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Yes being cheap Chinese it is mostly plastic although it is surprisingly rigid and the battery is a very snug fit. Also there are supporting pieces with metal inserts that sit beneath it around the boss and are crescent shaped to fit around the tube and there metal inserts for the screw heads to...

Not sure on that and I haven't tried all the various modes yet, I don't think you are supposed to be able to power it without pedalling but then it is Chinese so I expect you make it do all sorts of things it shouldn't. The front wheel motor ones you definitely can, one of the guys at work has a...

Mini update. It wasn't raining when I got home from work yesterday so I took the electric 27 out for its maiden whoosh and all in all I'm very happy with it. It only assists when you use the thumb throttle so I can ride it about normally and the extra weight isn't really noticeable at all but as...

Mines now got 3 fixings in it so I'm hoping that makes everything a bit more rigid.

Its part of my Revox mountain, I've got a few of them. Anyway back to the bike. I did take a couple of photo's when I was putting it together as there were a couple of issues which meant it wasn't simply fir and forget. Firstly the bottom bracket sensor on my kit is designed to lock into a...

That's no amp its an A77 open reel tape machine

Noted and yes I'm bringing a few nice thick long ones home from work tonight, the ones that come in the kit for the cables are more than a bit weedy so they're all getting replaced before it goes out in anger anyway.

No I've got one of those big cable reels with a retraction spring so the wife can get me back in when its time for dinner. It does all feel a bit brave new world and I agree about the fat battery and skinny frame but I still much prefer to the ones I've seen with a rack on the back for the...

I'm expecting this to create some opinions but In the words of Jeremy Clarkson I've done a thing so I'm very interested in what peoples thoughts are about this thing I've done? I do very much doubt there are any other Campag equipped electric bikes though. The reason for this thing is quite...

This Tuesday I spent an interesting day travelling North by means of trains and trams to collect the latest addition to my BMW V8 collection and then have a fun filled drive back down to Kent. Its a 645 manual so with the sun out it was glorious driving across the Pennines with the roof down...

Its all about a Chocolate Brown Rolls Royce. I'm sure I heard him tell this story in an interview once but there's a tale told by Noel Gallagher where when Oasis were at their peak and the Gallagher boys could demand pretty much whatever they wanted he badgered the labels manager Alan McGhee at...

Yes the Mk5's 2.8's were badged as the XR6 and there was also a 3.0S Mk4 Cortina that was trimmed the same as a 3.0S Mk3 Capri. There was even a V8 Sierra hat was badged as the XR8 with a 5 Litre Mustang engine in it, always fancied one of those Edit We did have V6 Cortina's here in the UK as...

I've just got through reading this thread and have to say it was an absolute joy to read and what a superb job you've done. I have similar feelings to Peachy regarding the shinyness as it would bug me and normally my instinct would to make it shiny again, but on this occasion I too would have...

Whether you paint it yourself or get it painted or powder coated by someone else comes down to how comfortable you are with the job at hand, how much time and money you want to spend on it and what you want to use the bike for when it's finished. And of course there's pro's and cons to every...

Very nice indeed

And then I'll put mine up for sale for £445

Yeah looking at the fork crown and lack of brazeons I'd say Falcon. The forks were quite often half chromed and some of the frames were 531 so check for chrome on the bottom half of the forks and have a measure of the seat pin. It's got some nice bits as well (which I doubt were original) so...

Its bugging me now because I'm sure I did have this worked out a while ago so I've had another quick look about at what info I can find and: Renown and Atlantis both 531 forks so agreed not either of those, the Atlantis did come in two tone blue but not green as far as I can see Mirage seems...

Yes that does happen and no, the Jaguar definitely no, its a generally cheaper bike in every guise I've seen, the Echelon possibly but looking at the components used and the frame itself I still say this bike is still farther up the tree than either of them. Ha Ha, so back down to two of them...

There might well be a model were missing and my instinct is its earlier than that 82 catalogue. The Jaguar is farther down the food chain than this bike as I think is the Echelon, the fork crown is wrong for the Jaguar and all of the kit is wrong for both the Jaguar and Echelon. I have a Jaguar...