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Thought original Twist series owners would like to see this US mod of a Giant Lite (Twist Lite in UK), an interesting application that I've added to the mods page on my Twist site. Sent in to me by the creator, William Morrison. mods

I've never been fully satisfied with electric bikes. I'm not going to put names to the following bikes because all e-bikes fall short of what I think they should be, though the informed might work out which they are. Take one highly thought of one that's underpowered. On one trip up a...

Yes, I remember that from the time Tim. Stirling may have been right at the time but I don't think it could in in any way safe in the intended town use now, as some recumbent trike owners have found out the hard way. The factors I'm thinking of are the growth of high bonnet 4 x 4s and other...

I wonder how many innocents will buy this lock and clamp it to their quick release saddle stem. :D Of course in theory it could be locked through frame as well as bike stand, but the cable obviously isn't long enough. Here's the link to see what it is and who's selling it. .

I've heard plenty of moans from drivers about ramp damage, but here's a case with a bike. Round here there's some of the platform type calming ramps with sheer jolting leading and trailing edges and the whole platform area made of teeth jarring square blocks, even when ridden over at walking...

My poor Lafree Twist's SRAM P5 has departed this life. After years of extreme abuse hauling heavy loads on one and even two trailers at a time, one of the gear teeth decided it had had enough and made a break for freedom. Unfortunately it paused to socialise with the others on it's way out...

For those interested in the innards of this unit, I've partially stripped and examined a unit and there's some details on this link .

Do you get puzzled over all this talk of 5% or 12% hills, all just mumbo jumbo, or even if you understand it, do you know how to classify your hills to compare them? Here's how, the easy way. You need a spirit level, you may have one already in a set square or separately, but if not, buy a...

There's just a possibility of some test information in the A to B magazine February issue on the long awaited Sparta Ion, all depends if it arrives in time. A small shop in London is definitely to bring them in though, so we haven't much longer to wait now. :)

Like many, I've long been recommending a drive through the gears bike for any heavy work like steep hill climbing and towing, which in practice has meant one of the Lafree Twist series bikes. However, I've been meaning for some while to try the remarkable capabilities of the Quando II for...

If you ever have the misfortune to drop a battery, you'll probably have a cracked case to deal with. I suffered this with a Twist battery in 2003 and carried out a successful repair which is still sound now, and due to the Royal Mail have had the opportunity to practice that again on an eZee...

I've finished the work on the replacement charger for the Giant Lafree Twist series and all the details on that and how to get one are now available on my Twist website.

Anyone wanting to do market research into what concerns electric bike users need look no further than these pages rather than researching it. There's quite a story concealed within the thread viewing numbers on the current page alone. Viewing numbers are the last seen, they'll grow now of...

I announced in another thread that I would shortly have available much cheaper sources for replacement chargers. The announcement will probably be later in January, but meanwhile, if you have a failed one, please don't throw it away as the battery connector will have to be reused for the new...

Where's those contributions? Take Carl's thread, "Preferences", asking for what we want in an electric bike. At this point 35 have viewed it, but I'm the only one who's given an opinion. Surely some of you have your own ideas, and I'm equally sure that some will disagree with mine, and a good...

A few days ago I indicated that I'd do a write up on Re-Celling an NiMh battery, mainly for the Giant bikes, but with some generic advice as well. I've combined that with a new site for the Giant Lafree Twist range. Some of the content has been seen here before, but there are some new pages as...

Have a look at these names and slang terms associated with the successful types of transport: Car, Van, Truck, Bus, Coach, Bike, Train, Plane, Ship, Scooter, Moped, Tractor, Motor, Wheels. They're all simple, easy to say, rolling off the tongue without the slightest effort. Now think about...

Have you noticed that when this forum opened the content was predominately about eZee bikes, but lately it's been getting decidedly twisted? :) With the two NiMh batteries for my Giant Lafree Twist Lite (What were Giant thinking of with that name, must have been a committee job) nearly four...

I've put answers and model information on various Lafree and Twist variants in several threads recently, so thought it might be better to have a dedicated webpage giving illustrations and details of the series and variants in the UK, Europe and the USA. Starting with the 39 kilo one chased by...

And is simple and would work. How do I know? Well, I lived in an era when much of this was done, before Dr Beeching, another Government appointed "expert" from industry, decided to demolish much of our rail network, shifting most goods to the roads. Although few rail containers were around...