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I've been using a DNP 11-28T freewheel (probably the same manufacture as The Drift Maniac one) for over a year now (around 600 miles) on my steel framed Giant MTB without problems. I took the precaution of flushing out the grease and dunking it in Hypoid 90 gear oil overnight, then letting it...

Yes, I clocked that a few months ago. Has the advantage of bottle cage fixings high on the downtube so no problem fitting a battery. As you say, it has front suspension which I definitely don't want though. It's also too dear ATM for this skinflint. In a couple of years they might be had for...

This doesn't quite match the bargain £360 Argos non-folder, but has turned out to be good value:- A hardly used ebay bargain at £35.00, It was intended for my wife to use. I fitted a Yosepower 350w rear cassette kit with 13Ah battery earlier this year which cost £345.00 at the time. I already...

The Yose C500 display that they sell separately is specifically for use with their 350w kits (Lishui 18A controller), although it will work with the controller in their 250w kits (JYT 15A), but not all settings are functional. What controller do you have now? What is the rest of the set-up...

I needed an adaptor on two of my bikes as the bottle cage mounts were too close to the seat tube. At first I contemplated buying one of those, but being a skinflint I baulked at the price! I found a very similar one on Ali-express for £17.00, which came with the jubilee clips. I didn't need the...

Correct. My 250w rear kit came with an integrated JYT 15A controller. I was able to substitute the Lishui 18A controller and separate C500 display bought from Yose ( as detailed above). Just "plug and play" with the rest of the 250w kit and all the advanced settings are then accessible, along...

Many people drill the downtube and add an extra rivnut and/or use a velcro strap. I didn't want to drill my frames and found that one or two pedal toe straps hold the battery firmly:-...

The throttle cannot be configured on their 250w road legal kits and will only work to 6km/h. The top speed is also limited to 15mph. Yosepower's website does say this in the description. If you want these functions you can buy their 18a controller that they put in the 350w kits. You will also...

Finding a comfortable saddle is a very individual thing and one person's feather bed is another's razor blade! You first need to determine the width of your "sit bones" - plenty of info on the web about how to do this. That will give you a start point for the correct width of saddle, but...

Thanks for the links - food for thought. I must say I'm surprised that there isn't a better safety arm on the market. BTW, have you noticed that the Oxford Thing is actually designed for use by our continental cousins and not in the UK? Like all reflectors, they are marked "TOP". When fitted on...

I've had a few close passes on the road lately, so using inspiration from posts by @guerney I've bought one of these. As it comes, IMO it has several shortcomings:- The flimsy plastic bracket doesn't seem robust enough to last long and is intended to be fitted to the chain-stay or seat-stay...

You have my commiserations. I've been feeling similar for about a month - absolutely no stamina, constantly tired, constantly hungry. No amount of exercise, change of diet or supplements makes any difference. I feel it's getting better but very slowly. I'm convinced that it's a Covid variant...

I'm only a recent convert. Bought some Schwalbe Big Apple 26" x 2" (lighter Raceguard version). I'm around 70kg and my heavy steel rigid MTB I guess at near 30kg with kit fitted and tools etc. in panniers. I ran my old 2" cheapo tyres at 50psi front/55 rear, which were "OK" without being...

It depends on where Nirvana is. Mine is reached on roads, cycle paths, towpaths and light gravel tracks. No log jumping or muddy drops for me, so a suspension fork is just unnecessary extra weight. I can get all the suspension I need from 2" wide tyres at low pressures. Not tried a torque...

Without being able to find any catalogues later than 1998 online, I can only say that it is definitely after that year as the Odyssey was still steel framed. https://www.retrobike.co.uk/gallery2/v/Manufacturer+Archive/Claud+Butler+Archive/Catalogue/1998/ I would suggest 2000-2010, but could be...

"Hand Built in England" was a clever and sneaky piece of marketing. It really means "hand assembled in Brigg, England using foreign parts". No UK manufactured items. An aluminium framed Odyssey would definitely not have been built with 27" wheels. By the 90's they were "old school" and even the...

It's worth just adding that post war Claud Butler bikes were popular with club cyclists and as such were less "racing" orientated - although Claud had many previous successes in the Olympics. Holdsworth were a quality manufacturer at least the equal of CB and after takeover marketed CB bikes as...

Your Odyssey is a later "Claud", with I suspect an aluminium frame made in Taiwan. I doubt if it would have come with 27" wheels. The Odyssey still had a chromo-steel frame with 700c wheels in 1998:-...

Fully agree with the above. I have a Claud Butler 531 tourer in very original condition. It is lovely to ride and I contemplated fitting a front hub kit to it when starting to feel the need for some electric assistance. I soon realised that there were just too many compromises and I would end...

If the rest of the paintwork is as good as in the photo I would just remove the Apollo decals (hairdryer). I found cantilever brakes inadequate with my conversion and substituted v-brakes, which are OK, but if I could get a 26" wheel, 1" steerer rigid fork with disc mounts I'd much prefer disc...