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Fern Time Lovely 12 mile ride to work yesterday. The ferns on one of the tracks I use have almost taken over! Slight annoyance on my 10 mile road ride home as I could not select gear 9. Meant I was spinning my old legs faster than I prefer in gear 8. However I could still hold over 20mph on...

This happened to me on my £100 second hand rear hub Oxygen Emate. " Something that could have been a bit of a disaster on my Friday morning commute was saved by having a throttle. Climbing a steep hill with still 4 miles to go the chain broke. I retrieved it from the road, and although I do...

I am sure someone will tell me I am wrong. but a tubeless set up is more for running low pressures off road. For riding on the road just fit a appropriate pair of schwalbe marathon plus tyres and you will be very unlucky to get a puncture.

The Yamaha crank drive motor is a low cadence power house. oodles of torque at very low cadences.

budsy, could you post a link to your online sale Ortleib's, I might have to buy another pair as my son is about to make use of my old Oxygen emate to commute a short 4 mile return trip to his first job and will need something to carry stuff in.

Come the revolution, make all car drivers ride a bike for a week once a year! Maybe make Andy-Mat ride a crank drive for a year!!

Empathy, the older I get the more important I think it is, and the more I see it absent in our self obsessed modern society, to the point I think it should be taught in schools. "Walk a mile in someone else's shoes. The admonition to walk a mile in someone else's shoes means before judging...

A bright flashing red light on the back gets you noticed by approaching cars from the rear. I noticed a difference straight away after adding one to the back of my bike. I think bad drivers can turn up in any make of car. In my area the arrogant entitlement approach to driving seems to mostly...

Ortleib have served me well. waterproof, capacious, durable, easy to take on and off. They are not cheap but very good.

A hard tail electric mountain bike that you can fit a rack and mudguards to sounds just the job. Rear hub is generally more reliable and kinder on the transmission, crank drive is more capable off road and better at climbing steep hills. The woosh bike looks good. Do not worry about the...

As I near a time I could retire I know what you mean VFR. I will really miss my ebike ride to work and back when I retire. I worked for years in a career that involved wearing smart suits and driving a company car, and mountain bike riding was strictly a leisure activity. The credit crunch of...

£100 ebike edges into profit I have just finished six days of work from Friday the 10th of July finishing yesterday. These were early shifts, so no leisurely off road route to work on the Haibike, this was up early, quick shower, and get going on my £100 ebike with 10 miles to ride on the road...

A tight link in the chain could also cause this.

I think you raise an interesting question. My Yamaha motored entry level hard tail Haibike was around £500 cheaper than the Bosch motored equivalent when I bought it in 2015. Whether it is something to do with the motor characteristics anecdotally and also my own experience is that the Yamaha...

Wow that really is a knackered chain ring. How did that happen?

3mm on the shaft that connects to your pedal arms sounds too much and could be a sign of a worn bearing. This happened to me on my first Yamaha crank drive motor after 6,000 miles and two years use. I was lucky that the bike shop I bought it from replaced the motor free of charge under...

I think having it all indexed and set up properly is important. I destroyed my first cassette probably quicker than this person by using high assist levels and changing gear under power without backing off the effort I was making with my legs. With the gearing I now run, 42 front chain ring...

Andy is right about crank drive bikes wearing drive trains, ie your chain, rear cassette and chain much more than a rear hub drive bike. However as you have what looks like after having a peak on google a nice hard tail mountain bike with a Yamaha motor and large battery all is not lost! It...

As the scientist used to say with a heavy German accent in the old movies.....Very Interesting.... I have a double plug in the garage into one of which is a trickle charger for various car and motorcycle batteries that get swapped around and the other a timer plug and battery charger for my...

I think a 70 to 75 mile regular round trip commute is too far, but I guess that depends on the fitness and motivation of the person involved. If you do decide to try we would all love to hear your exploits. I think a de restricted rear hub Oxygen sounds a good bet. Pedelec member 28Spokes...