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    Help! Orlieb panniers and moustache bikes

    I can't see that our Classic roll backs would not. With only a few days to go wait, then give us the length dimensions of the top rail. Our Classics came with clip in spacers for I believe 10 mm dia tubing, their standard clip being for 15 mm [all from memory back to 2016 when we got ours]...
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    Ebike charging using Street EV chargers for electric cars

    Has anyone contacted these providers, such as BP-pulse for their take on the use of these public EV charging stations for our ebikes? _____________________________________________________ I presume the outlets, irrespective of the plug type are 230 VAC at 50 Hz, with possibly single and three...
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    Ebike charging using Street EV chargers for electric cars

    For the reason I said, that it is quite possible the designers of these EV charging points might well have implemented a provision to expect the characteristics of an EV? Seeing otherwise, as a potential tampering attempt or another abnormally, but not as intend and go into a protection role...
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    Ebike charging using Street EV chargers for electric cars

    Possibly: Potentially the level could be so low the station will not recognise it as a "proper" charge, from being some sort of fault?
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    Where are the Batteries UK

    Is there currently an outright winner in the brand of cell it is best to specify the build in, for our application?
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    No chain and infinite gears - Oyo e-bike with hydraulic drivetrain

    So many organisations employ "stylist" rather than designers, the stylist having highjack the term designer, in some companies completely. The stylist should be just a tool in the designer's team, aircraft, cars, bikes etc [ very long listing] designed that way round are far safer than the...
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    No chain and infinite gears - Oyo e-bike with hydraulic drivetrain

    If comparing to a chain drive where each side plate, roller, pin and any dirt seals are added into the parts count, then saying "fewer moving parts" is easily justified. Just wonder why recourse to a hydrostatic variable speed drive was considered, where the innate properties of a brushless...
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    Integrated controllers in hub motors...

    "Too many eggs in one basket", as the saying goes. Integration undoubtedly has its style appeal, very important to some, though it is a "driver" of our present throwaway society. The latter, something in the future that might also be seen as a whim that the planet ought to be spared?
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    Woosh Rio crashing in style

    But he is "young", still now a spring chicken at only 66.;)
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    Woosh Rio crashing in style

    Well, first I am very conscious of pedestrians, and their priority as on shared ways, but still use footways in certain areas where as a cyclist one would have to have a death wish to mix it with the motorised vehicles. Despite the illegality, a modicum of sense is needed and that is generally...
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    Woosh Rio crashing in style

    Hopefully you avoided a trip along the crossbar into the headstock!
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    Why bike part manufactures doesn't make robust ebike specific drivetrain parts?

    It is worth noting that even a 56 kg rider using 165 mm cranks and standing on the pedals develops the quoted 90 NM of crank torque. That's just with a softly applied load, it's going to be way more if the rider “pumps” their weight when pedalling hard, not to mention if they bring in direct...
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    Torque Sensor Folding eBike?

    Whilst noting others here sensed little difference in the drive command technologies, having tried both cadence and torque sensing bikes, the differences in cycling "feel" was very apparent to me, as it was also to my wife, both much preferring TS. I don't doubt you can adapt to either or...
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    Why bike part manufactures doesn't make robust ebike specific drivetrain parts?

    Probably because a European powered & speed legal e-bike's components should not be subjected to much higher load carrying loads than a non e-bike in a serious riders hands? And probably the durability achieved by Mr & Ms Average, is tolerated in that market? Wear issues, as with normal bikes...
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    Help! My Toba Beatbike stepthrough, about 3 years old, and the seat tube has developed a crack

    That's the STEPS drive? When you have acquired some user experience would you please detail a comparison of the two bikes, in particular relating to the "feel" of the drives, thanks.
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    Help! My Toba Beatbike stepthrough, about 3 years old, and the seat tube has developed a crack

    Sadly IMO it would stand no chance, and sadly even if a welding repair was made it would be short lived unless the frame was re stress relieved, all getting expensive because of the collateral work needed. If what we read here is borne out, there will be many good Kalkhoff Agattu step through...
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    Help! My Toba Beatbike stepthrough, about 3 years old, and the seat tube has developed a crack

    Is the Toba Beat a unique 50 Cycles brand, as it is the brand holder that would warranty the bike, as opposed to the seller? So if they were merely a seller, there could be a warranty with the brand holder. My similar bike the Kalkhoff has a 10 year warranty on the frame.
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    Sinclair c5 revisited

    Wait, you could get the "flag" job to eradicate that issue!
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    Sinclair c5 revisited

    But then he was throughout obsessed with miniaturisation, as that fairy cycle with its child's scooter sized wheels he was pushing at one time. I did build and use one of the calculators, good for its time for a lad on a budget, where if we wanted to use a calculator we had to buy our own.
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    Sinclair c5 revisited

    At least he twigged the better wheel configuration than his uncle's, more a Morgan than a Reliant;)