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Nice looking bike and seems to have some decent components. Personally I wouldn't want a bike with a suspension fork but that is the only thing I don't like about it.

Just wondered what is the maximum ever range achieved by an ebike using the power sparingly? Perhaps using regen on a direct drive motor or riding unassisted except for the steeper hills. What is a comfortable maximum range just using the motor to tame the hills? I googled for a answer but...

About a year to 2 years ago the Carrera Crosscity was £650 and I've watched that bike creep up in price. At the current time on Halfords there are 2 listings for it one at £899 and one at £999 so assume £999 will be the only price soon. Still great value though admittedly compared to most other...

Strangely I still see the 2 available but the buy button is now gone. I wonder if I will get a cancellation.

Saw this and must admit I bought the last front wheel conversion kit. At first I thought it was a scam but then realised the kit is non legal, it appears to be throttle control only. So wondered if that was the reason for clearing out cheap. At the time of posting there is still two rear wheel...

In fairness that doesn't look a bad bike but on this forum many criticise the Suntour hub motor system, I personally don't I think its a great option because of its torque sensor. The Array annoyingly uses a 7 speed cassette rather than 8 or 9 speed which is more common for suntour based ebikes...

Sometimes better I would say as some of these re-cell companies seem to use the very best latest batteries where as that isn't always true of even brands like Bosch. However Bosch warn against re-celling...

It's not difficult to find evidence of Raleigh using low end factories in places like Bangladesh so I'm not sure what your reply is all about and why you defend Accell. Pretty sure they even supplied models to Walmart too which were pretty cheap and nasty. Accell give the impression of being...

To be perfectly honest I wouldn't disagree with you, I can see motor hubs have better axles, you still have the issues of poor alignment of threading on the internal thread of freewheels and on the external thread of the hub itself which can give freewheel wobble, you also have limited high...

There is a good wikipage here about the two different types of cogset. The image below shows why freewheel hub axles are so much weaker and prone to bending as there is such a long distance between the bearings and the dropout on the driveside. Although some would argue that the freewheel is...

I have a few classic Raleigh bikes but nowadays its a brand of Accell of the Netherlands and they slap the brand on some pretty cheap imports and charge a lot for them. It's not so much they are bad bikes they get the job done but you are paying a premium for a recognised brand. The factories...

ETC do a 11-34T 7 speed cassette. ETC I think are a brand of moores and large (something like that) who are an importer. I think the cassette maybe a sunrace. There seems to be a couple of versions one has a big gap between the granny gear and the next smallest cog and others seem to have a more...

If you are a heavy rider often riding in a more upright position most of your weight is at the rear and failure points of frames are most common around the chain stays and bottom bracket where you have the flexing as the rear wheel takes impacts from the road and the rider delivers power through...

Yes your personal experience is the key point, however unreliable something is there are always people that have good experience of that product. If something has a 90% failure rate that is still 1 in 10 who will have no problems and have a positive experience. When people say their car is...

I'm not sure they did manage for 100 years, the tyres and tubes give a suspension effect as do the spokes, the front forks, the stays and tubes of the frame, the saddle also had springs on many models, the handlebars flex and you have the grips. Steel bikes can be pretty comfortable. Aluminium...

You only have to look on youtube to see many crossfires and subways being used as courier ebikes. These couriers are racking up huge miles, sometimes over 100 miles a day and working 7 days a week although admittedly one only does it evenings and weekends but the Suntour system seems to be a...

No I definitely want it sent it was quite a cheap price and I'd like to play about with it. The display normally costs about £80 through ebay but I got it for a small fraction of that price. The Keyu company also makes the voilamart display and the cable connector is identical but I realise...

I won a display in a auction on ebay just paid for it and unsure if they will actually send it as quite a bit below their normal price and many Chinese supplier's will not honour such auctions. Here it is; Was it expecting it to be shrunk down a bit, sorry about that but at least the image...

I take your point but aluminium frames and forks always get weaker with time until they are so weak they fail. Even overloaded unless extremely overloaded you will likely get more than 1 year out of the frame and forks and if the frame or fails after that you are pretty much in manufacturing...

I've got both Schwalbe Big Ben's and Fat Franks in brown, the Fat Franks have white sidewalls. I actually really like the colour and the more bland black versions were considerably more expensive.