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I'm not sure I'd ever want a 'proper' bike again where I live. It was far too much like hard work the last time I had one here with all the steep hills; and I wasn't past retirement age then either. I was pretty fit from running with the dog then too. I ride this bike just like a normal bike on...

Having had both types in the last couple of months I think the experience is very different between the two. I like to feel as if I have bionic legs, and to seem to be a more powerful cyclist than I was years ago when I was a much younger and stronger rider. That can only really come with a TS...

A bit like perpetual motion....

Very different cycling environment and culture in Holland. It's one thing pootling along on a big heavy bike in a flat city where the street furniture and road layout is designed to calm traffic and make it safe for cycling and pedestrians - and pedestrians must be considered here too, because...

Bet it would be really easy to go arse over tit over the back wheels in a low gear with it too. I had a Rover 3500 many moons ago and for a heavy comfortable car it did sit its tail down well with a heavy right foot.

Their lives probably do depend on it. Not very relaxing cycling in London at the best of times. I moved away from there a decade and a half ago but I don't think it's changed much in that regard.

... That way lies madness mon amie.

Lots of people think that but it's only central London and the Thames valley which is flat. I used to push bike fairly locally in North London for a while. But most of my cycling was on road trainers for fitness, and I rode around Hertfordshire and through the outer London rat runs. If I lived...

I think he's doing two things. One he's being cautious, which in a businessman is advisable. Particularly in an area like this. The other is he's trying to call out the sellers of these bikes and devices in public. They haven't chosen to respond. Which is perhaps wise, but does say something...

Both those teams sum up the mess that football has become in this country now. One was bought by someone who decided that the catchment area of a traditional family club was too small for his financial ambitions. So he just moved it like an American sports franchise somewhere where he hoped...

Impulse. The 2013 Impulse 1 with the Sport software upgrade.

I haven't been on this forum for very long but I feel I already know what the Bill Murray character was going through in Groundhog Day.

Yes the abrupt cut out at 15.5 is a pain. It feels like you've been grabbed from behind and tugged back by a giant hand it's so sharp. On the Woosh CD I had I tickled it up to just over 19 mph which was much smoother. The Kalkhoff is very smooth cutting in and out too. Another couple of mph...

Didn't I read here in a similar thread that 50 Cycles was visited by Trading Standards over the BS10 a few months ago? But not because it was not legal to use it on UK roads, but because of the alleged misleading description pertaining to registration. Because it isn't really possible to...

I can't remember where I read it now but it seems that Kalkhoff takes the ten percent leeway into account and that all their bikes cut out at just over 17 mph. Certainly if you read the reviews the reviewers all say that the assist runs out then. I think it has ramped down at that point but it...

Wander. I would have thought that the OP of a thread knows what his thread is about usually.

No. Focus is the Derby Cycle premium MB. Kalkhoff is their premium road range. 50 Cycles website.

I bought a Spa Cycles one a little while ago. I've had Brooks in the past, before they became an aspirational brand and started pricing as one; and the only difference apart from being a third of the retail price is the lack of individuality which you get in a hand finished Brooks. The leather...

Clearly needs lots of negative camber on the back wheels, and good suspension. Plus a BPM on the front wheel... There are modern fully enclosed motorbike like city trikes which various people are always trying to bring to market with the front wheel and passenger compartment leaning, and the...

I haven't ridden a trike since I was about five years old but I have ridden a motorbike and sidecar many years ago. It can't be a lot different can it? You can't lean it, so you lean your body instead. A bit different to a sidecar since you also use the throttle to drive round the third wheel...