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JC is a journalist / entertainer. He says things for fun most of the time and has always had a brilliant way with words - sort of sarcastic mass exaggeration and big tongue in cheek rolled into one. I think he is brilliant and should not always be taken seriously. We all pay for everything it's just the labels they use to collect the tax in first place.

Big problem is the Police and authorities are so obsessed with speed that bad driving goes unchecked. You can drive like a complete Tw*t but as long as you go through the speed camera at 29mph you are fine Back when I was younger there were police cars sat in places here and there and driving around and pulling people over for bad driving. Now traffic police are virtually gone. Bring back traffic cops and scrap cameras! No respect for other people. I ride a motorbike and car /van drivers treat you like crap and almost try and pull out in front of you it seems - jealousy because of your ability to overtake and filter through traffic jams easily.

A Ural now theres a strange choice of bike, not many about now.

Yes currently riding a CB900 with a few modifications on the look out for a Supermoto - KTM 690 SM?

That's a motorbike rider I remember riding through a bad winter in about 1984/5 with Black bin liners over my feet/boots etc to stop me getting so wet on my Suzuki GP100 on the way to my girlfriends

Yes when it's such a massive price difference as that youre right. We get it over maybe 5% or 10% maximum difference sometimes. The smaller companies have lower overheads. Big stores open all hours with massive multi-million pound TV advert campaigns cost a lot of money and that has to come from the difference between the cost and sale prices. I know the things we do are a lot cheaper than the big stores sometimes half the cost - our competition on price like for like is from other small independents - I am not sure the general public realise that

Sorry Blackpanther but this is my pet hate I am a retailer and we get people in asking lot's of questions/advice/technical help and ideas - some people can come in for hours at a time 4 or 5 times borrowing samples then it all comes down to price and they shop around and buy at the cheapest price elsewhere. We are not expensive - but not the cheapest. Our shop costs about £400 a day just to be open and samples cost us around £10,000 each year. It does get frustrating from our point of view. I know you can't always get the sale and most people appreciate service and experience over saving a few quid- and Halfords are not exactly a small business so maybe my moan is not appropriate Maybe if they had not charged so much more than necessary they would have got your business anyway?

Wow that Moulton bike is awesome - love the design of it.

Specialized MTB, Trek MTB, Cube, BeOne just get a front suspension only not rear. Then get a front hub motor kit from Alien, Sunlova etc etc etc You can have a nice bike with electrics for less that £2000

Get a motorbike or scooter. That way you get a bit of the freedom feeling and don't get too stuck in traffic. Cycling that far over a proportion of uneven terrain is going to make your working day long, hard and sweaty. I have been cycling to work - just 3 and a half miles each way (don't laugh you hardened cyclists ) and that is a faff sometimes and I have to get changed as I am sweaty (I try and ride hard where possible to get fitter) Imagine the time taken to ride and then get changed for work - do your hair, lock up bike etc etc you are looking at adding 3hrs plus to your day.

Thanks for that

Hi I have a e-bike kit. It has a 36V 9Ah battery (Li-ion) and a controller and motor etc. If I bought a 36V 15Ah Li-Po4 battery is my controller (in theory) going to be compatible ? Is it a voltage thing with controllers? As in you can have a 20 Ah battery as long as it's still 36V it will work or is that too simple? I do understand the difference to me is that a 15 Ah battery will last 50% longer than a 10 Ah battery. Thanks in advance.

That's probably it then maybe? You have just been maxing it out. I could use mine a lot more and if I did so my mileage would come down. I don't have lights running from my battery either. Your motor is a 350w I assume not a 250w.

I would say that seems low surely unless you have been using that battery power a lot - like all of the time? I have a 36V 9Ah battery with an 8Fun hub motor on my self build e-bike and I have been getting 25 miles and still had juice left, I reckon had a third left. Been charging the battery then even though the motor is still pulling along at 11 mph on flat level roads without pedalling. I have been using the motor for help on hills and extra help pulling away from junctions and roundabouts to make it safer. Plus on the flat just for fun when I don't want to pedal. I haven't been using mine long as I only just converted my bike but so far so good.

Good link to lights there Tillson When you say ages is it a couple of weeks ages or longer than that?