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It's pleasant to feel able to disagree while respecting one's companions. I query your last assertion, Flecc. What makes you so sure of this? I have had an ebike for a month - and have already heard three people say that the ones with small batteries cost too much, and the ones with big...

I note your opinion, Frank. For myself I frequently find them very silly indeed!

I have to say that I don't agree with you if you intend to suggest that all this is perfectly reasonable, Flecc. To me it's damned silly. The capital involved in R & D is of course risk capital and has to be. The rewards to be hoped for are large sales of the final product. The sort of...

Just so. If we wish to live in a fine society then we will be here for one another. Knowing our own foibles we do not expect perfection in others. What is risky is LIFE. If that sounds flabby then so be it. To me it seems common sense. "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a...

Similarly I sat at the computer at that time and felt nothing whatever, although 10 miles away someone reports in the local paper that they were shaken quite violently.

It may depend upon how many bunnies you have entangled in the spokes, Jeanette! :) :)

Thanks Flecc. Careless of me to miss that. Anything complicated throws me nowadays! The more I think of it the more do I feel that having a range of Panasonic ebikes is a wonderful thing. It might just bring ebiking into public attention seeing a variety on display as it were. And if...

It's lovely to see that Kalkhoff are intent on a whole range of these bikes. It has to be a good thing in popularising ebikes. Are the hydraulic brakes worth the extra? I know nothing whatever about them but find it hard to think anything could be much better than the Agattu brakes. There...

I'm sure you have and very interesting I've found it. Thank you everyone.

I'm finding this all quite fascinating. What about drum brakes gentlemen?

Well well. I've always said that I could see no justification for disk brakes on bicycles! Now I know better. What pads ought I to buy for my Agattu when they become needed (not for ages probably considering my ambling style of riding)?

Reading an article extolling disk brakes on bikes I was struck by a claim that rim brakes wear aluminium wheel rims badly. Do they? That is something I confess never to have thought about.

Great news, Jimmy. Happy pedelec moding!

Well well - we have the makings of a nice little discussion here. I can remember (just) country farming folk declaring that farm horses would "always be around." And tractors were a new fangled affair that would "never catch on."

I was rather alarmed when mucking about with reversing my bike icon, at how easily I could have damaged all sorts of things. Is there no way of limiting alteration to one's own details?

I would be more inclined to bet on there being very few cars of any make on the roads in 15 years time. If they are still there they won't be user driven. I would lay money on roads having power strips of some sort and cars being powered from them and guided by them. Petrol will be a rare and...

I had the oddest dream last night that I must share with you lot. Perhaps we may even have a resident Freud to analyse it! I was in a laboratory with a dozen scientists. They were the genuine article, real egg head boffins in smart suits and immaculate white lab coats. They were gathered round...

Well, Music, it's going to be really interesting to hear if and how the diamond frame differs in feel from the wave. The trouble is going to be that short of riding one after the other how will any of us know?? Anyway I've got my fingers crossed for you it won't be long now.

I'm trying, David! That free TV licence beckons!!

You're a mere stripling, Merv! :)