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Also, you can buy a pretty decent Chinese e-bike on eBay for about £600. Hitway is one example. Then when you come to pay with Paypal you get an option to pay by instalments...

They seem to have campaigns where they choose a day and hit a town centre for a bit of mass e-bike law enforcement. I should be OK mind, I have a 250w motor and no throttle and never go into the centre of my town that is a beacon of art and culture i.e. Swindon.

You are doing the Lord's work One addition to my Lottery winning list: Buy a house next door to you. Seriously though, have you never thought of starting a little e-bike repair business? Even as a low turnover hobbyist type business?

Absolutely nobody wants to ride an electric bike with failed electrics, you seem to think you are doomed to this fate if you buy Carrera :) Why are you fixated on Carrera? Ideally you want a bike where each electrical component is easily and relatively cheap to replace, should they go wrong...

How many e-bikes do you actually own? Where do you store them? Or do you give/sell them to friends and family at mate's rates? I get how working on bikes and e-bikes is a nice hobby and kind of therapeutic. I would love a little workshop, paraffin heater (that could be taking nostalgia a bit...

Me, trying to follow threads like this:

Well, that's confusing. In post #11 in that thread you name yourself as Steve, but in this thread NealH refers to you as d8veh. I had a quick look at some ancient posts of mine and the original d8veh comes up as Deleted member 4366. I think the original was from Telford also (not sure). And...

So there we have it @Peter.Bridge , we now know why d8veh and saneagle have never been seen in the same room. Mind you the original would have lost the plot with that Finnish guy complaining about some German website recently.

I believe this is called, "Riding on the hoods" and I think it is more comfortable than mountain bike riding positions. Mind you, modern mountain bikes have high head tubes and very wide handlebars which look a lot more comfortable than the museum pieces I ride.

I would love to live in your world for just one year, getting totally baked, riding an electric bike at 40MPH for 30 miles while not giving one f***. Do you actually own an alarm clock?

I like your thinking. I suppose I will now be browsing Gumtree for 27.5" bikes (which I won't buy of course).

Good point, I forgot about the stem. Some are long and flat pushing the handlebar even further out. Mine (made by UNO) has a 35 degree upward tilt. Loads of different sizes/angles on AliExpress.

I agree with the others. It's all about the handlebars. If the longer wheelbase bike is more uncomfortable then you are stretching out further probably to flat, straight handlebars, so more of your weight is falling on your wrists. Pullback bars will shorten that stretch. Tyre pressures are...

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Ooh, Air Fryer chat! I got one recently, Ninja Twin drawer 7.6 litre, 2400 watts I love it and use it every day. Everything seems to take 10 minutes at 200 degrees. Youtube is full of videos of people cooking stuff you thought wouldn't work, like toast and boiled eggs! Talking of pizza, here...

Pretty awesome, I would bite his hand off.

My examiner jumped out between two parked cars and waved his clipboard at me. He did not actually get directly in front of the bike. I remember I went directly from the test centre to the nearest motorbike shop and traded in my 250 for a 500. I think the end of all these lax motorcycle laws...

How about a rear rack battery to balance the weight a bit? I admit there is a certain charm in converting a classic bike, but the bit I can't get past is the brakes. I won't bother to go into all the brake arguments again here but I am not a fan of old fashioned brakes. I think if that was my...

Yeah, so when I say, "I wish I had it now" what I really mean is, "Stuff that for a game of soldiers." I could not ride a motorbike in winter now, although I used to, daily, until my mid-forties. I believe all CB250s were sleeved down from 350 for the UK market.

Nice one. I think that RE350 will be a million times easier to live with than a 1961 B40...bullet dodged IMHO