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  1. Gringo

    For sale Cube reaction hybrid pro

    Posting and all the potential pitfalls sound like a disaster waiting to happen !
  2. Gringo

    For sale Cube reaction hybrid pro

    Yes it's a 29er and the motor is rated at 50nm. I believe the frame battery is the same in 2018 models (if it dsent sell I'd be keeping the battery for my 2018 cube)
  3. Gringo

    For sale Cube reaction hybrid pro

    Price adjusted, now £595
  4. Gringo

    For sale Cube reaction hybrid pro

    Treat yourself this Christmas ;) Here we have my most excellent Cube reaction hybrid pro, 17" frame, 400 battery & Bosch cruise drive unit. I brought it new in 2014 and I've covered 4,522 miles, mostly road with the occasional bridal-way & disused railway. It's never been ridden hard or...
  5. Gringo

    New Legal Speed Limit: What should it be?

    I want all the advantages of an electric motorbike with none of the social & legal responsibilities, it don't need any government body telling me what's safe as I know best. And another thing, other people shouldn't be on MY cycle paths anywho
  6. Gringo

    Is one Dremel as good as any other?

    As lm twice the age of most of my workmates, I cringe every time one of them uses powered tools with a total disregard for there eyes dispite having safety glasses available. I have pointed out the potential dangers so many times I can't remember....................sory this is turning into a...
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    Is one Dremel as good as any other?

    Ouch, just seen the price, the little ones are good for little jobs, some of the guys at work use them on verry small delicate jobs but for for a more general purpose tool they have the 10volt ones (untill the batterys flat & the mains one comes out ) There's plenty of non dremel grinders out...
  8. Gringo

    Locks

    I'm not kidding anyone let alone myself, I'm an engineer and know full well how easy it is to render useless most locks :( My bikes are never outside on view for more than the time it takes me to open/close the garage door. I have enough security to stop a casual tealeaf and a determined thief...
  9. Gringo

    Locks

    This seams a good price for a reasonable lock https://www.rutlandcycling.com/accessories/locks/kryptonite-kryptolok-series-2-d-lock-and-1-2m-flex-cable_109243 My bike is Krypton locked to the wall in my garage whenever I'm not riding it ;)
  10. Gringo

    Which other forums do you frequent?

    Letsride Fiat forum Several 1/10th scale RC forums
  11. Gringo

    Bosch 400wh frame battery

    My bad, I didn't consider the rack battery as I have selective blindness, I can't see racks on bicycles (or baskets for that matter)
  12. Gringo

    Brooks saddles

    What's to not to understand, I brought a brooks, didn't like it and go shot. I brought a lidls saddle liked it and brought another, simples. I'm pleased for those that get on with and enjoy there brooks saddles but I'd rather buy 10 lidl saddles for the same money
  13. Gringo

    Orange 6 E LE Shortest review ever!

    I got a better finish from two rattle cans of AA van yellow
  14. Gringo

    Bosch 400wh frame battery

    Copied from another thread, Bosch at halfords went into local Halfords no bosch crossfuse on display but they have one in hemel Hempstead store and Hendon cost of bosch battery 400w £513, but 10less with cycle network? discount I beleve Bosch only have one battery case at the moment in the UK...
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    Orange 6 E LE Shortest review ever!

    Or Dutch ;)
  16. Gringo

    Brooks saddles

    Brooks :mad:Been there done that, id rather sit on a concrete saddle. Tried many, ended up with the lidl sadle, infact I have two, one for each bike :cool:
  17. Gringo

    Suntour NCX seat post spares

    £31 for 8 & that's for something almost but not quit the right size and no pins either. Even when you find the corect size bushes you'll only save a few quid over the price of a proper kit and you'll still have old pins
  18. Gringo

    A random thread for things too unimportant for their own thread...

    Every where there's a hole :eek: and where there's not a hole a surgeon will make you a new one :confused: ( keyhole surgery )
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    Pedelec Riders Club of Britain

    I joined "letsride" back when it was "sykride". It was dead for a long time but 4 of us got together and caled ourselves " Northampton social cyclists" we now have 150+ members (probably only 40 actively get out and ride) It's not a electric bike club but it is social and there's never been any...
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    A random thread for things too unimportant for their own thread...

    Well you kinda asked ;) OK so here's the thing, it at the very pointed end of obscure ! I put new illumination fibres in surgical ridged endoscops* & then laser weld them back together using a 0.3mm filler rod, to see this I'm looking through a 50 X magnification lens. All this sound very...