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This bike has been left at a local station regularly by a commuter without so far being nicked but I would not do it myself! Must be a couple of years now.

The start time of my last shift of five last night meant that I took the car. On the return drive back home the display in my car briefly showed -5 and no warmer than -3.5, a bit nippy. I also do not mind the cold too much and over the previous four days riding to work and back had covered 94...

Yesterday was my coldest commute of the winter so far. Used 35% of the battery on my 14 mile off road route to work and 44% on my 10 mile road ride home at around midnight. BBC weather had predicted -3 for the ride home and my Yamaha LCD display showed -1. It was around 8 degrees for my ride to...

Welcome to the high mileage crank drive commuter club. Check for a tight link but as a fellow high mileage crank drive commuter I find that the smallest rings with the least teeth on your cassette will start to jump first sooner or later if your motor is assisting above the cut off. If you...

Yesterday was my coldest commute of the winter so far. Used 35% of the battery on my 14 mile off road route to work and 44% on my 10 mile road ride home at around midnight. BBC weather had predicted -3 for the ride home and my Yamaha LCD display showed -1 when I put the bike in my garage. It was...

Flecc I think you are right and that for battery longevity a management system that allowed some choice or customization by the owner could be a way forward. On a regular commute like mine I use no more than 45% and as little as 25% of my batteries capacity for each single leg of the journey...

With my cheap Chinese charger I just use one of these to limit how long the charge stays on. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005C9S0I8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I bought a Haibike sDuro HardSeven Yamaha in 2015. It has a 400Wh battery. I use it to commute to work and back. Yesterday I rode 14 miles cross country and used 31% of the battery giving a theoretical range of 45 miles, charged the battery back up at work and then rode 10 miles on the road home...

Nice coincidence but I am currently reading Rain Dogs by Adrian Mckinty a police procedural where the murder has been carried out at Carrickfergus castle!

Your gentle trails look lovely. I cannot understand what makes someone want to attack NHS staff trying to help them, though I guess alcohol and drugs play a part.

Last time it happened to me I was riding my old Marin on a 15 mile circuit and it broke exactly half way round!

You have my sympathy. Bollarded pinch points seem designed to produce friction between bike riders and cars. I always have to remember to look over my shoulder a number of times on approach and then make a decision about when not if I am going to move out to stop any car trying to squeeze...

Another lovely 14 mile cross country ride to work. The 10 mile road ride home was my first properly cold ride of the winter.

Choose carefully, buy from a good dealer, maintain and look after it. ride the wheels off it.

Today was my last of six return trips to work using all three of my electric bikes with 128 miles in total. Work start times dictated whether I could enjoy my off road routes to work or just a road ride there and back. As a shift worker my early shifts in the Winter mean it is usually dark...

After having best part of nine weeks off work I am back in harness and rode to work cross country this morning at the crack of sparrows. 14 miles to work through the very lovely countryside and 10 miles home on the road. Last ride of 2018. Mileage 10,366. Surprisingly mild for this time of...

Pretty in Pink Saw this lot at the mighty Glastonbury in a previous incarnation or seems like it now probably very relaxed sucking on the end of one of soundwaves euphemistically termed torpedo's!

I got back yesterday from a skiing trip in Italy with my daughter, so no ebike riding for me. I taught my daughter to ski and she now has the temerity to be better than me. Does that make me an excellent teacher? With the Gatwick drone melarkey we were very relieved to land back in the UK only...

I also remember reading somewhere that the spike in deaths of ebike cyclists in Holland was mostly for much older people who had been tempted back to cycling and then fallen off with much less resilience to the blunt trauma injuries they received.

I have fond memories of borrowing a bike from a Dutch friend I was staying with in Haarlem and riding it from there to Amsterdam, a great ride with a whole crowd of Dutch people on their bikes and being very impressed with the bike infrastructure but amazed at how busy the cycle lanes were and...