Getting doored while out riding, then falling into the road and getting run over by a garbage truck.

I ride my bike a lot. Somebody getting out of the back seat of a 4 door with out looking is a huge danger.

You don’t understand the depths of my shame.

I was in OS support for 5 years. I supported DOS 5.

I work with software Dev teams all day long, including designing highly available services.

And I do after hours tech support for elders (my folks) and house mates (my fam).

If anybody knows to reboot…

Well now I feel like an ass - this is what I’d tell my parents.

And yeah, that fixed it. I’m tempted to delete this whole embarrassing post, but I will leave it for the edification of others and to memorialize my shame.

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I met Danny at my local coffee shop. I am a total ass and said “Abed?”. He said " Danny. " and shook my hand. Thus confirming my status as Total Ass, and his as a mensch.

Once upon a time windows had absolute pathing. When you saved, it went in the directory you were in out where you told it.

Some time ago windows went to path relative to user. So now when you save to ‘desktop’ it could be one of several desktop folders. Windows tries to hide this by mapping ‘desktop’ to your user relative desktop, but it does this at the application level rather than in the base O/S. (Or, it does it on extended file system APIs). Some apps handle it, some apps don’t. If you have multiple users on a PC, it’s a mess.

“Lost” seems a bit too much - how about unmanaged?

Oh wait, my bad. He’s there in the back.

Where’s Gary Busey?!?!

Oh God,.I was waiting for this…

Interesting - they sell not only repairable phones but OEM phones with the /e/ os (degoogled Android).

Amateurs

Alotta lotta justification on that mail…

The likely cause is that the cable is slipping, probably where it connects to the caliper. This is more likely if you loosened then re-tightened that bolt, less likely if you did not.

Loosen the cable fixing bolt on the caliper. Make sure the brake lever is free (not depressed). Carefully follow the cable housing from the lever all the way to the caliper - is it seating correctly in any cable stops? If so:

1. Pull the cable so that it is tight
2. Tighten the cable fixing bolt tightly (you may need a friend to help maintain cable tension while you tighten the bolt).
3. Wrap some tape around the cable just below the fixing bolt, as a marker.

How does it feel after that? Carefully try it out on a ride. Check the tape - is it squished/has it moved? (Probably not).

Ride for a few more days (carefully! Brakes are the most important thing on a bike!). How do the brakes feel?

If they are getting looser, but the tape has not moved that means the cable itself is not slipping, something else is changing.

I would avoid loosening the bolts that connect the caliper to the fork - if you do, make damn sure they get tightened again

Other things to check are:

• How much wear do the pads have? Take them out and measure them. (If you have been dragging the rotors with the pads, you could be wearing them down. Seems unlikely). To measure, stack them on a flat surface and measure the height.
• Are the adjuster knobs on the caliper moving? Mark then with a sharpie then take a picture, check if they are in the same place when things feel loose again (this is possible, but rare).
• Are the calipers themselves in reasonable shape? (A cracker caliper could do this. I’ve never heard of that, but I’m not a bike mechanic, so… Maybe?)

Last time: brakes are the most important thing - if they don’t work, go get them fixed by a pro before you ride.

Look up mechanical brake adjustment on Park Tools YouTube for videos.

Good luck, keep the rubber side down.

Sorry - not trying to be pedantic, but say more about how you adjusted the caliper! Did you turn a knob on the brake caliper body (big red dial on the spoke side - at least on my old mechanicals)? Or did you tighten the cable tension at the brake itself? Or did you tighten the bolts that attach the caliper to the bike?

IMHO - go get it looked at: nothing is more important than stopping. Especially on an e-bike.

Assuming these are cable actuated disc brakes: check the cable tension. You did be able to adjust tension by using a Barrell adjuster on your brake lever. This looks like a knob between the lever body and the cable housing. Rotating it should increase (or decrease) tension.

Can you describe ‘loose’ more precisely? Do you mean you can pull the lever too close to the bar. Or something else?

What did you do to adjust it that fixed it?

Are they hydraulic or cable? Got a make/model?

Cool! They are making these just a little north of me. Maybe I will see one in the wild soon.

This is a classic feedback problem: you use a microphone to amplify your voice, but If the mic picks up the amplified sound it creates audio feedback + a sharply increasing wail.

I can’t imagine what LLM feed back ‘sounds like’, but a guarantee you it ain’t pretty.