u/YVR-n-PDX

Why don’t e-bikes care about rules of the road?

And how would any type of enforcement work?

So many e-bikes in bikes just treat the bike lanes as a free for all and are outwardly hostile to actual cyclists. So sick and tiered of the hostility of drivers and now it’s crept into entitled e-bike users.

There was a time when I was optimistic about e-bikes providing a more equitable, environmentally friendly, and more enjoyable environment for all. That dream has passed.

New to a yoder, not to smoking or pellet grills for that matter.

Two cooks in so far, but seem to be having issues w/ burn rate.

First was racks of ribs. 3-2-1 method, at 250. Filled the hopper but ran out of pellets at about 2.5 hours. Didn’t get an alert when the temp went under 200 so it was slowly dropping for about 45 minutes before i caught it. Ended up finishing in oven. After it cooled I removed damper and the fire box was overflowing with unburnt pellets.

Second cook. Two 7lb pork butts. Full hopper, same cook temp, but I set a timer to check pellets every 2 hrs. Burn rate seemed better, then at 5.5 hours ran out of pellets again. Probe dropped to 80 (grate not internal) again, no alert when it dipped below 200. This time I learned how to reignite, so refilled hopper and started again. Temps climed to 400, i assume thats just part of the reignite, and took about 30 minutes to stabilize at 250. All in, about an hour of cook lost, luckily internal temps were consistent.

Is the normal behavior?

Should I only expect to get 5 hours max out of a full hopper?

Are the alerts useless?

Booked a radio can today. It sucked full stop.

I usually transit or bike but this trip was outside my usual routes and time constraints.

Most egregious i guess was i booked a trip to and from. Website gives a price - does not note that it a one way price instead of the total. This is dawning on me halfway there, some regret but then cabbie takes the worst possible route just to sit in traffic and run meter. Takes obviously wrong route twice. To which they just say “sorry” when I asked where do they think we are going. When we get to destination they cant even charge me. So meter running, have to call and wait on hold for dispatch to take card. Cost twice as much as a ride share took twice as long. 0-10 would never again.