Recent content by Old Fart At Play

Yes, and my original rims were 584's and I wanted to replace with same.

For some reason only 29ers available in UK at the moment

Just logged in after an absence... if you go for the rack a couple of us fitted, you can see pics for that at the start of the thread. Allows a much improved carrying capacity too.

Just logged in here after a bit of an absence. Funnily enough this morning I was replacing the rear wheel on my Allant+ 8 - because I had discovered cracks exactly like those pictured. 10 spokes affected, all drive side. This is after just 3000 miles, but a fair bit of that was touring (with a...

Sounds to me like something is wrong. I have an Allant+ 8 and most of the time I use eco. For a steep hill (say 10%) I use tour and it goes up superbly. I only use eMtb or turbo occasionally for fun. In turbo I can go up 20% virtually effortlessly. I'm 68 and weigh 180 lbs. My average cadence is 90.

You can also just fit a different rack over the top, save you the hassle of removing the old one. You can carry a much heavier load on a different rack (ie 25kg instead of 15kg). Like this:

I had a very similar creak - only when pedalling, sounded like it was from the crank area, same spot in the revolution, didn't matter what gear or mode - I eventually discovered it was my saddle! Worth checking.

Most tow-bar racks in UK have a number plate on the back, so no problem. EG Thule.

Hiya... yes that's where I first saw the rack, but I didn't include the link because for some reason access to that site is now blocked (in the UK)!

Another benefit of the topeak rack is that it has two horizontal rails - so you clip the panniers onto the rail below the rail that the rack pack sits on. This makes it much easier to add/remove panniers while the rack pack is on the bike - handy sometimes. Most importantly though (for me) the...

Hiya... the Allant+ 8 has a 650 battery. Average speed was around 20km/hour

Finally went on my first short camping tour with my Allant+ 8. I've added a tubus tara rack to the front, and a Topeak super tourist DX (disc) rack to the rear with a topeak rack pack. With these I can easily carry the 25kg that I normally take when camping. The bike was solid as a rock at all...

Hiya... " If you walk while on the moving sidewalk you get from point A to point B faster but you're still putting in the same effort as you would walking on a "regular" sidewalk (or escalator)." =- sadly this isn't true. When you walk from point A to point B on a moving sidewalk you aren't...

I use a bike stand, but if it is just a quick c;lean/lube and nothing else then I do the visible bit of the chain at the bottom, then lift the back wheel a bit and rotate the pedal. This is easy to do if you tand at the back of the bike facing forwards - you can still reach the chain. If you try...

aha! just went back in to app and kiox, got another update - this time to 4.0.2.0! Now to check it out