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    Pro Connect - Loose motor bolts after 500 miles.

    Not sure if anyone else has clocked this many miles yet but I had to tighten the three main bolts that attach the motor unit to the frame today. They had become very loose - the whole motor unit was rocking in the frame with about 3mm of play. Riding for prolonged periods like this would...
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    Pro Connect Lights

    The Pro Connect I took delivery of a month or so ago has halogen front and rear lights running directly off the main battery - i.e. no dynamo. The front light is a Bausch & Muller 6Volt 2.5Watt halogen bulb and the rear is a Bausch & Muller 6Volt 0.6Watt halogen. Am thinking of upgrading front...
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    Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000

    Have noticed a little confusion around the rights of the buyer (and the seller) in what is often termed a "mail order" transaction - including the purchase of bicycles in the UK. Consumers have significant rights for these transactions! :) (Before anyone asks "written confirmation" means ink...
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    The perfect innertube for hard to remove wheels?

    popped into my local bike shop yesterday afternoon, excellent shop The Green Machine in Horwich Lancashire :) , and had a very interesting conversation with the owner about the trials and tribulations of owning and commuting on a hub geared bike... he mentioned that halfords (about four years...
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    Anti-sieze Compound - a note to new all bike owners

    COLD WELDING! :eek: a note of caution to all new bike owners, erm, based on bitter experience. if you dont want to be stood in your garage two years from now having stripped you bike to seat post and frame, with the end of the seat post jammed in a vice while you swing on the frame... all...
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    Chain Tensioner?

    I was thinking about a way to enable the switching of rear hub gear sprockets without changing chain length - to support different terrains etc... Have been wondering about the possibility of fitting a chain tensioner to the hub gear set up on the kalkhoffs currently around. Assuming that it...