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Unless overloaded beyond the maker's loading specification, is it not simply a design issue as the break is at a designed in weak point? That is a highly stressed location which has already been weakened by the manufacturing deformation of the tube, and the piercing. This, coupled with its...

Except that the "proper" bolt in this case is an M10 "Superfine" 10mm x 1 mm pitch, not the normal M10 "fine", which is 10mm x 1.25 pitch. Great if you can find a source of the correct size bolts in one or two off, rather than a minium order, typically with such specials.

It comes as quite a surprise to hear most people get their bikes of any brand or type "wrapped", I never have nor known colleagues doing so.

It is true that the frame needs to be designed to suit a Gates belt drive because these belts can't be broken, as chain can and as some other belts can. Whilst an irritant in increasing complexity, it is also an advantage as the belt has no "weak" link. The benefits of the Gates belt drive are...

The Nexus 8 has a reported 3.09 range ratio, so wider than the new Nexus 5E; Using our Agattu Nexus 8 bike I however, struggle to recall occasions I drop to a lower gear than #4 and live in a quite hilly area. The Nexus 8's range ratio is no different to a basic 34/11 cassette used with a single...

A lot to like about it, it brings discs that other people rave about though my rims have been no area of concern. The BMC has a smaller battery, but possibly one more generally replaceable than the Kalkhoff specific one which is eye wateringly expensive if ever needed. I prefer a city bike to...

Okay, should be a lovely machine.

Are you sure the Kalkhoff Agatta 1.S has the new hub, this link states it has the Nexus 7? IMO because of its internal clutch technology it makes it the least suitable of the Nexus range for E bike adoption. Ours is the 2016 Agattu with Gates belt driven Nexus 8, but with the ill reputed...

A very interesting and relevant question that has got me doing a bit of online ferreting. I am left thinking it is primary for two reasons, one being more rugged the other to facilite what is likely to be a growing requirement to have autochanging. This IMO is a relevant link. Here it claims...

It is the use of "wood" that intrigues me the more. Even in countries where just about everything that can be is made of wood or cane, it was not apparent there to me that wood was the material of choice for a bike. Is it the exceptional challenges it presents that floats your boat, not that it...

It begs the question, was that "before" or "after"? Remembering my days on my tools a pre wash was often a requirement, so twice the need faced in later years.

Four years in, the only cost over aquisition has been electricity to charge the battery, at the most about 8 pence a time.

The predominant deciding factor for so many purchasers will as always be the "bottom line", for so many it "has" to be.

Not in my case, I originally set the lower clip of each to the appropriate position and fixed it there, never resetting again. Fortuitously, both are identical simply vertically down, the rack must have been designed for these panniers. As such they "fall" into position naturally and it matters...

I would expect your bags either come with the OL-1 or QL-2 system, mine the are the former which I find brilliant, QL-1 system QL-2 system

Surely the "lower" clip is just that, an anti swing clip that slips over and off the rail, not something screwed up tight with an Allen key to lock the bag in place? Well, thats the way I have used the bags so they can be fitted and removed in seconds. My take is if they were intended to be...

In part "we" can be our own worst enemy in "group" riding. Where that group adopts a pattern and positioning changing routine that effectively commands the road and sets the road speed. Fine where safe overtaking is not possible by the nature of the road but "silly" and dangerous on more open...

I did not miss that but the response was to the thread, no specific posting within it.

Simply follow the Highway codes "Arm Signals" as these are what everone driving "ought" to know and expect to see plus to anyone else they are about as intuitive to understand as it is possible to be. Wearing hi-vis at night. Why oh why clutter up and complicate a bike other than to make money...

Is it my computer, or is that flashing glove pulling in sync with the flashing, both his arm and the road itself? ;)