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Missed the science of it to, leaving out pumping potential energy into a "mass", by lifting it higher, ie going uphill.

In Covid 19 restriction times, our Hampshire Household Waste Disposal Centres have adopted an appointment based system, rigorously upheld. That arrangement I can understand the logic base. I book my slots on their web site, a bit tedious as popular times are just that "popular" and quickly...

Is it not that the hub can't yet be fixed with the shaft nut, simply because it fouls the calliper on initial offering up? Frame spreading and inserting a spacer washer?

Dare you work a tap in a little further, LINK ? Its lead in section, will bore, true and in line, only where the excess metal you need to ease away is.

Is there any merit in using a cheap, electric drill driven cylinder hone? LINK I would add, it is not a task I have done, but just musing on how I might do it if I needed to. Identifying what needs Dremel attention, if going that route, would be something I would try to resolve before...

I feel both the terms "manufactured" and "build" imply far more than the reality of the situation, which surely in this industry is better described as "assembled"?

I would like to think some level standardisation or various standards will happen, it has to a large extent in the components of bicycles, they even once standardised on threads.

Mothing Sunday in USA, at least, tomorrow.

I had not thought of doing it asymmetrically, but equally on both sides, and had said "batteries". Whilst some might struggle, possibly me now at my age, I have cycled a fair few miles on a crossbar bike with panniers. Just thought mounting the batteries in that fashion, addresses some part of...

The Santana though, has the pannier rack battery that was expressly stated was not preferred. On that point, is there a solid reason the batteries can't actually beneficially be mounted as panniers, side mounted lowering the CoG that I believe is why technically the rack top mounting is not...

Agreed, and that vital flexibility allows the load to be shared with adjacent spokes, not all being at one point. Not only does it save spokes it saves the hub flange too, if the spokes spread the load over a few holes. It does not stop there the wheel's increased flexibility, compliance, in...

It may be stating the obvious, but opting for smaller wheels can reduce the step over height. My wife with an injury issue that inhibited her step over ability, opted for the 26" wheel variant of a bike offered with that and 28" wheels.

I am not seeing the issues you might specifically face with step through frames? The bikes are likely to have to be "nested", facing opposite ways. The VeloSpace featues a wide "bed" thus separating crank/pedal clashes ought to be as good as it gets. Concerns could be how wide the outer bike...

Tow ball mounting bike "carriers" of this ilk where the wheels are planted in tracks are well suited for step through frames. LINK Tow ball mounting bike carriers, of the type where the bikes hang, have some challenges carrying step through frames, though not insurmountable. LINK. A way around...

Our 2016 Kalkhoff Agattu has what is effectively a throttle but defined as a walk aid. The handbook, multi languages, describes this only as that, with a warning it must not be used when ridden. Is this in the forum's opinion a warning for EU legal or simply technical reasons, as I struggle to...

Possibly not that easy to simply walk away, there is still the Consumer Rights Act 2015 with its far reaching tentacles.

I had no intention to put you off altogether just point out the first time you try an e-bike I believe you can't help but be impressed, they are impressive just like you have someone else contributing to help move it. If you inherently like cycling, and are getting a bus concession by age, then...

Can I suggest it is all too easy to be "impressed" with an initial test ride of an e-bike, actually any e-bike and that is a danger. Trying a few I found them quite different and recommend resisting making a purchase till you have tried a few, with differing drive and control systems. Much more...

Google brings up THIS I would have concerns about the torsional stiffness of the trailing rear fork. Another search brought up a dreadful depreciation of one on E-bay. Novel for novel's sake? And for a much "cooler" man than me, are my initial sentiments.

For "hang on" bike racks, where the bike cross bar for example sits on "rods" there are for non cross bar bikes, like many female bikes, false cross bars. Like "THIS" Having said that we have used a Thule "Hang on" rack for twenty years and it is great for our road bikes, but I have never dared...