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And what are Volt going to complain about? A girl riding their bike was beaten by a bloke riding a faster one? There is no regulatory question here and it's stupid to suggest there is one. Volt could have a pointless moan at the programme makers, as could you, I or anyone else. All the...

By grey I meant steel blue which, in general, are the newer range woosh bikes. Having read the rest of the thread and in particular your remarks about budget, I think you are wise to have a good look at a Big Bear. One or two seem to suffer from niggly faults, often electrical. Woosh are...

I have a couple of these pumps for my mobile inflation needs. Good value, and I like the hose because it saves you gripping a grubby valve and tyre while out on the road, which you have to do with a clip on. Installing a clip on can be a fiddle with a deflated tube because the valve tends to...

Much will depend on how much you like a quality bicycle. I've ridden a couple of woosh bikes and both were OK as far as they went. Taking price out of the equation, there is no comparison with something like a Kalkhoff. The latest grey woosh bikes are an improvement on the old black ones...

Don't forget to carry a sharp blade because you will need to slice through the old tube to remove it.

A welcome for customers who arrive on, er, bikes. By this I mean permission to park your bike inside, a door that allows easy access for someone pushing a bike, and somewhere to park it once inside.

I'm sure you will get to grips with the bike once you get it. The pedal assist is a really good feature, just set it when you start and let its little computer do the thinking for you. All you need to do is pedal and steer. Using the throttle is fine, but holding it open is wearing over...

Kudos Rapide. The stem spec is not clear, but an adjustable one would let you flop the bars down although you would need an allen key to do it. http://www.kudoscycles.com/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=346

On some forks the rebound adjuster in the right leg prevents the lever fitting that side. Some other suspension forks have differently recessed drop outs which means the lever must go on the left. Seems to me most discs are mounted on the left, but I suppose they could be mounted on the right...

This reminds me of when I had my Ford Focus diesel remapped. Nothing flash, just a small increase in power and torque. It really was all good, the car drove much nicer, and as the man said, if anything it used a bit less fuel.

Thanks. You may have one or two other 'customers'.

Good offer, I'm in the North East so we are some way apart. I've no immediate plans to push the project forward, it may depend on how my toy budget is fairing in a few months.

Excellent explanation, Michael. Not that I grasp all of it. I have a longer term plan to crank drive a quality hard tail mountain bike. I had ruled out the BB 250, but it would do if set up like yours. Would the 350 give me something similar?

There are few things in life I truly despise, but bullying is one of them. Well done for sticking up to thug man, if I know anything about scaffolders they are very handy, so he would have been expecting a fairly easy victory. Very hard to gauge the impact of your camera on the situation...

My test on the 250W was only a short one using pedal assist mostly and throttle occasionally. No idea how the unit was programmed, but I was expecting a bit more power so maybe the one I tried was undercooked. For the benefit of others, how do you set the unit to allow 100% power?

The tool can be needed to open a missing link, but they usually snap together by hand. A good tip is to use the cranks to snap the link home. Push it together as much as you can by hand, then carefully wind the chain so the link is about half way along the top run of the chain. Using your...

I have one of those £25 Aldi toolkits which has a standard crank puller. To my surprise, it fits the ISIS cranks on the Bosch motor. Seems a good chance your crank puller will fit. As has been said, the lock ring can be tapped around, it's a left hand thread and often plastic, so not tight...

I agree the 250W BBS01 has a nice feel to it. The one I tried was quieter than either of my Bosch bikes, although not quite as powerful. The Bosch system is no more than adequate in terms of grunt, so if I were having one of these kits I would be tempted by the 350W.

Another way to look at it is the fatter the tyre, the fatter the pump you need to inflate it. I once tried to inflate a balloon tyre with a narrow high pressure airstick. Couldn't get more than about 20psi despite many repeats.

Hmmm! You didn't use it to try to pump up your flat battery by any chance, did you?