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Torque and power are not directly related. That's how you can get a torque wrench delivering a wide range of torques from one standard wimpy human being on the input end. 'Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand' etc .. NM = Newton Meters, you can just fiddle the meters part (or in the...

If it HAD been a barrier designed to stop a motor vehicle he would probably have died. The 'shear off at the base' failed softly, like crumple zones in cars. No sympathy here, could have been me, or a friend, he hit.

So all this vaccination has dropped the death rate by 20% from average? Or maybe it's just the social distancing, or reduced travel, or maybe it's just unrelated. As someone said upthread, pretty soon everyone dying of anything is going to be within x months of getting vaccinated. Causation...

No it's not the browser or cookies, since I can reproduce the problem on 3 different devices with 2 different browsers, and I can make it go away if I used VPN or connect via ADSL or 4G .. Wordfence just doesn't like the IP address I am assigned by SWS Broadband (entanet is the ISP iirc) for...

I'm getting a 403 error, forbidden from something called word fence, which started when I changed my isp. I can get around it using a Vpn, but i wonder if anyone else has had the problem, or whether the site owners here have it set up oddly? No problem elsewhere so fat, but most sites I visit...

It really depends where these shops are. I secure mine properly at home (ground anchor and serious chain) but my local rural shops don't even merit a ss gold, never mind a 2 ton NY standard model. My Insurer wants it locked to immovable object, but the folding lock the bike came with will do...

I'd worry about buying a s/h ebike from some unknown source, not worry about buying one, with suitable warranty, from my local friendly bike shop. Ymmv. Not, perhaps, a 15 year old one, but even then..

P. S. For £1400 you might find a mid engine second hand, but buy it from someplace you can rely on. 'New' loses you 25% as you leave the showroom in most cases (maybe slightly better last year, due to serious shortages).

Halford customer service is very variable, depending where you are. Even at best it probably won't reach the dizzy heights of a local bike shop, or Woosh. I should sort out a bike shop, unless you plan to do everything yourself, and see what they have to say and can offer.

My point was that if the bike is not stopped when you lose satellite or phone signal, then a 'tinfoil hat' will disable the tracking. If the bike is stopped, then there are places, like tunnels, where it would be an issue. Now if the whole frame is the antennae ... But reading back up thread...

But I assume it won't stop the bike if it loses satellite lock, or phone signal, else you can't cycle through a tunnel, or use your bike in the vaste areas of Scotland or Wales where even 3g mobile is fictional.

I found calorie logging a chore, long term, and can stabilise my weight quite happily with any of the various intermittent fasting approaches.. Either restrict eating to 8 hours a day, or seriously cut back 2 days a week. Diet controls definitely starts at the shopping trip. If you never buy...

Seconded.. A 10w panel is really a toy, which can keep your leisure battery sort of topped up when the boat / caravan / whatever is sat idle for weeks or months, or if you just run a led bulb or two. Won't even power a tablet or smartphone, much less charge a depleted leisure battery. The...

Ah, when I push mine the freewheel stops the chain / belt from moving, so no way could the pedals turn. I will try the bungee trick in walk mode, or see if the friction can be adjusted.. I don't think I realised there was a clutch mechanism between the cranks and the chainwheel, so independent...

When using 'walk mode' on my mid motor bosch drives (Tern, and not R&M) it most definitely turned the pedals, and it is a PITA. I don't have a throttle, so it is just 2 or 3 mph. Just enough to bang your ankles.

But you are not 'freewheeling' if you are running the motor from a throttle, are you? I think the OP wants the motor to drive the chain, but not the pedals.

It's one area where we could do with some more ' big brother is watching you', since quite often when I give way to pedestrians, or let people out of side roads, I get honked at by some 'can't wait to get to my next accident' idiot behind. And this is out in the sticks, not urban mayhem land...

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It's one area where we could do with some more ' big brother is watching you', since quite often when I give way to pedestrians, or let people out of side roads, I get honked at by some 'can't wait to get to my next accident' idiot behind. And this is out in the sticks, not urban mayhem land...

Can't even take his license away, or insist on a retest. Sounds like they MIGHT be able to deport him though, at least until he swims back in. You'd think we had enough home grown eejets, without importing some.