An avid endurance athlete, Kenny has competed in triathlons (he’s an Ironman) and various other fitness activities. Still, his passions lie with his faith, family, friends, and his love for well-designed power tools. With a background in science, you’ll often find Kenny chatting up engineers at media events to get caught up on the latest tool technology.

Ford’s making a mistake trying to ignore the pizza/auto parts market. They also need to recognize the opportunity for sales to the mom-pop suburban households. Sometimes history repeats itself.

Note that in either mode you can still manually shift the front ring by just dual-holding the two shifters. This is useful if you’re thinking far enough ahead of the bike to know what you’ll need before the bike knows what you’ll need.  For example, coming into a sprint or something and you just want to be in the big ring now, versus it doing it mid-sprint.

Quality assurance (QA) inspections prove that additively manufacturing a perfect part is a lot harder than many engineers once thought. AM is a layer-by-layer production process where minor defects, uneven cooling, internal stresses, and suboptimal printing settings can doom a part to the scrap…

You’ll make most of your miter cuts on a miter saw. But when the material you’re cutting exceeds a miter saw’s cross-cutting capacity, you turn to your table saw miter gauge. These usually aren’t quite as precise, but some manufacturers put more thought and robustness into it than others. If you make a lot of long miter cuts, be sure to pay attention to this accessory.

But fear not, there’s a solution for that. I checked with all of the trainer companies and here’s what you can do:

The longer the cold spell, the more frost accumulates. Eventually even a Canadian winter gets warm, and when that happens week’s worth of frost melts. That’s probably what ruined your ceiling since the roof doesn’t leak when it’s just raining outside.

The geometry of the OB1 is fairly standard for a road bike with a 72-degree head tube angle, paired with a 73-degree seat tube, 42cm chainstays and a 7.3cm bottom bracket drop. Those measures combine to yield a 102.5cm wheelbase with a 616mm front center.  

Power meter/chainring unit is $820, Sram offers a replacement program where you send in the old one and you get a replacement for half off, so $410. Kinda steep for anyone looking to keep the bike long term-ish. Maybe/probably fine for racers that are flipping bikes every or every other season.

Deep Cutting Ability: Poor – very slow and strains to cutPower/Speed (fastest cut 2” deep across 4-feet of OSB) – 20.13 secondsMax. Cut Speed (in 2” of OSB): 2.385 inches/second, 12th in speed

We made a few test cuts with ¾-inch plywood just to get a feel of the motors we were working with. It became clear pretty quickly that not all 15 amp motors are equal. Once we knew what to expect, we moved to pressure treated 2x pine material in 7-1/2 foot lengths. Why 7-1/2? Our test material started at 15 feet and it seemed silly to have some at 8 feet and others at 6.

Finally, the same ‘security’ rules that were in place for the original eTAP apply here with the addition of Bluetooth Smart. Previously, all components could only be connected to one other set of components. Meaning, the derailleurs would only talk to a single set of shifters at a time, thus preventing someone from pairing up an extra set and overriding someone mid-race. In order to complete that setup you had to press the physical button on the shifter/derailleur itself to start the pairing process. This forced someone to have physical access to the bike.