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Real life experience:- I frequently ride my crank driver about 1.5 miles up a very gentle slope that once was a railway line. Probably about 1 in 200. If I come up in 8th (top) gear I can do 13 mph without pedalling. The motor feels warm to the hand. If I use 7th gear, the speed remains the same...

Some bad tempered idiots. Probably can't help themselves, they go through life in misery, always seeing themselves as the perpetual victims.

Looking from both sides:- I have ridden my son in laws Bosch powered bike. He is also a lycra and only uses his ebike for commuting. It is a nice ride, but it is no better at hill climbing than my old Tonaro with hand throttle. My son in law has ridden my bike and although generally dismissive...

From my point the problem is that it only applies to England. Will have to hope that the second class politicians that we have in the Welsh Government might do something. One thing the CV19 crisis has revealed is that they always want to show their independence, so they won't follow England.

I suppose that eventually the market will decide. It just seems annoying that Bosch are able to apparently avoid The Treaty of Rome and a level playing field, deny third party repairers their rights, and make a hugely overpriced product just by adding unnecessary electronics so that in effect...

Exactly what is this 'Level of sophistication?'

Yet again, as the trouble free user of 2 Chinese simple electric bikes for 9 years now, I ask myself "Just why do people buy unnecessarily over complicated, hugely over priced, Bosch fitted ebikes?"

I bottled out and now carry a gaardi tube and gas bottle

Once again it is necessary to warn against in frame batteries. It would be nice if they were to say that it is not fenced around with electronics a la Bosh. This would mean that there is some hope for third party re-celling.

I have a theory, not very sound I agree, but the original MTB bikes were made up by enthusiasts from existing bikes, and wishing to emulate the wider bars of Moto Cross, I guess that they just used any old wide and suitable piece of tubing.

Well, try to imagine driving a car with a flat bar instead of steering wheel and you will understand my annoyance at manufacturers foisting straight bars on the public. Dropped handlebars have a fore and aft hand position which is natural. Many early bikes after strangely the straight bars of...

If you lived I where do, there are always proper hills to get home and you are already on full assistance when you get worn out.

It all depends on exactly what sort of system your bike has to deliver the power. 1 A torque sensored system will deliver power as a ratio of what you put in by pedalling. To my mind a crazy system but much loved by many of the more athletic on this site. For older/less fit enthusiasts it means...

The space of the bolts is not the same. Nothing to do with centre locks.

I am quoting the hole space, the outer diameter of the discs is the same.

What is 'normal'size? Of these two similar discs, one is 43mm and the other about 47 mm.

The first thing is ascertain the diameter at the centre of your existing bars, then go on ebay and search for 'All Rounder, North Road etc.' These bars allow a much more upright sitting position

It's Perth in Australia folks.

When I bought my bike from Woosh they specifically stated that the wheels should be regularly pinged and even supplied a spoke key with the bike.

Seems like a matter of not fit for purpose.