Recent content by Very Bad Rider

Kind and gentle people… Pete and Mavis have lived in this area for many years, and have fond memories of travelling into 'town' on the old steam trains. With the trains long gone, and the rails replaced by trails, these kind people set about beautifying the new trail by planting flowering...

An unexpected encounter… I turned my back for one moment — that's all — and Daisy sauntered over to inspect. Cows: who needs them! Do I have my genders, even species, correct? I have no idea when farmyard animals are concerned. Be all that as it may, it was a pleasant Easter Saturday ride...

To avoid confusion: Click your gear lever into position #4 (the middle gear). Lift your chain onto the middle sprocket (on rear wheel). I hope this helps. —VBR

Cheating… but I love it! Anyone tried that 'option'? —VBR

As Chazmo and Stefan have mentioned it is 'not usual' for smartphones to be charged from our ebikes' batteries. Here is one of the rare exceptions… Bosch Kiox computer/display connecting smartphone to ebike's batteries: Charging symbol (lightning bolt at top right of iPhone). Mobile phone's...

And, hopefully, writing up your adventures so they can be shared with us! —VBR

Anti-theft bike sandwich… Whenever ebike theft is raised as a topic for discussion in the EBR Forums, there follows an enthusiastically animated flurry of postings featuring angle grinder gangs liberating ebikes D-locked to city lamp posts. For a video of such activity to be YouTube-worthy...

A gentle country ride… It was a beautiful April morning which, of course, meant that it was time to 'go ride'. This is how it started: a rail trail running parallel to a country road – did the locals, a century ago, race the daily train in their Ford Model Ts? Whatever they might have done...

A-courting we will go… I met this amorous pair around an hour after sunrise. By then I had ridden my ebike long enough (twenty-something kilometres) to deserve a break, and had pulled over next to a large pond (aka mosquito-ridden swamp) to raid whatever had been stowed in the panniers...

Wilspeak, please do. And now I'll be thoroughly negative :eek: and bring up the subject of punctures. My solution is to carry a CO₂ + sealing foam gadget (around US$10?) that inflates and seals the problem tube. There'll be others who will sing the praises of tubeless tyres; but let's not...

Wilspeak — Keep these in prime condition: tyres chain brakes And to take of yourself, add: saddle Enjoy that powerful beauty (should I have said ‘beast’?) when it arrives. — VBR