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??? Sooo, from that reply am I to gather you have nothing more to say?

Oh dear, I wish you could understand nuance. I am NOT saying German engineering is terrible, my point is that you can't say it is the be all and end all and it is certainly not as good as it was decades ago, when it really was something. Yet, there is still this myth that the gullible are all...

The one doing the rounds on the BBC now is interesting. Looks like a bag battery on the bike, but that is not the one that burns, that is hidden behind a box and is out of shot. Plus you can clearly see the rider has a massive hub motor, probably 1000W. So maybe the owner was flouting the rules...

Well, I'm told he peeled off the the "made in Germany" sticker and found this underneath, so no wonder he is worried...

You are hilarious. I'm sure the people in your local bike shop think the same - but are all too glad to take your money. So you've been totally taken in by the German engineering myth? I'm not saying German engineering is terrible, but it's not what it was 30 to 40 years ago. I have bought...

Do you only recharge with the pack on the bucket of a trebuchet? At the first sign of trouble it is fired out of harms way...

Looks like there might be some info here for people who have these bikes, regarding the app and so on: https://twitter.com/VanMooferNews/

I don't know. Looks like another load of nonsense with Bluetooth and apps etc though.

"Made" in Germany from Chinese parts and batteries?

These are becoming popular on the continent: https://hovding.com/

Like when Facebook crashed and Facebook employees couldn't get into the building to solve the problem as their log in was through Facebook...People locked out of their Teslas...etc etc. I can't understand why so many people are so blind.

Got a chance to try the Watt meter I mentioned earlier in the sun today. Seems nice and visible.

People are so daft to buy into this kind of crap.

Is it true you need an app to be able to use the bike?

Ok, let us know how you get on with it :) I try to avoid heavy rucksacks these days. Panniers I quite cheap and very useful, and if it's a weekly shop I tow a trailer.

When I last lived in London the only place I could get was over £600 per month for a single room in a HMO in Zone 2, not including bills and that was over 10 years ago. I dread to think what it is now.

Another factor is the decline of the rental market. A lot of landlords are giving up and selling, it's not worth their while any more, so a lot of people renting have no option but to look at buying.

I still think you'd get better value donating the money to your local food bank. Anyway, enjoy.

You need to put a meter across the different cell banks and identify which one is low. Then, use something like a Poundland USB bank, take the circuit out of it and desolder the battery inside and instead connect that to your bank that is out of balance. Allow it to charge the bank to the same...

I think house prices will drop a bit, but they will not collapse. There are too many people and too little available housing stock, so in the long run prices will go back up again.