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I wonder how long it will take before something half reasonable is going through the auctions at about 1000 pounds? Those are the popular cars going through the auction that end up on the forecourt for a couple of grand. Those 60 plate focus / seat / whatever cars that make up a large part of...

There will ultimately have to be a shift from taxing diesel and petrol to electric used for transportation.

And for sure electric heating isn’t the only solution, it was only making the point about whether the network can support charging electric cars. But unless some infrastructure changes are made the default will bimble down to the least effective solution of electric heating and all that entails...

Perfect, that’s exactly how it’s behaving, so there’s nothing to worry about thank you. I’m not sure I’d use it much but it’s handy for testing and setting up the gears et cetera. The really good news is the assistance takes all the pressure off my inguinal hernia which means I can actually...

Well it stopped raining! It was still very windy but that never changes here. So I decided to take the bike round a quick 5 mile circuit to shake it around a bit and see if anything falls off, I’m pleased to report nothing did. I was into minds as to whether to fit the thumb throttle, I did in...

For disclosure- my father was a planning engineer for the distribution network and I was an engineer in a related discipline so I have an understanding of the current network, of course retired now I have little knowledge of what preparation, planning and cost provisions there are for the...

I don't consider myself careless ;-) but I do live in a very rural location with a mediocre overhead power line, we do loose our supply reasonably often, enough that I couldn't currently depend on it .

I need to get the mudguards on first and then it can be adjusted finally but to be honest it’s fine as it is, certainly better than it was

A bit less temporary, not quite finished but getting closer. Just stop raining and blowing!

Nice old bike that, takes me back to the one I had in 1960 something or other. Mine was a racing bike because I took the chain guard off :-) I do remember my father going mad at me when I did that!

So rather than continue to clutter up somebody else’s post on rack battery matters I thought I’d better continue here. The temporary arrangement that I’d used to attach the battery rack to the frame meant that it ended up to the rear of the axle and probably 3 inches above the tire, that meant...

My current temporary setup meets neither requirement but tomorrow I will remedy that, the rack is sitting way too high and a long way back on the 'standard' brackets. Still, its a fair bit of load on my back wheel, exacerbated by the dead weight sitting on the seat ;-) I reckon some...

I've just fitted my rack mount battery, its a big lump of a thing and the weight distribution feels odd. For transparency I've only ridden it about two miles so it may be that I just need to get used to it. I'd planned to fit a tripod clip and a case for my camera gear but I think its going to...

So my kit arrived from Woosh today as promised. Its a 48v mid drive that is now pretty much 'on' my Marin Eldrige grade MTB. Its 'on' enough to have had a quick ride round on it but there is still a fair bit to do. The BB is offset about 5mm so I had to spend an hour on the lathe making a...

I'm too old to worry these days but the only thing that bugs me is when I see people pedal with the instep over the pedal axle :-)

Yeah its the 'scissor' action at bottom and top that makes the difference I think, you can hear the difference on the turbo trainer with and without. I do reckon the up pull is advantageous (to me anyway) as I can certainly feel the burn in the top of my legs so obviously using different...

For sure, although the motor control system will have to interpret a different signal both amplitude and phase) which is where I came into this thought process. I know for sure that with clips I deliver power over a much greater rotational angle, so as far as I can tell the only effect will be...

Thanks for the reply, this is my concern, the torque apears to be measured by the twist in the crank axle so that implies a necessity to reverse that twist to create the sensor value?

Hi all, I'm about to push the button on a torque drive for my mountain bike, my days of TT pushing 130 inch gears is long behind me, these days I just spin a nice low gear and bimble around enjoying life.... but I just cant manage without my clips. Thinking about how the axle sensor measures...