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Little bit of sundownage for the hell of it.

You have a good day now friend. I'm off out for a ride on my 4000 miles in Bosch powered ebike. (y)

You sound like fun.

Mate, you're coming on like a barrack room lawyer. You break your motor, warranty it or send it off to a repairer. Those are your options.

Bearing man made the point in an EMBN video that mountain bikes make up about 10% of ebike sales. The vast majority of bikes are commuter, cargo types & never get anywhere near the beating MTB's receive & thus manufacturers are building motors to a specification that is entirely logical for the...

Most barristers are rational & would tell you class actions are an American thing & here it's called group litigation. not much used outside of competition law breaches & life's too short.

No one rational.

Riding buddy on his posh new gearbox whip, chatting up a lady last night.

There's footage from last year of Ric wandering around the pits looking very uninterested & disengaged. TBH, I think his jam is Enduro, he looked happiest a few years back when he was doing that exclusively, used to ride stages for previews etc. DH just doesn't seem to hit for him, certainly...

I've given up on watching it live. Between the subs, commentators & pointless semi finals, they've killed it for me.

Tangential, couple of my mates have just bought Zerode Katipos. Couple of rides in, one's loving it, the other not so much, says the drag is noticeable & the weight a slight hindrance.

It does look like they've stuck some bars off a Honda super Cub onto a Haibike., kind of like an ebike equivalent of the car Homer Simpson designed.

And the race is on to work out which generic ebike has had Macca stickers & a huge price tag slapped on it! Edit: I know they're not (!)

Your average LBS is going to be a family owned affair, not much in the way of scale & consequently going to need to appeal to a wide range of customers & you'll do that by selling a comparatively small range of middle of the road stuff & maybe a servicing/repair offer along with helmets, tubes...

More than likely it's the foam washers depositing oil & will fade as they dry out, assuming you have serviced it correctly & soaked the washers before installing. Even if not, lube is no bad thing & you shouldn't worry unless you suspect a leaking damper & that would imply seeing oil only on...

The only big online retailer to go bust in the last twelve months is CRC/Wiggle and their associated brands & if you don't know why they did, then you haven't been paying attention. The rest is just sentiment.

That's all very noble but in the real world, people love a bargain & bargains come from buying power & cost base. It's always cheaper to run a website & a warehouse than high street shops, that's not opinion, it's counting. By all means support your LBS, it's absolutely the right thing to do...

Yep, I packed in years ago but often reflect on how I injured myself much more frequently playing squash than I ever did chucking myself off Col de la Forclaz. Power lines, they're the real enemy 😂

Cans will always come out grainy by comparison to a gun & compressor but can still work out good. It's definitely an art, the biggest sin is laying on too heavily. Multiple coats like dusting works well. rather than trying to do it on one or two passes, patience is a virtue & all that but in...

General rule of thumb, flat primer, don't flat colour, buff clear coat with compound for a shiny finish. Other rule of thumb, get a gun & do it better 😃