coffee check okay we made it to a coffee shop in my neighborhood called blank street gonna catch up with dad for a bit right before we head out on this journey and the cafe's called blank street because essentially it's a collection of carts that serve coffee throughout my neighborhood and i'm sure they're expanding further than that and so it could be on any street blank street but this one is kind of like their flagship location i would say and it's in an old uh restaurant that i actually used to come to was a mexican restaurant a long time ago but has this nice little outdoor spot and the coffee's good while we're here i think we need a little bit of background on e-bikes now e-bikes are generally considered a bicycle with pedals that then has an electric motor either in the hub of the back wheel like this one or in the center of the bike called mid-drive usually that helps with pedaling they either use a cadence or a torque sensor to tell when you're pedaling and how hard you're pedaling in the case of the torque sensor and then it uses that to determine how much assistance and power to give you and for each of those varieties there are pros and cons but that's the general gist some also have a throttle of some sort that allows you to use the bike sort of like a electric motorcycle in that you can push the throttle and go without needing to pedal now here in the us the federal rules define a quote low-speed electric bicycle as a two or three wheeled vehicle with fully operational pedals and a top speed when solely powered by the motor of NUMBER_TOKEN miles per hour or NUMBER_TOKEN kilometers an hour and an electric motor under NUMBER_TOKEN watts anything fitting into that category essentially falls under bicycle anything above that category is technically a motor vehicle which means you need a driver's license and it needs to be registered you can only drive it on the street etc now it's all important to note because it's a big reason why there's been a recent spike in e-bikes here in the us and when you're trying to choose one of those e-bikes you'll realize that they all kind of sit around that limit and so that keeps them all similar in that way but they do differ with that difference usually coming down to the different motors that i talked about along with the power of those motors and the battery size the frame and the look and also the philosophy of the company making the bike as to what the bike should be and how it fits in this rapidly expanding market of e-bikes but while we're out on this journey today why don't we have today's sponsor clean the apartment this is the narwhal t-NUMBER_TOKEN a clever two-in-one robot vacuum and mop and winner of one of time's best inventions of NUMBER_TOKEN. it's easy to set up you simply plug in the base open the app and connect the robot to wi-fi and then just tell it to map your place now unlike most robot vacuums that just bounce randomly across the room and hope they get everything the tNUMBER_TOKEN uses its lidar to see all of the walls and furniture in the house and make a map of it all so they can then use that to efficiently plan out its route to clean every inch and since it has lidar it can identify different rooms which you can customize and tell to just
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN but while we're out on this journey today why don't we have today's sponsor clean the apartment this is the narwhal t-NUMBER_TOKEN a clever two-in-one robot vacuum and mop and winner of one of time's best inventions of NUMBER_TOKEN. it's easy to set up you simply plug in the base open the app and connect the robot to wi-fi and then just tell it to map your place now unlike most robot vacuums that just bounce randomly across the room and hope they get everything the tNUMBER_TOKEN uses its lidar to see all of the walls and furniture in the house and make a map of it all so they can then use that to efficiently plan out its route to clean every inch and since it has lidar it can identify different rooms which you can customize and tell to just END_SPONSOR_TOKEN