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A second hand Wisper came up locally but she preferred the crank drive on the Giant. John

1.95" tyres are very skinny these days and 60 psi is huge, my 29er runs 2.4s at around 25-30psi maximum - I will admit I wouldn't last long on sub 2in tyres at 60 psi. When I'm talking about bigger tyres, plus sized tyres (26+/27.5+/29+) are around 2.8 to 3.2 wide and the fat bike tyres start...

I'm not sure about range, we've been going out 20-30 miles and I think it would be nice to get a bit more range I think my Mum is ok with that range as otherwise the ride gets too long.

Personally for rough surfaces I prefer a rigid fork with a wider, softer tyre as I find it far more comfortable than a suspension fork even though my two suspension bikes both have high end air forks on them. Suspension however works better with large movements so great for drops or somewhere...

Yeah, she's a medium unfortunately so all the bargains I've found are in large sizes. Is a Bosch system a better choice than a Yamaha one? The Bosch Felt is reduced to £1800 which isn't much less than the Giant Yamaha although I don't know if it is a better deal than it looks to get the Bosch...

As with everything in mountain biking, there's tradeoffs for everything. I bought a rigid bike for winter use simply for the reduced maintenance but also like the feel as well, the front of the bike lifts easier, I feel more in control and there's nothing lost when you pedal hard. Where I find...

That in a nutshell is why you need port forwarding. NAT (Network Address Translation) is a feature on your router that allows multiple devices in your house to use the one IP address externally - the router cleverly manages all the outgoing requests so that each device that sends a request out...

My Mum has had an ebike for a month as part of a local system to encourage cycling and it has to go back tomorrow but she's giving serious thought to purchasing one in the Spring as she's had a lot of use out of this one. The hire bike is I think a 2015 version of this one...

It's a horrible motorsport moment when Colin McRae almost got Skoda their first WRC win in the Fabia but the team decided to make a cautionary gearbox change, mucked it up and McRae couldn't rejoin the race. I think Skoda are still running Fabias but in the lower categories at the moment. VW...

I think this is a good indicator of what high speed actually looks like: I enjoy motorsports and driving at high speeds but not on public roads, I've only been up to around 120mph on the track but what's quite scary about it is how quickly everything happens (you're onto corners far quicker...

Dashware was bought by GoPro and is now free: http://www.dashware.net/ It's a powerful piece of software but I found it finicky to use and I'm a fairly technical person, Virb Edit is pretty easy to use and also free: http://www.garmin.com/en-GB/shop/downloads/virb-edit Although it's Garmin's...

Agreed, my Mum has been renting an e-bike so I've been going out with her on my road bike which is good for both of us as she enjoys it and I get a much better work out than I expected. 15mph doesn't sound that fast but the fact it can mostly do that into headwinds, up hills etc. and it's...

On average what sort of usable life do people find they get from the batteries before they need replaced or is that very much a how long is a piece of string question? My Mum has seen a Wisper 906 Alpino bike for sale locally second hand and the general running gear on the bike looks good...