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    Secondary use for old battery packs

    If you can split the pack a big 12v battery in a box with a mini compressor and jump leads and a low power 240V inverter comes in quite handy. :)
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    Front-wheel drive traction

    You might even find it a positive advantage. There's one particular driveway that I got up that is a pig to cycle up (both peddling and steering a little front wheel drive balances out the whole bike - two wheel drive. May belucky with my setup but I quite like the balance of weight-wise with...
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    Wheel build

    Yes, speed falls - you drop down the efficiency curve quite quickly, not as quick as the tail-off at the top end but it is significant. You lose much more than just the straight linear ratio between wheel diameters and it can be a cascading reduction as you are left with rapidly reducing (EDIT)...
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    Cycling Gloves

    I was lucky, found a pair of lightweight motorcycling gloves for a quid at the car boot. As a test just typed this message with them to see how long it would take to type. About a minute with a few mistakes, was going to chop the fingers tips off but I think I'll keep them just the way the are.:)
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    kit nine continent: any experience with it in UK?

    Bought one from Wilkotec (off Ebay), like you say there is not much to match it on price, delivery was quick and well packaged and it worked first time after a weekend of building the battery box, fitting the hub (required a little bit of tweaking with my forks and some additional modified...