1000 miles in...

[Jonathan Pallant]

I've been managing about four days a week on the bike on average over the last two months - thanks to bad weather, illness, holidays, accidents, etc. This is what came up on the ride home.



I've had one accident so far - bike went from under me sideways while crossing a road. The tyres really don't have a lot of grip in the wet. I got up, walked to the side of the road and then passed out in a heap on the ground!

My battery issues are well documented on here, but battery #3 has been fine. I can do a 26 mile round trip without recharging in the middle, but I usually charge it at both ends anyway. The gauge shows full in the picture but I've done 11 miles into a head wind at that point. I've never seen more than two blobs out! The charging indicator is weirdly unstable once the battery is charged, but it doesn't seem to affect anything.

The cut-off wire came out of one of the brake levers, but I got a new lever sent out next day (although the observant will notice I haven't bothered splicing it in yet...)

The only downside to cycling is fighting your way through clouds of bugs along by the lakes. I quickly learnt to check I had my sunglasses with me!

Maybe we'll get to 6k by the time it's a year old?

 

[Fordulike]

Well done Jonathan, although I had to look closely for the decimal point in your picture lol.

Glad you're alright after the accident. Were you wearing a noggin protector?

 

[Croxden]

I've missed something somewhere, what bike/kit have you?

 

[LEBC Tom]

Looks like a Kudos Tourer?

 

[Jonathan Pallant]

Ah, yes, it's a Kudos Tourer. But not the one you sold the chap who lives around the corner from me. I bought mine first from eBikesDirect and he liked it so much he bought one himself.

Yes I was wearing a helmet. It's now in the bin as it took a bit of a whack.