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^^ Good point. You're extremely unlikely to get a new Bosch-driven bike for under £1,750 and that will be tough to find. What you need to bear in mind is that the current system is inherently limited, being built for the European market, and even with modding it isn't going to blow your mind or...

Ghost ... it's a good question about whether the 350W & 250W wated motors are actually the same only with a different software control profile with the former allowing greater acceleration for example. I have often wondered too. The few user reports I've seen on the 350W indicate they may not...

That's appalling. I never used them - receiving stuff was bad enough ... had a box thrown over railings onto the grass near the front door by one of their no doubt subcontracted drivers (in a white van) once last year. Just happened to be looking out of the window as he did it too ! They all...

I know what you mean. Got combi-shifters on my Trek .. older XT-type.. and went to great pains to retain them when putting the build together. If I'm using the throttle on the RHS I can change up the rear cassette using my index finger whilst keeping thumb on the throttle. Obviously going back...

^^ Although Kudos expressly state warranty only applies to original purchaser making a claim, is the manufacturer's warranty not valid on other bikes (e.g. the 2-yr warranty on your BS10) as long as you give the purchaser the original sales receipt ?

^^ exactly my thoughts. If there is a magic way of reducing the volume of a near-500Wh battery to something that'll fit into 1/3 of the space everyone else's is taking up, and at half the weight or thereabouts, then let's all know what it is !

Yes I wore one last Winter sometimes ... if the helmet was on. It was Merino so pretty warm. Think I read somewhere the "experts" say you're not supposed to (wear skullcaps under your bicycle helmet) for some reason but can't for the life of me remember what the reason was. Didn't find it...

Trek tubes are super-chunky :cool:.

Unless the housing on that unit is different to housings on other Bosch bike units then surely a double chainring is at least a feasible install ? The one on the vid looks like an inverted unit a la Haibike - wonder if it's the same setup on the regular ones. The double chainring could already...

Pride may soon turn to humiliation after the 1st ride though ... after they wear through your lycra and bring a whole new meaning to the term 'silver fox' :eek:

Yes it's fairly thin as oils go but obviously clingy. A few people seem to use 75 weight semi-synthetic gearbox oil (or 10W-40 Castrol MTX etc.) .... but one of the guys using that reporting also changing it every 500km (rather than every 5000km !) so that sounds like a false economy in the end...

No doubt. But it's more of an issue for people with 8sp Nexus/Alfine hubs where they have to take the innards out and dip in a litre of oil. That quantity retails at more like £90 but can be used again and again so it's only really economic for bike shops with a volume of bikes to stock. That's...

It's like anything in very small quantities though, isn't it. If I wanted a gallon ...... I'm far more interested in saving the labour charge a local bike shop would throw into the pot ... and probably cut corners on the drain job. A gear service and wheel truing would usually cost about £100...

... if they'd only do something about the aesthetics too ... looks like a right 'pulled out the back of the garage' job.

Ouch - pesky critter .. did it bite you whilst you were taking the photo ? :). Had a lot of horse-flies this Summer in Devon. One poor local guy had an allergic reaction to a bite and popped his clogs. Most unlucky and most unusual ! Father of four dies after horsefly bite - Telegraph

So you really need a double front chainring to get back your lower gears ? Isn't there a Bosch bike somewhere with one of these ? What's the effective max Watts capabilities of the 350W motor ?

After 1st 1,000km /620miles and then after every 5,000km / 3100 miles or 2 years (whichever is sooner). The 1st one is important as it gets rid of all the guff from running in the hub.

So can the chainring be swapped out for a bigger one on these Bosch bikes ? Still trying to get my head around this gearing thing properly.

Just finished doing this for 1st time. Very straightforward and almost anyone could do it themselves easily. Bike is running fantastically - difference in smoothness of shifting is amazing. Could easily have done this beneficially even earlier. There's an official kit but it's generally...

^^ Got little to lose giving it a proper go. It's only a bike in the end .... Once you get it set up better for your size and you start feeling safe on it can hopefully get some fun out of it. New bikes are a bit like driving new cars out of a showroom. Private resale value plummets on day 1 but...