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No it’s freezing that can damage them. But it’s not recommended to charge at too cold a temperature either. The best way is to ride the bike with a fully charged battery for about a quarter or third of its range and then store it. Best to get some idea of its normal range where you are using...

If your bike has provision for a number plate you could print out and waterproof, or get a sign laminated that said Electrically Assisted Bicycle and put that on there. I expect you will be stopped a fair bit since it looks just like a scooter. As I wrote above I knew someone who had one very...

If the batteries are to be left for a time, and two months is a fair time, it’s generally agreed that they should be at about two thirds charge. Then charge them up before you use them, and leave at about two thirds charge again. If they are to be left for an extended period that is. Batteries...

Conversion of a good bike is increasingly being seen as good way to go by many experienced owners. The cheaper e bikes use fairly low end components, and the finish and build quality is as you would expect from a £150 push bike. But a reasonable £500 bike fitted with a good kit will have as good...

Since you think the forum is so unpleasant why are you sticking around? Apart from you I can’t remember any unpleasantness lately. This below is where it started to go pear shaped I think. When you replied to my posts expressing surprise that Smart was still selling 200w bikes, and explaining...

He started these insults completely out of the blue on his first thread. After that he perhaps thought he had gone OTT, or sobered up, and he apologised. Before becoming even more insulting on other threads while whining at the same time about being bullied. So I thought then that he was either...

It’s a simple mod to put bar end levers on that. They are still available.

Friend of mine still has them. If they’re well matched to the mech they work very well in fact. I had a Claud Butler Dalesman tourer with them over thirty years ago and the bike almost changed gear by itself it was so smooth. I’ve had Campag Record Ergo levers, and STI on bikes since then, and...

….which is nice.

There was a man called Mike Parry on a hi fi/music forum who was a bit like that. I sometimes wonder if it’s this bloke's Naim.

Not the two year world wide guarantee from Mercedes shirley?

Whoosh - and over his head it went….

Really?

D8veh, is/was one of the most technically competent posters on this forum, and his help in trouble shooting and kit building would have been invaluable to those who needed it. But he was not immune to rudeness and point scoring himself, and could give as good as he got. Particularly when the...

The safety bicycle. The Rover was the first to catch on, and it and others, combined with pneumatic tyres which came a couple of years later resulted in bicycles which have not changed dramatically since. It was the safety bicycle which launched the cycling revolution of the late Victorian age...

Yes, all the more reason to try frames for size and not rely on what the manufactures websites say. With the old diamond frames if you knew the length of one tube you knew them all within a small margin. But with sloping top tubes some slope much more than others and nothing can be taken for...

I find it difficult to size modern bikes with sloping top tubes. On horizontal top tube frames I always rode a 53 cm which is claimed by many authorities to be too small for my height of 5’ 10” but which fitted me fine. Most serious road riders use what would be thought to be very small frames...

CDs aren’t any more noisy. Unrestricted the 350W crank motors may get up to around that. That is quite fast on a bicycle if you are only used to going fast downhill, and you will be mixing with traffic which will not be expecting you to be going as fast as that and will pull out in front of you...

Look at some of the threads here about conversions, and also the crank drives as well as hub. You can buy them from trade members here and will get proper after sale service if there are problems. Not always the case with eBay sellers. The 250W is a nominal figure and most motors will peak at...

You’re not going to ride the dealer. I hope.