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    Sustrans Connect 2: **VOTE NOW**

    I certainly share your doubts about lotteries Stuart, particularly as much of the lottery advertising seems to be aimed at those least able to afford to gamble and least able to appreciate just how steeply the odds are stacked against them. In this case though the money is there and quite...
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    Sustrans Connect 2: **VOTE NOW**

    Well spotted Stuart, not long to wait.
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    Sustrans Connect 2: **VOTE NOW**

    Thanks guys, the more the better, and that includes guests as well. I didn't mention the online voting as the site implies that the the registration validation process may take some time, obviously many have registered in advance and for those online voting is the easiest option. But for...
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    Sustrans Connect 2: **VOTE NOW**

    I'm a bit late posting this but for anyone who's not already aware there is £50M of lottery funds to be used for 1 of 4 projects. For most of us cyclists the preferred choice would be the Sustrans Connect 2 project concerned with improving existing cycle routes and creating new paths in 79...
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    Agutta 1st Impressions

    Like most good yarns there is a grain of truth in it... ‘They are the same as the normal clothes that everyone used to wear, jeans, T shirts, anoraks or whatever…’ explained Mr Randle, ‘But they’ve got the word ‘safety’ at the front, so they are about twice the price.’
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    perfect weight distribution + tires for electric bikes

    I suggest you try some european tyres pumped up hard, the handling characteristics of many of the Chinese tyres supplies as standard leave considerable room for improvement.
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    Advice needed - Synergie/ezee?

    It's my understanding that the Forte has a throttle control and this in combination with the powerful motor was overloading the battery when de-restricted, consequently the de-restriction option was removed. I also understand that the Forza with it's EAF control suffers no overloading of the...
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    Advice needed - Synergie/ezee?

    I too started e-biking with a Synergie and my experiences were pretty much the same as yours and many other members of the Synergie forum of which I was a member at that time. After not very long long yet another unpowered ride home I decided enough was enough and bought an Ezee Torq, and yes...
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    perfect weight distribution + tires for electric bikes

    Bicycle tyres being thin, don't need any tread at all on tarmac, wet or dry. A bicycle tyre is simply too thin to trap enough water at the speeds involved to cause a problem. The tread on road tyres is purely to make them look attractive to buyers who believe tyres should have tread. Serious...
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    fuse holder

    Automotive in-line fuse holders are available from good car accessory shops or Maplins (stock code MX15R or KK80B). They normally come with 2 short lengths of heavy cable attached and take the blade type fuses that come in various ratings. The problem with 1.25" glass fuses in the higher...
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    Indicators!

    I think Stuart that anything reflective on a stuck out arm is a good thing, after all everyone knows what sticking an arm out is supposed to signal, unlike a flashing light close to the centre line which may or may not be a turn signal. Yellow reflective armbands are readilly and cheaply...
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    Battery damage clarification

    One of the main problems with a number of cells in series, as in all bike batteries, is that all the cells will not reach exhaustion at exactly the same time, typically some cells will fall bellow a "safe" voltage before the pack as a whole reaches its nominal minimum. This is not normally a...
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    What Bike Computer

    Where I live it's all boy racers who slow to less than walking pace for the numerous humps for fear of damaging their oversized exhausts and plastic adornments through the negligible ground clearance on their modified cars. Very frustrating as they rush to overtake bikes between the humps and...
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    Indicators!

    I wouldn't be happy using indicators on a bicycle of any type, motorists don't expect to see indicators on bikes and would probably confuse them with flashing safety lights if they even even noticed them at all. If used in conjunction with flashing lights (which I and others use in daylight)...
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    What Bike Computer

    I'm just about to set out on a regular 4 mile car journey into Leicester, I'm allowing 1 hour, hopefully I'll do it in 30 mins although 45 is more likely. The same journey has been known to take over 1 hour on rare occasions. I could do it in 30 mins on the bike taking a longer but safer...
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    Oh Asterisk! Agattu! Agutta!

    And I thought it was named after an actress from the Railway Children ;). Also considered tasty by many :D
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    Pedals, Cleats and straps

    That's a trick I've used many times on all kinds of jobs and it's always worked for me. My preferred "heat gun" is a propane torch, but an electric heat gun should do the job on a bicycle crank and is safer with less risk of overheating and softening the crank. Rub a bar of soap on the crank...
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    Research and development on the new battery technology

    As Jeremy has correctly said nickel is virtually non-toxic, much of our food being prepared using stainless steel utensils which contain a high percentage of nickel, not to mention surgeons using stainless steel instruments and occasionally leaving them inside a patient. NiMh batteries are...
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    How many electric bikes do you see out on the roads?

    My bikes have been to Cornwall and have had a fair bit of use on most of the cycle trails yet the only other electric I've seen there was a Powabyke on the Camel Trail, in fact bikes of desription seem rare on any of the trails other than the Bodmin-Padstow section of the Camel Trail. I've...
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    was the largest nimh cell that exists?

    Thanks for clarifying that Jeremy, I was assuming the battery would be of high capacity to provide the high peak power demands. In fact the Hitachi hybrid rail traction system also uses a battery with a surprisingly small capacity relative to the high peak power demands, if 48kWh can ever be...