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Do you remember what the old primary drive chains looked like when you opened the primary drive case to work on the clutch of old BSA and no doubt other old brit motorbikes from the 1950s? I had a few of them back at the end of the sixties and early seventies, and the chains ran in an oil bath...

You can get these on ebay.

That GoCycle drive train looks nicely made. The enclosed chain appeals to me. Clean and dry and always lubricated. Great in the winter in comparison to a chain out in the wet, dirt and road salt. My old CG125 (year2000) probably has its original drive chain at 17000 miles. Totally enclosed...

Yes! I have that problem on my BBS01. I don't look forward to arguing it out with some keen young Gestapo officer at the side of the road. The motor engraving says 'Mm340.250' and some letters - most unhelpful. I have affixed an after market Bafang sticker to the frame which carries the...

Having got accustomed to riding the wee Argos electric folder about this hilly area, with its puny 36v 8 amp controller, the BBS01 WITH 36V X 15 amps seemed like it was supercharged on the hills. I could set the BBS01 controller to 20 amps, but i don't need it, and 15 amps is kinder to the...

I've seen that home made crank drive on his Youtube channel. It looked interesting and was well put together, except i think the pedal cranks did not have a freewheel clutch and continuously rotated when the motor was running. Like a fixie, or a penny farthing, they might end up smacking you in...

Can you say what it is you dislike so much about crank motors apart from the obvious wear on the chain and sprockets which goes on? I have followed many of your posts denouncing crank motors, but for some reason, I can't recall what it is that you hate so much about the idea of them. I do...

I think he might have got that from that 1960s children's TV programme which went by the name 'Daktari'. It was stuffed with what would now be called racist stereotypes and always had rather servile African employees on some sort of safari camp, bowing to white men in shorts and calling the...

Well I've never ridden a front hub motor, but I can see a lot of reasons why it might not be the first choice of configuration. I think there is mileage on the old adage on this stuff - 'Horses for courses'. I think it probably refers to the way some horses go better on certain types of...

Arguing with you is entirely pointless. I have known this for a long time, and this argument, like the others is a total waste of time. You assert as fact ideas you wish were true when they are not, and define concepts in your own mad way in absolute contradiction of what they mean and are...

:) Those cats are a lot smaller than the one which I saw in the video which ran up the tree when they drove up in an open sided vehicle. It was about twenty feet away from them, and there were maybe five of them. The still shot is the same cat that just suddenly ran up into the tree. I can't...

This post is so stupid that I have to react to it. 1. Democracy is NOT just a system of law. It is a system in which the people - all of them - have their interests and opinions considered by people who REPRESENT them in making the laws. You can't just suddenly re-define terms that have been...

You just inspired me to take my crank motor bike out for a ride. I have not used it in a while, and it needs a bit of use. In fact it will be getting used next week since my French niece, who has spent the last fortnight gallivanting about Botswana on a Safari holiday will be coming to stay...

What an excellent outcome for the OPs problem. Big smiles all round I should think.

The great weakness of this approach of using AI to test what people think is that to some extent, all the AI models have what are called guard rails so they have been pre-programmed to steer away from certain kinds of discussion which were deemed, 'harmful' by their creators. So they will all...

You missed my comment above about being done with this - However your recipe for democracy would leave us with disenfranchised women and non property owners, a slave trade, capital punishment and persecution of homosexual men. Law must remain the same as it was ...... I REALLY am done with...

An interesting way of using AI to carry out focus group analysis. I was watching a video yesterday when someone suggested that the days of expensive focus group, opinion analysis might be over. Typically, political parties spend a lot of money trying to work out how ordinary people react to...

Do you not see the contradiction in this statement? For me - the core idea of democracy is that it represents THE PEOPLE not that it preserves laws made once upon a time when the circumstances and will of the people and politicians were different. I accept the results of elections and offer...

I enjoyed this video.

He isn't 'my guy Cummings'. I introduced the discussion of his views by saying he was a bit of a weirdo, but that he has something to say about the way the country is actually run (the machine behind the facade of our 'democracy') which is worth thinking about. To my mind - in a country where...