Thanks. I bought a Yakima Frontloader in the end. I'll get to try it out on Monday when we pick up the bike. The Yakima's good reviews were justified. Loading and unloading were easy. 1000153576.jpg Statistics: Posted by colyer — 6 May 2024, 11:26pm ..read more

Ah...I'm glad it proved straightforward for you.....particularly as my advice was based on an earlier version of Aksiums with a fts-l freehub !! Oops. But glad yours simple too. Maybe that's why yours doesn't sound much quieter with the semi-fluid whereas ours is. Statistics: Posted by hoogerbooger — 6 May 2024, 11:02pm ..read more

It's good to see that this topic is still going. I was cycling through the village of Throwley, in Kent yesterday and saw this post box. It's built into the wall of the house next to the church. Here's another smart Kent box for you. It's built into the Queen's Arms pub wall at Cowden Pound. Made by Wm Allen & Co Statistics: Posted by MikeF — 6 May 2024, 10:22pm ..read more

Being a steel frame, I could have a professional frame builder turn this old MTB into a proper tourer by brazing front loader fixtures, 3rd bottle cage holder on downtube and kickstand plate on it (for less than 100€). I did a (poor) repaint job myself after that. Most of the original parts have been changed (once) over the 30+ year period because of breakage or wear (I wore the back Mavic rim all the way to the point of opening it like a tin can with the brake pad). The only one piece that I changed by choice is the handlebar. The rear rack is the original stainless steel wire model purchase ..read more

Yes, but a lot of even the new installs are slow. BP h recently installed a charger in a coop car park near here. You'd have thought it would have been a modern rapid charger, but no, it's just 50kwh.. Why aren't they installing 350kwh rapid chargers. A 50kWh charger may be one capable of supplying 50kWh of energy over an indefinite period of time... you know the rest, I imagine? Pedantry is a bore and we all understand what you're trying to say but if the wrong units are used in calculating things it leads to confusions, the extreme being of Mars Climate Orbiter proportions. The practical ..read more

Refit the tyres, take some photos and send it back, it will never be right. A couple of years ago I had a Genesis col de Fer frameset and one lug holding the front wheel was welded skew. I tried to live with it for 500 miles but it was wrong and in the end it went back. ^^^^^^^^ Statistics: Posted by Cyclothesist — 6 May 2024, 9:35pm ..read more

.....ps what is a scintilla motor, please? Scintilla AG is a Swiss company which (amongst other things) makes motors for Bosch. This is why the plate on a lot of Bosch power tools reads 'scintilla'. At one time I think scintilla even made SA 3s hubs under licence. Bosch took a majority shareholding in Scintilla in 1935. And kept it secret until 1954. The history of the two companies: https://www.bosch.com/stories/bosch-his ... itzerland/ Jonathan Statistics: Posted by Jdsk — 6 May 2024, 9:15pm ..read more

Many thanks everybody, all very helpful. 2nd hard would be a difficult (but not impossible) route as I believe ICE has an unusual offset alignment so custom wheel build (getting specs from ICE). Plus they use a customised twist changer for their bar arrangement. Similarly I have no idea how easy it would be to add a pinion to the boom. Maybe a custom boom ... Nice thing about buying new from ICE is it will all fit and work without hassle (so I lose no cycling time). Sounds like noise is not an issue. It was mainly raised by somebody (very experienced with ICE recumbents) who was somewhat n ..read more

Refit the tyres, take some photos and send it back, it will never be right. A couple of years ago I had a Genesis col de Fer frameset and one lug holding the front wheel was welded skew. I tried to live with it for 500 miles but it was wrong and in the end it went back. Statistics: Posted by AndyB1 — 6 May 2024, 9:07pm ..read more

I can imagine how shoving a thin tyre under a larger tyre might work as a puncture protection layer. If I were trying it I might consider cutting off the bead of the older tyre so that it fits better. But surely it is going to ruin the ride quality of nice tyres to double up layers in this way. Millar would have been accepting it as resistance training, riding a terrible draggy bike so that the bike used on race days would feel fast in comparison. Isn't this product https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/inner-tubes ... rotection/ doing the same job as that extra tyre layer, in a neater way? It,s a bi ..read more