The support FAQs and the blog article about group lessons seems to contradict each other. The support FAQs says “Unlimited access — attend as many lessons per month as you like.” While the blog says “$80 per month, which includes 4 lessons”.
I wanted to confirm which one is correct. If I subscribe for the group lessons add on, can I attend as many group lessons as I like?
Thinking of getting an endurance bike with 32 mm tires, which is $200 cheaper than a very similar gravel bike with 40 mm tires, and then upgrading the wheels to 38 mm tubeless tires when going on one of these trails. Would such tires be enough for the GTA’s recreational trails and Ontario’s rail trails?
In case you’re wondering why I’m leaning towards the endurance bike, I might eventually take very long distance trips, like Toronto to NYC, and it has 2x chain rings with higher top gears. Presumably endurance bikes are meant for very long hour rides (‘endurance’).
I’m looking to getting into doing long bike day trips and eventually bike packing (staying at hotels overnight not tents) for very long distances (like Toronto to Niagara Falls or Ottawa). For maintained trails like the Humber River trail or the Don River trail, etc. does one really need a gravel bike?
Or would an entry level road bike with the fattest tires the model can take (e.g. 38 tires) be good enough for the unpaved sections of the trails? I’m thinking the regular paved paths and roads would be better served by a road bike with ~20L of bags attached.
One thing I also want to mention is that I struggle with going uphill on the Bike Share Toronto classic bikes. Not sure if that’s a good barometer but thought I’d mention in case it plays a part in the gravel vs road debate for my specific usage pattern.
Want to buy my first gravel bike but they’re expensive from western brands and I feel swindled. I also want to support the underdog competitors so am interested in getting a bike manufactured in China.
Which gravel bike would you recommend for a beginner that can be shipped to Canada?
Edit: budget CAD 2000
What features should I look for in shoes if transition is all I’ll be doing? I was thinking of getting ES Accel or Adidas Tyshawn II but then thought I should first find out what I should avoid in shoes and what to look for
TQQQ and SOXL are obvious ones but do you have a list of tickers you track for when they have deep drawdowns to then DCA into. Ideas that are long term strong and not just speculative single name tickers.
Edit: to be clear, I’m asking for what’s in your watchlist and why you think it’s a long term strong performer with frequent enough market panics crashing it.
In some places of the world, solar panels have become dirt cheap, labour is cheap and net metering is no longer a thing (and grid electricity is expensive). For those places would it make sense to drill holes in the brick walls of a house and install monofacial solar panels on the outside walls facing east and west?
The idea being to:
Yes it would be less overall production per panel but since net metering is no longer available, the focus should probably be on maximizing *useful* electricity rather than raw production. You could still have south facing panels on the roof of the house. But why not use the east and west walls instead wasting that ‘real estate’ and generate electricity when
This is for people with modest storage needs. My idea was to have ~3 friends, each with a reasonable sized external hard drive (say 3TB each). And then you use old laptops to setup borg backup servers at each persons’ house. Each person uses borg backup to backup their partition of the external drive on their two friends’ drives. That way you’d have 3 copies of your data.
Say you divvy up the 3TB drives into 1TB partitions, one for each person. I store my data like normal to my 1TB partition on the 3TB drive connected to my home server and then back it up using borg backup on to the 1TB partitions allocated to me at each of my two friends’ home servers. Likewise for the other two friends. You could set it up for them so they just see a SMB server/drive and just drag and drop their files for storage and in the backend borg runs nightly backing up to two other drives as well.
Has anyone tried this? What’s a good setup to do this? Any pitfalls?
This is for people with modest storage needs. My idea was to have ~3 friends, each with a reasonable sized external hard drive (say 3TB each). And then you use old laptops to setup borg backup servers at each persons’ house. Each person uses borg backup to backup their partition of the external drive on their two friends’ drives. That way you’d have 3 copies of your data.
Say you divvy up the 3TB drives into 1TB partitions, one for each person. I store my data like normal to my 1TB partition on the 3TB drive connected to my home server and then back it up using borg backup on to the 1TB partitions allocated to me at each of my two friends’ home servers.
Has anyone tried this? What’s a good setup to do this? Any pitfalls?