Recent content by sopht

Hello, have been a long time follower of electric bike technology (15 yrs +!), and an admirer of the path taken by the Dutch - and an equally dismayed follower of the antagonism in this country between car/pedestrian/cycle users. My particular desires are to see a Netherlands-style network...

Did you get anywhere with this? It seems such a heartless robbery. (Admin note: Sadly I didn't hear further, but I agree heartless indeed)

oh please... I'm tempted to mock up the equivalent with men's bits... :p

LOL - goodbye, slut!! I enjoyed that, amazing what's on youtube.

I've had my share of motorbike and push bike accidents - I'd probably always choose a full face helmet for the former after losing teeth etc in an unfair fight with the drunken driver of a Range Rover. But, having come off a bike going very fast round a huge roundabout, (the mudguard fixing...

Hi John, thanks for the pics - it really helps to see the finished article and to hear about the snags along the way - that throttle/shifter solution looks perfect - way better than in my imagination :) One of the reasons I was looking at another bike for conversion, apart from weight, was...

Hello John, well done for doing it! I'm still diddly daddling, on cost grounds. I was just looking at a Giant CRS 4 last night, funnily enough, £219 from Ash Cycles, very tempting - my current push bike's great but heavier. So, I was very interested to see your post about conversion. I have...

Thanks Rog :) Sorry Vikki - I'd gone to bed

'Tis indeed. More memories - my fave bike was pinched from Portsmouth - a single speed old Oxford bike that took me around, as well as much of England, the south of France. We'd get to a hilltop village, park up, and the locals would gather round exclaiming 'Ahh, les Anglais, ils sont fou...

Hi Vikki, enjoyed reading of your journey - took me back, I used to live off Farlington Ave a wee while ago, and cycled in to Southsea every day. For some reason I never took the eastern road - too chilly and probably no cycle lanes back then. It was a blooming hard hill at the end of the day...

Agreed! Anyway, got off topic somehow - I was looking at the jackets :)

Ah well...:confused: It's a nightmare around there on 4 wheels - better on two, though the trams can sneak up on you. Have you tried the cycle lanes on Wellesley Rd? I personally like the one that turns suddenly, ends, and launches you across the tramway, into the dual carriageway and down...

Hi Eddieo, one thought - (I know Croydon, sadly), were you outside Millets? From memory, isn't that just before the (rather confusing) pedestrianisation of the high street? He may just have been trying to work out where to go? If not, in Croydonese, it sounds well dodgy :rolleyes: Soph

They did have a note on the site apologising for the current lack of these, awaiting shipment, and which should have been due about now. Hopefully they'll reappear.

Ah, thank you for that - I kind of expected it, 21kg seems to be more the province of proconnect s and cytronex than a european type step through? Not to get hung up on it, but it's a factor. Im probably used to looking closely at weights - as a woman working on a building site, the lighter...