Ran into another small obstacle. After working on the bike for a few hours in the morning, I was in the house having a bite to eat. My wife heard a big bang in the garage. Turned out the rear wheel hub I had just installed with a new tube and old tire blew up. A big hole near the air inlet. So, had...
I already have the conversion kit based around a mountain bike with a wheel size maximum of 26 x 2.3 width tire. The battery I originally ordered was a massive 52v 20ah. It was designed to fit perfectly on the down tube with very little room left. The listing showed there were only 9 left so I...
The stimulation for this article is the release of the new Nikon Z8 camera. It's been awhile since I posted any articles. My dream gear has changed a bit, I now have two full kits Nikon Z9 with: -- Nikon Z 100-400 -- Nikon Z 24-120 -- Nikon Z 24-200 -- Nikon Z 15-30 Nikon D850 with: --...
This is not an exhaustive list of the parts I am selecting, it is more to document my thoughts on the parts and why I selected them. I will put some of the costs involved too. My first decision was regarding a donor bike. I was leaning to the new "fat" bikes. I like the look, and figured the wider...
CCM Apex 6061 aluminum frame I have two "donor" bikes to choose from for my eBike build project. The likeliest of the two is an older CCM Apex 6061 aluminum frame bike. Both donor bikes have significantly damaged parts. Essentially, I will end up replacing: rear wheel assembly rear...
I bought this used vBIke in the summer of 2022. It had been used for a few months as a commuter bike. Back and forth between the owner's apartment and his work place. There was about 670 Km on the bike at the time. The bike showed little to no wear. It had been kept indoors all the time and the...
Most of the CSS resets and frameworks have a glitch in them. I understand my opinion goes against the grain on this. My opinion, though, is the correct way of looking at this (in my opinion, LOL). It's about the MVC. The goal of all content management systems is to separate content from...
Building secure forms and getting data from those forms into usable formats has been a cornerstone of my development efforts for decades. When I say get form data into usable formats, I mean the two main uses of forms are as lead generators or contact/support users. Spammers see that differently...
I've tried out several responsive CSS frameworks over the years. Bootstrap is out of the question: while it is popular, it is bloated and ends up being restrictive. The most promising early in my search is called "Responsee". While it it responsive, there are some challenges with the column grid,...
I have quite a few helper functions I have developed and used over the years. Here's some of them (I will keep adding to this as time goes on). Remove trailing characters from string Remove double slashes from URL Get the browser URL Remove a trailing character(s) from a string: /** *...