Recent content by sendler2112

Sur Ron Storm . .

youtubers are just now getting review samples of the Sur Ron Ultra and Storm. Dealers are telling me April or May and are quoting $400 over msrp to take a deposit. . .

So you are happy enough with the forks for now? I already have a sweet Shimano E8000 bike with a Pike that I love. But I am probably going to buy an X2 for the Ludacris power and to try something with a throttle to use at my friends land In Arivaca, AZ. Steep hills and deep sand. To see how well...

Did you get your X2? How do you like it?

The Luna X1 Bafang M600 with Ludicrous controller had a similar advantage over the Levo in this climbing test with a time of about 60 seconds versus 76. I have to assume he chose a hill that was so steep the the Levo didn't approach its class 1 limited top speed of 20mph which would have been...

Maybe the M600 with the $400 ludicrous controller would be more like this test of the M620 which smashed the times of all of the other "class 1" motors with a time of 45 seconds versus 66. . https://youtu.be/eT2JAaCUzJ8?t=256 .

Here is a fairly complete ebike climbing showdown including Bafang M600 which was near the top but whichever version this is couldn't beat the Brose in the Levo. Should I really buy a Luna X2 if I would only gain a few seconds over my Shimano E8000 bike that I already have and love the...

What are the changes in the Sur Ron for 2022? I see everybody likes the new brakes. Is there a new fork? Is it a keeper? New seat. Better headset. Anything new about the X controller since it came out? Wheels? Tires?

Personal energy use at home is only 20% of total promary energy. The rest is heavy transport, agriculture. and embodied energy in infrastructure, services. You can go to zero at home but this reduces your aggregate average by 20%. 30% if you have an electric car ($40,000) (or no transportaion)...

A reduction in crop productivity will follow the descent of energy and fertilizer. And ancient ground water aquifers. The direct actions are needed to help people (apparently like you) understand that everything must change.

But we also live in an age of determined young activists such as Sunrise Movement, Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion who realize that we are headed into a grim future of pollution and receding energy, nonrenewable resources, biodiversity, and food and water. And are willing to take to...

We have several converging challenges facing us down. CO2 balance and other waste sinks are full, energy and non-renewable resource access is past peak and will enter descent, at the same time that we are stuck in a debt based financial system bearing interest that can only be paid back with...

Social inertia, a debt/ growth based economic system, and a selfish and underinformed elite class, has us caught in a "monkey trap" of self ( and worse yet for any other non-human species)-destructive system of ever increasing consumption.

Richard Heinberg: "Meanwhile, communications media were evolving still further. While radio and television had a largely unifying effect during the 20th century, the internet and social media are proving to be disintegrative to consensus in the 21st. Algorithms capture users’ interests and...