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    Was considering a Halfords bike and suddenly now looking at a Scott Ebike for the wife!

    That Scott is a very nice looking bike. In the same league price wise would be a number of Cube bikes and also the Raleigh Captus and Motus.. all basically similar , unisex, strong ,comfortable, urban very well kitted out.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. what would you have expected her to say?. Until a full cabinet meeting changes things, she must revert to the status quo.
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    Is the ebike market moving upwards?

    If you look at any of the European magazines, .. I have an app that allows one to read them,( Readly. ,) The majority of bikes reviewed and advertised, are Bosch , or brose or equivalent, and typical prices around 3k euro. So it looks from here that the UK is the home of the lower cost ebikes...
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    Average 20 mph.. does that mean you have dongled it to defeat the 15.5mph legal ceiling?, Or are you just a very strong cyclist?
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    Powabyke euro 21 gear.

    .. recelling seems to be the best option and run the bike till it's brushes burn out!
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    Carrera Crossfire ebike Battery Charger

    .. useful post. The important parameter is the poor voltage margin, using 50v electrolytics when the peak voltage is 42v . It is likely that this company has simply repurposed boards designed for the previous generation of 26v ebikes , by altering the feedback
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    Charger question

    Unless you actually open up the battery pack and read the information on each cell you don't know for sure what technology is being used. They could be , in order of history. Lead acid batteries, three in series, NI cad batteries, banks of 30 in series, NIMH , or any of a few flavours of Li ion...
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    24 hour mtb xc race (no power!)

    ..until next year?
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    Powabyke euro 21 gear.

    Are the three batteries you have lead acid ones by any chance? . If so they are probably knackered, as old age gets to us all. Why not get them recelled using Li ion and you will have a fully legal rejuvenated bike... A recelling company can reuse the housings, so the bike will look identical...
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    Oxygen S Cross E-Bike!

    You want to get the tyre edge, with its wire reinforcement to sit into a groove on the wheel rim and the extra pressure might stop it doing so... I am trying to describe the most fail-safe method. When the tyre has been mounted, I would go around and with hand pressure only push down on the...
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    Oxygen S Cross E-Bike!

    I was not aware of any disability, so apologies if it sounded condescending. I would not claim to have strong or big hands but usually have little difficulty (a lifetime of non manual work, ). A tyre lever does make things a bit easier. If using tyre levers, use one then two very close to each...
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    Bosch battery

    There is an interesting video for female cyclists in skirts using a coin and an elastic band... Modesty personified.
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    Bosch battery

    Is it not also the case that many ladies have a different geometry? Any way I have opted for the step through frame in preference to the crossbar for a number of reasons. 1. Less possibility of damaging items I hold in high esteem. Gears slipping or chains snapping when out of the saddle...
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    Oxygen S Cross E-Bike!

    .. an adult male should be able to remove the tyre even without tyre levers. In fact it may cause less damage than a tyre lever. If the tube is visible you are half way there. .. depending on the valve type, there may be a retaining ring.. car type valves don't ,presta do. Unscrew this and...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... And run naked down the street. Have you no pity sir, have the British public not suffered enough?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    . Tommie, I am no expert on intergovernmental finance and the banking system, and I suspect neither are you, In the case of the 20billion my understanding is that this was money provided by the Bank of England to cover the liabilities of Ulster Bank or RBS, it's parent, and not part of the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. you do realise that I was referring to the town in France? If you are referring to the 7 billion loan from the UK in 2010, I think that was repaid... With interest.
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    Delimit Carrera Crossfire E

    .. Reflect!. On two occasions in the same message you repeat that request. Let's assume he had been naïve, and did know a method, then you would have published it, he would have been fired If you are a commercial programmer you would or should be aware of the consequences of inadvertent...
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    Delimit Carrera Crossfire E

    To request information off the record and then to publish the reply is at best disingenuous ( I could use another term. ). Small real time applications using microcontrollers need to use highly optimised code, so languages such as Java would be inappropriate and c based assemblers are more...