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  1. RetiredAndRolling

    Advice about an E-Bike

    For navigation clamp a mobile phone to your handlebars and run app Komoot. It will plan your route and guide you with a map and voice. It works well and is very good at keeping you on bike paths and off busy roads whenever possible.
  2. RetiredAndRolling

    Strange brake behaviour - your advice please

    SOLVED - A visit to my local bike shop to acquire the tiniest of o-rings has sorted the problem. It will be interesting to see if a properly sealed reservoir will prevent sponginess when the bike is tipped in future. Thanks for all the advice and encouragement. Much appreciated. Thinking back...
  3. RetiredAndRolling

    Strange brake behaviour - your advice please

    I didn’t touch the bleed bolt/ screw as I was burping, not bleeding. Even when i ensure the bleed bolt was snug, it already was, it oozed mineral oil. The bike suppliers say there should be an o-ring.
  4. RetiredAndRolling

    Strange brake behaviour - your advice please

    UPDATE - oil leak found Thanks for all this advice. I was ready to do the bleed as described above but first tried burping as suggested by Woosh. To my surprise, the reservoir on the offending brake was low on oil, even though a bike shop topped it up on holiday. Burping produced bubbles and...
  5. RetiredAndRolling

    Strange brake behaviour - your advice please

    Alas, the fitted Tektro Auriga Comp brakes do not firm up the brake when pumped repeatedly with the brake lever. i also tried pumping with front wheel raised then rear wheel but this made no difference. I then topped up with hydraulic oil the unhappy brake (right brake, front wheel). It worked...
  6. RetiredAndRolling

    Strange brake behaviour - your advice please

    Thank you Woosh, Nealh and saneagle. All very reassuring and I will get burping. Much appreciated!
  7. RetiredAndRolling

    Strange brake behaviour - your advice please

    My Riese and Muller Tinker has developed a strange brake behaviour recently. Any ideas of why and how to cure it please? The bike is stored horizontally on a boat To get it on land it is tilted tail up at around 60° and passed through a hatch. This worked fine for years. Last year, one of the...
  8. RetiredAndRolling

    Belt drive hybrid?

    I have owned and enjoyed a belt drive bike for more than four years. It's great. As for downsides I've experienced none but am aware of the extra work when it comes to, as you note, removing the wheel for puncture repair. You remind me to purchase a special sort of inner tube that has a break...
  9. RetiredAndRolling

    Belt drive - your experience of it?

    As above, I’m delighted with the belt drive on my R&M Tinker. The bike gets transported to many places and with a belt there is no mess. It has been flawless since I obtained the bike and I have made no adjustments. Gates have a phone app for their belt. You twang the belt while holding the...
  10. RetiredAndRolling

    Grant Shapps wants a speed limit for cyclists

    Goodness, there's a torrent of wrath against cyclists in the reader responses in online newspapers. It is quite shocking. No doubt our politicians will read it and think cycling restrictions will be a vote winner. I'd like to believe that these daft proposals will get nowhere but I am nervous...
  11. RetiredAndRolling

    Where Do You Live V2.0

    RG24, thank you
  12. RetiredAndRolling

    Torn between these two brands...

    i‘m very happy with my R&M with vario drive. I find the vario very practical and a joy to use.
  13. RetiredAndRolling

    Why car drivers DO NOT see cyclists

    Research reported on the Naked Scientists podcast, one of my favourites, showed that motorists do see approaching bikes or motorbikes but then instantly forget this when they subsequently turn their heads to look the other way. To avoid this, drivers are encouraged to say aloud “bike” or...
  14. RetiredAndRolling

    Private E Scooters to be Legalised

    I agree with all of this except for giving up on working towards a U.K. culture where all transport can work in harmony. A bit of initiative from government to kickstart such a change would be a very good thing. We have a long way to go so let’s start now.
  15. RetiredAndRolling

    Riese Muller Tinker

    Hi. I adore my Tinker. It ticks all the boxes and the belt drive is so clean and convenient. It has taken me up very steep hills too. I‘m around 18 stone and tall and yet I’ve managed 45 mile rides and still had around 25% battery capacity left. I use either racktime panniers or a racktime box...
  16. RetiredAndRolling

    Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

    My second Pfizer vaccination triggered shingles and De Puytrens syndrome. Shingles was identified and treated rapidly so was over and done with fairly quickly. The Depuytrens bump has stabilised and I hardly notice it now. My COVID booster vaccination had no side effects and when I eventually...
  17. RetiredAndRolling

    Private E Scooters to be Legalised

    Plenty of comments here suggesting that electric scooters are not safe. Meanwhile I’m just back from a few days in Seville in Spain. What a revelation. Cars, pedestrians, e-bikes, bikes, scooters, dual rider scooters, electric Lambretta-style scooters, Segways and horse-drawn carriages all going...
  18. RetiredAndRolling

    3D printer recommendations?

    The soft plastic you mentioned is usually referred to as TPU. It comes in a range of stiffness. This stuff is best printed on a 3D printer where the extruder motor that conveys the filament is sitting right above the extruder nozzle. The extruder pulls the soft filament. This style of extruder...
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    3D printer recommendations?

    Prusa Mini is a good printer. I’ve designed a few things for it and printed very many models from free libraries. Just today I printed three things. Often the simplest models can be the most useful. Once you get a printer you will probably find many uses for it. I did. Design software: FreeCAD...
  20. RetiredAndRolling

    Charging an ebike from a leisure battery?

    Hi. If you do go for a larger solar panel may I offer some advice? For use on a boat I purchased a weather-proof 120W folding panel. It worked well and did not take up too much room. However the moment it arrived I was surprised how heavy it was. Rigid panels, which are considered to last much...