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Glad you are enjoying it. Getting an electric bike at about the age of 70 was a bit like the feeling of freedom and delight on getting my first proper bike and shooting off to find adventures at the age of about 10. I felt delighted to be able to go anywhere. It all seemed pretty effortless too...

Thanks for the explanation. I have read of water ingress problems with crank drives. I think some earlier versions of the Bafang BBS01 had issues there. Mine hasn't, but you never know. On the noise thing - I have normal hearing and I can't hear mine at all, unless I especially listen for...

I have an old Raleigh Superbe with rod operated brakes and chrome steel rims. If I have been riding any bike with vaguely modern brakes and take out the old Raleigh on a wet day, the uselessness of the rod brakes and steel rims is terrifying. You pull them on and it just sails on happily until...

Russians do that as well. My eldest son went on a long overland tour about ten years ago and he travelled through Russia into China and the far east. He said when you didn't understand them they just shouted louder and louder. He also said of all the places he ever travelled to - and he has...

More likely the issues that started killing people in the UK after the pandemic are due to late presentation at the doctors. The NHS went into a crazy self protect mode and continues to do so as far as Primary Care is concerned. Luckily, I haven't been near the surgery in ten years, but people...

Ha ha ha - YES. I know that leather jacket issue. I recently managed to get into my 1990's leather motor bike jacket..... Just. I had been no where near to zipping that up for years. I can now, but I look like a seal in it. I need another ten pounds or more off at least. I might do a bit of 5:2...

I have never understood why you say this. I really like mine (BBS01). Especially now that I have adjusted the power parameters. It gets me up steep hills very well and when the battery was new, I got about 60 miles riding in the Lake District on a 13 Ahr battery before it shut down. Why do you...

Take no notice of the NHS BMI calcuclator. It is a VERY ROUGH guide only and takes no account of different body structure (build) and I am not using the word build to mean obese. Many people of strong or sturdy build come out as pretty overweight on the BMI standard just because they are well...

That video was interesting. Waves of nostalgia here thinking about my old TSR 27. She is right, it is built to be a fast bike, especially, I would say the one I had with 27 speed campagnolo gears. I said before, I rode it 40 miles in 2 hours and 2 minutes and I was about 49 or 50 and was never a...

Can't you read Arabic? My God - what is the world coming too? I blame the schools.

Well I won't argue with you on that one. You've done many and I haven't. Really, it would be a bit of a sacrilege to mess up a bike like that anyway. Possibly you might fit a nice BBS01 on the BB. No idea where the battery would go. No one would convert that bike anyway.

Yes if it is a real tourist hot spot, I am sure it would be pretty horrible. People come here but not in big numbers like you describe and they are here for outdoors things, not hanging about shops. I have no idea where you are located, but since you mention summer heat, it must be a long way...

Lots of foreign visitors are about at the moment. I have had conversations with two sets of Netherlander cyclists in the last two days while out on the bike. They catch the ferry to North Shields near Newcastle and ride up here. Incredibly tall people - the Dutch. One absolutely stunning woman I...

It says: "The speed limit indicator flashes and then the bike stops" Google translate.

That perfect steel framed folder might just be this Pashley Moulton TSR 27 that I used to have and sold about twenty years ago. I rode it powered by me 40 miles in two hours and two minutes. It isn't exactly a folder, but you could withdraw a pin and it came into two pieces so it was easy to fit...

Cold Fell near Brampton in the distance.

Ha ha - no chance. I am sitting on a seat two miles from home, maybe 3, enjoying the sunshine (when it comes out). :)