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Here is the benefit of starting with a nice, comfortable, surefooted and reponsive bike. It will still be nice, comfortable, surefooted and reponsive bike with and without power. If you start with a lump of steel, it will not be nice to ride it, with or without power.

I am working on it. The kit I am using is Tongsheng/Shengyi DWG2NC with Mechaniker's torque sensor built into the motor. The motor weighs 2kg. I will add a bag battery. This is my bike, weighing just under 10kgs. The kit will add 4kgs but it will be very easy to swap out, just a 9-pin motor...

My Woosh Faro is pretty good. I rode it for two years until my prostate made me change to a full suss. There is no practical low cost conversion because you need small light weight battery and a lightweight motor. I often rode it unpowered.

Are you following Donald's court case at the moment? David Pecker testified yesterday. Trump is a very detail man, not at all the rambling Trump on TV. I wonder if he's going to be jailed for repeating his posts in Truth Social.

saneagle is extremely well informed. He was spot on when we discussed behind the scene schemes to keep Trump in power, fake electors, certification process etc. He was also well informed on TR and reddit's gamestop story. He questions orthodoxy and the deep state. He does not necessarily believe...

Would be dictator if elected, Trump is quite clear about what he would do to ex potuses who are still alive: Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden.

Ours don't stay very long as dictators. One's gone quicker than a lettuce. When do you think Putin and xi jin pin will ever leave?

Standardise charging protocol, plugs and sockets, is a good idea. if the components are safe then there is much less need to legislate the kits.

The TSDZ8 (and TSDZ2B) comes with 5-bolt BCD chainring that is suitable for up to 10-speed cassettes which you can replace if necessary.

it's a new product so it will take some time.

I will have them later in the year. Why don't you look at bottom bbracket motors like the Tongsheng TSDZ8?

I support the idea of certification of batteries albeit with some reserve. The cells themselves are already subject to compulsory certification. The issue is there exists in China an important fake industry which rewrap unbranded cells with fake labels. Importers may be fooled to buy unknowingly...

1WH = 3600J (Joules) or 3.6KJ. You know how much charge is left in your battery. A hand grenade has about 50g of TNT explosive, about 200KJ, about 55WH. What makes these things dangerous is the speed of their release. If all that energy is released in a fraction of a second (like a grenade)...

it's only partially true. EVs account for more than 40% of cars in China and in the last quarter, sales of EVs in China overtook ICE cars. China has enough solar electricity to cover the needs of 1.41 billion Chinese. It's only their industries that need burning fossil fuels and are responsible...

Your body burns a lot more calories to keep itself warm while riding ebikes compared to heat produced by the muscle effort.

I would not recommend fat bikes for commuting. Punctures are a problem, and you can't have puncture proof tyres on fat bikes.

I think nuclear cannot compete on cost for the foreseeable future against solar. Industry turns to grid storage and high voltage interconnectors. Politicians would throw a bone or two to SMRs but are not serious about them.

wind and solar electricity is now much cheaper than electricity produced by fossil fuels. The new booming industry is grid storage, expected to grow about 32% a year for a while. China's CATL makes an abosute mint on it. Emergency generators are paid up to 7 times normal rates. Grid storage...

I suspect that petrol producing countries and petrol companies do like betting and tobacco companies, spend a lot of money on marketing. Selling on convenience and exaggerating the dangers of alternatives.

it takes a couple of hours to get used to the Brompton because it's so nimble but the extra weight of the kit steadies the bike a fair bit so it's much more like your normal bike.