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I like the thinking, but the "run-about" has to cope with long continuous steep hills and/or long trips (30 miles round trip+) - there is nowhere to really go less than 10 miles away and it's 30 miles round trip to go shopping there. So would a cheap front hub kit and PAS system sort either of...

GaRRy, I don't live in London either and my address is not there. The discount code still works though for anyone. He who dares sometimes wins ;)

You get £10m liability insurance for free with British Cycling membership. I'm no Londoner but the discount code tfl give worked for me - 12 months' membership including 3rd party liability cover for free for £12 using promo code TForL12 when taking out new membership. £1 a month is not a sum...

Thanks a lot for the reply. It's never easy to get what I would like for the money I'm prepared to spend .... we wound up designing a house (with an engineer but no architect) for the very same reasons - it was great and far cheaper in the end but getting to understand what mattered and what...

Thanks a lot d8veh for last post ... this is really helping me to bottom out priorities because there are so many variables at the moment it's easy to get diverted and wind up totally confused. Why is that ? Doesn't the motor just sense the pedal effort and come in as a response ? Should it /...

Fed up of waiting for Winter to fit my Winter tyres :D ... put on the Continental Top Contact Winter tyres I got from Ribble Cycles and decided to give them a run in. They don't say "II" anywhere on them so hope they are the right thing. Have not inflated to full 85psi (set them at the...

That would be really great :cool:. Am I right in thinking this is a crank drive kit then ? Forgive my ignorance but I haven't riden many bikes other than my own... is this going to result in a bike which is riden like my impulse crank-drive Kalkhoff ? I was confused reading the links on the GNG...

Offer obtained on the above for £450 (RRP £1,000) but only today. Is that still too much for this sort of thing ? Not fussed about it being brand new but like buying 2nd hand cars don't want to end up with someone else's wreck that's been tinkered with and I wind up having to replace parts / get...

I'm not especially looking for a ladies' MTB. It just happens that the one that's sat in the garage was obtained so one of the ladies in the family could use it too - definitely would not go out and buy one by choice. None of the cheaper bikes seem to have the range for the area I want to use...

Interesting. Sounds good for snowboarding if I ever get it together enough to go ! Shame they don't do XS sizing - so few people do nowadays. if they are that effective presumably you don't need to fit loads of layers under. Guess there is always the option of drinking some more beer and boshing...

:eek: .. they really do charge for those sorts of jackets - same with the eVent stuff (Mavic etc) nowadays. Are they really worth all that ? Bought an ex-Field Trials Paramo top for 70% off from the factory outlet on an auction which I wear if it's really cold / drizzly and going to be somewhere...

Apologies - am likely to have a huge load of very basic questions ! Like the look of a mid-drive kit .. is this a hub-drive kit and do I have to have that or are there crank-drive options which would work ? (I am used to pedalling to get the motor to engage ..); also could the gears be upped...

Would appreciate some help with this. Been reading a lot of threads about conversion, quite a bit of which I have to admit has gone way over my head at this point. However, as a first step I have a donor bike and would like to establish whether it's likely to be suitable and if so whether any...

With a decent pair of waterproof trousers over the top they will most likely do a decent job :cool:. Thing with waterproof socks is if any water gets in it can't get out so they can get really horrid if that happens but it's not really such a problem on relatively short rides and usually happens...

There are not many overshoes which are long like this ... I tried a pair of these and they would most likely fit the bill (you can get them from UberGear, they are very good but they take a few days to come in .. am personally skinny and just don't like anything baggy on the lower leg but the...

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What are the fitting options for this one ? I struggle with rear lights - the B&M dynamo rear light (not much of shiner to be fair !) and reflector are on the rear mud guard and I have a Topeak one which clips onto my rack bag so doesn't need mounting on the frame, but it's not 'arrestingly...

Do you know what the score is with the Impulse system ?

It's not all about Ah tho' .. there has to be some incentive to keep your fitness on the upward swing :p Joking aside, I didn't hear anything about these bikes when I was looking around. Plenty about the usual suspects though, none of which remotely approached meeting my needs bar Kalkhoff...

That Strada looks great. If that had been around when I bought in September (and I'd known about it ... shame they weren't at the NEC!) I'd probably have gone for it. Great deal and very versatile. My 15Ah battery is very good but obviously there's no "off-road" option on the Impulse crank and...