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@enobacon They are adjustable, with a screw to adjust spring tension and the three holes on the post. Originally I had them all on the middle hole, but the return was not a much as I wanted so I moved them to the top hole (greatest tension), but then one of the arms apparently "failed" it still works, but a lot less tension, for that brake, I have the failed arm in the high tension hole and the working arm in the medium hole. Balances better (the screw on the failed arm does not change the tension). I don't see a way to disassemble the arm to see what is going on inside (other than destroying it).

They are Promax P-1 108mm arms. the 85mm arms I think would be just a few mm to short and the brake cable would rub on the tire. #BikeNite

@LovesTha @ascentale @bikenite Idk, but my often wrong intuition thinks that if your hands are closer to the perpendicular of the steering tube that it would be less. But I suppose I'll find out (the old flat bars were a but closer). #BikeNite

@enobacon The stem is from my other bike, which was the wrong size (was too long and on that bike it was angled down), but I figured it was a good starting point.

I think I can tighten up the brakes a little bit, but the return springs are not working well, I don't really understand why, the brakes are only about 5 years old. One arm in particular just has almost no tension. I'll also look into moving the bars up some. I have big enough hands, so reach is not a problem. Unfortunately problem solvers doesn't sell their pulley thing anymore, so I need to find some pre-owned ones (I did run across a single one once). #BikeNite

@ascentale @bikenite A8. I “finished” rebuilding my old bike, so a bike photo this week. I’m mostly happy with the results, I need a procure a new stem to bring the handlebars up and back a little. The shifting is not quite right, so I need to figure that out. And short pull bar shifters with long pull brakes, so kinda mushy braking, so I still need to figure that out. I knew this would be an issue, but the Microshift Sword brakes claim to have a 1.5 pull ratio, so I was hoping it would be better. Oh and the steering is a little twitchy, which I think will be better with the handle bars higher and closer. #BikeNite

@semitones @michael_w_busch Starlink works by sending your signal to orbit, then perhaps to another satellite and then back to the earth, where it then travels over fiber to the rest of the internet. Everything has a bandwidth, basically how much data can be at a time. Think of it like pipes, the bigger the diameter the more bandwidth. The connection to your house may be small, but only you are using it. The connection between internet nodes is much bigger, but many people are using it. Satellite bandwidth is much smaller than fiber or even, copper wire. A radio signal is just less efficient. To get more bandwidth, you need more satellites, many, many more. But then more users, so more satellites…

@semitones @michael_w_busch Latency is basically distance. The farther between two points the longer it takes to travel between them. The latency between two computers in your home will be very low almost instant, the latency to the moon is 1.24 seconds. (International phone calls still have a noticeable pause, but much less than when we used to send the signal to geosynchronous satellites).

@ascentale @bikenite A8. Butterflies! More #MonarchButterfly s in our garden. They do seem to be more prevalent the last few years, after years of trying to attract them, but never seeing any. I try to remember where I see them out riding and report them to https://journeynorth.org but sometimes I forget where I was and their website is not very mobile friendly. #BikeNite