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Thanks are due to you too. I will go and check out that link as it could be useful. I've just watched You Tube video advised by vhfman and the demonstration was really good. I would never have known from normal visual inspection about the tiny hole that you have to wind the gear change...

VHF Man thanks a million those three links look very promising indeed. I'll go investigate them straight away. I'm very grateful to you for that bit of information. Another view of the rear hub I failed to spot when taking that photo was that on the side of the brake it has the name stamped...

Thank you Tillson - well spotted! Yes you're dead right, it's not the normal calliper brakes on the rear wheel, but the front has normal callipers. The rear is difficult to describe, it's a brake band that tightens up on a drum. It's like the negative of a drum brake on a car where you have...

Thanks Tillson and to Dyno. This is just the type of info I was hoping for. I was wondering whether it should be disconnected in 1st gear or 8th as either end of the range looks to be just as impossible to remove the cable when I didn't know what you must undo first. I wasn't even aware...

I've just treated myself to a brand new Smartabike called Model LX8 I'm still grinning from the buzz I get from riding around getting used to it, but I'm suddenly aware that I know nothing about the way modern bikes have strange band-brakes on the back wheel and the gears are a very long way...