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Halfords management aren't that daft and would use their EPOS computers (tills) to monitor what sells well alongside profit margins. I think entire bikes are still profitable for them but the accessories market has been conceded to the LBS's and places like Wiggle as the core market is...

i read that as "pitbull" and thought surely you'd need way more than 4 spaces, especially in Colchester? :D

TBH the robust and frank dialogue between dealers, manufacturers and prospective customers shows a level of transparency that many other industries lack.. I doublt you'd be able to have an open dialogue with Mr Shimano for instance (even though I think the current lad in charge is one of the...

on a 2009 model the high current connections are at the bottom of the bike covered by a curved metal plate (if you turn the bike over you will see it). I do not have an older model but there is a plug connector somewhere along the cable route, from memory of other posts on here I think it is...

I've had various Cateye LED front lamps for some years now, both on my push bikes and e-bikes. I normally ensure I have at least one LED lamp marked as "UK legal" on the bike as well as other backups. This is going as far back as around late 2003/4. I do remember some initial disagreement over...

I've just done over 3000 miles on mine (in less than a year!) and keep meaning to do a review but TBH Vikki always explains things a lot better. I will however further back up what she says about Wisper's customer service. I've only had minor issues (a misbehaving pedelec sensor and the cracked...

much better South of the Waveney (Ipswich is paradise in comparison to Reading/West London where I used to ride) but we do have rather a lot of CCTV cameras and real traffic cops (not just PCSOs, proper double/tripled crewed traffic units, some even ARVs). and they aren't just driving around for...

fairly positive article here. of course ETA benefit as people who buy more expensive machines can be steered towards them for the insurance, but if an insurance company is plugging them it also shows they do not consider e-bikes to be too much of a risk for claims etc... Electric bicycles set...

Other gems from the site.. The new era has come, the new battery has arrived ! Not explode, not burning, safe! Yes,it is Lifepo4 battery! so at least the ships crew won't get heartburn :D

unfortunately not at this time but I know some ladies who are planning on setting up a communal farm and might want people to help them - I am not kidding (some have the goats have been though) :D the pace of life is slowly starting to speed up here too unfortunately, although there is a much...

I've never been called a cheat, even by lycras (or maybe I'm going too fast to notice) :D round here people tend not to treat every aspect of life as a race (there is in fact a popular car sticker saying "Don't rush me, I'm from Suffolk.." :rolleyes: )

TBH I'd be more likely to be a casual - ironically many of my friends these days are still goths! (we are all in our 30s, and in the 1980s actual conflict was comparatively rare compared to today). Chavs are in fact a re-hash of 1980s/90s street fashions from the rave days without the happy go...

when I am 50+ (not that long off) :eek: I wonder if we will be dressing up as chavs/casuals and goths/hipsters for our bike rides? :D

with regard to duty, in todays connected multicultural world, its not at all an odd concept that middle aged and older men in the UK, China and other nations might be sending each other "gifts" of batteries, motors, wheels and other curious things across the Pacific Ocean - making only a modest...

TBH I've noticed this a fair bit with all mainstream reports of ebikes, also the people who review them tend to be younger and fairly fit cyclists. if you're really bothered you can always contact them and/or use the "speak your branes" bit at the bottom :rolleyes: (someone has already added a...

TBH the "lower end" models with SLA batteries like older Powacycles and Powabkyes are more popular than people realise, particularly with middle aged/older folk aged (50-90) who just want such machines to go to the shops, and carry their shopping in preference to a single occupant car or the...

Depends a lot on the country. in some other EU nations (particularly Benelux, Germany and Scandinavian nations) the government and employers have a much less adversarial relationship (ditto the citizens with the public sector). People work shorter hours, take longer holidays, have easier access...

I was born in 1972, and taught a fair few practical skills (which I still use to this day) by my late father. He was Chinese, not unlike a certain Mr Ching in his demeanour :D (hardly surprising as they both came from Malaya and were born in the same era) For younger people (below 50) time and...

I wouldn't say they are totally lost as I know a fair few young people working in construction and engineering or with such interests, but the street culture is such they have to treat it as a "guilty pleasure" amongst their peers. but those lads (and girls too!) are there. Many things are still...

in our country engineering skills aren't valued as much amongst younger people like they once were. (I'm still in my 30s and most of my friends are that age or in their 20s). Amongst so-called "middle class" youths its often seen as "chavvy" to be something like a mechanic (bike, car or...