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Giant don't publish weights any more. Their build quality is generally high and they won't compete in the "I'm the lightest" rivalry. .

Remember the old dictum that accompanies the work of all investment experts: "Past performance is no indicator of future performance". Everyone gets lucky at least once. :D ;) P.S. I accurately predicted the 1980 recession a full year before it happened, which earned me lots of money. But I...

The technical standards for pedelecs are specified in EN15194, and most e-bikes on the market are approved laboratory tested to meet the standards. In brief, EN 15194 requires a pedelec is capable of delivering 250 watts continuously without self damage, but does not set a maximum power limit...

I heard this from the Beeb a few days ago. Interesting, and consistent with a long held feeling in some of the Scottish Isles that they'd prefer to be part of Scandinavia. Their old gaelic has much in common and apparently the islands fishermen are able to converse with Norwegian fishermen...

No dispute, for that sort of subject I fully agree, and indeed for the great majority of photos that most people take, a good smartphone is well up to the job. But in many areas of natural world photography the range of adjustability of even a good compact pocket camera copes with circumstances...

Though true, why is it that I am so often called upon to rescue smartphone camera photos, using Adobe Photoshop and other softwares? It's not always the incompetence of the user. An associate in my local environmental issues often produces excellent smartphone photos of certain subjects, but...

Cold is better for minimal capacity loss in storage, but that's only measurable in long term storage at near zero degrees C. At normal ambient temperatures indoors or outdoors in the UK, it makes little difference. This chart from the battery university site shows you how little the difference...

Like the time I stopped to help three lycras, one of their bikes with a flat. It turned out that they had the kit with them and had already mended the puncture. But none of them had a pump! :D So I changed my connector to presta and pumped the tyre for them. Didn't get a thank you, they...

He was a passing jogger, no bike. .

I have the same problem and experience. I have no mobile reception in my home on any network, despite being in a London Borough. I'm retired and home quite a lot, so there's no point in others having a number for me that cannot connect, so no point in my having a smartphone for...

The propaganda says the genders are equal in performance, but the truth is very different as your example shows. It's the same with car punctures, breakdown etc, a man more often than not coming to the rescue. Hopefully that will eventually change, but we're a long way from it yet. .

Thanks Zlatan, accurate and much appreciated. .

I have and have never had any vested interest in this pedelecs website. I'm sure administrators Russell Scott or Helen will be happy to confirm that is the case. In late 2006 after Russell, a pedelec commuter on an Ezee Torq, had just started this site, he invited me to join as a member. I...

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Thanks for the reply Norrie. That is the early all-Giant SLA model as you'll see on this history page from my Lafree website. I'm afraid I can't help with any specific information on that model. my knowledge being on the later Panasonic powered bikes. In general the fault you describe is...

Mmmmm. Well you're in luck, plenty of new freezers on offer in the sales at the moment. ;) .

But they didn't just have sensible mudguards back then, they also rode at sensible speeds so their brakes were fine. Unlike today's Bradley Wiggins wannabees who race around needing hydraulic disc brakes. .

But how much current would it deliver then? .

I've understood you to already have a terrible impression of cyclists, posting as you've done that we must be mad to cycle in traffic. So it appears Admin are being consistent in aligning with what constitutes madness in your warped opinion. In fact I'm rather proud of this thread that I...

The curse of modern bikes. As far back as the 19th century bicycle makers knew how to make sensible front mudguards and they persisted though to the 1920s and '30s, like the 1920s example below. But now the idiocy of fashion and penny pinching on materials has left us almost without sensible...