Cycling UK Forum

Trigger wrote:I'm an MTB SPD everywhere type as well, sod this multiple pedals/shoes across different bikes malarkey.

Even my fairly middle of the road Shimano MTB shoes are stiff enough that I can't physically bend them, so aside from a slightly larger contact patch I've no idea what benefits dedicated road shoes/pedals bring apart from the bling and snob factor.

reohn2 wrote:

philg wrote:

reohn2 wrote: in the second instance by poverty such as we've seen in the UK in the past 40 years but which has intensified during the past ten years?

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/re ... s/sn07096/

Where did you get your figures from? (genuinely interested, this report does not agree with you AFAICS)

By the increase in homlessness?
The increase in the necessary food banks?
By decrease in NHS spending?
By the increase hostile environment toward those who've moved hear from far off land s to work and contribute?
By the utter lunacy of an austery plan that has never worked but for the more well off in UK society?
By arms dealing to rogue states that should stop?
By the changrs to benefit system that is an utter failure?
Etc,etc,etc.

hemo wrote:My last order beginning of March was about £205 I paid £24 duty/courier charge, payable before it leaves the UK depot. I received a text with the payment details but didn't see it up for a week, I used the text link paid the duty and it arrived within 18hrs.

With hubs it pay's to build your own wheel or find someone who can do it for you, you have to tell them it is a motored hub. A lot of LBS won't touch a motor hub build as in general most haven't a clue about ebikes and they really are just box sellers. Like Bsoch and the likes they just refer most issues back to Bosch for replacement the most dealers can do is plug a bike in for diagnosis or a software upgrade, hence the term they are box sellers.
For a motor hub build if you aren't able to, try contacting Woosh bikes first to see if they will do it for you. There is a gap in the diy market to supply hub a building service but starting one up won't be hard it is the business and whether it is profitable to make any head way.
I myself build all my wheel builds motored or not and am self taught, my truing stand is a wooden homebuilt one for my needs.

reohn2 wrote: in the second instance by poverty such as we've seen in the UK in the past 40 years but which has intensified during the past ten years?

Cunobelin wrote:

carpetcleaner wrote:Is it this retweet?

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ... itter-row/

I really could not make this up!

A 3-year-old local paper article as "evidence" that Shah is unfit for her appointment

(Yet you were dismissing these petitions and polls as invalid, worthless and "mob rule" just recently!!)


Lets look at the petition you quoted and compare it?

1.78 million signed this one[for sacking Cummings

Only 57,000 signed that for Shah

Let's just accept your 3-year-old link as a valid argument for Shah's being censured now, then how valid is a petition for Cummings to be sacked with 20 times the support and still growing!

Do you accept both as valid, or neither - in which case why post it?

whoof wrote:

philg wrote:Remounting can also pose a problem, recommend using the District Nurse method (as I believe it's called!)

Stand astride the crossbar; put your leading foot on the pedal oriented halfway between level and upright; push on the pedal and raise your lycra back and up onto the saddle.

District Nurses in lycra! A Freudian slip?

merseymouth wrote:Nhttps://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/people-nation-empire/make-yourself-at-home/the-black-and-white-minstrel-show Nothing new in this world? Hope this works??? MM

* My Tech skill ain't good! But try and check out the link

hemo wrote:I make my own kits using plug and play, all kits are China made so cut out the middle man and buy direct via China sellers.
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hjd10 wrote:What sort of range do you get from the FWD system? I'm looking at something for commuting, my commute is about 5 miles each way with a couple of short steep hills.
Regards,

reohn2 wrote:

philg wrote:

col2019 wrote:sorry to say but no matter how much you protest tear down statues etc history wont change

Makes it a bit easier to forget about it though?

Perhaps they could replace it with a statue to commemorate the inevitable extra casualties from the CV19 infections due to the tens of thousands of lockdown defiers?

Or even a plaque stating how late the government were at reacting to a known killer virus,whilst allowing it to be imported via air travel from known hotbeds of infection countries,then being late to call for a lockdown and too early to relax it going against scientific advise.
Or perhap making known that they buried the 2016 Cygnus report of the total lack of PPE in the country which lead to many NHS staff dipying of the virus!

col2019 wrote:sorry to say but no matter how much you protest tear down statues etc history wont change

mikeymo wrote:

Vorpal wrote:Any other discussion about the efficacy or not of helmets will be removed and placed in the helmet section.

Really? That's not what's happening, is it? The usual tiny number of forum members have, as expected, entered the discussion to promote their deeply held opinions about cycle helmet efficacy.