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Lots of risks in some of those, apart from anything else getting rid of rules draws attention to things people can get away with that they weren't aware of before. E-scooters for example. Actually his item 5: "Abolish EU limits on electrical power levels of electrically assisted pedal...

So long as the Giant battery mount only has two connections to the bike, positive and negative, you will be ok. But they have been fond of using multiple connections on some models, ruling out other batteries so make sure about this before buying another battery. If there are additional...

. If the Silver Fish battery is a lithium one, which I'm sure it will be, it is also 26 volts. Calling them 24 volts still is just a convention left over from NiCad and NiMh battery days. It's about the cell voltages: 20 x 1.2 volt NiCad/NiMh cells = 24 volts 7 x 3.7 volt cells in a lithium...

Most of these reasons were behind some of the friction drive kit introductions, but they all failed in the market, hence my reply. Cyclists just don't seem to want them for whatever reasons. My experience of the assisted bicycle market goes back to when I joined the trade in 1950 and what...

I've just read up on it, but it's just reinventing an old wheel. We've had numerous onto wheel friction drive systems over the last 75 years and they've all failed to last in the market. The only meaningful difference here is the variable pressure system to avoid friction roller slippage...

The nagging to get a second Covid booster jab this spring has started, but it's no way for me after what the last booster did. A long series of painful tachycardia heart attacks starting once the booster had kicked in, peaking through December and January, and not finally ending until the...

What worked for me when I had soaked playing up electrics may do for you if you have a good dehumidifier. I put the bike in a small room with the dehumidifier running one side and a fan heater on 1 kW only on the other side, the air flow going the same way so a constant recirculation loop...

Way back in the 1960s and '70s in London there was a well known older cycling activist named Bob something or other. He'd equipped his bike with a large rectangular shaped frame of tubing around four feet wide, a little taller than him and the length of the bike. Although not commuting to any...

Are the wheels in line? Turn the bike upside down and see if you can sight along both wheels with them exactly in line, with the front and rear of both wheels all in exact single alignment. With a dished or offset rear wheel it's not unusual for the rear wheel to be following a slightly...

Thanks. They were light and cheap from Halfords at the time. .

They are bar ends mounted the wrong way round, the sort of mini handlebars that mounted normally on the ends of a handlebar give different raised and relaxed riding positions for a change. I used them reversed and in the centre to make a support for when the bike is inverted such as for fixing...

. Fine by me, but he'll have to be careful that Rods and Poles don't knock him off his Perch. ;) .

Another fan of twist shifters here, either Shimano or SRAM's Shimano compatible ones. To me they make so much more sense than trigger shifts, especially the ability to change to any gear instantly. I fitted the SRAM ones on both my derailleur e-bikes in lieu of trigger shifts. But my...

The important thing for me in your's and Guerney's examples are the mudguards and their strong stays on the bikes back then. Thoroughly sensible, extending far enough around the wheels to protect the bottom bracket area and the back of the bike and rider. Not like today's idiotic apologies for...

Saw it, more programs to come on Friday evenings. .

They were one of the more civilised ones, but did lack power compared to some others. The black painted hub shell one came first, 25cc, but was the upgraded to 32 cc with a grey painted hub shell. They were a Dutch company but the design was originally by Germany's DKW, gained as war...

"Every home to get £400 to help with energy bills" I wonder how the Queen will spend her £1600? Buckingham Palace, Sandringham, Windsor Castle, Balmoral. The £800 will help Boris recoup his fine too, 10 Downing Street and Chequers. .

Indeed, careless of me, that is 2 million of course, not 20. Over 24 hours since posted so beyond editing now. .

Indeed, over 8 million (48%) in The Netherlands cycle daily, in Britain it's 2 million at most with 100 deaths per annum over the last decade. So their average 200 deaths per annum is a death rate only a half of ours. It's actually even better than that, since a further 20 million of the Dutch...

Despite the large increases in cycling in the last two decades the death rates had been falling during the 2010s, probably due to the increase mainly being in cycle commuting which builds experience. From a high of 134 deaths in Britain, there was a later one year low of 99 deaths. However...