time, electric, on similarly steep ground on the sides of the valley of Sarajevo
one time i went out on it, not long after i got it, and discovered that the regen brakes fail when the battery is too full, and had to take evasive action and it also had discs as well
mountains and bicycles are hard work, but disc brakes and regens make it harder
i was literally adjusting my disc (they were one side action, cable pull) every other time i went out, i mean, imagine a car where you had to do a service every second trip, it'd be a dead duck in the water nobody would buy it once people learned how high maintenance it was... like a fucking coke sniffing whore
that's ebikes for you
you just won't notice it until you move out to the hill country
mleku / mleku™️
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"content": "i went out on that cursed ebike this afternoon, thinking, if i am careful and keep my speed low i'll have time to stop if something goes PING and i lose my brakes\n\nbarely 1km down the hill, on the most gentle path i can take, PING!\n\ni had adjusted the brakes as much as i could, kept them down, and as it was, i literally had to turn sharply, with an oncoming car about 30m down the road, and roll up a bank, and i just threw that fucker off the bank into the blackberry vines, and i've thrown the stupid charger in my trashcan now too, pending to be put in the dumpster down the road\n\nlooking forward to getting my plain old simple 200 euro steel frame folder next week, when it should arrive\n\njust hope that its brake feet are standard, and probably will buy several spare tubes and a couple actual steel wheels with spokes already tuned up, and need some spoke tuning tool as well because spokes be like that\n\ni don't know what other ways i can find to improve my life at the moment, but if i can manage to safely go up and down the 300m altitude between me and my main suppliers independently and at worst have to replace a busted tube or brake foot on the way that's ok\n\nbut the feeling of when the last brake foot flies out on the road in front of you and you have to take evasive action to avoid another fucking tumble\n\nand this is the other thing\n\ni had a cheap scooter one time, electric, on similarly steep ground on the sides of the valley of Sarajevo\n\none time i went out on it, not long after i got it, and discovered that the regen brakes fail when the battery is too full, and had to take evasive action and it also had discs as well\n\nmountains and bicycles are hard work, but disc brakes and regens make it harder\n\ni was literally adjusting my disc (they were one side action, cable pull) every other time i went out, i mean, imagine a car where you had to do a service every second trip, it'd be a dead duck in the water nobody would buy it once people learned how high maintenance it was... like a fucking coke sniffing whore\n\nthat's ebikes for you\n\nyou just won't notice it until you move out to the hill country",
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