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    e-Bikes & Brussels, blah blah

    Hi can we seperate "Brussels" (which has become shorthand for tossers..from" Europian Union" Lest we forget Franco's men tried to shoot my dad (his bloody fault) Hitlers men tried also(british govt's fault.) Hitlers men also tried to burn down my mums house..(bloody near succeded) since EU...
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    Agattu First Ride Report

    Looking at the woods..if the insert is taken(flies out overr you shoulder) out there looks like a thread in the barell, will this take a schroder insert ??
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    Puncture Prevention?

    Thanks paul Having a bit of angina, I find biking no problem??? but pumping tyres is a bit beyond me most of the time,, thats why I use the little co2 cyl then go to a garage and do the bit..I really wondered why the woods valve was so much more of a bitch to put any air into the tyre than the...
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    E-biking and loss of weight.

    Hi Compadre (I learnt all my Spanish from the movies !) I have had a few falls from the bikes I have owned..I feel it is an attude of mind.(mind you I have done some pretty stupid things)(there is an ENGLISH joke there) Cycling is the next best experience a man can have (flying being the...
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    How did you find the Pedelecs site ?

    Used google for electric CYCLES/BIKES/forums
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    fiftyish and smoking cyclists.

    Way to go man, went to a wake in Australia, for an Irish guy called three fingers Ryan..couldnt stop fishing with dynamite. Last trip he could have been called no jaw Ryan ,but we buried most of him..wake went on for three days..give us yer adress, Il gladly come to yours...and bring some booze
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    Which make of electric bike do you own?

    jUST BOUGHT A SILVERADO For Jenny(partner) was necessary due to hip giving up, needed step thro light, possible power when not peddling in Emergency. Tried it out briefly seems to fit the bill, havent mastered the mechanics yet ..there is a switch on the handlebar, i'm going to have to ask...
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    Charging Ebike Batteries from Car 12volt System

    Have motor home do a bit of travelling I allso have a Mirror folding dingy, and an electric outboard for it...I charge the outboard (two 50ah bat's )from the leisure (which are two 110 ah gel)As I am camping sauvage most of the time, I had to get a 'STERLING BATTERY CHARGER' which allows one...
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    be very afraid

    HI How do you post pictures on this forum, I have tried but failed. I would like to post a question using pics, I have not asked before because if I knew I would probably post pics of Cornwall coast disguised as "is this a big hill" when what I am saying is " Ohmy isn't this...
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    Puncture Prevention?

    I have just read a reply saying you can get adaptors for the valves @ 45p each cheaper than new tubes, also self adhesive patches are a good emergency, but prone to problems with heat...if we get any real summer, and if the pressure drops a bit (tyre) these patches will tend not to be such a...
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    Battery Security

    Hi what's WEVCO
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    fiftyish and smoking cyclists.

    Hey poppy, dont do that.... thinking up reasons for not quitting, If you dont want to quit dont, your choise(funeral) (I did a ten year stint in AA before I decided I liked getting stoned more than bein sober all the time.still here. (although the warning signs for alcholol are more...
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    carrera spark

    could be a problem buying a bike from a company that one member here reported could not fit a tyre on a leccy bike
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    Crime fiction readers that bike too!

    do you read Henning Mankell ! (we can't do the !upside with our keyboard
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    fiftyish and smoking cyclists.

    Even after my Father's first heart attack in '64 the doc advised smoking as a way to avoid stress, then when he died at 59 (1966) it was put down as a somewhat eventful life (Australia, fighting against Franco in Spain Stint in Guards armoured in '44 ), Family, (no smazlen ever made 60)...
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    Pro-Connect ordered?

    Has any member (such as someone who has ridden an Aggatu) also ridden a pro connect, any comparison??
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    Rolling Resistance

    When I had a 'Road racer' (back in '56) it was smart to get as thin a tyre as possible, bamboo rims and silk 'slicks' all to decrease rolling resistance...of course three punctures later. or a slide and we soon went back to something a bit more afordable...In reality how much extra effort is...
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    Panasonic System Power Delivery Explanation

    ps I got left behind when Valves went out of fashion
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    Panasonic System Power Delivery Explanation

    with all the cheap (and clever ) electronics about what chance of making a cheap(ish) cadence meter, on the handlebars, then look at it from time to time instead of counting...one white hippotimus two white(etc) this to get 1.3 per sec,instead of one per sec we wer trained to do at Cycle class.
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    Peak Oil n the media

    With the high oil price driven mainly by speculators rather than demand, do you think they know something the experts don't? Experts?.. I worked in Australia at Mt Goldsworthy, the press blurbs were all about vanishing resourses, plan running out etc,, meanwhile we were buisy mapping an Iron...