Cycling UK Forum

I once dreamed of converting a old motorcycle frame into an electrically powered motorbike. Once I did the figures I realised I'd probably need to tow a small trailer with over a quarter of a tonne of car batteries behind it. Car lead acid batteries are designed for high but brief discharge rates. T...

It is a gamble to use a 48V battery. Even if it does work, it is probable that the controller will get hotter and burn out at some earlier point in time in the future time. Keep googling for a 36V. Using a higher capacity battery like a 15Ah or 18Ah shouldn't be a problem if it physically fits. On t...

would it be such a terrible thing if the law changed to allow battery electric assisted bicycles to go to 30mph but only when pedalled at say 50% contribution to allow the faster rats amongst us to really keep up with city traffic?

the cynic in me says that it' all part of government policy to gradually reduce the mobility of the common person by a multipronged attack on affordable travel. Walking is impractical as modern road design, traffic speed and lack of rural footpaths make it too dangerous. Cyclists are vilified. Bus a...

I was staying at a penpal's house helping them move long distance (I got a free rail ticket and B&B for my time) and I spotted a few maintenance issues on her bicycle. Fixed her gears but had to go out and buy a new inner tube (valve ripped...) The LBS I found charged me masses, about £6 I think...

The other week, the GF texted me "overtime saturday for painting in the new factory" I assumed she meant that she was doing overtime so I arranged to take my middle great nephew out for a spin..... Thing was she wasn't, she was only telling me that there was overtime on offer. We can all m...

To the OP. I'm not sure if you were expecting a mathematical formula answer. Surely the degree to which your FTP is suppressed depends on how hard you're training and for how long. My gut response to your figure is that it represents quite a degree of ( over) training requiring between 1 and 3 weeks...

Too many posts to read here but why do people believe that cyclists are perfect, I have as we have all seen them running red lights, jumping pavements to avoid lights, cycling on pavements SOD the pedestrians, running down the inside blind spots on lorries/busses Come on I have words (shouting matc...

I seem to think this comes under the "act of God" rules. As said already, as long as you weren't reckless, then its unfortunately just one of those things. I was overtaken by a 4x4 a few weeks ago, and he pulled in sooner than really needed (lightly populated dual carriageway) and a stone ...

me wonders... :roll: he already had an airhorn. apparently to warn vehicle drivers, but had he, given the testimony of eyewitness Mr H, become accustomed to using the horn to get pesky peds out of his way? I see both sides of the argument, if you make the effort to accelerate, you don't want to have...

Only approximately around 65,000ish members in 2019, so in some ways we're hardly a majority group.... My observation is that there is a breed of criminal thug who drives as if he owns the road (but avoids paying tax when he can), steals when there's no consequences, litters because he knows no one ...

For when he gets to a cliff, he takes the tyre off the wheel, then using the climbing rope he keeps in his backpack, grappling hook up the clifftop, and other end of rope tied to the wheel and he goes up using it like a winding drum

i've stood on top of a mountain, as still as one can in the prevailing wind (Scotland for ever yayyyy) My trusty Garmin GPS had me moving all over the place, that is to say one minute I'd be a mile away, the next, I'd be back in Fort William. And I'm sure I heard Putin laughing away in the distance ...

years ago when I was more mechanically inclined, I have cut threads longer/lower/shorter/nearer tuther end*delete as you feel :lol: I don't recall a single cut spoke snapping. My experience has been, that it's particular hubs that suffer excessive snaps. On investigation it turned out that not all h...

explains why the offers nowadays aren't anywhere nearly as great as they used to be....
Funnily enough, I was originally put onto chain reaction by a halfords staff after I looked at him askance after asking the price of a basic triple set.