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So how does this European warranty pan out in practise? You had an issue trying to even get advice from a dealer here because you didn’t buy it from him. So if it needed fixing who would do it? When I was thinking about buying a Kalkhoff direct from Germany a little while ago Derby Cycles told...

The OP was suggesting that since he couldn’t go any faster on his Cube than the standard cut off he might as well have a cheap shopper. Tongue in cheek no doubt, and I pointed out that there is more to it than just how fast it can go. In any purchase cost has to be balanced against quality and...

But it’s not just about speed is it? It’s how the bike handles and how nice it is to ride. The quality of its components and how they integrate as a whole package. Or in other words how well designed it is for the job it has to do. As well as how well made it is and how long it will last. The...

I may be missing something here but since they would be restricted to the same speed as the 250w ones what is the point of them? We all know 250w is a nominal figure anyway with almost all bikes having a lot more grunt than that in practise, while some bikes with powerful motors will go uphill...

Hm. Up to a point Lord Copper. In some fields the higher quality choice will keep its value better than lower quality. Naim Audio for instance, or Rolex watches. Leaving aside the S pedelecs which don’t hold their value Kalkhoffs fetch very good money on eBay at the right time of the year unlike...

Centre of cranks to top of seat tube is usual.

"That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went and cannot come again.” Blue hills of yet another country.

If he keeps listing it keep buying it. Eventually he’ll get rumbled and banned. What eBay really don’t like are listings like this which are just a way of trading off eBay and doing them out of their rip off ten percent.

He’s now sold it twice yesterday. Did he ask you to agree to withdraw from the sale? If you don’t, and why should you, he’ll pay the fees. But that will only be £1.50 so he can swallow that in the hope of getting a buyer off eBay by fishing like this. At the very least he should have been given...

Sounds like a certain way to break up the UK to me. Which is probably going to happen anyway in the not too distant future. Devolution of powers to Scotland and Wales should never have been done the way it was. It should have been UK wide devolution like in Germany with Westminster as the...

I assume that wasn’t conversations? I thought that was the only messages facility.

Super CJ.

Like the Bates boy and his dead mother you mean?

I always wondered about that on other forums I contribute to. There would be members who were prolific posters and who I would exchange messages with over a period of some years, and suddenly they were gone. In some cases without the tale tale tapering off in posts but after he’d posted four...

I had bikes like that for years. We called them motor bikes.

Humphries is an angry old man who’s angry because he’s an old man. The newspaper which most sets the BBC agenda is the Daily Mail. They admit themselves that they see that paper as having a feel for so called ‘middle England.’ Apart from some big stories like phone hacking which all the other...

Political correctness is a form of euphemism. But like all euphemisms the word used doesn’t change the reality it just helps us to avoid facing it. “ A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Or as John Lennon might have put it: One thing you can’t hide, is when you’re physically...

Pensions are part of the welfare budget and make up the largest part of it, and they are paid out of general taxation not a funded pension scheme. The distorted view is that of the many who seem to think that the so called, as I described it, welfare budget is spent on the unemployed and single...

What about all those leftie media proprietors? All of them desperate to pay every penny of their corporate and personal taxes. The bleeding heart lefties like Murdoch bleating on about the poor and underprivileged all the time, and using his papers to promote their cause. Yes, we are in the...

The so called welfare bill is made up of over fifty percent state pensions. That is statutory pensions otherwise known as the old age pension, as well as occupational pensions of public sector workers like teachers, firemen, policemen, and judges. So that makes most of us here welfare...