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31. Edinburgh Cycle Training
    Member

    Since my crash last again weekend I've been commuting on Mrs ECT's eSteed. A comfier saddle and a slowly recovering right leg makes the commute very doable.

    I have to say I could get used to it.

    Hers is an Orbea model with the eBikemotion system. The same system now used by Bianchi on their eRoad models.

    Its just - nice - a bit like always having a tailwind. On high power (it has 3 power modes) its a joy getting away from a red light or junction a bit smartish.

    its a barely noticeable transition from assisted to non assisted at the 25kmph mark.

    I will get myself one. Its just a matter of when.

    Posted 4 years ago #

32. threefromleith
    Member

    @Edinburgh Cycle Training - I thought about an eBike for years after first trying one on holiday. I was a bit put-off by the sheer weight of the eMTB bikes though, as I'd likely do myself a mischief lugging one up and down 4 flights of stairs to and from the flat.

    Once I saw the Fazua system, and the reduction in weight of the bike + drive system to 16kg (same as my old MTB), I knew the time was right.

    I got mine last month because I've had a pretty poor year for cycling, and with winter approaching I knew I wouldn't have much time left to do any as I normally stop for the year once it gets icy. However, the thought of having e-assist into those headwinds and much wider clearance to fit ice tyres meant that I could use the excuse of buying it to allow me to start riding through winter again.

    Just need to get the winter tyres bought soon as the temps are starting to fall!

    Posted 4 years ago #

33. gembo
    Member

    @twinspark, some of them do look quite short on the chain set, not the one IWRATS is trialling,mot has eleven gears, enough for anyone. The one. Use has 8 gears but I always leave it in top gear. Works for me. Though I notice other users ha e moved it out of top gear on occasions

    Posted 4 years ago #

34. LaidBack
    Member

    @twinspark - yes Bosch fitted 32T splined chainring but is geared to feel normal - although will spins out above 25 mph unless your legs are a blur.
    Basically a single chairing with a 10 speed block at back is enough for the 0 - 15.8 mph assisted zone. Or 11.

    I believe though the large chairing is coming back. Wrapping a chainring round a 32T increases wear although belt drive is on some Bosch models now.

    Ideal with an 8 speed Alfine or NuVinci set up on cargobikes.

    Posted 4 years ago #

35. minus six
    Member

    i've a bosch lawn mower, its not electric though

    you just push it along, it feels great

    love the subtle whirr of the blades

    there's no charging or cables, no sir

    might buy a horse and cart next

    Posted 4 years ago #

36. minus six
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    Posted 4 years ago #

37. gembo
    Member

    I have a watch, willed to me by father in law. Thought had infinity battery as this seemed to be the death bed message. Took it to mad watch fixer of holyrood where it was revealed to me that YOU HAVE TO WIND IT UP

    It does tell the time

    @bax your lawn mower makes that lovely whirring noise when you push it and you say it also cuts grass?

    Posted 4 years ago #

38. minus six
    Member

    it does a good close shave, gembo

    the best a man can get

    dispensed the black grass catcher thing, tho

    repurposed, now a bird bath

    Posted 4 years ago #

39. gembo
    Member

    Yeah the grass used to go out the front but that bosch is a rear grass catcher. Qualcast still going?

    Posted 4 years ago #

40. minus six
    Member

    how much might it cost to feed a carthorse ?

    bear in mind i already have 5 kilos of spent barley to kick in monthly, from all-grain IPA brewing

    Posted 4 years ago #

41. gembo
    Member

    Cart horse eats body weight in spent barley every day. Goat will cut grass and pull small chariot

    Posted 4 years ago #

42. minus six
    Member

    and this goat will also do 25 kmph on the flat ?

    verily all our problems are solved !

    and not a kilowatt in sight

    Posted 4 years ago #

43. gembo
    Member

    Yeah 25kmph average to fast for this goat

    Posted 4 years ago #

44. minus six
    Member

    not too fast for a hieronymous bosch goat

    

    Posted 4 years ago #

45. gembo
    Member

    Bisch Basch Bosch as Jamie Oliver might say

    Posted 4 years ago #

46. minus six
    Member

    or the late great Scott Walker

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47. gembo
    Member

    This is like a vertical drift where connection to original post can still be seen, or some sort of round in a radio 4 quiz show

    Posted 4 years ago #

48. minus six
    Member

    maintaining that wisp of semblance.. a lost art, some might say

    but dada is not dead.. watch your overcoat

    Posted 4 years ago #

49. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I've been using a Bosch painting as slide two when presenting Overlander to strangers.

    Posted 4 years ago #

50. minus six
    Member

    look iwrats.. there you were.. high on the hog with this lofty literary dylan folk hero persona.. but you've blown it man.. you've gone electric man.. we don't believe you.. judas..

    Posted 4 years ago #

51. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I one attended a fancy dress party as Judas. Got compliments for having learnt a proper hangman's knot.

    My mate wanted to go as Bartholomew the Apostle but could not locate a freshly flayed human hide in time.

    Posted 4 years ago #

52. gembo
    Member

    What sort of fancy dress party was it? One with a biblical theme?

    Was there much discussion around the theological necessity of Judas pre-emptying God’s betrayal of his son thus giving us all everlasting life?

    I once went to a fancy dress party dressed as Leopold Bloom. Basically I put one of my old fedora’s on, one of my old suits on and a potato in my pocket.

    Not much effort but obviously if anyone asked me who I was I was giving it “Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls...”

    A colleague’s husband came away with the idea I always dressed like that (He did not know about the potato)

    Posted 4 years ago #

53. Roibeard
    Member

    Was there much discussion around the theological necessity of Judas pre-emptying God’s betrayal of his son thus giving us all everlasting life?

    Where to begin, where to begin...?

    Like any good theologian (I'm not a theologian), I'd wish to prod nearly every word in that statement!

    But I'd probably begin with Acts 2:23 and following.

    Still, I'd at least endorse the concept of discussion!

    ;-)

    Robert

    Posted 4 years ago #

54. gembo
    Member

    Thanks Roibeard, you have prodded me to check out the acts, though mostly been googling Mondegreens this a.m. which is worthwhile if it is raining or a bit windy to cycle or you are under the weather.

    Prefab Sprout supposedly a Mondegreen (I doubt that)

    But

    REM’s calling Jamaica is definite

    Sly Stone’s Thank you Falettin Me Be Mice elf Again is a reverse Mondegreen

    Have fun

    Posted 4 years ago #

55. gembo
    Member

    @roibeard, I see your Save us from this crooked genertion with my

    Eli, Eli lema sabachthani

    Posted 4 years ago #

56. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    The United Kingdom needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.

    Posted 4 years ago #

57. gembo
    Member

    Yes the situation is both fast and bulbous

    Drone strikes from Iran into Saudi oil refineries also of interest

    Posted 4 years ago #

58. unhurt
    Member

    Like any good theologian (I'm not a theologian)

    ...

    I will be using this to open conversational proposals at work as often as possible.

    Posted 4 years ago #

59. wingpig
    Member

    Terry Pratchett once had a character who always carried round an -ing potato as a sort of token of faith, if not specifically actual religion.

    Posted 4 years ago #

60. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I always carry a charm in the pocket of my outdoors jacket. It is a small spiral sea shell at the moment, but has been a stone and an acorn from the Château de Candé. I might shortly exhume the cat and use one of his bones or teeth.

    Am I an adherent of Free Pictish Shamanism?

    Posted 4 years ago #

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