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That is true, but for most us it is only a matter of going from very slow to not quite so slow.

Cheap Halfords wired computer now fitted and working. The fork sender is much smaller and neater, and the rest looks OK, just another black cable on a black bike which already has lots of black cables. The wireless one is still available if anyone can make use of it. I'll even throw in a...

From the replies, it seems wireless computers don't work with ebikes, except when they do. I can't justify the cost of the Sigma which might well work, so I will probably get a cheapie wired computer from Halfords. Having gone through one fitting process, the second ought to be simpler...

Brian, Have you received your invitation to the Kudos Christmas party yet?

This Haibike is 'neu' - new - and has the bigger battery. My schoolboy German isn't up to much, but it looks to me the 1,500euro price is an auction starting price. Don't know if there's a 'buy it now'. Haibike °eQ Xduro RC° E-Bike Elektro-Fahrrad Pedelec Bosch Rh 50 - 2013 | eBay

I decided to fit a separate speedo on my Rose/Bosch bike to get a true reading after the dongle cuts in. Treated myself to a wireless one from Halfords, and after the usual bike fettling faff, managed to get it fitted and working. Or so I thought. The new speedo reads as it should - until I...

There's a poster on CycleChat who is trying to get rid of a couple of recumbents and a load of bits and pieces. Everything Recumbent to go | CycleChat Cycling Forum

I suspect Bosch set out to integrate the assistance into the cycling experience as seamlessly as possible. In that respect, I reckon they've succeeded. Worth remembering we are talking about extreme - certainly for me - conditions. Iveston Bank has a reputation among cyclists around here for...

Now I have my shiny new compact dongle, would someone on here like the old one? It's true I couldn't get it to work, but the little LED in the dongle flashed as the magnet went past so it might be salvageable. Before we gave up on it, the supplier Badass said the LED was behaving as it...

Interesting stuff, Blew It. I reckon my cadence on a steepish climb will be no more than 50rpm, now equating to about 5mph in first. Seems I could get more climbing power from a higher cadence, but to achieve that I will need to lower the gearing a bit more. What with this and the dongle, I...

Yes, I was trying to recall the ins and outs of your tensioner experience when I was working through my problem. Didn't you have to do some fabricating? Some Rohloff or NuVinci ordinary bikes have tensioners from the factory, some don't. Given what I know now, I regard the existence of a...

Fair enough. Obviously, I think I am right about the cadence. But if you fancy a Bosch bike in other respects, you ought to try one to confirm - or otherwise - my opinion. One doesn't hear of many problems with Bosch bikes, so it would be a shame to miss out on a good, reliable bike just on...

Longevity is the unknown factor, but there's not a lot to go wrong. Lui at Badass told me it is powered by a watch battery which they reckon will last for several thousand km, and is replaceable if it does go flat. Incidentally, I paid 89euro for the original two-piece version. Badass are...

Readers with long memories may recall I ordered one of the clip-on dongles from Badass ebikes. It was a bit clunky to look at and had a separate battery pack. But worst of all, it didn't work. Fair play to Badass, they told me to keep it and they would send their improved version, which...

The bike is a Rose Xtrawatt trekking bike with the ordinary 250w motor and bigger Bosch battery. It cost just on £2,500. Can't provide a link because there are no Rose ebikes in the catalogue at present, due I'm guessing to the supply problems with the Bosch motor. This bike is an...

Readers with long memories will recall one of the reasons I looked at the gearing was my failure to climb Iveston Bank, near Consett in County Durham. Well, me and that blasted hill met again earlier today. The news is good, but not 100 per cent so. I managed to get within about 30 yards of...

A point of view fairly made, but far from correct. Rose service is known to be top notch - a member on here had a chain fouling the chain guard and Rose took the bike back to Germany, no questions asked. The member was impressed, which says it all. Of course, I have no personal experience of...

Sensible solution.

The rough equivalent Rose trekking bike to my Rose ebike is about £1,300. So the extra for the Bosch system - including the bigger battery - was about £1,200.