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@edinburgh87 I've seen the foot-bike rider (scooterer?) a lot too on the same path since the end of last winter.
It does look slightly like overkill when he's fully kitted-out in hi-viz/reflectives and wearing a helmet, when I've rarely seen him do much faster than a fast walking pace....
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@IWRATS, when you say polite, you mean he made no mention?
I don't remember the exact words, but I was left feeling proud of the bike as it will be once it's been refurbished?
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Ah nice, something like Trusty Old Steed?
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I did joke about Dyson moving from cleaners into e-bike production.
Someone told me that a company called G-tech have done just that.
Apparently there are ads on TV - not that I've see them. £995 e-bikes / belt drive / no gears or discrete gearing (not sure?)
http://www.gtech.co.uk/ebikes/bikebuilder?bike_id=537Posted 6 years ago # -
On their main e-bikes page it says: "You pedal to go faster and brake to slow down. There are no confusing gears to worry about."
For £1k?! Hahahaha!
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Mountain, sport (with cross bar), city (step through). £995 but mudguards and stand are extra.
No rack, no chain guard. But is belt.
They are aiming at a non-cycling market?
Spare battery £298
Depends how good the battery is?
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Are gears confusing? Don't cars have gears too? Should I try breaking the single-speed car market with the slogan "it's less confusing for your pretty head"?
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Electric cars don't have gears although I can't think that I have seen any advertising specifically focussing on that (but that is one of the many reasons that I like them).
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I can't imagine trying to get that home with a flat battery! The extra weight of the motor and battery and one gear. Argh! It's certainly not going to convert a non-cyclist into a cyclist. Shame.
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A pedestrian crossing Lower Gilmore Place while shoutily (but not particularly aggressively, other than the use of some very choice language) verbally abusing a nearby group of traffic wardens as I was cycling home last night.
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G-tech versus the forum. No contest! :-)
Looks like they may have some work to do.
There mission though may just be to sell stuff to people with short attention spans.
Battery is small. No lights or guards is bit of an omission.Posted 6 years ago # -
Accordion ace Sandy Brechin meandering through Tollcross with his messages.
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If it had a decent engine and normal narrow bike tyres then could work as single speed, the bosch cx has 75nm of torque, the bosch active has 50 Nm. On a normal bike even with 50Nm one gear would be ok if the correct ration and engine came on at correct time would possibly still accelerate quicker than a normal bike. I have rode a focus Aventura e bike with the active 50Nm engine that would ride almost ok with engine of and would pull always in any gear as had normal bike tyres. I have also ridden a mountain bike with plus tyres that is a real pain to ride with no engine as such rolling resistance.
The battery is unlikely to go flat in normal use if common sense applied. I have had bike go flat twice in last week but once was riding back from Callander 60 miles beyond what expected to do and then cycling all day around town basically joyriding doing laps of the city and heading home 1 miles short.
The problem with this bike shown is probably does not have the best engine as a bit thin on stats how much power etc. If a rubbish engine and no gears then may be less than ideal.
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Heading west out of pubic triangle lot of traffic. Stopped at ASB before crossing Lothian road. Long green man cycle there which was lucky as there was a guy juggling six large skittle style juggling items. Not his best performance,mdropping a few. Probably due to the fear of juggling in fromt of the drivers?
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I was scouting round Marchmont looking for a cake with price <= £0.80 (a fruitless endeavour) when I was hailed by @algo in Roseneath Terrace. We circled each other cautiously a few times and then closed for a @gembotronic high five.
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@IWRATS - and a very successful high five it was too. You don't just roll into Marchmont and expect to get a good deal on cake - you need connections.... next time let me know and I'll sort you out...
(contravenes rule two)
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Also in Marchmont; a lady on a workhorse Ridgeback hybrid inexplicably fitted with a Shimano Ultegra groupset.
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Now that Nellie's 'retired', I never spot anyone except for the occasional sighting of Wilmington's Cow around the office. I probably pass or see lots of CCE riders between Leith and Edinburgh Park, but wouldn't know them from Adam!
If anyone wants to try and spot me heading Leithwards on the way home tonight, I'm wearing my "I Pay Road Tax" jersey and riding a white & red Giant Defy. Do shout hello! ;-)
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Spotted @Hankchief on the bigrig powering up Ravelston Dykes yesterday morning. Chapeau!
I will give you a wave and a hello if I see you passing by when I'm loading mini-me into the car on Campbell Av in the morning :)
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Stage hands and fencing contractors getting ready to film the bio-pic of Turnberry's finest Anglo-Norman aristocrat Robert de Brus at Craigmillar Castle.
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Nice lady in the car at the Polwarth Terrace / Gray's Loan lights waved to the child then politely enquired about the provenance of the Bobike Junior seat as she was in the market for a seat for bigger children herself. Nice change from the frequent scowl / 'put a helmet on that child' type.
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Both jugglers juggling in the ASB tonight. Firing items at each other.
On towpath Yung lad came past me, quite high speed for the towpath at that point, bridge after boroughmuir, he took the chicanes after that at speed and end up falling into the canal. I stopped to check he was OK, he said, that didn't end well. I said actually it did as you picked maybe the only spot on the canal to go off the path but not land in the water. Sort of reed bed thing there. I persisted with checking he was ok then pushed on. House disco lad came up behind me music blaring. I love house disco boy though he smells bad because everyone gets out his way. He overtakes you then slows down but when you overtake him back he pumps up the volume and chases you down, it is his recreation. Beat him to WoL path turn just. Met buddy just at that point and had good chAt home. Exact same place as I met Moose the other night.
Earlier in the day I was at a brilliant poetry reading in Stockbridge bookshop Golden Hare, they let me chain my bike to railing.right at shop door. They gave me free coffee, croissant, orange juice with bits and put on Paul Muldoon who is the greatest poet writing in the English language, alive today. All for free. Paul asked us how our day would pan out (this was 10.30 a.m.) I said all downhill from here. But in fact that cycle home was quite eventful.
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@Roibeard setting off home across the Meadows at the end of a day's toil yesterday. Big smile, no polystyrene bicycle hat.
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Hankchief on his extended rig turning onto Broomhouse Drive. His satellites were riding nearby. I'm sure the bike is big enough now that the chieflets are now gravitationally orbiting.
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Ha. I also got spotted by the @Claire who was doing a pedestrian safety audit in Corstorphine and was threatening to include my trailer - which was locked up on Station Road bike parking.
I also spotted you on foot last night.
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Was that someone I should have recognised riding a Circe Helios with no stoker but a back seat passenger past Margiotta on Ashley Terrace just before 5pm on Sunday?
And a few minutes later, was that Mr SRD in roadie kit with "Detroit" on it turning right into Shandon Place from Slateford Road?
I was disguised as a pedestrian.
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That would have been me out on the Helios!
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Did IWRaTS (disguised as a dog walker) spot me and daughter on the school run this morning?
If so apologies for the lack of acknowledgement!
Robert
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