How many people are using there e-bike off-road?
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I had an issue with my last helmet, a Casco Sportiv-TC. The fabric band that runs around the circumference of the head, used to just touch the crease of my ears, where the top of the ear joins the head.
It would chafe after a few hours riding and made it uncomfortable to wear over long periods.
Maybe it's just my alien shaped noggin
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Today I broke a chain, not repairable out on ride (or back at home for that matter) it's mullered! It snapped while negotiating a tricky and slippy, rocky byway as I was pedaling uphill just after a downhill stretch.
Thankfully I was able to spin the pedals and use the throttle to get myself back home with my oxydrive CST powering me back the last 6 road miles of the ride...
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Thankfully I was able to spin the pedals and use the throttle to get myself back home with my oxydrive CST powering me back the last 6 road miles of the ride...
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Took me a while to understand how this would work, but think I've got it. So you spin the pedals which does nothing (as you've binned the chain) other than allow the throttle to give power to the hub motor and head home on pure hub power?
Wouldn't work for me as I have crank drive, but that's definitely an advantage of hub over crank which I hadn't thought of before.
Spinning the pedals will power the hub motor (pedalec sensor) even without the chain. I mainly used the throttle alone but spun when going past the mamils to give the impression that 20mph was requiring some kind of effort!
You're right, a crank drive system would have left me in the lurch with no other option than to scoot it [emoji39]
You're right, a crank drive system would have left me in the lurch with no other option than to scoot it [emoji39]
I think I'll be carrying a spare chain from now on. I was lucky to not have been much more than 6 miles from home but I've never had a chain go on me before.
The "jewels" were saved by the dropper post as I had it fully up so didn't need to be off the saddle [emoji106]
As the weather is closing in and the trails getting muddier it seem that mudguards are becoming nessasary. Saw the frankenguard that EddiePJ has fitted but don't think I could cope with that much function over style. I have found these and hope look a little better I
will report back when I have fitted them and used them in anger.
will report back when I have fitted them and used them in anger.
I hope that you get on better with the front guard than I did. I snapped two of them in a row, and gave up after that.
I also have a rear one in the same style as you have shown, but again didn't get on with it. I can't remember why though at this moment.
I really rate my Mucky Nutz front guard and the scud rear one is brilliant. I'd rather have none at all though, but going out for three or four hours in a winter evening and returning with water running where it shouldn't soon looses it's appeal.
The Scud launcher is a thing of beauty!
Joking aside, it does a brilliant job of keeping the upper suspension linkages free from mud and water, and a second guard that I have yet to fit, shields the rear shock and other linkages.
Speaking of function. What do you reckon to my urban explorer/city cruiser!
E-mtb version to follow!
I also have a rear one in the same style as you have shown, but again didn't get on with it. I can't remember why though at this moment.
I really rate my Mucky Nutz front guard and the scud rear one is brilliant. I'd rather have none at all though, but going out for three or four hours in a winter evening and returning with water running where it shouldn't soon looses it's appeal.
The Scud launcher is a thing of beauty!
Joking aside, it does a brilliant job of keeping the upper suspension linkages free from mud and water, and a second guard that I have yet to fit, shields the rear shock and other linkages.
Speaking of function. What do you reckon to my urban explorer/city cruiser!
E-mtb version to follow!
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Absolutely love the urban cruiser and when it's running the gyroscope effect will keep you upright. I could have done with that bike to help me through these! 
I've always liked the English countryside. I wish we had bigger hills and more open space instead of the rocks&roots grinding in the dark woods.Certainly a good day over here for a ride.
A bit muddy and slippery in places. but what a superb, sunny and warm day.
I had a great ride Sunday morning. Bike worked great and it was warm and nice. 35km, mostly singletrack.
Rise and shine!
Enter the mud season
Sunny, warm and dry also.
If rocks and roots are slippery - try these duckboards when wet. Almost like ice.
Now where's the trail now?
Rise and shine!
Enter the mud season
Sunny, warm and dry also.
If rocks and roots are slippery - try these duckboards when wet. Almost like ice.
Now where's the trail now?
Lovely place to ride Sherman, and actually very similar including the duck boards and roots, to somewhere that I have recently started to ride locally. I've yet to ride it in the wet, but the thought of the boards being highly slippery had already crossed my mind.
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There's a boardwalk on the national cycle route which passes Shotton in County Durham.
The area around it was deliberately flooded years ago, so is marshy.
The boardwalk works OK, although it is a bit nerve wracking because there's a drop either side.
Traction is good thanks to chicken wire on the boards.
Care still needed because the yobbos have been known to rip out a board or two.
A mate of mine was nearly caught out by that after snow fell on the vandalised stretch.
