ThePiedPooper

It's hard to admit when you're wrong but it's a necessary character trait.

Yes, I agree.

In terms of electric scooters - it's the rented ones that are the problem. They actually want to ban them here. People under 16 years old get ahold of them and treat them like shit and practically destroy them. They do stupid tricks on them that are dangerous to pedestrians (and bicyclists as well). There's so many stories of them running full speed into pedestrians because they have no business riding them. That's why I hate them.

I have 0 issues with the people who buy them because I've never seen them riding irresponsibly.

My seat post height should be decent, no knee pain, which I had a lot of before. One issue is whether my seat is too far forward or too far backwards, but that'll be harder for me to figure out by myself.

Looked up the laws, yes, you are correct. I'm going to delete that part of my post because I am a bit of an asshole for posting it, but I'll leave this comment chain so that I can be ashamed.

Bikes are allowed to be ridden on sidewalks where I live according to traffic laws, as are electric scooters. It's the electric scooters that cause 10x more problems. We have literally 0 bike lanes so it's either sidewalk or super busy road.

EDIT: I'm in the wrong here. I deleted this part of the post, but am leaving this up for you to shame me for my assholery.

Oh god you just saved me so much headache..I didn't even think about auto-pause. There were times I paused and forgot to restart, and stuff like that.

Already looking for new tires and I feel the dopamine.

I put the bike together myself out of the box, so that's certainly possible.

Saddle seems to be the right height according to the basic fit test I've seen (pedaling with heel should have almost full knee lockout. Could be my handlebar reach is too long, especially considering I had my handlebar sweep upside down until a kind person here pointed that out to me :D

So the shocks don't really keep anything from breaking, they're purely for comfort.

So we call them half-slicks here apparently. I decided to go with a pair of those. My performance night suffer a bit, but I prefer peace of mind to pure performance. As soon as I get paid, I plan on ordering a pair of them!

Thank you for the advice!