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    Help! Where's life at these days? Conversion for a cargo bike

    Rather than a cargo bike. A trailer would be a much better solution. You can get a reasonable one for £60. Do some research on trailers and how they fit to bikes, then choose a bike and electrical system that suits it. The single wheeled trailers give the best cycling experience. You don't even...
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    Vintage bike conversion

    If the forks aren't brazed properly, isn't there are a chance that the brazes are going to break anyway? You could just as easily say that the Chinese worker who made the battery might not have routed the cables properly, which could cause the battery to catch fire and burn your house down and...
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    Vintage bike conversion

    There isn't really any type of failure that can occur by cold-setting (adjusting) the fork width. They're steel, which is maleable. They were bent to that shape in the first place. That's how they're made. Bending them to another shape makes no difference.
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    Help! Main roads or side roads?

    Forget about riding to work, in fact, it might be a good idea to stop work altogether because it can be dangerous. Instead, build yourself a bio-dome . Make sure that it has a proper air lock on any doors or hatches to the outside world and good filters on the air supply, then get yourself a...
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    battery percentage

    See what I mean by cutting and pasting stuff off the internet that he doesn't understand. As it happens, I used to share communications with the guy that runs that website. You will find some of my own advice and info in quotes in some of the articles. That doesn't mean I agree with everything...
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    Batavus Lento

    In principle, any 36v battery will work with those kits. There are just two wires to join. The more Ah you get, the further you can go, but also the more Ah you get, the heavier the battery. The things to look at are how it fixes to your bike and whether you like the look of it. Those of us...
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    Help! Bafang bs01 power staying on fault

    The throttle stop is probably damaged. The stop is only weak plastic and easily overwhelmed. If the throttle goes below the zero position it starts going back up again. You can test that by opening the throttle a tiny bit when it's creeping. If it stops, that's your problem. Other possibilities...
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    Carrera SRAM Sparc no power to control box

    In case you need to contact Kraeuterbutter, he's still posting on the German forum www.pedelecsforum.de and he has his own website with an email address http://www.kraeuterbutter.at/
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    One for the battery experts- new pack - strange problem- Any advice?

    Did you place your black probe on the cell-pack negative wire, like I explained, or on the B0 position? Don't invent reasons you think that the battery is faulty. Instead, let the results tell you what's wrong. We should see a list of 13 results, which will enable us to determine the 13...
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    battery percentage

    The problem is to differentiate how much experience that guys posting on the forum actually have. Some have been working with ebikes for a long time, and others get their experience from reading stuff on the internet, which they don't fully understand. I've never heard anybody, apart from the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Again, good points, and i agree up to a point. The point is where promoting tolerance goes a step further into positive promotion of these things. This is where I started. It's got to the point now where it's virtually impossible to get a job in companies like the BBC if you're a white straight...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Weirdo!
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I understand what you're saying; however, I've got a feeling that there's something a bit more sinister going on than just normal drift and change. Do we really need drag queen story-telling at our primary schools? And I wonder why a judge has make an injunction to stop concerned parents...
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    Batavus Lento

    Hmmm! It doesn't sound quite right, and if it is right, I'd say that it's too heavy. The problem is that a lot of sellers copy, paste and edit listings without knowing what they're doing, so you can't trust want they write. The weight is stated as 4.5 kg. Allow 1/2kg for the case, leaves 4kg...
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    Help! Main roads or side roads?

    I was nearly killed three times while wearing a high-vis jacket, and never nearly killed when not wearing one. I think it was my lucky underpants that saved me on those occasions, otherwise I'd probably be dead. A guy was riding his bike wearing lace-up shoes, when he got struck by lightning...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I didn't assume anything. I've no idea what you're interested in; however, you did ask who the "they" were, did you not? I expressed my opinion, and as normal debate, I was hoping that you'd express yours, but I guess you find the situation too scary to consider. To me, it implies that there...
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    Help! Main roads or side roads?

    No do I. It must be something to do with superposition of waves, metameterials or something like that.
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    Help! Intermittent fault on battery - causing loss of power

    He shouldn't need to do that. Cell voltage measurement after the battery cuts should indicate any abnormalities, so he would know where to check for the solution.
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    Help! Main roads or side roads?

    Normal A-roads are fine. It's only when the 4-wheeled drivers get held up that things can get nasty, like when you get a stretch with lots of traffic lights, roadworks and things like that. The only thing I can think of is that they don't like anybody making more progress than themselves, so...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I can't believe that you're so thick as not to understand what I mean! If, however, you are so unfortunate to be afflicted in such a way, I apologise and you have my full sympathy. Just ask again and I'll explain.