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Of course, I wouldn't post as such without the evidence, and as oriteroom has said above, I've posted it all before. However, it's hardly necessary when the evidence is so obvious, this year 86% of the HGV related deaths sufferd by the circa 20% female commuting cyclists. In one of the...

Neither a horn or e-bike will help, the problem is solely one of women riders entering or staying in the blind zone danger area on the left on trucks. When they stop doing that, the problem will be solved. The four-fifths male cyclist commuters are not doing that, so they are not getting...

I agree, I've only seen sideways expansion of other cells, including cylindrical, but never an 18650, hence my surprise at this one. .

And once again all we get is ranting about the vehicles, one idiot even wanting to ban everything except buses, disregarding the fact that buses are among the HGVs that have been involved in these deaths. Why does no-one comment on the obvious that I keep highlighting, that it's women* who are...

That is an odd expansion. The sort of thing that is inside is shown below and I wouldn't expect enough lengthwise expansion of any 18650 cell that would cause that. If faulty, they usually expand sideways:

I have only used SRAM chains for over a decade now Mike, and use a chain breaker both for extending the new standard length where necessary and adjusting length. I've never had one break, only wear. The only chain break I've had in more than two decades was the chain a Ridgeback bike came with...

Indicative of a sense of humour cwah! Stealing the lock but leaving the bike has it's funny side. .

That's 8 London commuting cyclist deaths this year, 7 with HGVs, and 6 of those female cyclists, a factor I am so often posting about. Women, who are just one fifth of the cycling commuters, simply seem to be ignoring the message and continue to cycle in the most dangerous positions relative to...

There have been different UM44 models having different batteries and I don't know which one you have. The current model is the UM44S as sold by Halfords. I have no personal experience of these, but a non-standard battery could be added to the carrier with suitable fastening or a bag, and then...

But I didn't say it wasn't. On that I said the following to Jonathan: "Don't worry too much about ahead since your peripheral vision will pick up on anything suddenly changing ahead while you are looking in the mirror." "Much of your cycling danger is from behind" So not no danger, and later...

And me, done it twice but never again. Easyouts are generally useless with small bolts due to snapping before the bolt thread releases. .

There's a lot of misunderstanding about mirrors for handlebar ends. The ones with smaller inserts are for the sort of horizontal handlebars we normally have, but there are mirrors with larger inserts that are made for drop handlebars which have a larger internal bore. For example using the...

These food concerns always remind me of a scientific trial of breakfast cereals in the USA quite few years ago. As well as a group of rats being fed a particular cereal, another group were only fed the cardboard boxes the cereal came in. They flourished better on the cardboard than the group...

Perhaps nervousness, they've got what works and might not like being first with a new untried system? Or it could be just too much choice of motors, crank units from Bosch, Yamaha, Panasonic plus others from China. Also geared and direct drive motors now from Europe and Japan as well as the...

I agree with every point you make on weight loss Rob, said as someone whose weight is exactly what it should be according to recommendations. The key to that is control of what I eat plus the regular but not extreme exercise that you and John recommend above. I've shown in the past that either...

Even online suppliers sometimes have some shops. For example, 50cycles have four strategically placed shops, so many can reach one of them without too long a trip in the event of something going wrong. .

The trouble is our roads are only suited to one majority group of vehicles, cars and vans whose drivers accordingly act as an elite. Milk floats, tractors, JCBs, dumper trucks and bicycles are all objects of hatred to that elite. They also get annoyed at buses travelling relatively slowly...

I think they mean orbital geared motor, in other words the common internally geared motor. There is a slim German kit motor that sits in the frame seat tube and drives the pedal shaft through a helical gear, but this isn't it since the motor cable enters the rear hub motor on the left hand side. .

Yes that's correct and in the case of the left lane being left turn only, I'm early enough into the right hand lane to avoid being blocked from entering it by other vehicles. If there's plenty of traffic around I use a very clearly outstretched r/h signal to change lanes, making it clear what...

The consumption is often expressed as Gross Power, the actual work output as Net Power. Motor efficiencies vary, but the net power at the wheel is generally about 75% of the gross. So that 620 watts example you quote will give a little over 400 watts of power onto the road. .