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Direct drive hubs can have regenerative braking quite easily even the very cheap hubs as I understand it but they don't enable it because of the risk of damage or explosion if you have a fully charged battery and leave your house and go straight down a hill putting more charge into the battery when ...

Acording to Cycling Weakly (pun intended) It weighs 14.5kg It has 20" wheels It has 7sp derrraileur gears Its a 2 point fold Its only available mail order from their site so the actual price is £307 Looking at the reviews quoted above i can't help thinking people have too high expectations for...

Most alu bikes in the world are produced by the Chinese Fuji-ta (Battle): https://www.fuji-ta.com/folding-bikes I wouldn't say most but they are the biggest bicycle manufacturer in the world by volume and an absolutely huge player. They have factories in China, Vietnam and Cambodia as well as somew...

I've got such a motor and it has a 250W legal mode, which has sustained power of about 250W and peak maybe 500-600W. Most ebikes have peak wattage around 400W or more even if sustained is 250W, a grey area if you ask me. Basically the bike is limited to about 16mph in the 250W mode but can get up t...

Phil Bailey, what type of bike for conversion only 9mm QR's are suitable, through axle are no good. Your weight and how steep a hill ? Fitting a rear hub wheel isn't often just a drop in solution, one has to also think about adding a torque arm to prevent motor hub spinning out of the D/O's, though...

Personally I'm not keen on that Woosh bike, seems to have some low grade components like a DNP freewheel. Something I would actively avoid. Can't help wondering if you are after light assistance if you wouldn't be better off with a Swytch kit. You can then choose the bike you want or use an existing...

I agree, better to be on the road. Possibly but then you are sucking down all those toxic fumes from vehicles. Some people are just morons they have no consideration for others and will quite happily block a path. Before this covid situation I would see the same in supermarkets where people would b...

Are you talking about a Bosch powerpack 400 battery or something else? In what way is your current charger too much?

When I click onto the shopping option on google I still get other companies before the halfords option using that search parameter. I would have expected the page to be full of pedals available at halfords and not see the other companies. When I do the search in my previous post I get the screen be...

Is hub drive illegal like stodd says? That's not on https://www.gov.uk/electric-bike-rules or other summaries I've seen. Indeed hub drives are most certainly not generally illegal. However the big direct drive hub kits (often rated 750 or 1000w) are (almost **) illegal, because they exceed the 250w...

Sometimes to know what products are available at Halfords you will have to go directly to the Halfords site, I doubt that surprises many people but just shows the power of companies like google. How about including site restriction in the search, eg: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:https://www....

Thx. Do you know what the steerer length is You'll need to measure the length of your headtube but if you are buying new forks the steerer tube would normally be overly long so you could cut to size. I don't think there is as much variation with fork blade length with road bikes as mountain bikes I...

Seems to be related to losses in the car related business and products, seems a bit too pro-active to me, couldn't they focus more on culling unprofitable lines and perhaps centre a bit more on the growing ebike market. Seems like ebikes could do with a bit more space in the stores. I get a bit fed ...

I bet W's make more money from their sales of high margin soft drinks than anything else. Possibly but I just go with the free soda water myself, very nice and refreshing often with a bit of lemon or lime added and ice cubes and completely free in Wetherspoons or I should say free if you are orderi...

I bet W's make more money from their sales of high margin soft drinks than anything else. Possibly but I just go with the free soda water myself, very nice and refreshing often with a bit of lemon or lime added and ice cubes and completely free in Wetherspoons or I should say free if you are orderi...