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If you are just 'out of shape' and not catastrophically overweight, I wouldn't worry about a throttle. The Kalkhoff should have enough poke, and you will soon regain a little fitness to make up for any shortfall. At the higher end of the market, I like the look of the Stromer ST2. It has a...

Nice report, and 38 miles before lunch is a good effort in this weather.

Simple answer is of course cheap bikes are OK, as are expensive ones, and ones in between. I bought the likes of the Rose partly in the hope spending a few quid would buy some reliability - so far, so good. I lack the expertise to do a good, reliable job on a kit, and if I bought this bike I...

Why would it be? The wheel is to be sold in America. Max speed 20mph also puts it on the naughty step over here.

Years since I've tinkered with rim brakes, but I believe you can get toe in on some by adjustment, which of course you can't do with discs. The rim brakes on Bromptons were famously average until a lever redesign a few years ago. I have the older type which have never given any bother...

To get toe in - not sure it's called that on a disc brake - you will need to skim the leading part of the pad more than the trailing part. This is a rim brake, but if you substitute the rim for the disc rotor the point is the same.

According to the copper, the dog was on the off side of the cyclist, close to the white centre line, hence the traffic jam. The copper also remarked the job could have been dealt with by a way of a caution, but the awkward attitude of the cyclist prevented that. I see from the Mail's story...

Fat ebikes are thin on the ground, although this Cube is borderline obese: http://www.cube.eu/uk/bikes/hybrid/suv-hybrid/cube-suv-hybrid-pro-275-glossynflashred-2015/

Ezee bikes are famously sturdy and almost make a virtue out of being ugly. I'm no frame designer, but I appreciate single degrees and millimetres matter, so it's impossible to tell how a bike rides from a pic.

{Moderated by admin} This kind of response is also unacceptable. {end} It seems to me the geometry of the CycleEze bike is fairly standard for a fat bike. The head angle may not be as slack as some, but if they've decided to build a sharper handling fat bike, that's all there is to it, the...

Steady on, is the geometry so different from this fat bike, which is a KTM, so must be perfect.

For the sake of a fiver or so, you may as well get some disc brake cleaner. Muc Off is a good brand - the size of the tin means it should last for years. http://www.halfords.com/cycling/tools-maintenance/cleaning-lube/muc-off-disc-brake-cleaner-400ml It will probably do the job, although disc...

There's a little bit of a knack to using this by the look of the video. I believe if you slip off the choc half way up, you cannot get another one, so it's then either push the rest of the way, or freewheel back to the bottom to start again. Decent idea, I expect there are a lot of areas as...

Thanks Mike. The OP - perhaps inevitably - took my comments badly, but they were only an observation drawn from experience. Steve Abrahams pushes himself harder than is medically sensible. I believe that's one of the reasons Guinness won't have anything to do with the attempt. Most of his...

This being an internet forum, it was inevitable someone would pick on that. In punctuation, less is more. The guy's fat bike was not run of the mill, but a £3K Belgian made one with a titanium frame. The other part of his story is that he's a 'half Oscar' - on one leg he uses a prosthetic...

If you manage a run to deepest Surrey, you could have a look at 50 Cycles, just down the road from LEBC. Their Kalkhoff prices have eased a bit of late. A Pro Connect for £1,600 for you and a Sahel on clearance at £1,895 for the wife would make a good pair. 'Your' bike has an 11ah battery and...

I spoke with a keen ordinary fat biker. He said the fat bike is harder to pedal, but not by as much as he expected. He has several bikes and uses the fat bike more and more. They are a usable daily ride, assuming you are not 100 per cent on asphalt.

Interesting that two posters mention a cargo fat bike. I wonder what they think one of those would do over and above an ordinary cargo bike. A cargo fat bike might be a design challenge because the tyres have to run at very low pressure to do their fatty thing.

I'm surprised you are not familiar with crowd funding investments as featured on the likes of Kickstarter. All pledge means is you don't put any money in until the target is reached. The rest is self-explanatory, you get what the proposal says you will get. Investment is something of a...

You seem to know an awful lot about ebikes in Europe, given your location on the other side of the world. Ebikes and their riders do have an image problem in the UK, that is a simple matter of fact. I can't speak for mainland Europe, I'm not near enough to know. Sales do look good there. I...