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    Is there a legal limit for how wide rear bike reflectors should be?

    Okay they might, but in that case the OP would in the UK be wide open themselves to a charge for doing actual "Criminal damage", and here their concern was with the minor issue of the legal reach of these flags. To address the actual problem, it might be a better solution if instead of a screw...
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    Riese Muller Tinker

    Certainly, a lovely bike, one I would like as another addition, but it is aimed at the "city" type of user, and with its smallish wheels would not be my choice for many 45-mile rides. Best take an extended demo/hire and do a 45 miler before committing, IMO.
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    Front suspension - does it affect range ?

    In theory it must, but the numbers I have not the slightest idea about. It's got to be "polished" tarmac before I lock mine up, probably just the time it's too smooth to sap much energy anyway.
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    Hub gears v derailleur on an E bike.

    The facilitating the use of a Gates Carbon belt, is one of the big pluses of using hub gearing; no mess in car, in house or on clothes, no real need in many thousands of miles to make any adjustments; but at some considerable expense. Much the same I expect could come with a fully enclosed...
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    Protective clothing

    Not that well the way I would choose to wear them.
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    Help! Seatpost 31.6 need something thats like really short

    To achieve the same outcome, presumed to lower the seat top, look at the amount various saddles stand off the fixing with the seat post, these can vary and depend on the design of the fixing and other details.
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    I think I may have talked myself out of buying an electric bike………for now anyway.

    At 58 years old and 115kgs, the £1000 if it only last two or three years could IMO be your best ever investment.
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    Are E-bikes overpriced?

    Hard to credit anyone could use so awful a backdrop for their photoshoot.
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    DVSA prosecutes UK company illegally supplying unrestricted e-(motor)bikes

    I am not sure there is anything to imply any more stricter rules being applied to e bikes, well "pedelecs", where it probably will lead is to more strictly applying the laws already in place? For the individual that accepts being legal, that poses no issues, indeed it probably ensures legal...
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    Whirlwind folding Ebike

    I over the years have transported bikes, albeit 700 wheel road bikes, in a caravan, and now a 26" e bike in the Discovery's cabin, by removing the front wheels and using fork clamps mounted on a removable beam. Clamps of THIS ilk. I use today a length of wood decking cut to give little side...
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    Whirlwind folding Ebike

    £450 and covered by the CRA 2015, plus credit card rights if purchased that way, it does not present a life changing financial risk, if any. At the price it can't be anything but budget kit, so if you take it as that way you are not likely to be disappointed. However, if you are seriously...
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    Are E-bikes overpriced?

    Arguable in that it depends on one's definition of "value", but clearly the cheapest is the "cheapest". I and I suspect some others put a value on finesse including things as nebulous as pleasure to use, pleasure to own and quality. In respect to cycling, where in our case we cycle only for...
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    Fake chains off eBay

    Had a "warning" really been there in the asking price?
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    Interesting BMW ebike proposals

    Just a matter of time, IMO it has to come.
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    Interesting BMW ebike proposals

    If it and the regulators go ahead there will quickly follow some forum spring up guiding owners through circumventing the restrictions.;)
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    Unplugging the battery BRICKS this device; you MUST go back to the manufacturer

    Probably best giving up guessing with that track record, 50% wrong. I make no excuses for selecting a crank drive design, for our needs, on more than one front, the logical choice. Clearly a crank drive e bike's chain or other drive system, takes more loading than a push bike's. That's...
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    Unplugging the battery BRICKS this device; you MUST go back to the manufacturer

    "Single point failures" like a puncture, a collapsed wheel a broken fork etc., indeed who designs these bikes with such failings, more who would buy them? Perhaps because these issues come with the territory, we accept them and in some cases can live with them with very little effort, a packet...
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    Punctures

    I use the ebike almost exclusively on roads and decent state towpaths and the like, with zero harsh terrain off road. My attitude could be very different if I used the bike in high puncture risk places. It came with E bike Marathon tyres and has been totally puncture free over its 4 years and...
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    Bicycles to pay road tax

    It would be "nice" to think VED had that element of logic. However, they totally lost the plot with the "extended exemption from Vehicle Excise Duty to vehicles", allowing classic vehicles where pollution can be massive relative to modern technology vehicles, to get off free.