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I bought a new Haibike Trekking for £1,800 a year ago, and have had 5,000 miles of trouble free commuting so far. Saved £540pa gym membership Saved £1600pa train season ticket Bought a three year biannual service plan for £100pa So even in the first year, there have been modest savings and its...

London's taxes prop up most of the rest of the U.K.

Think my Yamaha is very quiet, but I mistook some early irritating bike noise for the motor. Fixed by the shop lubricating the wheel bearings. Only notice a slight motor whine when there's no traffic or wind.

Love my Haibike Sduro Trekking bought for similar reasons. To reliably make the whole journey on full power you'll need to charge before returning though.

I'm only reasonably fit and in my late 30s, but the badass dongle is more than fast enough for me on an otherwise standard haibike sduro trekking. On flat with no wind 30mph is fairly easy physically, 35 for short bursts, 40 if really putting in a lot of effort. Even though 30 is fairly easy...

No problems so far on my 2015 sduro trekking after 500 miles of happy commuting

I tried and ended up getting another bike. See last few posts of http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/cyclotricity-kit-review.19793/

I changed the bike to a cheap hybrid and switched over the kit. The forks weren't the only reason for changing. My old single speed racer was perfect for my old road only commute in London, but a bigger hybrid with straight handlebars and wider tyres is much more suited to my new mainly coastal...

Think there's a lot of pro gamblers, mainly on the exchanges. Have known a few who've done it for a while then stopped. One system betting on football, other per hole golf. Both stopped as very time consuming, dull, and could make an easier living working.

Have talked about the fork problem at length with 4 local bike shops, and they've all come to the conclusion that I should move the kit onto another bike. A couple tried to fit other front forks, and couldn't. The steel racing forks they had were too tight on the hub, and non-racing forks didn't...

Added self amalgamating tape. Looking further into the forks, suspect the current ones are unsuitable for conversion and I should change them before riding the bike again. Had assumed the whole fork was metal because the dropouts were, but they do seem to be carbon fibre above after a closer...

Thanks. I might just put a heat shrink tube over that whole area.

Thanks guys. Although not normal think this is the designed orientation for the cyclotricty kit, comments on this issue from the manufacturer in http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/cyclotricity-bike.10630/ and it came out of the box setup for this orientation. Think this potential problem...

Great, thank you. Have ordered one and will fit later this week.

Appreciate your advice d8veh. I've attached pics of the bottom of the two dropouts. Made sure they were both still very tight after the necessary filing to get them in. Torque washer on both. Think the dropouts are aluminium. They're light silver metal under the paint and magnets don't stick...