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NIMBI Retirement Development Escalation This is what I wrote in June last year. "This is part of the section of my off road route (avoiding a parallel dangerous rat run section of country lane) I would miss out on if I was put off by the retirement complex Nimbies and the two gates and...

17,000 miles is good going. I have a 2011 Oxygen Emate that could have done that mileage or probably more but I cannot be sure as there is no mileage recorder. Like yours it is a bit of a Trigger's broom as it is on it third motor wheel, and third battery. The first motor wheel was free under...

This might be the sort of battery that could replace the one that does not work. Obviously check your fittings and style of battery match. I bought one for an old Oxygen Emate City which has a silver fish battery that fits behind the seat and have found it to be good and still working after 3...

https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m5b0s74p3680/ORTLIEB-Back-Roller-Classic

I have the Ortlieb Classic Roll Backs and find them brilliant. They have quite a lot of adjustment to fit different styles of rack, but ideally you would want to make sure they do. I found Spa cycles mail order very good and they sell them at a more competative price than most..

I wonder if the extra grunt you are feeling in eco will mean less range?

Four Early Shift return rides to work, and another 80 miles ridden on my £100 second hand electric bike. It had warmed up after the big freeze, so I was riding to work with a thin lined waterproof and windproof jacket but no windproof trousers needed and simple cheap wool style gloves as...

I have a Yamaha lcd display on my Haibike hard tail mountain bike that I bought in 2015. I had no issues with fogging until I needed to change the batteries. On my display you do this by taking it off the bike and removing a circular access plug on the underneath to gain access to the battery...

My £100 Emate and I had a close shave on the way home from work today. I was literally about 100 yards from my house after my 10 mile ride home when a car started to pull out on me from a side road as I was almost on it. Looked like a young student girl. Fortunately she saw me at the last...

Zlatan I think if you look after them the batteries can be very long lived, which is a good thing as Yamaha batteries are very expensive to replace. I started on electric bikes using a ride to work scheme to buy my first one at the end of 2010. The ride to work scheme dictated that I had to...

I'll be back.....

There was a guy some years back who posted in the speed pedelec section about commuting on an earlier Giant road e bike that he had de restricted and it sounded like it flew along, though obviously a bit naughty. Keep it legal and it should still go fast on even the slightest of downhill...

Crossing the Threshold..... 13,000 Miles I have just ridden to five late duties using my Haibike to travel cross country 14 miles to work and then 10 miles home covering 120 miles, and I breached the 13,000 mile barrier when I got home on Sunday and finished last night with 13,076 miles...

I bought the Haibike in March 2015 and look at how many miles I have ridden each year on the anniversary of its purchase. This year I have only ridden the Haibke to work when I can ride on my off road route into work in daylight, and these are generally but not always my late turn jobs. I...

I visit a very good private business farm shop on my bike but there is nowhere designated to leave my bike or anything to lock it to unlike Waitrose and Salisbury where there is.

13,000 Miles Now that The Haibike shares commuting duties with my £100 second hand 2011 Oxygen, it takes a bit longer to reach these mileage Waypoints. So this is just a quick update, before I try to do a bit more comprehensive one when the bike is 6 years old. I have just ridden to five...

When my Yamaha battery lock became difficult,probably after getting some grit in, my bike shop suggested laying the bike on it side and dribbling a good general oil like the old 3 in 1 oil generously into the lock and then leaving it like that for a while. I actually used a different quality...

I do wear a yellow Altura Yellow night vision Jacket all the time in the Winter, but might ride in non hi viz T shirt and shorts in the summer. I commute to work all year round and the biggest difference I noticed to the way I was noticed and treated by cars approaching from the rear was when...

Thanks Raboa, I found the cheaper one on ebay too and think you are right that they are the same.

Thanks Nealth. The one you linked to is the right style and make as the one in situ. I found this narrow wide one which is the correct BCD but a different style to the shimano with an inner ring where the bolt holes are rather than arms. The narrow wide bit appeals. Any reason why it would...