My Klunkerz.

Thats pretty cool too duncanmartin I'm not sure of the legality of it on British roads though. Although, what I've got in mind won't exactly be road legal either.

Last time I was in there, Decathlon had brake and gear inner cables at £1 each. If I were you, I'd just buy a bunch and a couple of reels of outer and then cable up everything.
Looks pretty cool though.

Blimey, I don't fancy going to all that trouble to end up with a top heavy front wheel bike.

As far as I've seen, ebikes need to be primarily rear wheel powered. There's a lot of people with ebikes or ebike conversions round here and the ones with a front drive hub can't go uphill at all. The front wheel just skitters about manically and the people riding them have to almost lie down on top of the handlebars to get traction.

From what I've gathered if you can do a combination of rear hub and a mid drive with a modulator unit to keep them both synched, you're looking at a 50mph wall climber.

Totally agree. There's a lot of ebike activity down here on the seafront where it's completely flat, completely smooth. I really struggle to understand why anybody needs to do that on an ebike, rather than doing a bit of gentle pedalling.

When I finally build an ebike it's going to be with one purpose in mind and that is to try and instigate a revival of the illegal drag racing that used to take place along Shoreham port's seaboard access road. Only this time it will be sub-60mph, on silent pedal bikes, so maybe the police wont notice.

If you see me going down the ebike route, and you build one yourself... Give me a call! Although, I'm still leaning towards the old fossil fuel direction... Sometimes it's good to live in the past.

This makes perfect sense to me!

That looks like a nice find. It might be the pictures, but it looks like the nose of the saddle is pointing up slightly - this will almost always cause saddle problems with a drop bar bike. Dead flat is the usual recommendation, but nose a tiny bit down can help relieve the pressure at the front sometimes (though it can also increase the pressure on your arms and give you neck ache after a while).
In terms of reach to the ground, if the Unilever is running 26" wheels and this is on 700s, then that's probably the difference...
Cheers
Duncan

Episode 145. Raleigh Twenty.

I love your Twenty story, and you are right, it looks lovely. Good luck finding the rightful owner.
I had a folding Twenty until recently. I got it for £20 or so on eBay, but it was a right faff getting it into a small enough package to fit it into the boot of the car, and I can fold the seats down to take my other bikes. As a result I barely used it, even after I fixed the cotter pin in the cranks and fitted a half decent saddle. So a few weeks ago I donated it to the bikes for key workers scheme. Hopefully it is some use for someone.

I have a giant puncture repairathon in my future as well. I bought a giant stack of inner tubes when PlanetX had them at 99p a pop, so when I got a puncture I just stuck a new one in. Now I have a whole bunch hanging on a hook in the garage waiting for me to get around to fixing them!