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    Newbie interested in folding bikes

    Give it a rest, lady!
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    Help! Show me your storage sheds/bike shelters

    Smoke and heat alarms plus a safe exit route protects you from fire. A house is just a house.
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    Hoping to increase driver passing distance at night, I've glued front and rear reflectors to my wing mirrors.

    I keep forgetting the urban angle! Not something I have to deal with very often!
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    Hoping to increase driver passing distance at night, I've glued front and rear reflectors to my wing mirrors.

    ...and very well it worked, too! If I was doing something similar without a trailer, I would mount a rigid bar across the back of my rack same width as handlebars, so 650 to 700mm, and then a 400mm foam extension on the offside only. All brightly coloured, reflective, and with a rear light at...
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    Help! Carrera Crossfuse Battery Range

    Your get out of jail free card is to carry a charger with you. Even better is to buy a faster charger and carry that. With Bosch you have the option of both 4 amp and 6 amp chargers. An hour lunch stop in a cafe with 6A going into your battery is half a batteries worth!
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    Help! Carrera Crossfuse Battery Range

    Coincidentally I charged my 18 month, roughly 3,000 miles usage battery at work today, and full these days it says 130km, so about 13% down on new. When I got home, which is only 4km, but hilly, it was saying 69km left in eco /level 1.
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    Help! Carrera Crossfuse Battery Range

    30 to 35 miles in eco is about right for 400Wh. Your Bosch sounds like it rep8rts quite differently to my Shimano, which every cold switch on forgets your riding history and starts in very optimistic mode! A new Shimano 418Wh battery on my e5000 bike fully charged will report 150km range in...
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    [Sep 23, 2016] Cycle Show NEC Birmingham 23-25th September (Birmingham)

    Has that just taken you 6 years, 4 months and 2 days to work out? Good effort!
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    Help! Carrera Crossfuse Battery Range

    Is ths bike new, if not does the display tell you the total distance covered? What is the battery capacity in either Ah or Wh?
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    Help! Show me your storage sheds/bike shelters

    That was a bit tongue in cheek, being my bike storage at work. There is usually a spot where at least the saddle will stay dry, but it is not unusual for 75% of the floor to be wet from rain!
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    Hoping to increase driver passing distance at night, I've glued front and rear reflectors to my wing mirrors.

    Watch the machining accuracy on some of these mounts. Fine for low cost lights, not a good fit always for the GoPro camera mounting prongs. If too loose, overtightening the screw can damage the camera bits. And in your picture of many bits, @guerney, be cautious of the non GoPro mounting bases...
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    Wayfarer back brake rubbing

    It looks as though the caliper is not parallel with the disc either in vertical or horizontal. And having to be pushed far right on its mount. If there was a washer inside the frame on the axle I'd remove it, but I don't see one. Is this newish bike and first time wheel has been out? If so...
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    SORTED

    Good news! I'd be interested to know the vital statistics of the huge looking rack mounted battery.
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    Hoping to increase driver passing distance at night, I've glued front and rear reflectors to my wing mirrors.

    Lights on helmet is fine, not illegal. But they do not fulfil the legal requirement of positioning, so a second light that does is needed. Of course you will now be arrested and incarcerated for many hours....
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    Taxi changes direction at traffic lights

    I always intend to shout out the number plate for the audio to catch, but it usually comes out as what the **** **** **** **** **** **** was that?
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    Help! Battery fully charged but low warning and no power

    LiFePO4 is 3.65V per cell at full charge I think, so is your 41V an overcharged 11S, which should be 40.15, or a rather low 12S, which ought to be 43.8? If the latter, then perhaps there is a balance issue, with one cell being very low and the others OK. Can you get at the balance connector or...
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    Need help deciding on spec of electric bike

    It sounds like you want powered assistance to 25mph. That's not the best starting point! I'd suggest a lightweight 250W legal conversion on your existing bike as a starter, ride that for a few hundred miles and build version 2 when you work out what you really need.
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    Hoping to increase driver passing distance at night, I've glued front and rear reflectors to my wing mirrors.

    Don't worry, I've no intention of ordering, just amused/surprised that in a fairly major online shop text and image can get misassociated.