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    Even more battery news

    .. Very well put. There is now significant investment in these chemistries, and there will be small incremental improvements year on year. Think back over how the nickel metal hydride batteries climbed from 1.2v 600mah to 1.4v 2600 over a number of years and with improved self discharge rates ...
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    Please disappear...

    ... Should helmets be compulsory when discussing brexit?
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    Please disappear...

    I can understand your frustration, and as an occasional poster on that thread, I have some responsibility. Brexit is likely to be the most significant event in recent UK history, and as a people you appear to be mesmerised into following it. At every stage untruths, half-truths and speculation...
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    News: German cycle industry takes a stronger stance against e-bike ‘tuning’

    [ They are already selling 1.6 million per year, 10 times the UK market and they are manufacturing them also. Since they are already measuring and displaying torque it is trivial to include this in a data set. Rather than being an irrelevant measurement, torque and speed are the measurements...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Woosh, I am not going to discuss the personalities of different politicians from another country, it would not be polite. All three persons you mention hold ministers and are therefore the official voice of the UK. Anything anyone of them says is "ex cathedra". They all hold their positions by...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I am confident that the UK will survive outside of the EU. Survive does not mean prosper. After independence in Ireland, there was a period of economic isolation when the mantra was" burn everything English except their coal ". Basically Ireland was turning it's back on England for centuries...
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    ... I sorry Persus, but that is not good enough, I have looked on line particularly to search for negative comments attributed to the Motus and have found none. You have indicated on two occasions " hearsay" about this bike . Is there any manufactured product that 10 years after purchase is...
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    ... To paraphrase He may talk like an idiot, he may SMILE like an idiot, but don't let that fool you.....
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    News: German cycle industry takes a stronger stance against e-bike ‘tuning’

    ... There is an attraction in having the battery pack inserted in the downtube , but the downside is that the charging point must be adjacent to where the bike is stored . I can certainly see the charger becoming even lighter in weight with improved ferrites in the trafo.
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    News: German cycle industry takes a stronger stance against e-bike ‘tuning’

    Everybody in a functioning democracy will find things to complain about with their government. If it is working well then equal numbers will be complaining about both sides of the same argument. .. Looking at the original post can one see a logical pattern. Germany has invested heavily into...
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    cycling getting harder

    ... Why not call them trads as in traditional. Somehow I suspect that had the internet been functional 120 years ago, we would have had complaints from the users of ordinary (Penny-farthing) bikes about those users of the new fangled safety bikes as not being real cyclists
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    Battery shipping help!

    Ok have looked on line and you do have lithium ion battery in the original and should be 36 V nominal so the 24 volt unit is unsuitable.
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    Battery shipping help!

    .. Ok let's start back a level. What age is the bike and battery . What type of battery does it use. Depending on its age it will be either 1. Lead acid battery which will have died from lack of use 2. Nickel metal hydride. Which may be ok and maybe not or 3. Lithium ion . This should still...
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    .. Persus you made this negative comment about the Raleigh Motus before and I questioned you on it, to which you did not respond. Please advise what was the nature of the negativity in respect of this product. As I have stated on I think three separate occasions, to you I have this product and...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No. The rules are were 1. Advisory. Referendum to give advice to government. Government is not obliged to take advice... The clue is in the name 2. Parliament agreed to take this advice. ( That is the rule) And enacted a bill. There was no obligation on them to do so either legal or moral. 3...
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    cycling getting harder

    ... Joke .. have you charged the battery? Seriously if you are regularly going above 25km, then the electric assist will cut out and you are back on your own peddling power. More power to you!
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    Battery shipping help!

    Why are you assuming the original battery is dead? If it were a lead acid type then it would be,. If if it were of more recent vintage it may very well not be dead. Just at a voltage level that the intelligence in the official battery charger is unwilling to work at. What you would need is a...
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    Help please

    Well done
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes it is reciprocal but now would need to be negotiated. It was automatic for EU member states. But once outside the club..
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    Friction Drive comes of age

    Interesting, what I was thinking was in terms of a rubber sleeve with its outside surface profiled with the reverse of the pattern of the tyre.These patterns replicate themselves a few times per circumference. When it engages with the tyre, the roller would slide until it locked to the pattern...