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    WI legislator runs red light - hits cyclist

    I hate reading the comments sections when a cyclist is hit by a driver clearly at fault. Too many tools out there who somehow feel the cyclist is at fault. This would have been even more deadly if a compact car had entered the intersection at speed and been T-boned by that SUV. You wouldn't...
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    WI legislator runs red light - hits cyclist

    Ouch. Saw this article in the news this morning. Looks like the cyclist had timed the light perfectly and had a decent speed entering the intersection. The light had clearly changed as the bus starts moving before the cyclist enters the intersection. Fortunately, the injuries are described...
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    Pilot's Union Seeks to Ban Li Batteries From Flights

    Noticed this doozy in the linked article...
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    Justin made Hackaday

    The comments on the hackaday site are typical to the site, they aren't a stab at Justin. For instance: the arduino and linux comments are running in-jokes on the site, someone later gives him his props for using a microcontroller to run the logic of his controller.
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    Good Free 2D CAD program

    The URL in your link is malformed for me. A ... series replaces what must be the majority of the file path.
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    Ice creams pumped with air to cut costs

    Is it here? Same energy required, heat flow is faster due to increased temperature differential to ambient. Right?
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    Mini Cooper Electric production model (with EPA ratings!)

    That's the speedometer. The mini has an eccentric instrument layout; so this peculiarity isn't due to the electric drive train.
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    Toronto asked to keep e-bikes off sidewalks and bike lanes!

    I might be seeing it wrong, but that looks to me like a parking lane, with a bicycle lane outside of the parking lane. We have those on a few residential collectors here. You have about 12' striped off as the 'bike lane', but parking is allowed at the curb. Cyclists suggesting a 500W power...
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    Pharmacist charged with murder after defending himself

    It's all about the timing. If he had unloaded 6 rounds into the kid all at once it's self-defense; there would be no questions. From the security video, it appears the pharmacist hit the kid with one of his first shots, then pursued the armed robber out of the pharmacy, returned, retrieved a...
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    Another aero-fairing recumbent

    Hannu's Boatyard is a list of experiments in minimalist plywood stitch-&-glue boat construction (as little as one-sheet of plywood for some of his designs). One of his recommended links is to Carlson's Hull Designer, which will take a simple hard chine hull and translate it to cutting patterns...
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    NASA TEST A123 cell --Very VERY V E R Y interesting !--

    That's a standard government website disclaimer/notice. If it is on the accessible side of the web it is alright to access. Every once in a while someone puts something in the publicly accessible space that didn't belong there, but generally by the time it is posted it has been reviewed for...
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    EEStor ultracapacitor

    Hypothetically they are. Their latest victim >er, investor/licencee< is a light electric vehicle company planning to produce 2-wheel and 3-wheel electric vehicles. I think someone posted it here a couple of weeks ago. Found it: EEStor Rides Again, This Time on a Bike!
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    ROUE BLOQUEE EN MODE GENERATRICE

    We discussed the problem very briefly on the Goldenmotor forums, but bernix is much more comfortable speaking in French, and I don't remember anything from high school, so I recommended he ask around in here so some of our Francophones could respond in kind. I may have understood wrong, but...
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    Zero X: Or Why Ebikes are not Emotorcycles...

    I'm not sure I follow what you are trying to ask or state here. I think it is more of a non-sequitor than an argument. That would be like saying an AMA Superbike is the perfect argument for limiting mopeds to 30mph. They are in completely different classes and do not compare. A motorcycle...
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    goldenmotor price drop

    No reliable contact. sales@goldenmotor.com is their sole face to the world, and often goes unanswered if the guy on the other end doesn't feel interested that day. More than the delivery time frame was the reliability issues and lack of response. They seemed to have a worse initial no-go rate...
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    gordon brown in favour of electric cars

    I think one request would be to add some umph to the hobbled e-bike regulation you are living with. Increase the allowable no-pedal speed to 20 or 25mph, and allow power to the 500-1000W range as street-legal "bicycles" (no tags, no license, no insurance required).
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    Bum == Buttocks We need a Google translator to 'Merican from Queen's English.
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    Charging Station Idea

    "Lockers" can be done with expanded metal mesh, or any other perforated metal for the doors. Enough ventilation eliminates the explosion hazard. As for bombs, they can just as easily be placed in a trash receptacle as in a locker; you only need an hour or so of delay to be useful. I doubt...
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    Dealing with cars / traffic

    Of course the chart Lock posted happens to back up the assertion that sidewalk riding is almost twice as dangerous as riding with traffic. For an estimated 5% of the mileage traveled by cyclists, sidewalk riding is responsible for 9% of the accidents. One has to search for the source of the...
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    gas price thread

    Simple decimal point error. He's actually talking about the $40/gal gas it will be next year :shock:
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    A PIC based Battery Management System

    Let's just hope it's available for sampling when they bring it to market.
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    Ping pack DOES NOT cut out at 101F

    I was going to say the WSMR to Organ commute would probably be one of the most brutal of any user here. The bike/running trail along 25 was a nice facility. I'd jog a segment of that to try to stay in shape while I was teaching AFROTC at NMSU. Used to live off of Roadrunner in the shadow of...
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    Ping pack DOES NOT cut out at 101F

    You're not commuting over the Organ Pass, are you? Do you live in Cruces and work at WSMR? nothing else on the other side of the Organ mountains for 50 miles! I always hated the drive from Las Cruces to Holloman and Alamogordo.
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    Inclinometer Power Control

    I might be wrong, or at least it could probably be accounted for somehow, but it seems like acceleration on flat ground would create an adverse feedback loop. As you accelerate, the angle of the acting g-forces moves in the same direction as if you were on an incline, resulting in more power...
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    Switched Capacitors

    The idea came up in the PIC based BMS thread, around page 20 or so. Gary and Fetcher were hashing out the concept; Fetcher posted a schematic that may have been workable; randomly pointed out the current transferred between cells would be minimal based on the part used; I asked about another...
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