Spoke sensor for bicycle

John Dope <always.look@message.header> wrote in
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> On Android? Can anybody name one such Android app (with a decent
> rating) that DOESN'T work off-line (at least after you have paid
> the 1 or $2 for it)? There are plenty of hiking apps, obviously
> all of them work off-line. 
> 

  There are a lot of games that do not work offline for obvious 
reasons.

Cant play Euchre with a worldwide set of opponents offline.  

  D'Oh!  John Dope is not very bright.

On 6/15/2022 8:43 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On 06/15/2022 09:33 AM, Don Y wrote:
>>
>> Bikes won't work well as I'd want to be able to take the "shortcuts"
>> over dirt/gravel/grass.  Something more "ATV-ish" is called for.
>> Hence the Segway option.  (The Segway "egg" looks do-able)
> 
> https://www.montaguebikes.com/product/paratrooper/
> 
> Any mountain bike will be at home off the pavement. I've got a Montague because 
> I wanted a full-sized folding bike I can put in the back of the Yaris. Bike 
> racks and hatchbacks don't play well together.

Bike relies heavily on rider.  My body is no longer as "pliable"
as it used to be, making reaction times a significant issue to
ridership.

>> I also have to be wary of the laws regarding where you can operate
>> said "conveyance".  E.g., I don't think bicycles are allowed on sidewalks.
>> And, the rules for ebikes might be different.
> 
> I don't think sidewalk riding is illegal here but I wonder about the people who 
> ride on sidewalks or the shoulder of the road when there's a perfectly good 
> bike path six feet away.

Bike paths, for the most part, run along the washes; a few in town but they
share the pavement with vehicles (which is where bikes are supposed to ride).

Here, cities have final authority over regulating bikes.  Tucson prohibits
riding bikes on sidewalks (unless posted otherwise).  Other localities can
set their own restrictions/permissions.

> Ebikes are up in the air. They're banned on quite a few trails but there's no 
> blanket prohibition. There's an attempt to distinguish between electric assist 
> and outright electric drive.

eBikes (of all kinds) and "motorized bikes" are treated like bicycles wrt
sidewalk riding.  There are some distinctions (Watts or cc's) that allow for
the bike to be classed as a "scooter"/moped which just makes it harder
to think of it as suitable for sidewalk use.

Wheelchairs are deliberately accommodated on sidewalks with specifications
as to the slope of the on/off ramps, "texture" to alert users that they
are entering/exiting the roadway, etc.

I'm sure electric wheelchairs are classed the same as regular wheelchairs.
There's the possibility that some narrow-minded cop might consider a
gas-generator powered electric wheelchair to be considered a "motor bike"
but I suspect that wouldn't hold up in court (there is nothing that
states HOW the power is sourced)

I suspect Segways would be classed as ebikes, if the statutes were
parsed carefully.

>> Years ago, I tried the bike approach.  Driving on the roads is just too
>> perilous.  Having to cross 4 lanes of 45+MPH traffic several times on each
>> "short trip" left my nerves jangled.
> 
> Forty tears ago I'd ride on Boston streets. Over the years I gotten much more 
> paranoid. I gave up a favorite route because it's a narrow two lane road with 
> no shoulder. The fog line is the edge of the pavement and there's only a ditch 
> past it. Most people are good but it is frequented by F350 dualies pulling 
> stock trailers.
> 
> The other route is on a very wide shoulder for about three miles and then a 
> bike/pedestrian path.

When I was younger, traffic wouldn't bother me.  I'd ride from my place in
Medford, down Mystic Valley/Alewife Brook/Fresh Pond -Parkways to pick up
take-out at Big Joyce Chen's -- navigating the delightful 55MPH rotaries
along the way (talk about hair-raising!).

Or, down Mass Ave to school, crossing Harvard Sq "the wrong way" to cut a block
off the trip.

I was more "nimble" on the bike than on foot.  Now, the reverse is the case
(I can get my body out of harms way a lot easier than I'd be able to get
it AND a bike out!)

Typical idiotic irrelevant response from Always Wrong...

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> John Dope <always.look@message.header> wrote in
> news:t8aiai$34s$1@dont-email.me: 
> 
>> On Android? Can anybody name one such Android app (with a decent
>> rating) that DOESN'T work off-line (at least after you have paid
>> the 1 or $2 for it)? There are plenty of hiking apps, obviously
>> all of them work off-line. 
>> 
> 
>   There are a lot of games that do not work offline for obvious 
> reasons.
> 
> Cant play Euchre with a worldwide set of opponents offline.  
> 
>   D'Oh!  John Dope is not very bright.
> 
> 

In message-id <t6nt3e$7bp$3@dont-email.me>
(http://al.howardknight.net/?ID=165357273000) posted Thu, 26 May 2022
12:50:54 -0000 (UTC) John Dope stated:

> Always Wrong, the utterly foulmouthed group idiot, adding absolutely
> NOTHING but insults to this thread, as usual...

Yet, since Wed, 5 Jan 2022 04:10:38 -0000 (UTC) John Dope's post ratio
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rbowman wrote:
> Don wrote:
>> My own mountain cycling takes place year around. Throughout the winter:
>>
>> <https://crcomp.net/arts/spintale/winter.png>
>
> Do you run studs?

No. Winter spins on the storied North Face of the mountain south of town
are more infrequent, shorter, and require more preconditions. Such spins
primarily keep my legs in shape for summer fun. (If you don't use it you
lose it.)
    In the Winter the paved road to a promontory called Lookout must be
mostly dry. Although snowy patches here and there are OK and crunchy 
rime ice is OK; black ice is a show stopper.
    The temperature at the start must be above 39 degrees F. Your own
body heat keeps you toasty under a windbreaker thrown over a long sleeve
t-shirt. Your own sweat drenches you, and becomes a very big problem on 
the way down.
    Southern chinook winds warm the town in the dead of Winter. But,
they also agonize ascents on the North Face. Imagine gale force 
headwinds as you pedal a bicycle up a mountain.
    The ideal time for an ascent in Winter is when a storm first starts
to blow in. The chinook eases off to slowly give way to a Northern
tailwind.
    Of course the tailwind's cold and it becomes a headwind on the way
back down. Remember my sweat drenched clothes? Add a nominal North wind
of 20 MPH to a nominal 40 MPH downhill speed and you face a 60 MPH wind
chill. Frozen digits on the way down become your biggest problem.

Danke,

-- 
Don, KB7RPU, https://www.qsl.net/kb7rpu
There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night.

John Dope <always.look@message.header> wrote in news:t8f906$n4h$3@dont-
email.me:

> 
> Typical idiotic irrelevant response from Always Wrong...
> 

  The idiot John Dope challenges a response, it gets filled, and then 
the putz denies he challenged anyone and declares their response to be 
irrelevant, when it addressed the challenge 100%.  And uses name 
calling like the immature little school boy putz mentality dumbfuck he 
is.

  You really are an immature old fool, John Dope.

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On 06/16/2022 09:28 AM, Don wrote:
>     In the Winter the paved road to a promontory called Lookout must be
> mostly dry. Although snowy patches here and there are OK and crunchy
> rime ice is OK; black ice is a show stopper.

It certainly is.  I was riding a trail that was mostly clear and came to 
a patch of smooth ice. I figured I could blow past it but physics 
disagreed.

On 16/6/22 14:07, rbowman wrote:
> On 06/15/2022 11:08 AM, Dimiter_Popoff wrote:
>> I have seen "normal" bicycles with a battery and some electric
>> motor... I was told the motor just helps you, they are made not
>> to move on their own, you have to pedal but you get assistance
>> (making life easier uphill I suppose). Some nonsense that, why
>> would I bike if I didn't want the exercise.
> 
> Some do not require any pedaling. Locally they're trying to find a way 
> to legally differentiate between the two.

Those aren't road-legal here in Australia, though some folk have them 
anyway.

Road use has three legal requirements:
* 250W max
* no assist above 27km/hr
* no assist unless pedalling (no throttle)

Clifford Hetah.

On 6/17/2022 6:24, rbowman wrote:
> On 06/16/2022 09:28 AM, Don wrote:
>>     In the Winter the paved road to a promontory called Lookout must be
>> mostly dry. Although snowy patches here and there are OK and crunchy
>> rime ice is OK; black ice is a show stopper.
> 
> It certainly is.  I was riding a trail that was mostly clear and came to 
> a patch of smooth ice. I figured I could blow past it but physics 
> disagreed.

To me riding when there is snow is too much of a madness. I do ride
during the winter months when it is dry and I have occasionally landed
on a patch of snow, barely being able to control the slide (it typically
happens at a curve on my daily track where the snow melts slowest).
My tires are perhaps half as wide as Don's, may be 1/3, but still.