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    ARCC Moulton and the Process of Getting There (LONG)

    Thanks for the interesting post. My email application is still insisting that emails from Pedelecs are junk. It looks as though I will have to beat it into submission. It's a good while since I have been out on the Moulton. My fitness has suffered over the last couple of years so I am keen...
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    ARCC Moulton and the Process of Getting There (LONG)

    Hi John Welcome to the world of Internet forums. My overzealous mail application has been tossing notifications from this forum into my junk folder, hence my tardy response. There hasn't been much in the way of riding this year due to the winds up here. We seem to go through days when I...
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    ARCC Moulton and the Process of Getting There (LONG)

    I haven't been back here for ages so apologies for not responding to your post. I do have some good news though about 4G in Shetland. https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/arcc-moulton-and-the-process-of-getting-there-long.26238/ Hallelujah! The eHorizon has a Bosch motor, but you...
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    Death of the derailleur?

    On my favourite leg powered bike I have a Rohloff hub with a fully enclosed chain. The hub requires a yearly oil change. No need to even remove the wheel. The chain line is always straight so less chain and sprocket wear. The rear sprocket can be reversed. Try doing that with a cassette...
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    ARCC Moulton and the Process of Getting There (LONG)

    Vodafone ballsed it up again, by charging me for a service that I didn't want, despite it being free for 3 months. Even when I told them this they still wanted to charge me for it. It was only a quid, but that was not the point, so I used their 30 day agreement and opted out of the contract...
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    ARCC Moulton and the Process of Getting There (LONG)

    Sorry that it has been so long since the last update. Things have not been going well.. I have had a cough for ages. The first time that I can find it mentioned in one of my emails to a friend was back in September. Nevertheless, once the Moulton arrived I was busy riding it back and forth...
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    Scott, I think that you have finally taken a much better approach to answering the concerns in the forum. As Crockers said, this should have been done some time ago. IMHO you have damaged your brand and lost sales by not taking this approach earlier. Buyers just want to buy reliable ebikes...
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    Wow! You couldn't pay for this amount of publicity!
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    The K******** Agattu is £2,700, 20% of which is £540. That easily covers 2 lots of return shipping to the remote west coast of Scotland with money to spare. Or you could look at it as being £540 pure profit if you were confident in your product.
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    They are in business to make money. They do that by selling bikes. Vendors have a great deal of flexibility in how they deal with their sales in whatever field. If a customer is offering to pay more than you are asking for a product on the understanding that the product is picked up in case...
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    Is that an irony klaxon I hear in the distance!
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    Before you shell out the money ... I am a member of British Cycling, and through my membership I get 10% off Chain Reaction ourchases over £99. You can join for about £35 for the Ride membership. The saving will be small, but you will also get 3rd party insurance and free legal help if you are...
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    Insulting Message from 50 Cycles

    You are a VERY bad person!
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    Yes Perseus, but it has THAT motor! Further to my request to them that I pay full price for one if they were happy to uplift it if it failed within warranty, rather than me pay the discounted rate, my mailbox remains empty, suggesting that they have little faith in the motor. If you are...
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    Insulting Message from 50 Cycles

    It must be disconcerting for them opening a new store when the savvy public will be checking up on reputations of vendors, and where better to come than what must be the number 1 resource for UK pedelecers, this forum. I don't think I have ever said anything positive about them other than I...
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    Insulting Message from 50 Cycles

    I would refer you here: - http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/ongoing-reliability-of-kalkhoff-focus-impulse-2-motors.24290/page-17#post-353283
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    In a recent web chat with 50 Cycles I questioned the reliability of the Impulse 2 motor and received this reply “We have many happy Kalkhoff customers cursing around the country with no problems at all” I wonder if “cursing” was meant to be cruising, or perhaps he was right first time!
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    Ongoing reliability of Kalkhoff/Focus Impulse 2 motors

    I contacted 50 Cycles through their web chat over Xmas. I posed as someone else and asked for advice on which ebike I needed for a set of circumstances I described - weak rider, hilly terrain, absolute reliability needed as I lived in a remote part of Scotland. The salesman's first...
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    ARCC Moulton and the Process of Getting There (LONG)

    My other half has had 14 years of practice of humping an albeit non e-bike up and down the steps so is well used to it, but I keep pointing out to her that she needs to get as light a bike as possible. The ramp is a good idea, but for the steps being so steep and the chance of other neighbours...
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    ARCC Moulton and the Process of Getting There (LONG)

    This associate sounds very wise!