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Hi Geebee, Thank you so much for responding. It is lovely to feel that my carefully crafted words have been acknowledged. Sure. Yes. Coastal erosion is major news these days ... and also a cue to allow me to relate the following. I was becoming a bit rich and famous, (at the time back in the late 80's), and my patented Gravity Technology had earned me enough money to consider cash purchasing a quite extra-ordinary piece of real estate right here in West Dorset and right close to the sea. I mean within a stones throw of the sea ... like just 20 paces away! It wasn't a titchy, garden shed sized property, (or beach hut), of the type seen on more famous tourist beaches. It was a regular, full sized one bedroom wooden chalet affair that just about qualified being called an actual house. A house where I could have rigged up a beachcaster rod and actually cast out into the ocean ... from the front garden! Oh. And it wasn't in some suburban area either. Rather, it was a mile down the coast, on the grass looking out over the near deserted beach of Eype, the idyllic location that lies directly below the headland from where the photos in this thread come from. The price then? £20,000. But ... a lease only ... for the actual fabric of the wooden structure. In other words, I would be 'buying' just the structure .... and, as an agreement dictated, would be expected to pay £1000 per year to maintain, rent or secure ... the actual land or dirt or space it occupied! This was back in 1998 ... and though I had real cash right then to offer, I declined the purchase. I hadn't discovered or appreciated the landscape back then. Today? ... Well ... Maybe the reason I love the first place I went on my newly acquired eBike was because ... I now realise I might have actually OWNED a chunk of the most special, raw, wild part of West Dorset that I choose to walk, cycle or eBike to these days! Yeah. Just looking up the page at the numerics that radiate £20,000, makes me a bit jittery and regretful. Obviously, with hindsight, it would have been a fantastic deal but ... well ,,, OK. Sure. I don't live in that actual dwelling but ... from Beach cottage, thanks to my newly acquired eBike, it remains a destination only 10 minutes from home. You like the photo? Goodness. You should actually see the place in real life! And better still, appreciate the journey from 'The Beacon' at the cliffs highest point all the way back into town ... being able to coast downhill just about all the way. I have zillions of internet friends. (I have an army of real friends too) but ... I've related my adventured on the cliffs to online folk so many times, and shared the fact that I can 'roll' from the top of the beacon, (150m high), right back down to my quirky little town ... without hardly touching the pedals ... and I'm talking about a regular, normal bike, not an eBike. As I do that ... and allow gravity to bring me home, I always thing of eFriends working in offices in London or other friends toiling at whatever they do ... and I say to myself ... "If I could bottle this experience" or "If I could let others see and feel and experience that I feel" in viewing the spectacular landscape ... Well. I don't suppose I can ... But I can write about it ... I can share the experience ... Online ... A bit like now. Cheers Geebee. Thanks for contributing.

First, a reply to d8veh Hello. d8veh, A big thank you for kicking off my communication on Pedelecs. I'm a veteran of internet forums but it is always satisfying to make initial contact with the denizens of any new virtual watering hole. To address your first comment ... My location is Paradise ... and I guard and watch over my own personal West Dorset sanctuary with a passion you might not even comprehend! My best and closest friends know not to surprise me with unannounced visits to my home so the idea of strangers seeking me out is not one that will ever appeal or happen. That said, my town and my coast is probably one of the most intriguing locations anyone might care to visit so, sure, keep an eye on any of my future posts, (should I choose to stay here), and, just maybe I'll reveal the best off road routes to investigate and visit across the jewel that is West Dorset. Prehistoric Dorset. Ancient Dorset. Medieval Dorset, Smuggler's Dorset. Tourist Dorset. Obviously, the above comment means little to anyone outside pedelec range of West Dorset but this is an eBike forum so, for those in the South, I hope and anticipate that my local knowledge could or might be of some worth if presented here. Other thoughts Me? I'm more interested in living, experiencing and doing pedelec stuff rather than sitting on my butt pontificating about the technicalities of the pursuit. However, as someone who has read Pedelec threads for years, I wonder at some things. I mean, sure, folk post or respond to hundreds, (or thousands), of threads but ... what does that mean? Am I the only one to observe some irony in the above comment. I mean. where do persistent posters find the time to actually ride their machines? No matter. This is my first post so I guess such mysteries can wait. Just appreciate ... You might be a regular, frequent or prolific poster but that doesn't make you immune from my inquiring mind. I've already read lots of FANTASTIC threads here at Pedelecs ... but have also read a few shamefully DIRE threads knocking new members. No big deal. Every forum on the planet does it and it seems to be a right of passage that everyone is expected to go through. Just saying. I'm not a troll or someone seeking conflict. Rather. I'm new to our fabulous pursuit and keen to engage the Pedelec mind. Anyway. To me, the whole purpose and point of owning and utilising an eBike is to express, live and experience life ... juxtaposed, adjacent and just a bit left field of ... the ordinary. I went to the seaside today ... it cost me less than 2p. :-) When I did the same thing in my Lexus LS400 limousine, it cost me more than a taxi fare. :-( You can't comprehend how amazing I feel when I look at 'My Little Pony'. I call her a pony because my machine has, (apparently), the power of 2/3rd of one horsepower! I utterly. utterly love her! She has a name now ... but I'm not revealing that until I post a thread connected with eBike security, satellite GPS and artificial intelligence. Your second question? Or rather your request for more clues? I'll address that after I have responded to GeeBee's post. Thanks for your comments, d8veh. Appreciated. Beach

http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l572/On-The-Beach/Beaconx.jpg Photo courtesy of my new eBike. Taken Fri 17th. Beach cottage, marked in red, is 2 miles away. Hiya. Each morning, wherever we are on this spinning rock, nature delivers us a brand new sky and we have an opportunity, maybe even an obligation, to make the very best of such a gift. Sure. We may not always see the world that way but each of us have interests, passions or objectives to fulfill, even if that thing called life sometimes gets in our way or threatens to stall or halt our immediate plans or aspirations every now and again. Holding a dream or goal or some obscure desire to accomplish something, (aside from some hard wired instinct of nature), may be considered to be a unique human characteristic, though perhaps it is the raw, driving force in every living thing on Earth. Whatever it is, it is fantastic when such things are realised. --- I've recently taken delivery of an eBike ... to address and manifest some particular dreams of my own ... and can say that the experience, within the last 48 hrs, has profoundly exceeded and eclipsed all of my imagined expectations of actually owning and utilising such a machine. I don't intend to reveal the make or model of my particular electric steed this very moment but would, instead, like to invite you to guess what sort of machine I chose ... based on my specific, particular location and requirements. Here is the remit. a) I always intended to buy a secondhand machine. b) I didn't want to be liberated from having to exercise or exert myself. (Health wise, the concept of effortless, non physical, human input goes against my objectives). c) I needed a machine with good torque and hill climbing characteristics. (I live in West Dorset). d) I'm 6ft. BMI 26. That's a fit but still dead weight of 15 stone! e) I wanted spare parts to be attainable. (I planned to avoid generic, Chinese brands). f) Sealed lead batteries would be fine. g) My budget would be £300 max. --- Yesterday, the machine took me to the very location that inspired me to buy it. A wild, clifftop venue less than 2 miles from home ... but, at 157m, (and off road), one of the highest promontories along the whole South coast of England. Up extreme inclines, through rain sodden, muddy fields, within a few hours of the purchase, the machine had already rewarded me with incredible views of my Jurassic coastline. I realised the dream of owning such a bike and was rewarded with a 20 mile vision of Chesil beach arcing away to the East, a vision of the whole of Lyme bay to the South and a spectacular, complete picture of the whole of my own county spreading out beyond and behind me. Below, I noted the beach and rocks where I catch bass out of the surf and in the mid distance, just a couple of miles away, I was able to soak up the rugged beauty of my own local beach where I fish and metal detect regularly. I photographed the vision for posterity. (Above). The machine passed every test. It took me to my most favourite raw, off road cliff top location. ... and this evening, as an experiment, I rode from Beach cottage, (home), to the resort and harbour, (a mile from here), and back again, without barely pedaling at all... just to test the actual motor. In the spring and summer, I shall be setting the alarm for an hour before sunrise, zapping down the bay to catch a half dozen mackerel and returning home before most of the town has even awoke.