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Light weight is nice, range is crucial.

How do you make a Swiss roll? Push him down a mountain. How do make a Venetian blind? Poke his eyes out.

A chain guide mounted on the chainstay may keep the chain in order. Here's a diy version: The ready made ones are surprisingly dear, but a good mountain bike shop may have some ideas - it's really a MTB piece of kit. You could try shortening the chain - assuming you have a derailleur...

A broken spring is a good shout.

All these colours reminds me of the old joke: What's black and white and red all over?

Dalby Forest near Pickering, north Yorkshire, is just about within range. Several easy cycling trails, visitor centre and other bits and pieces. Let me know if you decide to have a run at it and I may join you for a ride. http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-8yzdgq

One battery wouldn't be a lot of good to me - too many of my rides need more than that. Seems to me ebike motors are fairly well sorted, my Bosch bikes have enough poke for my needs. Battery life is much more of a limiting factor than motor power.

Have you changed the battery or do you have two?

Good, sturdy cars those 2000-ish Micras. Simple, as you say, so the garage really ought to be able to do a good job on it. Don't let them try to talk you into scrapping it unless a decent sum of money changes hands. A Micra of that age is always worth something.

Very wise - a dry run on the front drive is just never the same.

I always had Schwalbe down as making lots of tyres because I see them on a lot of new bikes. Perhaps I'm only looking at £2K+ dream machines.

The copyright in the article is vested in Bicycle Retailer, it is nothing to do with the maker of the motor. For this purpose, Bicycle Retailer couldn't give a stuff about the motor, but they might care about their intellectual property. A link to their site is fine, and as Trex says, excerpts...

The OP appears to live in Birmingham so I expect is looking for a Cannock-type centre a bit further afield.

Twenty plus tyres against one or two is poor choice. Unless you can demonstrate Schwalbe is unrepresentative and the other makers are producing dozens of 27.5" in different widths and tread types. Sure, things may improve, and the lack of choice will be unimportant to a lot of riders. But for...

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I refer to 27.5" tyres. My comment a couple of weeks ago about a mate who was struggling for choice in this size was countered by Eddie and ebike Martin. Not so, I was told, there are plenty. A play with Schwalbe's tyre finder suggests otherwise. There are more than 20 tyres at 26"X2.0...

Joking aside, I was impressed when I read the specs and saw how neat it is.

D8 is already working on a triple drive supermarket special.

Couple of good points there which it takes someone in the trade to think through. Although if a seller is going to ignore the rules so blatantly, it doesn't really matter how those rules are framed.

The Nano is well thought out, the controller, battery, and motor are all at the front, so no worries with folding cables. The other conversion you could consider is the Sparticle. The battery is on the seat tube, which is not so neat as the Nano, but a folded Sparticle will be easier to lump...