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Last year I bought a new Halo Combat II wheel and used it for about 150 miles before my winter layup. When I started using it again this spring there seemed to be a scraping noise. I thought the brakes were catching, may be the disc was bent; also I noticed that the wheel was not really...

Does anyone know if Greenbikekit has gone bust? I tried to look at their Web site but it appears to have gone. All I get is a link to Godaddy with this message: “NOTICE: This domain name expired on 03/15/2013 and is pending renewal or deletion.” What a shame, if they have closed, as...

Just received my order from GreenBikeKit today 10/09/12. I placed my order for 3 controllers, some thumb throttles and a few other bits & bobs, on the 5/09/12. I noticed that the item was at the local sorting office on Sunday, so it might have been here a day sooner, if not for the weekend...

Just found this video of the new Audi, I wonder if the bike will be releast. When it is it probable will cost the same as a car. It has a top speed of 50 miles per hour and can go as far as 44 miles on a single charge, weighs just 24 pounds...

affordable-15-ah-battery I know you will say it’s a lot easier to fit a BMS to the battery but I have had reliability problems in the past. May be it is possible, that some of the newer versions of BMS available now, mean that it could be worth a look again at a permanently attached BMS...

I've had some real problems uploading this video to Youtube. The upload stopped twice with an error after about an hour each time. So I re-edited the video removing just 1 second right at the end. And this time it upload, but it did take most of the day. Also had problems with my browser (Opera)...

Here is my latest build with the 36V 350W 255rpm 10 turn torque motor Mac rear hub and 9 FET IRFB4110 36-72V EB209 controller from Cell_man. The hub is in my old Claud Butler Pagan MTB frame with all new components:- • Marzocchi Bomber forks with lock out • Crane Creak S2 headset • 185mm...

I wonder if anyone saw the Channel4 documentary Concrete Circus on Monday night. I happened to switch to it just as there was mention of Danny Macaskill showing his bike skills. During the piece there was a brief interview with pioneer trials bike rider German/Swiss Hans Rey. I noticed in the...

Another ride, this is a 600ft accent in 1.25miles with some quite steep bits, the average is a 12% gradient but some bits are steeper than that. The picture is a screenshot of the GPS route with the elevation and speed profiles. The speed dropped to about 10mph on a steep bit but that was partly...

I managed another short ride on Tuesday morning before the rain arrived. I am really finding the BPM hub to be extremely good with hill climbs. Due to long term health issues I have not been able to ride un-assisted for some time. But the upgrade from the old Bafang 8Fun front hub to the BPM...

A nice bright sunny Sunday morning, it looked like the ideal time for an early (for me) ride on my Espresso with the BPM hub. It also seemed like an opportune occasion to try out another camera mounting position on the bike. So I managed to do a short ride this Sunday as part of my assessment of...

I just had enough energy the other day, to get out on the bike. Health problems have restricted my cycling activity recently. So I took the bike up the hill (in the car) to some quite lanes, only for a few minutes test ride, on my newly converted Dahon Espresso with the BPM rear hub. I thought...

Last year I built the 250W Bafang front hub, (Alien Ocean kit from a previous bike build) into a Dahon Espresso folding bike. I found that the hub at the front and battery at the back of the bike produced a reasonable balance. But on loose surfaces and steep hill climbs, the front wheel...

I just went for a quick ride on my Dahon Espresso, after a rebuild to test out the gears, brakes and new BPM hub. I only went a few hundred yards along the road, before coming back to readjust the brakes. Back at home, I put the bike on the work stand and made the adjustments. Out of the corner...

I have noticed an annoying tweets display appearing in the centre of the left hand of the Forum pages. Is there a way of switching it off, or moving it somewhere else? I now have to scroll the page a lot more to read the first part of threads that are under this tweets display. Chris

Can you still edit your own posts? I am not seeing the edit facility on my posts since the new format forum. Chris Well that is strange I can edit this but not ones in earlier threads!

There appear to be some of the first Bosch drive system to appear in the UK according to:- Electric bike magazine Built on the German Haibike I am not sure if they are actually on sale yet. Chris Just found this link with bikes available. HaiBike

Here are a couple of photos showing the amazing patchwork of repairs to some of the local roads. And these examples are not the worst cases, but it was an easy location to take the pictures. [ Just one of the reasons I am building my full suspension bike! These surfaces are a real PAIN...

I don't know if there is a standard width for these cycle gates? I find most of them around this area are just too narrow to get my bike handle bars past without dismounting and jiggling the bars side to side at an angle. In fact the type shown in my picture is so narrow that I can't...

In August 2008 I bought a 36V 250W Alien kit £400, which I fitted to my Claud Butler MTB. It worked OK, but it was difficult to get into the back of the car so I decided to look around for a 26” wheel folding bike. At the beginning of March 2010 I bought a new ‘dealer returned Dahon Espresso on...