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Motor cycle helmets are far heavier than bicycle ones - unsurprising - and I think you will soon get sick of wearing one in a situation where you are doing physical work. On another issue, whether you have to be going fast to kill yourself in a fall, you certainly don't have to be going fast...

Right. This bike has done nowhere near that mileage and the back brake pads are almost shot. It is the 300 vertical foot descents in less than 1 km that does it, I think. Part of it is 20% to 18%. Anyway - they will be delivered tomorrow - Amazon Prime. I'll fit them later in the week - only the...

£1 a set??? I just paid £15 for two Tektro Auriga ones. Hope you are not going to tell me I could have had the same sort as you have...... :)

Just ordered some new pads for my Tekrto Auriga disk brakes. Rear ones are pretty worn down and handlebar lever movement is unacceptably long. I never had hydraulic brakes on a bicycle before, but they are very nice - even these entry level sort.

Threadlock - yes - good idea. On the whacking with timber.... Ha ha - yes, I had a centre punch with me for directing the torque force to the castellated nut, when we decided to turn back, but no heavy tool I could have pressed into service as a hammer. I did think of borrowing a big stone from...

Yeah - all of that well understood. Saneagle's post linking to how he made his tongsheng torque arm makes all clear. Wondering why he has different sized wheels on that project. Looks like a 1950s shop keeper's delivery bike, but powered. Maybe the mystery is that he is making a powered...

I think that would strip easily. Big torque and alu threads don't go well together. I am trying to visualise saneagle's solution. I need to think about it to get it clear in my head. EDit: Right, I am beginning to see what he means. It is exactly what he said actually, spotlight bracket on...

Maybe that is my problem. Way back in the 1960s and early 1970s, I had issues with my motorbikes of stripped threads and broken bits from over-tightening. Brutality led to numerous issues. I didn't hit it massively hard. I don't think the correct tool would easily tighten it enough. The leverage...

On the Bafang crank drive reliability thing, I had to curtail my planned ride with the GF this morning when my motor started creaking. I knew what it was pretty quickly after checking the tightness of the nearside pedal arm. That was fine and tightening it didn't improve the creaking noise. It...

I've sometimes regretted buying cheap tools on ebay. Just before I got my current converted ebike from Billy Milburn near Durham, I was considering converting an old mountain bike I had. I bought one of those crank puller tools, but it was made of Chinesium and the bloody thing tore the threads...

Yeah - I was wondering why he didn't lubricate the cable a bit. I'd have thought it would have made the process easier, but of course, what do I know - I've never done this. Lube certainly works on tight tyres. I've replaced a 125cc motor bike tyre with smallish levers and used lube on that...

That looks like a pretty brutal struggle to me. Note to self: [Check partner's Somersby cable this morning before we go out for a ride.]

If those low bandwidth modes are turned off. I think the smart meter system in the southern half of the uk will be in trouble. I think all smart meters south of yorkshire depend on data sent over those cellular networks on 2g, i think. The far north is covered by a 430 mhz radio system run by...

Bet that put the frighteners on them. Those radios are rather good for the tiny money they cost. I got some for my eldest grandson. They worked a treat. Thirty eight years ago I bought some for my own sons, they were terrible by comparison and cost a lot more. They didn't even have a proper...

Tell me about it..... People constantly can't get through to me unless I force my phone to only connect to the base station with 2g. I live in a hollow, with no line of sight to any antenna mast. 2g is low bandwidth. It passes data at a low bit rate, which makes the connection much more robust...

I have never done this, and hesitate to jump into a discussion with people who have, but I am a bit worried that someone with no knowledge might read this thread and unwittingly connect two battery outputs together in parallel without isolating them as regards one charging the other. My concern...

https://www.sciencealert.com/voyager-1-is-back-legendary-probe-makes-contact-from-interstellar-space !5 billion miles away, a 47 year old broken computer has been sent a work around so that its dud chip can be ignored and the message processing is corrected. It's tiny 23 watt signal is still...

A bit like the VW 'dieselgate' scandal. Do tests and then publish whatever lies you like. As for OSF and replacing the original firmware, I would need a lot of convincing that I would not brick the thing.