Cycling UK Forum

I had a look at the Go Outdoors site a few days ago, the range was very small and of that many were out of stock. Contrast that to pre-pandemic stock which must have been 3 or 4 times as many models with most in stock. Prices going up considerably too. I bought a couple of chainrings from Amazon for...

It is relatively easy to test for the assisted speed certainly far easier than working out the rated or nominal wattage. OK, tell me how you'd do it and bear in mind the amount of tech and the regular testing of it the police need to prove speeding by a car. They need "reasonable suspicion&quo...

Drove my mother (81) to her vaccine appointment this morning. All went well, she had the oxford vaccine.

The car park was swamped with cars leaving and turning up it was difficult for me to get out. They will certainly be vaccinating a few there today.

Personally I would confiscate the ebike of anyone riding an unrestricted ebike on the road, it's pretty easy for any policeman to test if a bike will ride beyond 15.5mph assisted they don't have to worry about the wattage and if it does I would simply take it. . Firstly, it isn't actually "eas...

It should be pointed out that many fully legal ebikes including with major brand motors like Bosch can have peak wattage of upto about 800W but they have nominal or rated output of 250W. The important thing is the 15.5mph/25km/h assisted speed limit. So when you go up a hill the wattage will peak mu...

A summary of the new legislation here in regards the bicycle industry; https://www.bicycleassociation.org.uk/news-press/post-brexit-regulations-product-safety-standards-ukca-mark-uk-eu-rules-of-origin/ It will be interesting to see how this all works out, obviously the EU previously benefitted from ...

For some reason in recent months Amazon have been selling the TY-300 rear derailleur for £4.20 well below its normal price. It would be perfectly fine for your application possibly. It comes with the derailleur hanger bracket built in that secures under the nut or quick release rather than fit direc...

EU puts a tariff of up to 80% on fully assembled ebikes from China so many have more local assembly either in mainland Europe or the UK which adds to costs. So maybe it will be one of the items that gets cheaper after January 1st depending on what tariffs the UK keeps. I did read that we may have a ...

It’s a shame a store is not closer to you as they really are excellent. I've been in a few Decathlon stores, the one at Southampton, Poole and a few other places. I always go into bike shops and have a look around. I wasn't super impressed with their component prices I'm spoilt by internet prices a...

Interesting that Decathlon now do a bike with a 170kg total load rating which puts them at the highest of any mainstream brand for total load. I was reading about this on another site and apparently it's something we're likely to see more of. It isn't necessarily the bikes that have changed but the...

Interesting that Decathlon now do a bike with a 170kg total load rating which puts them at the highest of any mainstream brand for total load. For years they had the lowest total rating for most of their adult bikes at 100kg often only allowing just over 80kg for the actual rider. In the last year o...

I started watching the video about promoting the game and almost thought about unsubscribing to the channel as slightly annoying. It's a delicate balance promoting your channel and trying to financially benefit from it without annoying viewers. I use a adblocker on youtube too on my PC and the andro...

As far as compatibility between 'makes of stuff' goes, it is pot luck really; some motors have sensors built in which must be compatible with the rest of the system, others don't. Battery packs can always be rebuilt with new cells, but there is nearly always a load of manufacturer specific circuitr...

testing costs. Unless you have something that you want to preserve then new is cheaper snip In the OP's case another option might be to get a pair of custom made steel forks. They would cost more than an off the shelf pair of carbon forks, but that would be my preference for a frame requiring a for...

When you look at the huge number of carbon fork recalls over the last 10 years or so I think a larger percentage were those that bonded an aluminium steerer with carbon fibre blades but not all. Carbon fibre forks will fatigue if there is a flaw in manufacturing, I guess a bit like steel in that it ...