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The very thing ! An example of those ingenious, yet desperate, post war methods of getting a brassic and worn out population mobile. Capatilising on the ability of a simple two stroke to run backwards probably meant you could still drive it on a bike licence as it technically had no reverse...

Coming back to three wheelers and reverse gear. I seem to remember a mate of mine turning up on christmas day (I was about 16) in an old Bond. Starting it meant lifting the bonnet and kick starting the engine, think it was a 250 villiers two stroke single. The engine was actually mounted on...

Have a look at Topbikekit. Assemble your own kit from all the components, help available here. Battery can be UK sourced from Greenlance. Woosh will supply complete plug and play kits. You need to zone in on what you need. Hub(front or rear) or mid drive. Battery size dependant on your range...

And I think this is the main advantage. Current draw is split between the two batteries. Therefore, assuming that either one battery was capable of running the kit by itself, the current draw stress on each battery is approximately halved, so lengthening the batteries lives. It also means...

This is a site which mainly concerns itself with road legal eapc's. You may be better posting your questions in the speed pedelec section as you may get a fair few sarcastic or downright insulting comments here as your bike is fundamentaly an uninsured, untaxed and unregistered motorbike.

I have been using two batteries in parallel for a few years now. Living in a very hilly area I find that voltage sag happens much later in a ride than if I use just one battery at a time. I use a simple homemade Y splitter with Anderson connectors all round. No diodes. I used good quality...

Further to this. If the burst pipe was on the cold supply side (ie mains) then this is a pumped supply from thr water board. The pressure may go down because of leaks in the system, but the supplier has a vested interest in not allowing pressure to go up beyond normal as this may/probably...

I have seen compression joints forced apart when the water in the pipe freezes. It will not turn up as a leak until the water thaws. The only time I have seen a compression joint fail through water pressure is when the water is first turned on after an installation that has not been achieved...

And this would be my defense to any crude roadside 'on the stand' check. The only speed display on my bike is a retro fit Cateye cycle computer with speed registration dependant on wheel size setting. This, of course, takes no account of tyre depth, so only gives a ball park figure and...

Yup, 15.5 mph is definitive and measurable. I suppose it's arguable that they would have to put a speed gun on you as 'on the stand' speed is not a true representation as it does not account for wind and rolling resistance. However, to be legal, the motor should cut off when 15.5 is registered...

The wife had some unexpectantly long zoom calls within the first months deal of 20Gb. This meant we ran out of date around ten days early. No problem, giffgaff are doing a £10/month with 60gb when you sign up for an 18 month deal (which you can exit/change any time you like). So this and voip...

In my area (Ceredigion) large rectangular blue signs have recently appeared on main routes. There is a graphic of a bike and a car with an arrow inbetween with 1.5M written on it. I have to say it seems to be working and the number of close passes is reducing.

Yup, bullet connectors are rubbish. They tend to go loose and hence resistive hence the heating. You need some xt connectors such as these...

Wow! The 13th was changover day. 4g router was already working but plusnet was due to cut off. It did so around 10am, so we lost the phone. By the time I had plugged in the voip adaptor and it had set up (around a minute) we had the old landline number up and running on voip. Painless...

When you reach the cutoff speed it can feel like someone is suddenly holding you back. Iirc the controller on the Pendleton is fairly basic, it has a speed control system which stops giving power at the set level, and it does it suddenly, there is no sublety here. It's like you're riding a...

Buy from Halfrauds at your peril. Given the many tales of woe from previous Halfords customers on this forum, I would be very wary. I did buy a Carrera crossfire in 2014 and converted it myself. When I got the bike I had to spend some time fettling gears and brakes, so they don't even do that...

There will always be a galvanic reaction between two disimilar metals and that's worse in a salty damp enviroment. Aluminium to steel is one of the worst. Galvanised steel helps but it's much better with stainless steel. Rims are pretty much all aluminium these days, so I would use stainless...

Seems like the only way is to put the sim in a phone and tether to the laptop. Doesn't help witht the pc though. Hey ho! Shall have to see how the 100 minutes of calls that come on the voip deal work out. Broadband wise it seems to be working really well. Quick response and no buffering on...

And that, I now see, is the point of this excercise. To remove oneself from the blackmailed position of being reliant on whichever current isp one happens to be using. Just swapping sims to change provider is a far easier process than the majors make it. Of course it all ultimately relies on...

WiFi signal from 4g router is better than plusnet one has ever been. Just done a download speed test to my ethernet connected pc and it's over twelve. Since talking to plusnet yesterday their speed has gone to 1.1 at best, but I can't get it to connect in actuality. The robbing barstewards are...