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Oh, I'm ordering one up, soonest.

Bikes go free on the ferry, anyway :)

There's a wrinkle I've read about on ES - grab an old phone charger and put the battery DC voltage into where the mains pins are - you should get phone voltage out of the front. These chargers are mini SMPSs so don't much care what the input voltage is - up to a point. If that works, strip down...

I found the addition of suspension forks and a fat rear tyre brought the crossbar up to eye-watering height when I have to straddle it at lights, etc. Fortunately, one only tends to do it once.

Found something interesting on eebagum. 24V/36V/48V/60V E-bike Brushless Motor Controler Tester | eBay

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Excellent idea. I wouldn't use solder on top though, it's notorious for vibration cracking and taking the strands out with it.

Yes, it's all about frictional losses as tyre rubber digs into the rough surface and grips a bit, it also loses you energy as it leaves the rough bit. Multiply that by thousands of times a second... it adds up. A smooth surface being met with hard-inflated tyres doesn't dig in and takes less...

I had the same situation - my old Claud Butler had the older narrow threaded steer tube and all the forks available were for 1 1/8th. Luckily I found a set of re-con Bombers which came with a choice of 1 1/8th or 1" steer tube and I was able to cobble something up. That wasn't the end of it...

Pah. You're all decadent weaklings with air in your tyres. Real men stuff pigs' intestines with straw and form a perfectly good tyre.

I've just left a comment on their article, let's see if it gets published. "I’ve had an e-bike on the road for a year; it’s an old MTB I put a conversion kit on – the bike itself was bought new by me two decades ago and it’s like an old pal. The reason I became an e-biker, was that my knees are...

I totally agree with all you say, but my problem is and always has been; why, when it comes to my turn to share the burden, do I really, really resent paying it? :)

Now, to be fair, they're only single-shot assault rifles. :)

The same one that bought up all the water-fuelled cars, silly. :)

Oh boy, and how. A friend's brother pushed a Vespa 150 ten miles home when it broke down. The fault? A broken wire at the coil. HoHo. Took five minutes to find and fix it.

Well, I made a tow hitch from scratch for my GS850, right where it should be :) I can duplicate that (in lighter materials) for my leccy bike.

Oh, I DO like the look of the Burley attachments and they're nto grossly over-priced for the quality of them. I was thinking of an up and over rear-of-the-saddle hitch point, but something available off the shelf might sway me.

McNulty in "The Wire", "Woke up in the wrong damned city this morning."

You don't want to go filing alloy drop-outs for a motor, anyway, if you can avoid it. The steel torque arm is the only way I'd trust a motor on an alloy frame, to be honest.