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https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/tesla-model-3-loses-cr-recommendation-over-reliability-issues/

Really hard to tell where a creak is really coming from! Here's my handy-dandy list of things to check, starting with the most likely (in my personal experience): 1. The seat post / seat tube. Take the seat post out, clean it and the inside of the seat tube; Apply grease or anti-seize compound...

Was thinking the same. If it's a standard M4 or M5 bolt hole, I expect you can get a rubber plug to pop in. £5 for a bag of 200, probably...

Excellent video. Is the whole crank and chaining set-up proprietary to the Levo SL? No crank extractor needed! Chain ring isn't attached to the crank, and is nipped on with one bolt! Mind. Blown.

That is a nice looking eeb.

Digital OS Maps. All these fancy new apps fail to point out where the tumuli and strip lynchets are.

I can't think what they are going to do one year after launch to significantly improve the SL. So buy now and enjoy the ride. The only thing waiting might give you is a discount. Everyone is short on stock at the moment = not much discounting. Maybe next year we'll be over-stocked and have a...

Best bike I have ever owned. No need to change anything yet, but I went for the Expert for a reasonably light stock build.

Yes, exactly. Is was amazing how much noise it was making before.

YES crazy rattly since I owned it, until TODAY. Sounded like the headset or fork rattling to bits. But I isolated it to the G2 caliper. All I did to fix it was spread the brake pad retaining spring a bit, to hold the pads well away from the disc. More or less totally solved it.

This happens if I'm in Turbo and cycling slowly and just gently turning the pedals. Usual example is when I slow down to pass a walker, and I'm almost idling while they look surprised, complain that people always used to use bells, scoop up their dog, etc etc. The way I see it, the motor kicks...

My experience with full fat eebs and Levo SL. the SL has enough power to get me to the trails fast enough, it's just more effort. It's only the hilly rat-run roads out of town that i need to turbo through. I probably lose less than 5 minutes on the SL compared to the full fat eeb on the steeper...

I'm looking at the Sea Sucker too, otherwise a Thule front-wheel-off rack. One thing that bothers me about the SeaSucker is the total lack of security. I know most racks have at best flimsy locks, but at least with roof bars/racks I can throw a chain around them when I pop in to Gloucester...

The last-gen Perf CX motors were shipping without a drive-side bearing seal for a while. It's only when i was pointed to a workshop advisor note about retro fitting the seal that I found out about removing, cleaning and re-greasing the seal. I wonder if that could be the difference between your...

Not defending emtb. Defending material science and the laws of physics. Could emtb be better? Yes, a bit. They're still very new, and relatively low-volume. They will get marginally better in terms of reliability, in the same way that mtb components have got better in the last 30 years. But...

"The average weight of a scooter is 250 pounds, or 115 kilograms...." The engine alone is 40kg+ If Specialized design parameters allowed for a motor that heavy, yeah, it could be made really reliable.

Recently I did the first lower leg service on a bike I bought in 2001. Other than the sponge just below the seals being a bit dry, it was in perfectly good condition! Anyway I gave it a clean, new oil, put it all back together but had a spare circlip left over, and i cross threaded the top cap...

What I hope for from eMTBs in the future is not reliability that exceeds the reality of materials science or physics, but serviceability. Bosch did well to release their bearing refresh kit for the previous gen CX motor. If future eeb motors can be made to be serviceable at least by an...

I think about e-mountain bikes like other middle-aged hobbies. If you buy an exotic sports car, then every weekend take it for a burn, red-lining it at every opportunity, then you can expect it to be quite an expensive hobby with lots of visits to your mechanic. Nothing wrong with that. We have...

In my experience, when my bike is on and I select use extender battery first in Mission Control, and it *looks* like its enabled, it doesn't work. It drains both batteries together. I have to turn the TCU off/on for the command to take....