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BESV PSA1Hardware

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Who uses, recommends or left BESV PSA1, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Craig Mod
Writer, photographer and software maker based in Japan; publishes long-form essays, walking newsletters and books at craigmod.com.
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Despite these flaws I put hundreds of kilometers on this thing in the first month. The front and rear suspension turn every road to glass, and are even fine for dirt trails; I find myself hunting down paths through parks I'd never otherwise think about.

His essay on eighteen months of electric-bike ownership, weighing the two bikes he owns against each other. His essay index dates it September 2022; 2022-09-06 is its first Internet Archive snapshot.

2022-09-06·craigmod.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.