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Brand new, boxed. Box opened but never used.

Fits any e-bike with a Fazua Ride 50 or Evation motor and battery.

"With the high-quality downtube Cover, your FAZUA eBike can be converted into a normal bike in seconds. The 0.5 kg light Cover can be inserted into the down tube in one move instead of the motor and battery unit. Decide for yourself whether you want to bike with support or extra storage space. The Cover reduces the overall weight of the bike by 2.8 kg."

https://www.upgradebikes.co.uk/Catalogu ... tube-Cover

I bought it for use on a Boardman HYB 8.9E, but have ended up always ridiing with the battery and motor installed. Would also be useful if transporting your bike on a roof rack, tow bar rack or rear rack, with the battery removed (recommended), so the cover protects the open gearbox and connections?

*SOLD* £45 + £5 RM Tracked 48 postage

1 x Nitto Lamp Holder 2, 26.0mm (and shimable obvs.), new, unused. No longer required. Can be used with a single clamp and a cut off piece of 22.2mm straight bar, to make 2 x lamp/computer/whatever holders.

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/lighting-sp ... r-2-260mm/

One very miniscule mark from storage on the 22.2mm front bar - easily positioned underneath - see photos

£25 + £4 RM Tracked postage *SOLD*

A few very minor marks from storage - see photos (comes with Brooks spanner and in Brooks box

*SOLD* £60 + £5 postage

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/saddles/bro ... dle-brown/

1 pair of lightly used Brooks leather handlebar grips 130mm long in honey - few light marks to the removable silver aluminium ends - which look a lot worse in the photos, than in real life

£20 + £4 postage

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/handlebar-t ... ard-honey/

Bonefishblues wrote: ↑30 Mar 2024, 3:48pm
Thanks. We're looking at a light (relatively) e bike for my wife for shortish (say up to 25-30 miles) rides. Would a 250Wh Battery be sufficient for a light rider over generally flat terrain? I'm keen to keep the bike as wieldy as possible as she will be moving away from a lightweight hybrid.

My Boardman HYB 8.9E weighs 15.5kg out of the box, according to the spec sheet. Its 250Wh battery easily does 36 miles on flat terrain - as the e-assist is not needed a lot of the time, due to the bike rolling along nicely on the flat. It's light enough to feel like a normal bike- and the Fazua motor is quiet and the assistance when required feels like a gentle tailwind. I bought a second battery, which doesn't weight that much in the scheme of e-bike things - if I ever wanted to go further.

Bonefishblues wrote: ↑29 Mar 2024, 3:50pm 23 pages and some hundreds of posts later is the answer yes? Asking for a cyclist

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11011 posts has a nice symmetry

Recently I added a 250w German 'panzer like' Cube Reaction Pro bike with a Bosch Gen 4 CX 85Nm motor and a 625W battery to the Deliquium stable. It's scarily powerful, in fact I've dialled down the power available. It will get me up the Llanberis Pass without a bead of perspiration being created.

So to my mind YES, 250w is plenty for steep hills.

My other e-bike has a 50Nm Fazua motor - and that too help me climb the Welsh hills, but requires somewhat more effort on my part - but still makes it easy

Being more of a techno Luddite navigator than I'd like. I do have a Sigma ROX 2 brand new surplus to requirements.

Could that be of any use to you? £45

https://sigmasport.com/product/rox-2-0/

Any colour preference?

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geomannie wrote: ↑9 Mar 2024, 5:38pm I posted this a few years ago about my Cateye Speedo stopping working temporarily while cycling past the Skelton Transmitting Station. You might find some of the replies about radio/magnetic interference interesting

viewtopic.php?p=1364596&hilit=Cateye#p1364596

Thanks geomannie

Thanks all

I did check the max speed and that was ok.

And if I remove the computer head unit and bring it upstairs to the kitchen or living room overnight - the mileage stays put everytime.

rareposter wrote: ↑9 Mar 2024, 3:52pm My guess is your great big oil-fired boiler (or some of the systems within it like a pump) are setting up magnetic fields and it's triggering the readout.

I've always suspected the relatively new (10 years) not so great big actually, Worcester Bosch boiler to be a ne'er do well sly and shifty sort, always trying its best to upset me it is, mainly in other less mysterious ways

I keep 3 bikes in a substantial stone built, strongly locked 'shed' that also houses my property's oil fired CH boiler and a washing machine. I'm sure the bikes appreciate the warmth and security.

One of the bikes has a Cateye Strada Slim wireless cycle computer. Some days/nights the odometer adds mileages to itself. Never subtracts. This will be anywhere between 1 mile to 20 miles - but mostly towards the smaller amounts. It doesn't happen every night.

Why?

Brand new never fitted, comes with original cloth bag and screw for bell or blanking. Bought for a project in 2020 that's fallen by the wayside

80mm length x 26mm clamp diameter. 110mm tall above minimum insertion mark. 22.2mm for 1" steerer tube.

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I wore them and the Tudor "longs" for a decade-ish from 1990. I liked them. Always worn with clip on braces. They got a bit saggy and heavy when wet and being a cotton/nylon mix took ages to dry out - but because they kept you warm, it wasn't an issue for me personally.

Then I started wearing just the "plusses" (new modern ones - but just the same as the older ones x 2 pairs), with long socks, again from around 2010 until 2019. That would have been during Autumn, Winter and Spring, cycling daily and averaging at least 800 miles per month in all weathers. I just liked them. I did buy a pair of Goretex over trousers - but hated them and the clammy legs and noise and general feeling over dressed discomfort. And preferred to ride with wet, slightly saggy, slightly heavier Tudors. Which wasn't really noticeable until I got off the bike, to be honest. The essential (for me) clip on braces made a huge positive difference in comfort and fit. I would imagine they'd feel noticeably Nora Batty saggy when wet without?

I had size Small.

Always wore with a pair of padded short liners - the type which came with some German "Gonso" Palermo ¾ length summer "plusses"

Personally, never had any issue with the quality and no problems with sewing etc - that would have been around 19,000 miles for the latest ones.

What size are you? Happy to post you a used pair of my Small to try out for a month or so?

Why do bicycles need more speed?

Motor traffic is dangerous enough driven at any speed without due attention, why add more danger with potentially faster bicycles? What's the point of travelling faster? It certainly cannot be safety can it?

The issue about e-assist helping to keep up on 'club runs' is just a personal me me me wanna be in a certain type of gang.

The very efficient bicycle (including limited e-assist) as transport AND enjoyment AND responsible citizenship, is difficult to undispute, isn't it?

WE all know the problem - and it ain't bicycles ridden at reasonable bicycle speeds

PH wrote: ↑9 Feb 2024, 5:38pm the whole point of the regulation is to keep E-bikes in the same classification, and following the same regulations, as pedal cycles.

Very important point