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Re: My Electric Bike Is Not ‘Cheating.’ It Could Replace Cars for Millions of People

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Post by rstuart4133 » Tue, May 23, 2017, 11:36 PM UTC

manicminer wrote: post #12

Cyclist here. It's a different type of vehicle than a leg-powered bike and therefore not cheating at all... unless you're recording your rides on Strava, then it is. More bikes is a very good thing, whether human or human/electric powered.

> unless you're recording your rides on Strava,

Strava has a E-Bike ride classification, so it would be no different to recording your normal bike ride as a run.

I had a electric bike and regularly recorded by rides on Strava. Comparing it to others doesn't make much sense, but comparing it to yourself and watching your fitness improve is as satisfying as ever.

Re: My Electric Bike Is Not ‘Cheating.’ It Could Replace Cars for Millions of People

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Post by hollerith » Thu, May 25, 2017, 7:47 PM UTC

llukas wrote: post #99

hollerith wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, sure, but again the CO, NOx, SOx and most of the unburnt hydrocarbons in gasoline-fueled vehicle exhaust are not particles (they're gasses) and are not removed to any significant degree by a HEPA filter. In the US, diesel cars are rare, and I would guess that the non-diesel cars in the US produce very little in the way of particulate pollution. Am I wrong about that?

Hmm. According to this https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-09/documents... Most particulates are from exhaust but amount of this is falling and soon most contributing factor would be brake/tire wear.

That's why I used the qualifier "gasoline-fueled": the particulates are coming mostly from _diesel_ engines.

(I didn't belabor that point earlier because I assumed that people here would already know that because the VW diesel-emissions cheating scandal was such a big story.)

During a busy commute in a major US metro area, the vast majority of the vehicles on the road are gas-powered (because a large fraction of trucks will avoid busy commutes). I realize the situation is different in Europe where diesel-powered cars are much more common.

Re: My Electric Bike Is Not ‘Cheating.’ It Could Replace Cars for Millions of People

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Post by nextlevelwizard » Tue, May 30, 2017, 4:23 AM UTC

cooper12 wrote: post #76

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you seriously not have better things to do than police comment section for silly typos?

Well gender is part of someone's identity, so it's important to get it right. If you misgendered a person in real life, it might make them feel insecure about their looks and features and hurt their self-esteem. (a man might for example wonder if he is acting feminine) It's also more important on the internet and communities like this one which are commonly stereotyped as a boys club where male is the default and fem…

If your feelings get hurt because someone somewhere is talking about something you wrote/did and happens to use wrong gender when referring to you, you really need to seek therapy. Sure English sucks as a language since you even have something as stupid as gender specific pronouns, good (and proper) languages do not have such non-sense, but alas we are stuck with shitty language to use while communicating on the Interwebs.

Still, you should have something better to contribute than just go around fixing these small mistakes.

As for "boys club", I'm sure most men in all fields of engineering would love to have more women be a) interested in it b) working in it, but women seem to be drawn to different fields and it's not going to magically be better if you go policing comment section(s) on online forums. It's even gotten to point where in everything you read these days when people are referring to any imaginary person (like user does something or another) they always talk about "her" and "she" instead of even more ambiguous "their" or "user". What I'm trying to say is that your agenda is already been pushed on multiple fronts, trying to call people out for using wrong gender in a random comment is just silly.