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Respectfully, I disagree. Magura rim brakes can be really excellent for the right situation. Light, and once they're set up they're brilliant. The pads literally snap in and out when it's time to replace them. I would have no qualms about riding on Maguras. Not the best if you're riding in...

I ride at whatever speed I feel comfortable with, personally, and part of that is not making the people around me uncomfortable. 13mph would be about right on level terrain if I never stopped. An average of 13mph in stop-start traffic would mean some really fast sprints. Steady 13mph on a...

So, you're riding an illegal bike or you're incredibly fit and you don't need the motor at all. Which one is it?

I think that very often this sounds like a putdown of young people. It's the kind of thing someone who grumbles about them buying expensive coffee or avocado on toast or whatever, as if not buying them would mean any of them could afford to buy a house or retire at a decent age. Let's not...

There's no point! There are millions of them, available for less than the price of a repair. None of us would ever need to buy a new bike ever again.

Doable, but hard and expensive. Oxygen and hydrogen both make it brittle during welding. It was comercially viable around the end of the cold war - there were lots of aviation factories willing to produce anything. That's the reason there were so many of them in the early nineties.

Anything is possible. I knew someone years ago who had an estay mountain bike, when those were inf fashion. It cracked where they all did around the bottom bracket. He made a "bangdage" out of fibreglass (the mat, not car filler) which fixed it. Rode it for years afterward! Light? Yes...

One thing to bear in mind is "performance" steels like 853 are built into lightweight bikes not designed for the stresses of a motor. They're an exercise in removing as much material as possible yet still having a bike that's strong enough for the job they are designed for. Why? As they get...

There is such a thing offered by ETA. I've had it for ten years now and I think I have it for my bike, although I've never needed it! https://www.eta.co.uk/bicycle-insurance/cycle-rescue/

I don't think anyone has set out to be rude to you. Someone asked you a question which you have interpreted as rude but I think that's your interpretation rather than the thing they've posted. You are the person who has come over as rude here.

If someone else is rude that doesn't mean you have to be rude back. It is always better if you aren't rude.

No, I don't feel it is. And speaking as another formally diagnosed neurodivergent (although I wouldn't put it on a banner and expect strangers on the Internet to treat me differently because of it) I would welcome someone pointing out to me if I was missing a social cue. Being autistic does not...

Just so you know, that's quite rude. What does it look like now they're back on the bike?

Hello Kris I've got a plan to do this as well, at some point in the future - I have a similar Pashley that would be great for general transport. What I I would say that the post office Pashleys are great bikes but you have to be realistic about having low enough gears if there's hills where...

I think there's a triumph of marketing in there. The Reese and Mullers of this world seem like they would be effortless consumer items that would somehow solve all your problems. Except you still get wet, and you're exposed to the world in a different way and you're going to get dirty. It is...

Hello I continue to be delighted with my Woosh DWG rear hub on my fairly generic mountain bike. I'd like to look at ways of running it without the LCD. I don't need to know how fast I'm going, and if the battery dies I can just ride home under my own steam. I don't really need to choose...

In which case they can buy a crank drive. There is no rule preventing people from having more than one bike. No one is stopping anyone from buying anything. But you're saying that hub drives are no good for anything which is incorrect. If you look at the vast majority of ebikes that are ridden...

That's wrong for almost all the people that have a hub drive bike. In my case, I want to use my bike to go to the shops. It saves me £4 bus ride that I would spend if I caught the bus to town. I don't want to do off road, gravel or forest riding. I want to go to the shops.

@Saracen - you are saying something that isn't borne out by my experience of ebikes. I spent a day in my nearest city today. All those Deliveroo riders! I had a coffee, and looked at them all. Out of 24 ebikes I saw in the hour I was waiting before visiting hours started at the ward my friend...

I feel my hub kit from Woosh is excellent quality. Certainly good enough for what I need - daily transport I don't have to think about too much. I think that it's closer to an old-school moped as opposed to a recreational product like most of the proprietary eBikes seem to be. Reading many of...