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    Any map sites to find out hill slope grade?

    Highly recommend Google Earth's Elevation Profiler. You draw your route and it gives you a graph.
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    What items for Self Defense for Night Riding?

    Yeah, this is good advice. The attacks on cyclists in Humboldt and W Garfield have all been pretty late at night. They're also pretty rare, one or two a year hit the papers. I recommend the westsidecommuters Yahoo group for people commuting all-season between OP and the Loop. They meet at Fulton...
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    What items for Self Defense for Night Riding?

    If you are on a motorised bicycle, it is extremely unlikely that you'll be assaulted. Bicycle riders are infrequent targets for mugging because it is usually not possible to select and stalk them. I ride Lake St out to Oak Park sometimes, and generally cruise all over many ill-advised parts of...
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    Remaining noob questions after reading all noob guides

    Sorry! I could have sworn I updated my phpbb profile but it is clear I did not. I am in Chicago, Illinois. This is an extremely reasonable request. Chicago is completely flat, but strong winds off the lake are common.
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    Remaining noob questions after reading all noob guides

    Interesting. It is apparent I'm in the grey area of this battery's specs. I'll shoot Ping an e-mail and post his/their response here. Last question. What's usual etiquette on plugging your battery in at restaurants, stores, hotel lobbys? Do you offer fifty cents, do you say anything at all?
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    Remaining noob questions after reading all noob guides

    Yes, of course. That is not a thing I'd enjoy worrying about. I didn't know it was even possible to run a front hub with no torque arm. Thanks everyone for the responses. It sounds from your advice like I could probably buy the 60V 10Ah Ping if I had to, but that spending too much time above 20...
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    Remaining noob questions after reading all noob guides

    I'm building up a front-hub direct drive kit around my cromoly Surly Cross Check. Buying from ebikes.ca, so it's either the Crystalyte HS35 or the 9C 2807. Here are the things I still don't understand after 2 weeks of reading ES, our wiki, and ebikes.ca's guides and simulator. 1. Ping Battery...
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    Building a 60mph electric motorcycle on a 26" bicycle frame

    Yawn. Stunts are totally lame. It's what you can do every day, comfortably, that is what impresses me. You're on your own if you attempt this (obviously). No one wants to take any responsibility for what happens to you when your shitty front tire blows out and you skid 100 ft in jeans a cotton...
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