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Cyclists in London have been going very fast for the last thirty years or so since cycle couriers took off as a quicker way of getting stuff around than motorbikes over short distances. But while other bikes might be a nuisance sometimes, it’s the trucks and buses which will swipe you off and...

You could lose your shirt too buying one of the many thousands of houses built with no permission, or permission obtained by bribery from corrupt local officials. I know two people having problems like that where their houses have been threatened with demolition.

I’m not sure the Impulse will do that if you mean increasing the assist speed. I was under the impression that unlike the Panasonic models the software prevents that changing with different sprockets. Although putting the sensor magnet on the crank and moving the sensor close to it has been said...

I’ve got a Kalkhoff with the same gearing as you, and I was thinking of and still may change to an 18 rear sprocket. That effectively pushes all the gears up one. So top becomes 93” and 7 becomes 82” which is a little higher than the existing top. With that sprocket all the gears just more or...

Yes I know it has to be free of public right of access. But all that would be a bit of a mouthful, and at least private land is closer than off road. Scotland of course with its extensive rights of public access to land has nowhere at all where it’s legal to use an overpowered bike. Apart from...

Maybe try to promote the use of the term private land, instead of off road?

Your charger might be still doing something clever though. The Woosh chargers just turn off when they’re done.

I do a great song and dance act in the bath. Never fails.

He's a comedian. But unlike Clarkson his act is just a joke,

Yes, there are a lot more renters living in damp mouldy leaky uncared for houses and flats than hard done by landlords. The current private rental situation is a national disgrace with rip off rents and Rachmanism back and flourishing. I’ve been both tenant and landlord in my time and when I let...

Maybe I am. But I think it will be difficult to get any work done under warranty for a bike bought abroad. The dealers will not want to know.

Can go both ways. I known kids who grew up to be the exact opposite of their parents and what the wanted them to be. Best not to try too hard...

Not sure the LBS selling the odd e bike would know where to start with most electrical and motor problems they might be faced with. I think these bikes are quite complex and I always used to buy a groupset and build my own road bikes.

The impulse has a torque sensor controlled motor as does the Yamaha. The ones that trex mentions are speed sensor. You will have to put more effort in to get the power out with the Kalkhoff and Yamaha, so they are for people who want to ride a bike that rides like a normal bicycle but with added...

A good few years ago now I saw a segment on a TV programme where an American bloke had rigged the kids TV up to a static bicycle electrical generator. So whenever they wanted to watch they had to pedal. His theory was that they would only watch what they really wanted to and would avoid being...

I actually agree with you that e bikes should have the same European wide warranties as cars and motorbikes and TVs. In that you can get them fixed anywhere where they go wrong and not just where you bought them; and this has come up here before. Then I was arguing as you are that there should...

Yes, this became derailed when tilson went off on one. Fat boy Clarkson was the subject not a personal highly political take on what a word like underprivileged means. I’m not at all sure I know what it means really because it’s one of those words which means all things to all men. Rather like...

Interesting insight into the right wing mindset there. Straw men well and truly burnt.

He’s posted that on two threads. I asked the same question on the other one. I was told by Derby Cycles that the warranty was with the German dealer if bought a bike from there and it would have to be sent back to him. So who would fix the OPs bike if it needed it?

People like him play a version of themselves. But his views as expressed are not fabricated at all. They are his own. The exaggerated persona he has created for his ‘act’ allows him a platform for his very right wing opinions and his tilts at so called politically correct windmills, and at the...