Category: Gear
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EBike Kits
Electric bicycles are fast, efficient and fun! And now you can convert your own bicycle into an electric bicycle with my e-bike kit! This is from the Kickstarter author, NOT me For anyone who is just now stumbling upon this page, because the Kickstarter campaign is over, you will no longer be able to get…
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Replacing a Worn Out Bike Light Mount With Sugru + Magnets
I have a worn out Planet Bike LED Bike Light Mount. It lasted many years and now it simply doesn’t click the lock closed dependably. Online costs for a new mount seemed too high, appropriate, and yet, functionally, not a direction I wanted to go. I couldn’t use the bike light as a helmet light…
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Winter Riding Clothes: Novara Headwind Pants
Pant vs Pants? Not important. Last year I went through two pairs of Novara Tights due to zipper failure. REI was excellent about taking each pair back, especially as the zipper failed for no particular reason and certainly not from overuse, unless the tights were designed to be on a shelf and not worn. This…
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Superpedestrian“Copenhagen Wheel” transforms a normal bicycle into a hybrid e-bike
I found this on the NYTimes chasing the new MIT wheel. I think it appears destined for fixee style bikes, who else pedals backwards. I might like one on my commuter though. Superpedestrian, a start-up in Boston, announced on Monday that it has received $2.1 million in financing to help build a wheel that transforms…
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CopyMySports to Link Garmin Connect and Strava
I want to automatically copy by Garmin Connect information to Strava. Trying CopyMySports Garmin Connect keeps my actual precise data and because of its method of calculating the information is more accurate than Strava. The simple explanation is that Strava has to include phones and “non-Garmin” devices and so is slightly different. But Strava is…