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To be honest, these days, I am conscious of the need to keep pushing myself a bit as regards maintaining strength. If you don't test yourself regularly with humping weight about, pretty soon the ability to do it leaves you and then what? So I won't shy away from picking it up and humping it...

I thought you had your hands full with all the nurses. You must be getting better after all. :)

Those bikes you write about are about 10kg lighter than the Argos special. I picked it up while standing on a decent bathroom scale a week or two back and i gained 25.6kg all at once. At one time, I did think of fitting an electric kit to the Brompton - front wheel change obviously, ut to be...

Take what time you need. There is no hurry, in spite of the banter. :). I have been making an experimental blackberry crumble at my partner's place. Made with oats! Picked the berries this morning. Sitting in garden in the sun.

I have a fancy for buying a stand alone solar panel i can put beside the south facing wall of my house, set up at about a 45 degree to charge my electric bikes and perhaps a chunky 12 volt lifepo4 storage battery for powercuts. We have had a few 12 hour outages in bad weather during winter...

Also, the algorithm of the controller is intervening as road speed rises and falls on hills and undulations all added to by your pas settings and also perhaps pedalling cadence. So you have a combination of physics in the back emf and current inside the motor and the intervention of the...

Get well soon.

It is hard to pin down, but I like the compact nature of the thing. It is small, and I am keeping it in my kitchen just now, and I can just whizz it out and I'm off to the shops, or wherever I need to go. I mostly just ride it out for fun, and it does what I need. of course I am also a Brompton...

It is still in stock in Newcastle - but not much use if you don't live near there.

Want to understand how your pulse width modulated, ebike, power controller works? There is no better way than to make one yourself - but it won't be big enough to power your e-bike. Have a go at some DIY

My eldest son who was recently divorced bought a boat for himself and his new girlfriend to live on. He works in his own business and had to basically leave the nice house he had so his kids could stay put. The boat wasn't cheap but while he recovers his finances it has worked for him, and her ...

I am more familiar with this concept in digital radio transmitters. I have three small, home built weak signal transmitters which operate mosfets as power amplifiers, albeit the maximum power out is only about four watts. The mosfet switching speed is the radio frequency being employed in the...

It's pulse width modulation isn't it. Full battery voltage, but the mosfets are turned on for either less or more time depending on the power required. More power means a greater proportion of the time the mosfets are on full, and a smaller proportion of the time for less power - this being...

Oh dear - I am now laughing that you have your priorities right (pulling nurses) but that's just your sense of humour making the best of a bad job. I am very sorry this has happened - mainly of course because I want to see how the KT improves the bike, and now i will have to wait :) ...... no...

Does that mean we should just forget about this: This year, eight people were stabbed and two have died. There were 349 arrests. Seventy-two people were detained for possession of an offensive weapon. One person was held for possession of a gun. More than 50 arrests were made for...

Today's photo of my new steed. I'm really loving this funny little bike for all its feeble controller. This morning, being a rather nice bright day I went for a ride with my partner on her Pendleton. Hers definitely has more power on the hills, unless I really work hard, she catches up with...

I know a guy who lives not that far from me on the Melkridge road and he bought a house not connected to the gas, electricity, or drainage grid. He was living in a van for two years while he worked on the house. He said he loved living in that van. He now sleeps in the house, but he is still...

if your bench supply managed to get them to 32 volts, they might still be just under the point at which the BMS will charge them. Can you re-check the individual parallel group voltages? If any one was just below the cut off point you might be stuck with the BMS refusing to 'play ball'. If that...

But isn't that very fact a terrible indictment of our useless public services, and the broken nature of our law enforcement apparatus? I well recognise that the previous government have ruined the country. I'm not blind, but what a disgrace that is. On the subject alluded to in Saneagle's post...

Just wait Peter. Not for long I think. https://unherd.com/newsroom/will-labour-introduce-a-blasphemy-law/ https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/07/naz-shahs-argument-on-blasphemy-should-be-rejected https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/26/labours-islamic-blasphemy-law/