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I don't buy the safety argument. I can regularly do 35mph going down the hill my house is on without even pedalling so what difference will a 20mph limit make? That said I think the current legislation is remarkably sensible. There will always be folks that want to go faster whatever the cutoff limit is, but the current limit is already faster than most riders can sustain, entirely practical, and going significantly faster will eat into your battery range.

Having just finished fxing the same problem on my wife's cube, do try wrapping a tight bungie cord around the battery and frame to keep a solid positive contact there. If that stops your problem you then have to do some adjustment to the battery holder to fix it properly (torx driver needed).

It does indeed seem a 30mph class isn't going to happen. What would be nice, and perhaps more achievable, might be a 20mph class, hopefully not needing plates/ insurance/tax/mot but maybe needing a driving licence or some sort of proficiency test/training test as a price for the extra speed. That would seem to fit in with government 20mph policy, harmonise urban bike and car speeds, and still not go faster than can be achieved on a non powered bike. It seems also a sensible level as it would still allow a reasonable battery range and allow road cycling enthusiasts to generally keep up better with their younger/fitter/faster pals on road bikes.

Say rather that, at current technology levels, 500 Wh batteries are at a popular sweet spot for range/weight/cost. As battery capacities increase we'll soon be expecting 600, then 700 Wh at the same sort of price and weight as we have now. I think there will probably be less demand for smaller, lighter, cheaper batteries at 500 Wh capacity but who knows?

You did ask "Why would anyone want to continue pedelling, when they are pulling the brake?" , I just suggested one possible reason why you might want to do this. In fact I was doing just that last night, dabbing the brake while riding along to get rid of the annoying noise.

Wow, that's a serious bit of kit!

Bit of stuff in the disk brakes making an annoying noise and you want to get rid of it?

You'll want the bend to be similar but I'd say don't worry about the spokes being too long, you can expect to cut a bit off the end unless you're lucky enough to have an exact common size that is readily available. Do thread a nut on first before cutting the thread so that it cleans up the end when you remove it after cutting.

Thanks. Is that from the 'real' specs though or a vendors website? All the online sites I've looked at simplistically divide the max weight by number of bikes to give a maximum bike weight no matter which brand of rack I look at- and which is probably nonsense in most cases.

Thanks, I had been looking at the more expensive Thule carriers (and the Atera Strada which looks as if it might perhaps be better), but hadn't really considered these more budget 9403 ones. Given that this ebike lark is proving rather expensive already having just bought two bikes, and a dog trailer, and accessories, and a shed to put them in, and a concrete base for the shed, and a gate and path constructed to give access for the bikes and shed building materials, and I don't even have a towbar fitted yet - I don't mind saving a bit Looking at some reviews of this rack there are a few folks saying that it can move/flop around at speed when the road surface is uneven, is that unlucky/incompetent assemby/paranoia or just a limitation of the budget model? P.S. The cube bikes we have are barely over 20Kg each, even with the batteries which I would remove, so loading should be well within the limits of most of these racks I think, including the 9403.

That had occurred to me, but then there is no room for the dog, nor her 'chariot', nor any luggage. Actually, in emergency and after removing the front wheels, I did get *both* bikes inside the car but it was a bit of a struggle and they did get scratched in the process.

Why two magnets?

A bit of Mars oil rubbed sparingly into the underside of the saddle will start to soften it nicely and make it easier on the bum. A smear of the same rubbed on the top helps to stop it absorbing rain.

Indeed, and there is also a long and established canal working boat tradition where a bike is carried so that someone can cycle on ahead of the boat and ready the locks. 'Wheeling' I think they call it. AFAIK all canal tow paths are open to bicycle traffic, private wharfes excepted.

Just browsing around I see that on Alibaba there are 3rd party alternatives for the current 400 and 500 battery models starting to appear, such as here https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/36v-replace-Bosch-power-pack-500_60705126866.html?spm=a2700.7724857.main07.241.11c4cee2crHG2Z I'm very impressed with the range from the 500 batteries we both have so don't need one of these immediately. Hopefully someone else will have taken the risk of first purchase before we start touring in the spring and I get tempted