Wow, it’s been too long since I’ve written an article. I’ve been working like mad to try to stage and plant 5000 fruit and nut trees in just one year and have been grossly neglecting my faithful readers. So far I’ve gotten over 1000 trees in the ground and about 2500 trees staged, but I’ve…
Some ebike bloggers spend their time writing about bikes they have never ridden. This is not that kind of blog, instead, I spend my time using batteries, motors, and inverters to do things that I really should not be doing. In the process, I try not to electrocute myself or cause any permanent injury (I…
Well, it’s been almost 50 years since we first set foot on the moon with Apollo 11. Growing up I have always been fascinated by the history of manned space travel, so the Apollo missions hold a very special place in my heart. Whenever I feel frustrated with technology I just remember that a bunch…
For the last several years my wife and I have gone from a single tiny patch of Asparagus to having Organic and Permaculture garden and orchard that is well over 2 acres of cultivated land. We have hand grafted hundreds of fruit trees and moved many tons of soil, leaf matter and woodchips mostly by…
About a year ago I wrote this article about why you should never take your ebike to Black Rock City unless you were building an incredibly awesome Mutant ebike. A couple of my friends, Doug Shire and Laurence Clarkberg (look mom, I really do have friends), wasted thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of…
I’ve been meaning to try a 1×11 groupset for a while now but I’ve just been too cheap to spend my own money on one only to have it fail on me. Although you can throw a mega granny like the Sunrace 42T granny on a 10-speed setup, inevitably you always end up having issues with…
When I was a child I was completely obsessed with Lego. I spent most of my free waking hours in my youth sitting on the floor for hours at a time building anything I could imagine. I distinctly remember one of my creations was an AWD motorcycle with a complex drive system that engaged the…
Eric from Lunacycle has a great scam going. He sends me new products for testing on his dime, I beat on them for a few months then eventually fall in love with whatever he sends me and end up buying it. I was skeptical about how I would feel about the new Wolfpack he had…
One of my pet peeves about the new torque-sensing 1000W Ultra Max drive unit is that there just aren’t that many frames for it available in the states. The original Bafang Max drive which only sported 350W of power has a totally different mounting bracket than the Ultra Max which means you just can’t fit a…
On my latest trip to LA to visit Lunacycle and test the Apex and Apollo ebikes I found a new and unexpected love, the latest version of the Luna Apocalypse scooter. I guess the old 52v 35mph 2WD Luna Scooter was not radical enough so Eric decided to sell a bunch of higher power scooters with…
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