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I'd second that - Better Call Saul is quality stuff. Highly recommend to anyone who enjoyed Breaking Bad.

All I can say is, thank goodness for social media. The police may be happy to let this aggressive, dangerous bully off with a small fine and a slap on the wrist. Happily, though, the backlash on social media is going to cost him dearly. With any luck, he'll lose his business - a far more...

I do like your kits, John, but I'm afraid the budget is a bit too tight.

Have you got a link for that?

Looks like a decent kit. Just one problem, the bike's brakes are hydraulic - apparently the supplied cut off switches only work with cables. Is there a workaround for this?

My partner has become a fan of my e-bike and now wants her Specialized converted to electric. What's our best bet for a motor hub and controller that would suit this bike? The bike has Shimano discs on the back, plus an 8 cog cassette and these would need to fit onto the new hub. She wants to...

We can but hope...

I've been having the same thoughts. Tomorrow I'll have had my ebike four months and I'm a helluva lot fitter than I was back at the beginning of the summer. A non-powered bike will never replace my ebike for commuting - I'd have to be competition-fit for that - but like the OP said, for a jaunt...

Well, whilst derailleurs will require regular tinkering and adjustment they're relatively cheap and easy to fix when they do break. Hub gears,not so much.

Depends how carefully you ride. If you change gear under full load, that will tend to wear out the gear box. But it will also prevent the gear change happening until you ease off the power. In my experience, riders with gear hubs quickly learn to momentarily ease off the power as they change...

For my anyway, it's because it allows you to use the rear hub for your gears. If you go for hub drive, you're stuck with crappy derailleurs. I suppose you could put the motor hub on the front wheel instead, but that's not ideal. Ridden correctly, a crank drive has the potential to be more...

No, I don't think so. For any purpose other than all-out racing (and geeky people who actually love tinkering with their bikes for fun), derailleurs are indeed pretty crappy. Consider the situation with cars: what passes for acceptable in racing cars (e.g. straight cut non-synchro gears, no...

Looks excellent, Flecc! Wish I could buy something like that in the shops.

Indeed they are. But the OP asked about low maintenance bikes, not ultimate performance. It's true that derailleurs are slightly lighter in weight and allow slightly faster gear changes in some circumstances, so for the absolute highest performance, they do have the edge - I would never deny...

Excellent suggestion - I'll check out snowboarding helmets. Quite frankly, the helmet I bought from Halfords (£20) is a piece of junk. The sun visor bit snapped off within the first week of use and now the chin strap has broken. I might be able to fix it but I'm thinking of just binning it and...

Just take a look at the bikes people use in the Netherlands. Take your sporty derailleur gears and chuck them in the bin - they're fiddly, unreliable and totally unsuited to low-maintenance commuting. This will solve your chain issues too because the chain isn't being forced to jump around all...

Well, quite. I think a lot of people would be shocked at the scale of slave labour going in the Europe these days. I read recently that there are estimated to be more slaves working in the UK right now than there were at the height of the slave trade 200 years ago, most of them employed in food...

Given the amount of lighting on my bike now, no motorists could ever claim they hadn't seen me. I bought the Cree lamp of ebay we discussed further up the thread - OMG it's bright! This is in addition to my Hermanns dynohub-powered lamps and numerous reflectors (wheels, frame, armbands etc.)

I'm not concerned about that - they're not going to be made compulsory, and neither are helmets for that matter (although I do wear a helmet some of the time). No, what concerns me is the inevitable victim blaming whenever a cyclist is serious injured or killed by a motorist.

Hi Vis jackets are bright in car headlights but I'm not riding in a plastic sweat jacket.