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vidtek submitted a new listing: Brand-New Raliegh/Bosch Motus Gran Tour Bike - Brand-New Raliegh/Bosch Motus Gran Tour Bike Learn more about this listing...

The lady is not for turning so this brand-new bike is up for sale. Bosch/Raliegh EDIT: uhh thinking about it I should post on classified section oops.

What are you on about, maybe go back to bed have a little nap and get up on the right side of it. American??? what??? weird, I was born in Bradford in 1950.

The lovely Roz, once she makes up her mind, she doesn't change it, and there is no budging her. Me too I'd have it, but I really doubt it, my mate Vaughan may be a daft sod, but he's not that daft!

Not 100% illegal. The dog's breakfast that is the current legislation has yet to be tested in the courts. The regulators have made interpretation so difficult that those responsible for enforcement cannot do their job as so much is open to different interpretations of the present...

As in the title, is it possible to add a throttle to a brand-new > £3000 Bosch e-bike? My daft mate bought his wife a new e-bike when her old one bit the dust, but it doesn't have a throttle like her old one and she hates it. Silly bugger should have asked me.

After putting the bike away in the garage last night that thought did occur to me, that having to pedal first to start the motor was a possibility, I tried it today. Thank you @saneagle and @flash for the confirmation. Just tested it and it works.

I was asked to look at a rather old (circa1998 I think) step-through front hub drive bike today. I pulled the rather unusual battery pack out and discovered it had about 41v at the terminals off-load. The owner who has intermittent but severe dementia said it wouldn't charge and needed a new...

I didn't need any assist or throttles on a bike when I was under 30 and in the UK. I spent the next 33 years in Western Australia where bike helmets are compulsory-I don't like riding with them especially when it's 40deg outside, so never rode a bike there. Now back in blighty no helmet laws...

I have been using an Olixar holder for a while, yesterday I went over a bump and it fella part, sending my 'phone skidding across the road. Screen damaged. The holder was never really stable, it wobbled all over the place and was a bit ungainly to use. My handlebars are the small diameter...

The law is plainly an ass, not just in the UK but all over Europe. If those Amazon semi-mopeds are legal, and my poxy little e-bike that has a throttle is not, it is just a ridiculous state of affairs. I really do not care about the niceties of a total dog's breakfast pieces of legislation...

My 2 bob's worth. I was new to all bikes not having been on one for over 50 years after giving up on my beloved Yammy due to constant nagging by the lovely Jane. I knew nothing of the terminology and hadn't a clue what a bottom bracket was, let alone a crank. This forum has been helpful to...

I had a similar noise on mine, sent the motor back to Whoosh, nothing wrong with it. In the end it turned out to be a bent rear axle, only apparent under load. The noise seemed for all the world as though it came from the motor, I would have sworn that's where it came from, but replaced the...

I think it's a good article, but the fact is the politicians know where their bread is buttered, and it's not the 2% of bike riders. I can't see proper infrastructure for bikes happening in my lifetime. Without proper infrastructure, the appetite for cycling is diminished, it's just too damn...

M4 14mm (according to my dodgy measurements...)