Urnman can hang. DC go home. /s

Pretty sure some of those class:mph numbers aren't right. Regardless, some carriers are going to care that the dk200 is a 1200w motor (I know firsthand that mine uses 750w as a cutoff of sorts). It's all going to vary from carrier to carrier. Hope it works out for you.

i'm not an adjuster, but fwiw it seems possible the insurer might note that this model has an independent throttle and max speed of ~30mph and could consider it a motorized vehicle and thus exclude it from the policy.

Yeah, throttled fat tire "bike-in-a-box" ebikes seem like popular targets :( Even worse, while still expensive, it's a low enough price point that it's not quite worth insuring (assuming your renters' doesn't cover), and <$2k value makes it even less of a priority for enforcement of any kind.

Sucks.

There are not enough specifics in the post to draw that (or any) conclusion. I can back OP's general sentiment. If you've owned a home in the city for the last ~20 years you might interpret the post as I have.

Costs go up, infrastructure ages. It makes sense. but it used to be that living inside the city compared to the next block across the county line meant paying a "premium" in the form of property taxes, certain insurance rates, and for a fortunate few, private school tuition. Now water bills are, for reasons both understandable and lamentable, an additional "premium" for city residents.

"Aha! There's charring from an undisclosed house fire!" "Oops , half the window headers were failing and had to be replaced with a different material" "Welp, they re-pointed the whole thing with concrete at some point and the whole wall's spalled"

The answer is gray wood-look LVP flooring and shiplap.

>they are literally all the same

Good chance they're all from the same frozen sides kit.. or if they're not, they're from different distributors but from the same processing facility

Can't speak to their cost effectiveness per se, but Food Market's super long ones were very tasty. Their longer-than-average length would skew the price-per-stick data anyway. You'd need to do it all by weight. Remember to account for travel time, fuel and parking in your spreadsheet.

Whitetail, I'd think.

Same. There's no online notification option, afaik. Years of the city's sporadic issuance, intermittent mail delivery, and fluctuating/suspect totals have trained me to treat this one bill in a unique way.

I can think of plenty of people working from their homes like this doing maker-type stuff. If it's low-volumw drop off and pickup by appointment as opposed to a storefront with open hours and employees, I would just roll with it. If there's a problem, it won't be the city you hear from first I think. Might be more of an issue for insurers depending on what you need to carry for the work you're doing, or the state depending on how you do your taxes.

Yeah, the traffic there got much heavier a while back around when they changed the way Charles ended at 695. I used to be fine sitting & spinning for that climb headed south, but I wouldn't want to do it now.

I used to bike from Bolton Hill to Timonium. Falls was the popular route but Charles worked well for me. You have more than a lane's worth of shoulder for much of it, but the lighting was spotty and the stretch along the golf course was a dicey straightaway with no shoulder at all. There's a ghost bike there now. All in all, it was a fine way to get to 695 and hop into Lutherville until they changed the traffic circle into a multi-lane light and on/off ramp. Now I think I'd choose falls.