Recent content by DaveInDenver

That's the bike industry in a sentence. You could have also said "the manufacturers love to convince everyone that they are Matteo Jorgenson."

Dylan Johnson did a great video on this. It's hard to really believe how back in the day we were running slammed mile long negative rise stems and rock hard skinny tires and all that. We thought we were fast but really smooth is fast.

FWIW in case anyone's interested. This is my all around mixed surface and gravel all cleaned up for spring. On the fatter side at the moment coming off winter, 29x2.2 front and rear, so technically 700x55. The frame is the tail end of what I'd call the classic MTB frames, 2012 Gunnar Rock...

Unistrut is happy to send you an engineering catalog that tells you everything you need to know. They know it's used for all sorts of things other than just hanging conduit and pipe from ceilings. It's completely fine to use for racks like this. https://unistrutohio.com/pages/unistrut-catalog...

You are a pretty ideal candidate for a gravel bike. What exactly is a gravel bike is blurry, some trend more towards a road bike or racing cyclocross while others are barely different than a hardtail mountain bike. I personally use an older (2012) 29" steel hard tail MTB with a 100mm fork and...

In North America, sure. Nissan (and their partners Mitsubishi and Renault) make all kinds of them, the Patrol, Triton, medium duty, etc. I don't know Honda's motivation here or the way their alliances will shake out (don't Mitsubishi and Ram have some sort of cross marketing). I doubt they're...

I wonder if there's some Japanese business courtesy going on here, if that's even still a thing. At one time businesses would look out for each other (such as when Toyota invested in Subaru, which has only yielded a couple of niche vehicles for them) rather than the U.S. version of cut throat...

I wheel with Ace and been on the trail with him in this truck. He's being completely honest. It's a capable vehicle that he has used for it's purpose, but it's not abused and he takes good care of his trucks.

I think Toyota dropped Access Cab and went back to the XtraCab like the 84-04 trucks had. Which for me was fine, I owned a 1996 Ranger (pre-rear door) Super Cab first, followed by the 1991 Toyota XtraCab that preceded the 2008 Access I own now. I didn't need the rear seats on any of them (and...

Right. I'm old enough to remember a regular cab 7 foot bed small truck. I guess there just isn't as much fleet sales and people like me that like the (although really only slightly) smaller footprint in a vehicle with utility. If I was in the market it's possible to build an F150 or F250 XL...

I was kicking it around so I went to build a Ranger. Did they drop the extended cab and now only do a four door truck? That's a potential show stopper if so. I don't need seating for more than 2 but I do need 6 feet of bed without a battleship wheel base. The point of a small(er) truck is to...

@Pskhaat just looking through options. That cheap supply I mentioned requires you to switch 120V or 240V but there are industrial supplies that will auto switch on AC. This is more common with medical rated supplies and similar critical applications. They're still not super expensive, $87 for...

Are you thinking something like a regular ATX sort of supply? That might be an option, the +12V on those can be fairly sizeable. You may have a couple of options. First make sure you're above the minimum input voltage and can supply the power it'll work. My Victron says it'll work over an...

I mentioned this in another thread Scott but this same solution may work for you. You can run a AC/DC power supply into the input of a DC-DC charger. For example, I run a Victron Orion-TR 12/12-18, a DC-only charger. But when I have mains available I use a repurposed ham radio power supply...

Nothing wrong with 16 and 18 AWG wire if those labels are right about 3A load. Probably would be for 7.5A, too, although voltage drop could start to factor in on a very long run. An 18AWG wire with PVC insulation that's 72 inches long with 7.5A will have 0.30V of drop and around 7°C temp rise...