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- 22 Apr 2023, 6:16am
- Forum: Using the Forum - request help : report difficulties
- Topic: How do I delete my account?
- Replies: 91
- Views: 11858
Re: How do I delete my account?
Vorpal, please delete my account.
- 22 Apr 2023, 6:14am
- Forum: Using the Forum - request help : report difficulties
- Topic: How do I delete my account?
- Replies: 91
- Views: 11858
Re: How do I delete my account?
Carlton
I don't care what a good bloke Mick F is and how well he works for the forum, I find his posts extremely irritating and if I can't block him I want my account here cancelled.
I don't care what a good bloke Mick F is and how well he works for the forum, I find his posts extremely irritating and if I can't block him I want my account here cancelled.
- 21 Apr 2023, 10:58pm
- Forum: Using the Forum - request help : report difficulties
- Topic: How do I delete my account?
- Replies: 91
- Views: 11858
Re: How do I delete my account?
The forum software does not permit me to mark your fellow mod Mick F as a foe.
I find most of his posts extremely irritating.
Please delete my account.
I find most of his posts extremely irritating.
Please delete my account.
- 21 Apr 2023, 12:25am
- Forum: Using the Forum - request help : report difficulties
- Topic: How do I delete my account?
- Replies: 91
- Views: 11858
How do I delete my account?
As per heading above
- 10 Apr 2023, 7:10am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Which bike would you go for?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 732
- 10 Apr 2023, 7:06am
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Boardman urb 8.9
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2187
Re: Boardman urb 8.9
There is a smart phone app that hears the ping in the belt when the tension range is correct!scottg wrote: ↑25 Feb 2023, 9:20pm Gates belt drive tension gauge, if I understand the Forum rules correctly any bicycle part requiring
proprietary tools is a poor purchase.
The Krikit is easier to use than the belt tension gauge that was used when I worked on toothed belts
in the bad old days.
https://www.modernbike.com/product-2126 ... 3nEALw_wcB
- 8 Apr 2023, 12:54am
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: What is the reason for a low top tube?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3362
Re: What is the reason for a low top tube?
I don't think that any of the 531 variants are still readily available.
Anyway a wider tyre at lower pressure definitely reduces "road buzz"!
- 4 Apr 2023, 1:41am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Braverman: Rise of the Fascists
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 71341
Re: Braverman: Rise of the Fascists
Voter ID proposal - what a great way to make it more difficult for the "wrong people" to vote!
Meanwhile here DownUnda voting is compulsory and although proof of identity is required for a lot of things all that happens here is that at the polling station the person behind the desk asks for your name and asks you to confirm your address and crosses it off a paper list after asking whether you have already voted in "this election".
Failure to vote incurs a fine of about AUD $70.
Meanwhile here DownUnda voting is compulsory and although proof of identity is required for a lot of things all that happens here is that at the polling station the person behind the desk asks for your name and asks you to confirm your address and crosses it off a paper list after asking whether you have already voted in "this election".
Failure to vote incurs a fine of about AUD $70.
- 27 Mar 2023, 7:11am
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Call for a national cycling ban.
- Replies: 79
- Views: 6714
Re: Call for a national cycling ban.
When I was younger I used to participate in a tandem riding programme with vision impaired people.
- 24 Mar 2023, 3:47am
- Forum: On the road
- Topic: Clockwise or Anticlockwise?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3444
Re: Clockwise or Anticlockwise?
I agree that in jurisdictions where traffic moves on the left side of the road left turns are usually safer.
We have always allowed our dogs to select their own routes for their daily walk around the burbs. Our current greyhound seems to always turn left whenever possible. Afaik in Victoria Oz the race tracks run counter clockwise so perhaps it has been bred into greyhounds here.
We have always allowed our dogs to select their own routes for their daily walk around the burbs. Our current greyhound seems to always turn left whenever possible. Afaik in Victoria Oz the race tracks run counter clockwise so perhaps it has been bred into greyhounds here.
- 20 Mar 2023, 12:29am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Emergency Alert Test 23 April
- Replies: 411
- Views: 17888
Re: Emergency Alert Test 23 April
A similar system is in use in Australia to date having been used for bush fires and floods.
I suspect that if Britain was being attacked by nuclear missiles the gummint would propably not send out a general warning as it would not achieve much!
I suspect that if Britain was being attacked by nuclear missiles the gummint would propably not send out a general warning as it would not achieve much!
- 19 Mar 2023, 2:57am
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: Will electric bicycles kill off non-electric bicycles?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 4383
Re: Will electric bicycles kill off non-electric bicycles?
A word from Melbourne DownUnda
For my 80th birthday I bought myself a Merida Speeder 100 and had a Bafang mid motor installed. I have a large battery and pootling around at 20kmh mostly using level 1 assistance I can get at least 250 km range around the local bike paths and I can now keep up with my riding group on the hills.
Today we rode through Jells Park a well used local facility and it looked as if 90% of the recreational riders were on e-assist. There are still plenty of tour de path riders on their road bikes. Age group looked over 30 but a lot younger than 80. Riding home I got on the back of a group of four on e-assist 30 to 40 age range slightly over weight. I dropped back to my usual 20-22 kmh as they wound up to the street legal 25kmh. They were pedalling quite a low cadence but there wereno hand throttles in evidence. I don't believe that these blokes would be cycling without e-assist.
For my 80th birthday I bought myself a Merida Speeder 100 and had a Bafang mid motor installed. I have a large battery and pootling around at 20kmh mostly using level 1 assistance I can get at least 250 km range around the local bike paths and I can now keep up with my riding group on the hills.
Today we rode through Jells Park a well used local facility and it looked as if 90% of the recreational riders were on e-assist. There are still plenty of tour de path riders on their road bikes. Age group looked over 30 but a lot younger than 80. Riding home I got on the back of a group of four on e-assist 30 to 40 age range slightly over weight. I dropped back to my usual 20-22 kmh as they wound up to the street legal 25kmh. They were pedalling quite a low cadence but there wereno hand throttles in evidence. I don't believe that these blokes would be cycling without e-assist.
- 13 Mar 2023, 4:08am
- Forum: The Tea Shop
- Topic: Is the BBC impartial?
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3576
Re: Is the BBC impartial?
Four middle aged white men running the show - draw your own conclusions!
- 13 Mar 2023, 4:03am
- Forum: Electrically assisted pedal cycles
- Topic: Rear wheel puncture
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1215
Re: Rear wheel puncture
Another plus for a mid motor!Paul A wrote:20 Feb 2023, 12:16pm I've just been looking on YouTube for puncture repair videos on rear hub ebikes, It's my first ebike and I've never had a bike with a through-axel. The ones that I've seen involve flipping the bike over, unplugging the cable and removing the rear wheel.
My Bianchi Impulso e-road has a plastic cover over the cable plugs held on with tiny allen screws which are guaranteed to be lost in the grass or gravel at the side of the road so I was thinking do I really need to remove the wheel?
The bike hasn't got rim brakes or mudguards to get in the way and there seems to be plenty of space between the stays to get the tyre off the rim and the tube out to be patched insitu. The wheel would only need to come off if the tube was split or ripped beyond repair.
Or have I missed something blindingly obvious ?
- 12 Mar 2023, 8:50pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Will we ever see electric Rohloff shifting?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1461
Re: Will we ever see electric Rohloff shifting?
Possibly but I am perfectly happy with the twin cable manual system.
Works every time!
Works every time!