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The Alfine cable removal video looks over complicated to me. All I did was dump the spring tension by putting the bike in top gear, then hoik the nipple out of its recess. Doable - just about - beside the road with no tools, but easier with pin nose pliers.

It's for commuting, £800 race wheels is the last thing he wants.

Your cut and paste spec list for the 2016 bike is for a mountain bike - suspension, 2.25" Nobby Nic tyres, Deore XT, which is a mountain bike groupset. So a bit more checking is needed, but full hydraulic discs are worth having.

I take it you mean you can do one way - 11miles - in 30 minutes. Thus you are doing 22mph, which is going some on a pushbike. No remotely legal ebike is going to improve on that very much, although as a strong cyclist you might be able to propel a dongled Road E at 25mph or maybe a touch more...

You are after speed and distance, so will need a bike with the bigger 500wh battery.

A badass dongle should work on the Giant Road E. Only you will be able to find out what that does because 15+mph will still depend significantly on the effort you can put in. https://www.badassebikes.com/

For two miles - unless you work on top of a mountain - a push bike would be a lot simpler. You wouldn't be messing around charging and being at the mercy of dodgy Chinese electrics and batteries. A push bike would be almost as quick in one direction, albeit you would have to plod home. Your...

And the OP might think it's up to his competitors to do their own legwork.

A few induction bike lights already on the market: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=induction+bike+lights&rlz=1CAASUE_enGB730GB735&oq=induction+bike+&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.9762j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Not much you can realistically do about the colour, but fitting a basket is simple enough.

I suspect woosh is being a bit over cautious there. What you maybe shouldn't do on a Big Bear at your weight is slap another 30kgs of touring luggage on it.

If the budget will stretch to £1,195, the Kudos Sonata is worth a look. Slightly better spec, against a smaller battery. It has a rear motor which may count against it. Putting the motor in the front evens the stress on the wheels in terms of weight and spokes. The spec of the Plug In bikes...

My AVE has 20" balloon tyres and a rigid fork. The front end comfort is fine, although inevitably smaller circumference wheels will crash into deeper/wider potholes more than a big wheel bike. The R&M fork will be reasonable quality, although I doubt there are many alternatives in 20" size...

It does rather look as if the Impulse motor will never be right. Software updates and claimed redesigns seem to be having no impact on the unacceptable failure rate.

Assuming the otherwise meaningless torque figures are at least good for comparison, a Bosch bike with barely half the grunt of a CX motor would be a bit too weedy for a lot of users. Or it may only be usable in turbo for most of the time. Quieter sounds good, low noise is not the strongest...

I suspect the bigger rotor with the same calliper would have given the same improvement. Or a hydraulic calliper with the same rotor. Or possibly different pads, although that would be trial and error. So there's various ways to skin the brake improvement cat. Yours is as good as any.

I agree quality control comes into it as well as quality of components. Thus out of 100 cheap bikes, a couple more will go wrong than will out of 100 expensive bikes. If you get one of 'non fault' cheap bikes the job's a good 'un. Equally, if you get one of the (fewer) expensive bikes that go...

It's an observation based on fact. Unlike you, I couldn't give a stuff about any bike brand, including the ones I own. If my AVE or Riese and Muller bikes fall to bits, I would post about it for the information of others. Woosh - and other Chinese bikes - are excellent value in that you get a...

Things coming loose/falling off, and fixings made of cheese. The more Chinese bikes 'improve', the more they stay the same.

Hubs is one area where bike makers skimp because there's little impact at point of sale. Even those buyers who do study spec sheets tend to take more notice of the make of gears, brakes, wheels, and tyres.